Example sentences of "[noun] a [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | But the tendency was reversed in the 1986 elections which gave CCOO a clear majority of the votes ( see table 5.4 ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This proved to be an unsatisfactory arrangement , and with the help of the Old Boys ' Association a four-acre field in Adswood was purchased . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | An added complication which increases in importance from time to time , is the tendency for both ITV contractors and media buyers to negotiate ‘ share deals ’ , in which the advertiser obtains a discount for giving a particular contractor a disproportionate share of the TV budget . |
| 8 | Sometime before he became king in 1625 , James I 's son Charles had adopted as his personal religion a conservative version of Protestantism known as Arminianism ; he had done so either because he disagreed with the doctrine of predestination , or more probably because he found the austere liturgy of undiluted Calvinism distasteful . |
| 9 | Is your supper drink or your afternoon cup of tea a sacred ritual for you ? |
| 10 | In the wood , Cecil had carved into a tree trunk a small swing for a child that had since grown and died in Vietnam . |
| 11 | There are many more , far too numerous to mention here , but The Body Shop stock a good selection of aromatherapy oils as do most health food sores . |
| 12 | The cup triumph will go a long way to easing the memory of their loss to Waringstown in the final of the Touche Ross Senior Cup last month and caps a solid season for the Comber side . |
| 13 | The ultimate accolade caps a dramatic rise for Platt who was rejected by Manchester United before establishing himself in the game with Crewe , then joining Taylor at Aston Villa and then going onto Juventus via Bari . |
| 14 | Offering drinkers a wide range of regional beers : one of many Campaign beer festivals |
| 15 | In later centuries the rate of clearance may have slowed , and in the 17th and 18th centuries a great deal of replanting was carried out in the formation of the large parklands . |
| 16 | In the late tenth and eleventh centuries a marked revival of agriculture and country life in Lombardy had ushered in the urban renaissance in its heartland ; for it was to be the Lombard cities above all which lured the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa to Italy in the 1150s and 1160s , and whose almost innumerable walls baffled his armies in the long war of the Lombard League . |
| 17 | Why not an American-Palestinian version of the 1917 Balfour declaration , in which Britain promised the world 's Jews a national home in Palestine ? |
| 18 | So why not give your legs a golden glow with a little fake tan ? |
| 19 | She also found great pleasure in reading , but although my father had brought to Fontanellato a large number of Slovene books , she had soon to resort to reading in Italian , which she inevitably found more difficult . |
| 20 | In the seventeenth century some preformationists claimed they could detect in the head of the sperm cell a tiny person in miniature — a homunculus — just waiting to emerge . |
| 21 | The two tier stand has been specially designed to give fans a clear view of the pitch . |
| 22 | But the chances are , too , that if at the beginning you saw yourself as writing a crime novel and no more , then you will have spoilt the novel you eventually turned out to have produced , as well as causing in a good many of your readers a subtle feeling of disappointment . |
| 23 | Without indulging in passages of inactive description , he extended to his readers a panoramic view of the world , making good use of the duties performed by the navy in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars to keep up the colour and excitement of adventure . |
| 24 | His main theme was the increasing power of Rome in the Mediterranean and this , as Momigliano points out , Provided him with a new historical perspective : ‘ Just because Fortune made almost all the affairs of the world incline in one direction , it is the historian 's task to put before his readers a compendious view of the ways in which Fortune accomplished her purposes . ’ |
| 25 | I believe that continuing to hear the language of books as well as to see it gives developing readers a valuable resource in this domain . |
| 26 | Yet Rider Haggard seems to have been dissatisfied with his presentation of the character ( and naturally he must have been influenced , as a professional novelist , by the enormous popularity and sales of She ) and he did not resist the temptation to give his readers a further insight into her . |
| 27 | I had failed miserably to give my readers a true picture of the visual delights awaiting those who followed in my footsteps . |
| 28 | Whatever novelists may believe about the universe , they do not demand of their readers a formal belief in God or the Devil , or in the forces of history , and the tolerances they expect are wide . |
| 29 | It was replaced by contribution agreements by which the local authorities in an area occupied by a foreign army undertook , often with the consent of their own ruler , to pay the occupying force a fixed sum in return for a promise that it would not pillage . |
| 30 | It is , I am told , German settlers in County Wexford who are responsible for the Irish Brie called St Edi now being peddled in this country ; the assault of its ammoniac smell brought back to me with terrible force a twenty-two-year-old memory of the Camembert of war-time Egypt which , I now realize , could have been none other than the handiwork of a German fifth column active in Alexandria . ) |