Example sentences of "[conj] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In every case there is mains electricity & a good water supply . |
| 2 | THREE & A HALF MINUTES , Bishop 's Stortford-based snarling guitar four-piece , follow their recent support slots alongside Sultans Of Ping FC with dates at |
| 3 | All guests of Amsterdam Travel Service staying for four nights or more are invited for a welcome drink & a three course dinner ( drinks with meal are extra ) in one of the Karena Hotel restaurants in Amsterdam . |
| 4 | In some cases where it is geographically and numerically feasible this has been done within the Catholic sector e.g. Hounslow ; in other areas , normally where a Catholic school stands alone , it has been done in conjunction with State schools e.g. Corby . |
| 5 | Their only hope was to find a farmhouse where a friendly farmer might be able to offer them shelter for the night . |
| 6 | Such a putative immunosuppressive effect of L1 might accord with the intestinal distribution seen of the L1 + eosinophils : they are localised mainly in the lamina propria where a downregulating effect on lymphocyte proliferation would be beneficial to dampen immune responses to food antigens , but they are virtually absent beneath the follicle associated epithelium of Peyer 's patches where adequate immunostimulation to potentially pathogenic antigens is desirable . |
| 7 | Character is calculated exactly to support the theme of hierarchy on shipboard in Trial Trip , where a galley boy discovers that he is not entirely free to resume a schoolboy friendship with Tich , now in the second year of his apprenticeship , and in Out of the Shallows , where a sixteen-year-old apprentice with a decided chip on his shoulder suffers from the complications which friendship with a steward brings , particularly as the steward , a thoroughly shifty individual , is merely using him as a way of furthering his own ends . |
| 8 | Sarajevo Television also reported Serbian attacks in Foca and Visegrad , where a Muslim defender threatened to dynamite a major hydro-electric dam on the Drina river border with Serbia . |
| 9 | a more specific power to appoint a British consul or his deputy as a special examiner may be exercised where a Civil Procedure Convention subsists between the United Kingdom and the relevant foreign country providing for the taking of the evidence of any person in that country for the assistance of proceedings in the High Court ( the unspoken assumption being that any such Convention will permit consuls to act ) ; and |
| 10 | Where a civil wrong has been committed by a partner under the authorisation of the other partners or as part of the normal business of the firm , then the plaintiff may pursue the partners collectively or separately until judgment is satisfied . |
| 11 | It was almost a model village , with its Quality Street , where a future head of the Secret Service lived for many years . |
| 12 | And so I trailed my plodden way to number 55 , where a monkey-puzzle tree twirled in the front garden and the windows suffered painfully from glaucoma . |
| 13 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that the object of the substituted section 9 of the Wills Act 1837 had been to simplify the requirements for the execution and witnessing of a will ; that the complementary requirements , of a signature and of an intention that the signature should give effect to the will , demanded a practical approach ; that a written name , not being a normal signature , was capable of being a signature for the purposes of section 9 ; but that where a testamentary document was signed before the dispositive provisions had been written , affirmative evidence was necessary to show that the testator had intended the signature to give effect to the provisions ; that by writing his name and the dispositive provisions in one single operation the deceased had provided such evidence ; and that , accordingly , the will had been duly executed ; but that , on the evidence , the deputy judge had been entitled to conclude that the onus on the defendants of establishing the testamentary capacity of the deceased had not been discharged ( post , pp. 588B–H , 589B–F , 592A–C ) . |
| 14 | instance , in the frequency range where a first-order network gives a gain variation of ±6 dB per octave , the phase shift is . |
| 15 | Direct discrimination against a married person occurs where a married person is treated less favourably on the grounds of marital status , than an unmarried person of the same sex would be in the same or not materially different circumstances . |
| 16 | This is clearly not the case in [ 8 ] , where a tall man has an attributive function . |
| 17 | Front Page Story ( 1953 ) is set in a newspaper office , where a harassed editor played by Jack Hawkins deals with homeless children , a scientist wanting to spill atomic secrets , a journalist 's crisis of conscience and a wife who plans to walk out on him . |
| 18 | Yet it was the same stretch of line where a two-year-old boy Mark Gilbert died just five months ago . |
| 19 | Yet it was the same stretch of line where a two-year-old boy Mark Gilbert died just five months ago . |
| 20 | The thirty-minute flight was followed by twenty minutes in a truck to a dilapidated harbour where a black-skinned man hauled himself from a motor boat on to the patched wooden dock . |
| 21 | ‘ The inconvenience arising from cold in the most carefully constructed railway carriage , where a long journey has to be performed in the winter season , suggested to the directors the necessity of fixing a warming apparatus in the bed of the carriage , and Mr. Perkins , the inventor of the steam gun , has accordingly fitted a very ingenious apparatus for the purpose of heating the carriage , which may be thus briefly described : — a coil of pipe placed near the hinder axletree , and supplied with water from a small cistern in the bed of the carriage , is kept heated by means of a lamp with four burners . |
| 22 | ‘ Sometimes , your actions are utterly thoughtless without any knowledge of consequences , ’ he muttered , turning her to the side of the room , where a long bench gave them a chance to sit . |
| 23 | And so on to the shop — ‘ hey … they 're selling stuff here ! ’ — and the cafe , the Casablanca Club , where a second voice murmurs , as it may well have done in arts centre days but certainly wo n't when the family visitor attraction becomes reality , ‘ a cup of coffee ? … pastry ? … hashish ? ’ |
| 24 | A ‘ Confirmed Credit ’ is one where a second bank ( usually one familiar to the exporter ) adds it name to the Credit and thereby assumes all the responsibilities of payment mentioned in Article 10 . |
| 25 | Negotiations dragging on where there is apparently little separating the two sides ( quite likely in the case of job evaluation where a five point difference in a grade boundary might represent hundreds of posts ) can lead to accusations of bad faith and a potentially dangerous deterioration in the general climate of industrial relations . |
| 26 | Indeed , the government recently criticized those resourceful street-corner repair shops , where a spare part can be created with the most basic of equipment rather than ordered from a factory . |
| 27 | Hurrying under cover of darkness up to Roscarrock Hall where a real priest was visiting from Ireland or Spain , they whispered their confessions to him , received absolution from him and knelt in the Roscarrock family chapel to hear a proper Latin Mass and to receive in their mouths the living sacrifice , the Body of Christ . |
| 28 | For one thing , the gallery knows very well which other collectors may be interested in making a purchase ; for another , the gallery , since it represents the artist , likes to have some control over where a major work may be placed . |
| 29 | Another site , some distance from the main concentrations , where a major change has been dated to 350 — 60 is the villa at Great Casterton . |
| 30 | Where a major change to the firm has taken place ( eg the departure of one partner out of only a few or several partners at one time , merger or takeover , or the closure of an entire department ) there is a professional obligation to notify clients as soon as reasonably practicable . |