Example sentences of "[noun] a [adj] " 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 | Forcing herself to keep her actions smooth and steady , she tightened the sail again and turned the wheel a few degrees the other way . |
| 4 | Balanced lightly on the balls of her feet , Polly turned the wheel a few degrees as Seawitch heeled over . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He failed to find a seat at the next general election , but came in for the family borough a few weeks later , and acted as teller against his patron 's impeachment . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | This will give the Cheshires a good deal more protection and pack a much more powerful punch should they be attacked again . |
| 9 | She married a chap called Parkes a few years back but he went off and left her . |
| 10 | But the tendency was reversed in the 1986 elections which gave CCOO a clear majority of the votes ( see table 5.4 ) . |
| 11 | Building on the example of many Labour councils which have developed imaginative arts initiatives , we will make the arts a statutory responsibility for local authorities . |
| 12 | In addition , a planned Committee of the Regions would give the NW a further strong voice in the EC an alternative from the UK Government which in itself might be no bad thing for the NW , and Merseyside in particular . |
| 13 | In practice conciliation officers tend to view the achievement of a settlement as their principal function , with the actual remedy a secondary consideration . |
| 14 | First , is the procedure that the buyer has to go through to claim the remedy a proper one from an administrative point of view , or is it designed to make it difficult or impossible in practice for the buyer to invoke the clause ? |
| 15 | Owers played his first full game for three months in the derby win over Middlesbrough and then gave boss Malcolm Crosby a welcome cup final headache . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The Fritz Bank foreign exchange dealer in Frankfurt might quote the exporter a three months ' DM forward rate at a premium of DM0.05–0.04 . |
| 18 | Di , was Madge a good dancer ? |
| 19 | I 'm afraid Brian Deane was a bit of a liability , he really did nothing all game in the opposition box , apart from straying offside to deny Wetherall a good goal . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | This proved to be an unsatisfactory arrangement , and with the help of the Old Boys ' Association a four-acre field in Adswood was purchased . |
| 22 | At the beginning of the year he signed for the Oxford Products Ducati team but the link-up never quite worked out and Robert ended the association a few weeks ago . |
| 23 | They had to meet up with Nellie a great deal as she was supervising the school 's wardrobe . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | In the mid-second century in Phrygia a vehement anti-Gnostic reaction helped to inflame a powerful movement of charismatic prophecy , led by Montanus and two women , Prisca and Maximilla . |
| 26 | Then , in that second of hushed silence before the screen and fanfare blaze out , there came from the middle of the auditorium a huge and shocked voice ‘ What the fookin''ell are yo ’ doin' ? ' , followed almost at once by two mighty smacks that could only have been someone being hit . |
| 27 | I mean see why they call people like Constable , Rembrandt a great artist |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | I put on the headset and sat in his chair and presently into my ears a disembodied voice said , ‘ Are you there ? ’ |
| 30 | Paris could hardly believe its ears a few days later when Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau entered the Salle Pleyel , exactly 40 years after his Parisian début , to sing Die Schöne Müllerin with ( once past the buffeted consonants and fatal eruptions of ‘ Das Wandern ’ ) a mezza voce intact , and a sensitive response to the warmhearted suggesting from the piano of Christoph Eschenbach , that one could hardly believe possible ( and more astounding still in that immense hall ! ) . |