Example sentences of "[noun sg] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In modern cosmology a preferred frame emerges naturally ( the comoving frame ) for universes whose behaviour is consistent with GR . |
| 2 | The slide out inner door panel and Valorclean liners fitted as standard take the hard work out of keeping your main oven clean , and if you need to move it you 'll find the adjustable rear wheels and lever operated front wheel a great help . |
| 3 | Once that happens council officers would then be able to look at specific ways of reducing the risk of accidents in Darlington and help make the borough a safer place . |
| 4 | This gave the borough a corporate personality at law , with the right to sue and be sued , and also empowered it to exclude the shire officials and be directly responsible to the central government . |
| 5 | In practice conciliation officers tend to view the achievement of a settlement as their principal function , with the actual remedy a secondary consideration . |
| 6 | There was at the time of reorganization a considerable expansion of advisory services to meet the desire for increased curriculum coherence and the staff appointed were to take on much of the short course organization and guidance to schools for school focused INSET . |
| 7 | Those of you that have children or er are involved in education in any way at the moment will be well aware of the cut and problems that are going on er within reorganization within education in this country at the moment and I learnt to sail through the National School Sailing Association a long time ago er and thousands and thousands of youngsters have done that over the years . |
| 8 | This proved to be an unsatisfactory arrangement , and with the help of the Old Boys ' Association a four-acre field in Adswood was purchased . |
| 9 | Nearly all the Embiricos vases — which range from black- to red- figure , include white-ground Lekythoi , and presente a representative sample of Greek vase types — are by known painters , making this an exceptionally interesting group . |
| 10 | Her own voice and word of mouth were enough to outmanoeuvre the rock stations , which shunned her steel guitars , and the country stations , which gave her sexual persona a wide berth . |
| 11 | An added complication which increases in importance from time to time , is the tendency for both ITV contractors and media buyers to negotiate ‘ share deals ’ , in which the advertiser obtains a discount for giving a particular contractor a disproportionate share of the TV budget . |
| 12 | But is n't religion a civilizing force ? |
| 13 | Sometime before he became king in 1625 , James I 's son Charles had adopted as his personal religion a conservative version of Protestantism known as Arminianism ; he had done so either because he disagreed with the doctrine of predestination , or more probably because he found the austere liturgy of undiluted Calvinism distasteful . |
| 14 | Conclusion : giving religion a fair hearing |
| 15 | Is your supper drink or your afternoon cup of tea a sacred ritual for you ? |
| 16 | When much later in the afternoon she got up to get the tea a tearing sound was heard as her nice blue overall parted with the gummy chair — she let out a burst of laughter . |
| 17 | In the wood , Cecil had carved into a tree trunk a small swing for a child that had since grown and died in Vietnam . |
| 18 | With the defeat at Brignais avenged , Charles V , who had just succeeded his father as king , could go to his coronation a satisfied man . |
| 19 | There are many more , far too numerous to mention here , but The Body Shop stock a good selection of aromatherapy oils as do most health food sores . |
| 20 | Maplin stock a suitable motor listed as type 626T , code FS35Q . |
| 21 | I think you 're only talking about redundancies if we ca n't erm take some short term work from elsewhere , er as opposed to , I mean , I 'm suggesting at the moment we take stock a longer time |
| 22 | We also noted that out of this stock a high proportion consisted of bank deposits . |
| 23 | As we climbed the steps I kept hoping to see Valerie standing there , a mischievous smile on her face , the whole episode a cruel joke . |
| 24 | You will find this card a real boon anywhere in Europe because it allows you to pay for goods and services with eurocheques , just as you do with ordinary cheques at home . |
| 25 | They brought me down that day from Edinburgh , bundled me into a transit van with seats but no windows , handcuffed to a big quiet London lad who would n't talk to me at all and did n't even say much to the other two cops in the back of the transit just sat staring ahead and we seemed to drive all night just stopping once at some service station on the Ml , took a while to arrange everything , then they came in with a selection of cans of soft drinks and sandwiches and pasties and pork pies and chocolate and we all sat there munching then they asked me did I need the toilet and I said yes and they opened the door and it was straight over the grass into the gents ' toilets , two cops guarding the door and some men , looked like truckers , standing watching me , waiting for their turn after I 'd had my private visit ; only wanted a pee but I could n't do it even though the big lad was n't actually watching just having him standing there handcuffed to me was enough so they checked the stalls and then took the cuffs off me and I had to leave the door open a crack while I went , then back out and I see the other cop cars Christ a Range Rover and a Senator too I 'm a fucking VIP , then it 's into the van and on with the journey to London where the questioning starts ; they 're concentrating on Sir Rufus 's murder , for now , because they found a card a fucking business card in the woods near the burned cottage ; not mine that would have been too obvious but a card from a guy I know on Jane 's Defence Weekly with some scribbled notes on the back : |
| 26 | Deep in the pond a male stickleback |
| 27 | The re-cycled bricks give the brand new pond a pre-aged look . |
| 28 | In the seventeenth century some preformationists claimed they could detect in the head of the sperm cell a tiny person in miniature — a homunculus — just waiting to emerge . |
| 29 | The lamb he was after he saw now was a black and white one that had been sickly and Jack had kept in the lambing-shed a long time . |
| 30 | Erm it produces a certain amount of , it can produce a maximum of torque , a certain amount of force a go-kart engine . |