Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In due course in recovery the primary sufferer and the family member can be reunited in a happier and more fulfilling relationship than ever before . |
| 2 | I do not know how the RAF dealt with bed-wetters in the days of National Service , but I am certain that even although the Royal Navy had abandoned hammocks not long after the Second World War , a persistent enuretic on board a warship would create even more serious problems than he could in an army barracks . |
| 3 | These are usually irregular , but in extensive flows of basalt a highly regular hexagonal jointing pattern is sometimes produced giving rise to the kind of vertical columnar basalt outcrops which form the Giant 's Causeway in Northern Ireland , UK . |
| 4 | ‘ He always worked very hard on the training pitch when he was at Tottenham , but he did n't always have that bit of luck a keeper sometimes needs . |
| 5 | The percentage of sales accounted for by each of these market segments is given below : At the 1986 level of demand the company was operating at full capacity , but today it has an excess of manufacturing capacity . |
| 6 | As they jolted along they grinned at each other , letting out little exaggerated groans of pain every time the unsprung wheels hit a bump in the road . |
| 7 | In response to the children 's far more advanced views on integration the tutorial programme was revised and within two weeks the child was a member of the mainstream school . |
| 8 | In this anecdotal kind of story the device is , on the whole , pleasing to the reader , even after being caught out by it , and so it is permissible . |
| 9 | each measure of time a perfect |
| 10 | At each level of analysis a set of tasks could be devised of different orders of complexity . |
| 11 | It was also the dullest October since 1976 with an average of just 2.4 hours of sunshine a day . |
| 12 | As trends move away from very hierarchical forms of management the challenge is to find , not so much the furthest point away from you to which to delegate , but the most appropriate . |
| 13 | Every time he drove along that narrow strip of tarmac the stupidity , lack of taste , destructiveness , wastefulness , limitedness of human beings when left to their own devices was borne in on him . |
| 14 | Normally following that kind of response the ramp idea would go down like a lead balloon . |
| 15 | She was n't risking that kind of insanity a second time . |
| 16 | But faced with that kind of opposition the Yek would simply re-form and attack again , learning from each engagement until either they discovered how to defeat their adversaries or they were wiped out . |
| 17 | Lee Doherty summed it up afterwards when he said : ‘ We 'll settle for the 3–1 win , but you would n't want to be watching that kind of football every week . |
| 18 | 1806 " This Meeting having taken into Consideration the enormous amount of the Bill of Entertainment ( " The Bill at MacTaggart 's £16 " ) , Resolve that the following rules shall be attended to in future , viz. That for each Guest Setting at Table , the Landlord shall allow & produce a half Bottle of wine and a Bottle of Punch — a Bottle of Brandy to the whole Company — with small Beer — that the Landlord shall charge for each Sitting to Dinner a , the rate of 3/- , that the Servants half mutskin of Whisky … " |
| 19 | She gave that piece of gallantry the scorn it deserved . |
| 20 | It gives me the greatest pleasure to second the nomination of Chris as the Honorary Treasurer . |
| 21 | It is far easier to convince readers of the courage and invention of a youth of fifteen or so when he is foiling the enemy with a clever disguise or a neatly gymnastic escape than when he is in grim and bloody action on board an enemy ship — not only easier , but more in keeping with the romantic excitement proper to adventure-story . |
| 22 | Although it is generally aimed at specific styles of mineralisation a wide range of elements are determined and a variety of techniques used . |
| 23 | Left FIGURE 3 Glazing is the exact opposite to scumbling , so when both the techniques are used side by side the impact is often very exciting . |
| 24 | This cumbersome formulation has been dropped in the Vienna Sales Convention , which substitutes as the sole criterion of internationality the fact that the parties carry on business in different States , a formulation adopted in the U N Convention of Agency in the Sale of Goods and the Unidroit Conventions on International Factoring and International Financial Leasing . |
| 25 | This most unusual of last wills and testaments concluded , ‘ Till we meet again , giving the usual words of farewell a renewed vigour of meaning , ’ noted the reporter in the Noonday Gazette . |
| 26 | ( 5.14 ) at low speeds ( w = 0 ) : At 500 steps per second the angular frequency of the supply [ from Eqn . |
| 27 | Lions , wildebeeste , giraffes , buffalo and boldly-marked birdlife dot the dramatic landscapes in a country where almost eleven months of sunshine a year is all but guaranteed . |
| 28 | Some attempts were made by political parties to annexe the cooperative representation movement , acts that were exploited by J C Carroll in a circular stating that resolutions in support of the Labour Party were being forwarded , together with proposals to finance political work by increasing contributions ( see interviews with S F Perry , Secretary of the Cooperative Representation Committee in Cooperative News 29 March 19 , 5 April 19 ) . |
| 29 | I 've just got another bit of paper a note saying please note while you are at college you are asked to do four hours overtime and that 's not a contract , it 's just a letter . |
| 30 | In this kind of novel the act of narration is modelled on a speech act in which one person tells a story to another . |