Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun sg] [prep] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He added : ‘ One ca n't imagine a feebler way of making a protest or trying to gain by showing A Clockwork Orange … at four o'clock in the afternoon at the Scala cinema on a weekday and advertising it as a surprise item . ’ |
| 2 | The 1992 Richmond Meet is being marked as a historic occasion by having the first female Meet president . |
| 3 | Darts and snakes and ladders championships organised a bit like the ‘ world cup ’ ensures everyone of more than one game and can be a pleasant way of making a small profit . |
| 4 | With a pleasant sense of maintaining the rhythm of the night before and its various successes and achievements , I went down to Mercutio 's and bought four suits , eight shirts , six ties and a stylish lightweight mackintosh . |
| 5 | There are tax disadvantages in incorporation ( although A Simpler System for Taxing the Self-employed may reduce them in due course ) . |
| 6 | The paper follows the consultations that began in August 1991 with the publication of the Revenue 's consultation paper , A Simpler System for Taxing the Self-Employed ( see ACCOUNTANCY , October 1991 , p 48 ) . |
| 7 | The Inland Revenue consultative document ‘ A Simpler System for Taxing the Self Employed ’ contains proposals which , if implemented , would in any event result in an acceleration of the tax liability for partnership . |
| 8 | I suggest that a simpler approach to detecting the direction of motion of an object , one method of which was put forward by M Kumaran in July , is to use half a 74LS74 D-type flip-flop , as shown in the diagram , which performs exactly the same function . |
| 9 | But at 30 Hick was not given the benefit of the doubt when lbw to a Cairns ball which had no more than a 50–50 chance of hitting the top of the leg stump . |
| 10 | I find a little difficulty in understanding the basis of your argument Mr , given the point you made last week about the need for Yo North Yorkshire as a whole to cater for one hundred percent migration , so as to make adequate provision for those coming from Leeds . |
| 11 | The price cut will go a little way to alleviating the burden of VAT on bills , due to be introduced next April , a move described by Manweb chairman Bryan Weston as disappointing . |
| 12 | ‘ Give me a little time before breaking the news to your boss . |
| 13 | This factor seems to have made a solid contribution towards forging the Iranian forces into a much more effective fighting machine than might have been expected in 1979 . |
| 14 | Road pricing has been up for discussion for some time as a possible way of alleviating the high levels of traffic congestion in many city centres . |
| 15 | The Initiative wants OSF to contribute to the Unix specification for ACE , and sees itself as a possible vehicle for knitting the discordant elements of the establishment together . |
| 16 | A possible response to receiving a benefit is to cheat ; to fail to return the favour . |
| 17 | In the majority of cases this will merely confirm what teachers already knew , and will strengthen their hands in taking appropriate action ; for example , seeking assessment under the 1981 Act with a possible view to securing a statement of special educational needs . |
| 18 | One could try to account for this by invoking the anthropic principle , but grand unified theories actually provide a possible mechanism for explaining the imbalance . |
| 19 | Food chemists have investigated guar bread in the hopes of finding a palatable way of increasing the fibre in the diet of diabetics . |
| 20 | I wanted to create a spacial sense of having a shadow ; the shadow reinforces the movement . |
| 21 | The SIB has wide powers granted to it by the Secretary of State under the FSA , and has a broad authority in enforcing the Act ( and can override the decisions of the SROs ) . |
| 22 | So jury service he thinks is a terrific way of improving the jurors . |
| 23 | If the content of in-service work does not encourage the formulation of a unified way of approaching the purposes , implementation and evaluation of effective management , does the process of continued professional education promote a wholeness of view on its own ? |
| 24 | It marks the beginning of the post-Conquest revival of Canterbury 's past ; more generally , Anselm 's intervention in Osbern 's career marked a turning point in saving the monastic and cultural tradition of pre-Conquest England , and the movement gathered impetus during the next half century . |
| 25 | His bombshell directly contradicted Mr Major 's own claim that the treaty marked a turning point in curbing the powers of the Brussels Commission and handing back more powers to national governments . |
| 26 | The Piccadilly Inquiry in many ways was a turning point in confirming the frailty of the planning system in dealing with the aesthetics of a major proposal of this kind . |
| 27 | a client-level strategy for promoting the coordination of human services , opportunities and benefits . |
| 28 | The entrance has been filled with stones , but I can see a sunken area inside making a small arena , in the centre of which there 's a red stone three feet high the shape of a cotton reel and , in a round black patch , evidence of a fire . |
| 29 | The appointment of Mr Stevens was a classic case of promoting a man beyond his level of competence and could not have happened if there had not been deep distrust in official circles of people who know what they are talking about . |
| 30 | I mean , that 's a classic case of changing the , the rules after the game 's started ! |