Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun sg] [coord] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chapel was only a single-storey affair and for anniversaries and other big events they used to make extra seats by placing bars of wood between one seat and the next . |
| 2 | Two streams come down from a hilly hinterland and after a sedate infancy suddenly leap in a happy frolic through verdant surroundings to reach the village where they converge as the River Greta . |
| 3 | The keeper , Athelstan concluded , was not a pleasant man and on seeing him the friar believed every story he hat heard . |
| 4 | From Acharacle , the A.861 climbs over a low ridge to Salen , a village on the shore of Loch Sunart , reaching it through a pleasant woodland and between ditches of yellow flag iris . |
| 5 | ‘ I am a strange mixture of appearing to be a pleasant guy but behind it all I am pretty hard and often grumpy . |
| 6 | Bill Pedler had earlier achieved a gross 65 in a friendly play and in 1931 secured the official record of 68 + 2 ( 70 ) . |
| 7 | The amiable Cube boys — Chris , Pat and Mark — have continually promoted a wide variety of up and coming acts in a friendly setting and with three bands a night you can usually find something to make your ears prick up . |
| 8 | The amiable Cube boys — Chris , Pat and Mark — have continually promoted a wide variety of up and coming acts in a friendly setting and with three bands a night you can usually find something to make your ears prick up . |
| 9 | The NCVO is pressing for a simpler SORP and for the timetable for compliance to be extended to mid 1994 to allow charities more time to prepare . |
| 10 | It is much better to try a simpler design and to be thrilled with the results rather than try something more complicated and then feel despondent because it did n't work . |
| 11 | This is usually a tongue-like structure and at its base on the lower side there opens the salivary duct . |
| 12 | It is a lazy movement but in an instant it is gone . |
| 13 | He was also accused of having lost Scotland , of allowing many great and noble men to go to a shameful death or to be imprisoned , exiled and disinherited , and of breaking his coronation oath to do right to all . |
| 14 | A little further up is a right turn and on the far corner of this a chip shop . |
| 15 | This validation is carried out either by a SCOTVEC team if it 's a private centre or by the Director of Education if it 's a local authority centre . |
| 16 | An owner now obtained ( in theory at least ) the same price for his land irrespective of whether he sold it to a private individual or to a public authority . |
| 17 | The first would be a dilution in the domestic passengers throughput at Belfast International Airport , which at best might delay the sale of the airport to a private buyer or at worst , if the numbers were so poor , that no buyer would come forward . |
| 18 | A police graduate I met at a seminar on ‘ Research into the Police ’ , which we had both attended in a private capacity and without force blessing or financial assistance , later wrote to me : |
| 19 | All required records must be preserved for three years if it is a private company or for six years if it is a public one . |
| 20 | What about a work of art whose origin is uncertain but which you have bought in good faith from a private person or in a State owned shop ? |
| 21 | It can be done before it appears on the air , either in a private room or in a theatre , to a large or small audience ; it can be done after it has appeared by personal interview or ( as frequently in the USA ) by telephone . |
| 22 | In 1958 the Reverend C H Bain BD and Mr Tom Butler conducted a memorable mission and in 1959 the transferred membership of Mr and Mrs Sam Craig was received from the Armagh-Richhill Circuit . |
| 23 | Reid has had a memorable season and as the big autumn events loom up he must be relishing a crack at races like the Prix de l'arc de Triomphe and the Champion Stakes . |
| 24 | Let us suppose you have decided that regression therapy might be helpful to you , either in overcoming a persistent problem or by enabling you to gain further insight into your own spiritual development . |
| 25 | the effect of adding white to a solid colour or of screening a solid area . |
| 26 | If the employer pays the salary but refuses the services of the worker and this refusal offends his/her personality ( e.g. , lowers his/her reputation amongst fellow workers , prevents his/her professional development etc. ) , the worker can claim that the employer be condemned to pay him/her compensation and/or to really employ him/her ; in the second case , the employer will also be condemned by the same judgement to a pecuniary sanction and to detention in case he does not employ the worker . |
| 27 | I turned to Jamie and then the girl , cleared my throat and said quite clearly : ‘ I did n't know if you two ever shared or , indeed , still do share , for that matter , for all that I know , at least mutually between yourselves but at any rate not including me — the misconception I once perchanced to place upon the words contained upon yonder sign , but it is a fact that I thought the ‘ union ’ referred to in said nomenclature delineated an association of working people , and it did seem to me at the time to be quite a socialist thing for the town fathers to call a street ; it struck me that all was not yet lost as regards the prospects for a possible peace or at the very least a cease-fire in the class war if such acknowledgements of the worth of trade unions could find their way on to such a venerable and important thoroughfare 's sign , but I must admit I was disabused of this sadly over-optimistic notion when my father-God rest his sense of humour-informed me that it was the then recently confirmed union of the English and Scottish parliaments the local worthies-in common with hundreds of other town councils throughout what had until that point been an independent realm — were celebrating with such solemnity and permanence , doubtless with a view to the opportunities for profit which this early form of takeover bid offered . ’ |
| 28 | He indicated to Haussmann that the form of the railway station , a huge open space covered by glass , had impressed him as a possible model and as a result of the Emperor 's predilections , and Baltard 's skill , the great new market of Les Halles was built in a light , airy combination of iron , stone and glass . |
| 29 | And if this process can be conceived as relevant not only to a possible future but to processes of critique and struggle now , then to point to the emergence of black American , non-Western and European ‘ folk ’ elements within mass produced popular music commodities — with however ambivalent results — may be the historically most significant way in which we can put Adorno 's critical pessimism in its correct place . |
| 30 | It is crucial not to take everything in either a literal sense or in a humanistic , reinterpretative sense . |