Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adj] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quick on the heels of its release of the Windowing Korn Shell 1.0 a few weeks ago , Unix System Laboratories Inc has come out with WKSH 1.1 which adds the Tuxedo System Interface library for rapid prototyping . |
| 2 | In Spring 1985 a follow-up survey is planned to examine the employment and other destinations of students some six months after the end of the IT Advanced Course . |
| 3 | and the thread bit on I do n't do it all the time look you 've got half a sense mind half a strong common sense |
| 4 | Intergraph Corp has wielded the axe half a dozen times since last August : 100 employees were laid off a couple of weeks ago — the company reported a $12.5m first quarter loss on revenues of $282m and has 7,000 staff worldwide . |
| 5 | Of course , they 'd remember Donna 's mother because she was in labour such a long time , and they were all worried about her . |
| 6 | What makes this album such a monstrous listen , though , is the way disgusting guitar noises of all descriptions are packed into jabs , upper-cuts , sucker punches and knock-out blows to batter you dizzily around the room . |
| 7 | That 's what gives the car such a delicious duality of character . |
| 8 | A bad interviewer can give a potentially excellent employee such a negative impression that he or she loses interest in the job . |
| 9 | The market opportunities for a flexible hybrid car like the LA301 are likely to be much greater than a battery only vehicle , but in practice such a hybrid car will be driven in zero emission mode for the majority of the time . |
| 10 | Was the Countess such a gentle mistress that you would risk your life for her ? |
| 11 | It was proving to be an ideal choice of holiday with a programme of free activities that gave us an easy opportunity to make friends with the guests form other nations who gave the Club such a cosmopolitan atmosphere . |
| 12 | In Chapter 4 a no-arbitrage equation was derived for the relationship between the spot and futures prices of a market index . |
| 13 | In Chapter 4 a brief account of the process of map digitization was given . |
| 14 | ( The shape of the monkey could be discerned by the eye of prejudice even in the Chinese and Japanese , as witness many a modern cartoon . ) |
| 15 | Note that in Figure 5.2 a logarithmic scale of abundance has been used , in which equal distances correspond to equal multiples . |
| 16 | The making of a " no " decision is a definite action arid a definite direction . |
| 17 | And er what , four the rest I think it was one pound five a Twenty five shillings every three months and you got a sovereign and often a five shilling piece . |
| 18 | The demand fur such a common culture rests either on an altogether over-optimistic belief in the educability of the majority that is certainly not justified by experience or on a willingness to surrender the highest standards of taste and judgement to the incessant demands of mediocrity . |
| 19 | ‘ If only I had that opportunity such a rewarding experience working among people of that type . ’ |
| 20 | And the vicar such a considerate man to work for . ’ |
| 21 | The latter claim was made by Piaget about much younger children , so it could reasonably be asked what function such a stylistic device serves for older students . |
| 22 | It is at the heart such a socialist system . |
| 23 | But without Balfour 's active support such a controversial piece of education reform would not have passed . |
| 24 | Under section 104 of the Companies Act 1985 a public company may not , in a defined initial period , enter into an agreement with a subscriber to the company 's memorandum for the transfer of one or more non-cash assets to the company , unless ( among other conditions ) the consideration to be received by the company , and any consideration other than cash to be given by the company , have been independently valued . |
| 25 | At the bar half a dozen very grey old men sit and grimace at each other , saying absolutely nothing . |
| 26 | Michael Holly was back inside Hut 2 a clear hour before the trustie slammed shut the hut 's door , switched off the lights . |
| 27 | I attach an example of one child 's written work 04 a previous lesson which shows something of her view of education and the teacher 's comments . |
| 28 | This deficiency proved fatal when the dollar faced a prolonged confidence crisis in the early 1970s . |
| 29 | Rata Quick headed the 1970 Hertfordshire training course , and the county display team contributed to make our 25th Anniversary at the Royal Albert Hall such a memorable occasion . |
| 30 | Since this high work of fracture — which makes trees able to stand up to the buffetings of life and which makes wood such a useful material — can not be accounted for by any of the recognized work of fracture mechanisms which operate in man-made composites , George set out to find out what was really happening . |