Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At different periods for political reasons a local deity might be raised to become a state god , a position which could be temporary or permanent . |
| 2 | For indoor recreation a local leisure centre and a swimming pool are hired on Wednesday afternoons by the University for the exclusive use of students . |
| 3 | We will not consider this in detail , but should note that for foreign learners a typical situation — regrettably , an almost inevitable one — is that they learn a style of pronunciation which could be described as careful and formal . |
| 4 | After long negotiations a fragile settlement between Lancaster and the king 's friends was reached in August 1318 by the treaty of Leake , where Lancaster and Damory were temporarily reconciled . |
| 5 | So after gravitational collapse a black hole must settle down into a state in which it could be rotating , but not pulsating . |
| 6 | On several of the islands the entire plant , boiled in water , was used for dying wool a greenish-yellow colour . |
| 7 | For democratic elitists a dominant feature of government policy-making is the existence of numerous sources of pressure to define policy in ways which ignore the public interest . |
| 8 | Between annual assessments a regular clinical review of the patient should include all these assessments except foot and eye examinations unless specifically indicated . |
| 9 | For individual schools a pregnant teenager is still a relatively rare occurrence and one in which it is difficult to cater for all the physical , medical , social , residential and educational needs of the prospective mother and baby . |
| 10 | It provides comprehensive coverage of practically every variable involved in the sport , and it makes the extraction of extensive statistics a simple matter . |
| 11 | whether in its style of economic management a weak state or a strong one is best for the economy . |
| 12 | As a display of complete athleticism a great boxing match is a supreme sporting event , the purest expression of skill , strength , and courage . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , the Greek system still has some way to travel before it will be the sort of political machine a post-cold-war democracy requires . |
| 14 | In the presence of exogenous acetylcholine a normal sweat response should therefore be expected even if nerve degeneration precludes adequate transmitter release . |
| 15 | Israeli troops instantly drove into Beirut , a move to be followed by the massacre of hundreds of people , with the knowledge or participation of Israeli troops a horrendous question . |
| 16 | Arrows of light cross-hatched a grey cavern housing half-completed vehicles . |
| 17 | Should the person in charge of the chart see any item that was likely to fall behind , he pinned a flag at this particular point , and if the article was likely to be held up for want of raw material a blue flag was pinned up ; but if this delay was due to one or other of the works departments getting behind with the manufacture , a red flag with a numeral upon it was used , which indicated the shop or department . |
| 18 | After dropping down towards Affric Lodge a good track follows the loch shore back to the car park . |
| 19 | None the less James could also acknowledge that " There is no teacher of English in our universities more desirous and more able to make the study of English literature a living power than Dr. Leavis . " |
| 20 | It 's one I first came across in one of the handy little circular walk leaflets published by the National Parks and , though I generally like to devise my own routes , it 's a cracking walk and at ten miles of easy walking a good stroll for hot high summer day or days when low cloud and drizzle make high fell-walking a grey punishment . |
| 21 | In terms of overall gradient a similar trend to the European Carboniferous examples is evident . |
| 22 | In cases of individual atonement a whole burnt-offering of a male victim was made ( Lev . |
| 23 | However it is certain that by extending our set of laws and rules , and by the use of inductive methods , we can develop systems that will require the use of infinitary rules a good deal less often . |
| 24 | Halifax Building Society , the nation 's biggest mortgage lender , and Bradford & Bingley are offering new buyers of repossessed homes a rock-bottom mortgage rate of 4.99% . |
| 25 | For towns of medium size a big stake in the woollen textile industry was the surest foundation of prosperity . |
| 26 | Fears about a ‘ nuclear winter ’ destroying half the globe after a nuclear strike made Whitehall 's advice about staying indoors seem curiously dated , and NATO 's talk of limited war a dangerous self-delusion . |
| 27 | She gave one group of male volunteers a new colour vocabulary to learn in which the terms were centred on the four basic colours . |
| 28 | The dinner they gave him ranks among the epic brawls which regularly give the brotherhood of socialist solidarity a bad name . |
| 29 | White is especially critical of an article and illustration by Boaz and Dr Douglas L. Cramer of New York University in the August 1982 issue of Natural History a monthly magazine published by the American Museum of Natural History . |
| 30 | Camo finds the lack of basic communications a real handicap . |