Example sentences of "a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If firms incur fixed costs , a free-entry zero-profit equilibrium may result in too many firms operating with high average costs . |
| 2 | the Headrow was a new traffic artery in the central city , and in Birmingham a combination of inner city slum clearance and a long-proposed inner ring road promised much change , while in Coventry a young city architect , Gibson , saw the possibilities of a new central area . |
| 3 | Protractors , compasses , rulers , and any other impressive props we could think of — even a film-footage chart , and the monocular ( or half a pair of binoculars ) inherited from our stepfather . |
| 4 | Bring a red biro and a see-through bag for your map . |
| 5 | Reaching forwards , Jed picked up a see-through zip-lock bag . |
| 6 | When the paper is viewed on the light box , a see-through view is obtained so that it is possible to see the rough copper track layout , like an X-Ray , in relation to the components . |
| 7 | ‘ There 's one person you meet sitting in a restaurant having a chat , and then that person will go and put on a see-through lurex all-in-one bodice and stand in front of 10,000 people and make a complete cunt of himself and not think about it . |
| 8 | in a see-through basin ; |
| 9 | It was all happening to him , right there in a see-through plastic telephone nodule in the airport concourse with the crowds jostling and plaintive announcements coming over the Tannoy system , and the orange-juice machines gurgling and travellers humping suitcases about with those peculiarly tense expressions people always adopt prior to a long-haul flight . |
| 10 | There was ‘ Pooper Scooper ’ Watkins , a young woman who insisted not only on picking up her dog 's faeces with a see-through plastic glove , but also on waving it in the faces of passers-by in order to emphasize her ecological soundness . |
| 11 | It was more than likely that their hotel room would be bugged and perhaps fitted with a see-through mirror . |
| 12 | His braces were vivid blue and yellow zigzags and were button fasteners not clips , over a see-through white shirt which did n't have a collar . |
| 13 | trustees comprise persons for the purposes of income tax ; 2. they comprise a separate entity liable to tax on monies they receive or which they are entitled to receive ; 3. the main inroads into that separateness and liability are of a restricted nature as explained in the Reid 's Trustees case ; these inroads are : ( a ) in certain cases ( but not all ) where a trustee mandates income direct to a beneficiary the trustee will not be liable to tax ( Williams v Singer ) ; ( b ) in the case of a life interest trust a see-through or conduit approach is adopted for identification of source purposes so that the origin and parentage of the income is not changed by virtue of its journey through the trust ( Archer-Shee v Baker ) ; ( c ) if income arises to the trustees of a life interest trust ( subject to deductions for expenses ) it is taxable upon the life tenant whether or not he actually takes the money ( Spen 's case ) . |
| 14 | It 's a see-through one with blue stickers on it , in n it ? |
| 15 | Yeah , a see-through one with blue stickers , it 's got erm on it It 's got Whitney Houston on it . |
| 16 | Pauline , the highlight of whose round was the eagle with which she followed a wind-tossed triple-bogey at the 12th , brought news of how she had been attacked by a couple of bitches . |
| 17 | Set in trailer park America , shot with an arthouse eye , it has divorced mom Brooke Adams struggling with wayward daughter Ione Skye , who gets pregnant by a wacky English geologist called Dank ( huh ? ) while the other daughter , 16-year-old newcomer Fairuza Balk , negotiates various adolescent crises . |
| 18 | There is a wacky feel but perhaps you have to see them live . |
| 19 | You have quite a wacky , devil-may-care-image . |
| 20 | Roberta Junk do sound like a wacky tip for the top ! |
| 21 | SUPERSTAR Arnold Schwarzenegger plans to appear in a wacky movie spoof of his own career . |
| 22 | They rang ‘ Kelly ’ as the show was being transmitted with a wacky tale of how the lights in their house had suddenly began flickering and a music carousel started playing . |
| 23 | You have quite a wacky , devil-may-care-image . |
| 24 | Roberta Junk do sound like a wacky tip for the top ! |
| 25 | In the earliest versions , which date from 1959 — 60 , Gironella turns her into a sort of rag doll ; perhaps never more than a well-dressed shell , she is now simply a collage of fragments of coarse , torn cloth that appear to be pasted down with thick smears of paint ( Fig. 5 ) . |
| 26 | ‘ Some idiot might have seen a well-dressed elderly gent near the railway line and then you could have been questioned . ’ |
| 27 | The night before , a well-dressed elderly woman reeled towards him clutching a half-eaten burger and threw up all over his instrument . |
| 28 | ‘ Yes , I live very well , ’ he said , as I could see , for at that moment a well-dressed young woman came in and bought the carving of Maeve for twenty-five pounds . |
| 29 | Are you just a well-dressed dippie , then ? |
| 30 | Dinner is taken by candlelight at a well-dressed table in the elegant dining room . |