Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun sg] and [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two streams come down from a hilly hinterland and after a sedate infancy suddenly leap in a happy frolic through verdant surroundings to reach the village where they converge as the River Greta . |
| 2 | The NCVO is pressing for a simpler SORP and for the timetable for compliance to be extended to mid 1994 to allow charities more time to prepare . |
| 3 | A little further up is a right turn and on the far corner of this a chip shop . |
| 4 | Reid has had a memorable season and as the big autumn events loom up he must be relishing a crack at races like the Prix de l'arc de Triomphe and the Champion Stakes . |
| 5 | He indicated to Haussmann that the form of the railway station , a huge open space covered by glass , had impressed him as a possible model and as a result of the Emperor 's predilections , and Baltard 's skill , the great new market of Les Halles was built in a light , airy combination of iron , stone and glass . |
| 6 | And the other thing is that it 's er a wide syllabus is fine as long as you 're not expected to go in any depth , but you 're expected to go sort of both , a broad syllabus and into a little bit of depth more than perhaps erm I mean in effect I mean you 're not far off of covering A level psychology at this at tha the level we 're going to . |
| 7 | That was the trouble with harbour-watching , there were so many inexplicable activities carried on at a stately pace and with the deliberation of a choreographed performance . |
| 8 | I 'm looking to select patients who have a high pressure and a low flow and for the sake of this study I 've drawn my lines at fifty centimetres of water for detrusor pressure during voiding and , and er fifteen mils per second . |
| 9 | She led them down a narrow corridor and into a comfortable lounge . |
| 10 | She steered Melissa round a corner , along a narrow passage and through a net-curtained door . |
| 11 | She went into the hall , down a narrow passage and into a large room with long , shuttered windows and again , Rain guessed , a sea view . |
| 12 | They followed her down a narrow passage and into the sunshine beyond . |
| 13 | Now suppose that we have data on a one-period rate and on a three-period rate , so that n = 3 . |
| 14 | Oh very much so , yes new devotion , size , erm , it , it in one or two of these erm they gave me a definite feel and to a , to a , it new I was trying to write |
| 15 | It is important for a project to have a definite goal and for the pupils to feel something has been achieved . |
| 16 | This burgeoning set of collectors emerging from a lower class and without the cultural or educational background of the gentry were reluctant to relinquish the familiarity of their own country and language by travelling abroad to purchase foreign art works . |
| 17 | Hence , on the one hand , violence plays a destructive role and on the other , it is a force for cohesion , organisation and construction . |
| 18 | The central theme of Hopscotch is the quest for the authenticity which Western man has lost , stifled by a distorting rationalism and by the conventions of the bourgeois social order . |
| 19 | Capable of examining matters with a panoramic sweep and with a talent for adopting innovative and unexpected courses of action at vital moments , MacArthur was too readily the prisoner of his own prejudices . |
| 20 | I am extremely pleased to be able to say that shortly , Lord Mayor , we will be able to consider the future of the T T C under a Labour Government and under a Labour controlled Council , and I ca n't wait . |
| 21 | Both Haketa and the NSDAP sought to resolve and dissolve the internal German class and social conflicts brought about by attempting to maintain a feudal nobility and at the same time to industrialise a newly formed country by projecting their energy into false imperialist and colonial solutions in their eastern borderlands . |
| 22 | ‘ After the date of the publication of a complete specification and until the sealing of a patent in respect thereof , the applicant shall have the like privileges and rights as if a patent for the invention had been sealed on the date of the publication of the complete specification : Provided that an applicant shall not be entitled to institute any proceedings for infringement until the patent has been sealed . |
| 23 | He gave a loud moan and with a sudden retch , vomited all over the floor . |
| 24 | This differentiates it both from a descriptive grammar and from a primer . |
| 25 | A letter from the Secretary of State had arrived withdrawing his approval for the closure in order to allow him to consider views brought to his attention by a Regional Councillor and by the local MP . |
| 26 | Although Egypt offered its full support to Iraq , it still managed to assert its role as a regional moderator and as the main link between the Arab states , Israel and the West ; thus , during a visit to Baghdad on April 7 , Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak widened the debate by calling for the mass elimination of all weapons of mass destruction . |
| 27 | In the course of a debate on a Bill to remove the marriage bar , introduced in 1927 , MPs expressed feelings of revulsion at the ‘ travesty of nature ’ presented by the image of a working mother and in the last instance a father at home looking after the baby , but the same degree of indignation was never aroused by the work of married women of a lower social class . |
| 28 | This is the reason why the matter has been discussed at length already by the Standing Committee , both in a Working Party and in a formal meeting . |
| 29 | Green Realignment , a splinter group from the British Green Party , has held its inaugural conference , at which it was decided that the group would aim to steer a middle course between acting as a political party and as a pressure group . |
| 30 | This is an example of a patient who has a stable cystometogram and in the course of the voiding study voids with a high pressure , the stylus is going up and down the whole time |