Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British colony , already fretting over whether China will give its nod to an expensive new airport in the territory , can ill afford the economic blow of a change in China 's status . |
| 2 | Others awaiting trial by the same court for corruption during Pasok 's eight-year term of office ( 1981-89 ) included the former Prime Minister , Andreas Papandreou , who stated after the verdict that not Athanasopoulos and his actions but " a collective political decision by a government " had been on trial . |
| 3 | After their introduction on the Fleetwood service , journey time was reduced to 32 minutes on a five-minute headway . |
| 4 | Chris Burton , a Featherstone substitute , was sent off after 32 minutes for a high tackle on Craig Izzard , and visitors Leeds went on to win 22-20 . |
| 5 | After going 2–0 up in 32 minutes through a goal by Lesley Hobley and a penalty by Denise Shorney , Hightown reduced the deficit a minute before the interval when Jackie Crook scored from the penalty spot . |
| 6 | Specialising in engineering design relating to existing offshore installations , the company 's manpower levels reached over 500 personnel on a number of design projects . |
| 7 | This two-track approach was seen by the press in member countries as reflecting continued manoeuvring over the role of the United States in the alliance , against a background of US troop reductions in Europe and Franco-German proposals for a European military force . |
| 8 | THE superconducting transition temperature , T c , defines the point at which the free energies of the superconducting and normal states of a material become equal . |
| 9 | For 1993 Mr Fothergills again lead the way in revivals with ‘ Night and Day ’ after spotting just one plant of this white-throated , crimson flowered variety in a four-acre field of ‘ Black Prince ’ . |
| 10 | The Rational Audio Aura 01 is a Czech-made deck with a parallel tracking arm ( which moves across the record on rails instead of pivoting from one end ) , bizarre retro-styling and an idiosyncratic sound . |
| 11 | ‘ You were carrying a concealed weapon contrary to social format and I note that you sport the open-necked look in a zany tie zone . |
| 12 | It led to the highest floor where we found an Iraqi soldier firing an automatic rifle through a narrow aperture in a pile of sandbags , reloading and firing his weapon until he became exhausted . |
| 13 | This situation makes it difficult to use basal colonic motility as a basis for comparisons and has led to the development of provocation tests in a controlled environment in an attempt to characterise differences between groups of patients . |
| 14 | Recent studies which used long term recording of colonic motility with a colonoscopically positioned manometric probe , and simultaneous measurement of transit through intraleuminally instilled radiolabelled compounds have provided more detailed information on the relationship of motility to mass movements : ( 1 ) high amplitude propagated contractions ( pressure waves greater than 50 mmHg which are propagated more than 10 cm ) occur infrequently in normal subjects , averaging six per 24 hours . |
| 15 | First year pruning will take each stem of a bush rose down to no more than 3–4 inches ( 8–10cm ) , cutting where possible to suitable outward-pointing buds . |
| 16 | And the technical reliability of a crucial design feature of the plant — its steam-generators — remain a matter of conjecture . |
| 17 | Chartism articulated experience within a complex rhetoric that interpellated radical working-class support at a national level . |
| 18 | He was probably as tough as old leather , cycling his rural route with a heavy sack every morning . |
| 19 | The traditional costume of the men is white baggy knee-length trousers , a white long-sleeved and open-necked shirt with a soft collar and a red sash at the waist . |
| 20 | She was immediately conscious of every line of the taut muscular body , from his shoulders beneath the open-necked shirt to a slim waist and lean thighs beneath the dark trousers he was wearing . |
| 21 | Wearing an open-necked shirt in a shade of blue which intensified the colour of his eyes and complemented the width of his shoulders and silver-grey trousers that moulded slim hips before encasing long , muscled legs , Rune Christensen looked like some godly visitor from Asgard — and one bent on vengeance . |
| 22 | Announcing storm-damaged figures and government plundering of its profits that left nothing over for investment , Deutsche Bundespost Telekom yesterday said that following its move to set up its cellular operations as a separate company as a first step to privatisation , it was also considering privatising the unit it has created to look after large customers . |
| 23 | The company has also been asked to consider spinning cellular operations into a separate company . |
| 24 | We have seen in this chapter how a dual structure of production has been maintained in Japan through the interconnected activities of private business and a state which has supported the simultaneous existence of a limited number of larger companies and a massive network of smaller ones . |
| 25 | They are paid for remaining open after normal hours on a rota basis and sums are paid to keep chemists open in remote areas . |
| 26 | The luxury shower — costing more than Princess Diana 's whirlpool bath -is part of a £26,000 spruce-up of Chief Executive Mike Smith 's office . |
| 27 | The lower notes of a melody are usually placed at points of emotive decline . |
| 28 | Others , like Weiskrantz ( 1968 ) and Dean ( 1980 ; 1982 ) , are much more sanguine and argue the brain is generally not interactive so that knowledge of what is lost after a lesion can be used to frame conclusions about the normal function of a region . |
| 29 | And that 's a sort of fairly normal function of a of any bypass is to particularly of a larger er urban area as opposed to say a village or a small town is to have connecti connections in er to the to the larger urban area at a number of points . |
| 30 | He had promised her that if anything out of the ordinary happened , any unnecessary flicker on a dial , he would wake her . |