Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] a [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In any event , in due course a suitable solatium in the form of an apology was offered to Harold Wilson — or at lest a solatium which he regarded as suitable since he possesses the invaluable quality of being able to convince himself of the correctness of whatever he does — and the matter ended . |
| 2 | I would always advise a small bit of brush on the takeoff side of the jump and in due course a white tape on the landing side . |
| 3 | Come back in a fortnight and we 'll check its progress , but you 'll find it takes a few weeks to really heal properly because we use that toe a great deal for balance . ’ |
| 4 | He himself got landed with a boring little man from Luton , who was a great stalwart of the local amateur dramatic society there and clearly , though he did n't quite put it into words , thought The Hooded Owl a pale shadow of their recent production of When We Are Married . |
| 5 | Development on the Glasgow and Gateshead sites has been slower , partly due to the effects of the recession , but in each case a mixed economy of houses and offices is planned . |
| 6 | Some radio stations are run by public corporations with a degree of operational autonomy from government , on paper at least — as in Malawi , Ghana , Nigeria and Zimbabwe — but in each case a greater degree of government control exists than is true of the BBC , which provided the model for the corporations of these countries . |
| 7 | The transaction manager itself , and four components which each support a different type of client . |
| 8 | After just eight minutes a strong drive by centre Pete Manning was stopped short of the line but the ball was quickly moved for scrum-half Watts to score . |
| 9 | New York State legislators voted to grant that institution a one-time infusion of $6.3 million for operations and capital improvements . |
| 10 | And it gives those of us with a history of less stable relationships a certain amount of hope for the future ! |
| 11 | I like to make to Mr Hopkin is private citizen a small gift of Frenloudji book , which is the only abject in my possession and to give him handshake for last time . |
| 12 | Japan has not found the fluctuations of the yen against the dollar and European currencies a serious barrier to its ability to increase exports . |
| 13 | Within this framework a wide range of other headings is covered , from gender to register , from implied reader to cinematic techniques , from deviation to rhyme , sound and rhythm . |
| 14 | These were the people Wesley had come to Cornwall to save , to rescue from the devil and , by all accounts , they had given the old campaigner a hard time of it . |
| 15 | The low right-hand block held the boilers , the tall central structure the beam engine and the narrow left-hand building a gigantic wheel with slats that scooped the water into the river . |
| 16 | Only in the case of sufferers from the " family disease " who genuinely have both psychiatric and addictive disease are specific psychiatric drugs of any value and not in this case a definite hindrance to recovery . |
| 17 | In this case a trenchant critique of Aristotelian orthodoxy was both motivated and ( to our eyes ) deflected by religious concerns . |
| 18 | In this case a nasty priority-dispute between the ‘ seconds ’ of the two men ended in mutual respect , with Adams as President of the Royal Astronomical Society later presenting Le Verrier with its gold medal . |
| 19 | The flick switch here is a practical touch , working in a similar fashion to , say , Trace Elliot 's ‘ pre-shape ’ facility on their amps in providing instant access to a specified sound , in this case a cut-mid sort of slappy sound . |
| 20 | In this case a general superposition of solutions is possible , as illustrated in ( 10.16 ) together with ( 10.20 ) . |
| 21 | In this case a second method of gathering access data is preferable . |
| 22 | Accordingly , in my judgment we have in this case a clear statement by the responsible minister stating the effect of the ambiguous words used in what became section 63 of the Act of 1976 which the Parliamentary history shows to have been the basis on which that section was enacted . |
| 23 | In this case a high percentage of plasmids without insert is obtained and these can only be distinguished from the positive ones by restriction analyses . |
| 24 | In this case a fixed-stage microscope with image-erected optics and long distance working objectives is most appropriate ( e.g. Microtec M2 , MicroInstruments , Oxford ) . |
| 25 | The left-hand histogram shows the distribution of autocorrelation scores of 50,000 samples , each of 250 trials , drawn from a smooth generator distribution , in this case a single gaussian of the same mean and s.d. as the e.p.s.p. histogram . |
| 26 | In some cities a relative plethora of doctors and rapid urbanisation have led to a boom in private medical practice , which now provides a substantial amount of curative care for the inhabitants , including the poor ( p 673 ) . |
| 27 | The 26-strong team has quickly set up an operating theatre , resuscitation area , X-ray department and a ward in two rooms in the British base a former school at Vitez . |
| 28 | The broking scandals came at a time when the Japanese government was already under pressure , both at home and abroad , to improve the supervision of its financial markets , to make insider trading illegal , and simultaneously to allow foreign institutions a greater degree of involvement in the domestic securities markets . |
| 29 | I do not find in this decision a sufficient support for the wide proposition for which Mr. Collins contends . |
| 30 | Every few minutes a fresh fusillade of whirring bombs hurtles downwards to smash into the debris below , compelling the observer to stop walking idly around and take cover . |