Example sentences of "[adj] a [noun sg] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In half an hour a dozen or so cars would drive into the inner courtyard and the morning shift would take over . |
| 2 | In such a case a complete reconsideration of the case , including the taking of evidence and the finding of facts , would be a waste of time and money ; so the court can remit the case and direct the authority to reconsider the facts in the light of the law as it has been held to be . |
| 3 | In such a case a careful examination of the handbrake should be made bearing this offence in mind . |
| 4 | In such a test a uniform cylinder is twisted by torques applied at its ends and the relationship between torque and the twist per unit length taken as a measure of the shear or rigidity modulus . |
| 5 | This happy coincidence — happy , that is , for all those visionaries and seers who speak in sonorous phrases about the ‘ New Pacific Century ’ and the ‘ Grand Pacific Age ’ , and find such a discovery a perfect symbol of what they 're talking about — has been the case ever since 22 October 1884 , when a group of scientists and politicians met in a hotel in Washington DC and set down the rules by which the planet was henceforth to organize the keeping of its time . |
| 6 | In order to effect such a transfer a whole variety of different agencies may be involved including remedial therapists , GPs , social work , community nursing and domiciliary services . |
| 7 | And now there 's su , there 's such a gap a blooming draft comes in |
| 8 | At such a temperature a black hole would be able to create electron-positron pairs and particles of zero mass , such as photons , neutrinos , and gravitons ( the presumed carriers of gravitational energy ) . |
| 9 | In such a situation a serious risk might arise that two arbitration tribunals could make contrary findings , but that risk is disposed of by a remarkable provision in reg 23 allowing LCH to call for consolidation of the two arbitrations . |
| 10 | I recall going into such a shop a few years ago to replace my survival bag . |
| 11 | It is like those cases where women were , perhaps are , discriminated against because they were not ‘ strong ’ enough for a job or part of a job ; but most people would prefer for such a task a strapping wench to a seven-stone male weakling , who gets the sand kicked into his eyes by the beach bully , courtesy of the Charles Atlas advert . |
| 12 | How many were ‘ true ’ generalizations which went beyond the particular species and task and could begin to provide a real cellular and biochemical ‘ alphabet ’ of memory — or is such a search a mere will-o'-the-wisp ? |
| 13 | Warn them that you must be notified of any changes at all , so that in such an event a revised estate plan can be lodged at the Registry in substitution for the previous one . |
| 14 | Some said merely that the money was not available to fit out such an expedition a second time , even if the spirit had been willing ; and that was certainly true . |
| 15 | Denied political and civil space in most Arab society by undemocratic regimes of various kinds , many people make of such an image a confused by powerful instrument of criticism of their own rulers , never mind the powers which they associate with colonial history and contemporary world dominance . |
| 16 | And whether the wheel is turning too fast for them to cope with it somewhere along the line they 've lost control any and there 's still I 'm told young many a time a good shop steward and a good management should be a good team together , but erm unless they can work in harmony you know it 's no good . |
| 17 | In many cities the names are still interchangeable , a fact that has given many a visitor a mystified look . |