Example sentences of "[noun] a [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | This proved to be an unsatisfactory arrangement , and with the help of the Old Boys ' Association a four-acre field in Adswood was purchased . |
| 2 | Why not an American-Palestinian version of the 1917 Balfour declaration , in which Britain promised the world 's Jews a national home in Palestine ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Television coverage has won American football a big following in Britain . |
| 8 | Most items produced in Europe paid practically no English duty if they were to be re-exported to the colonies , but a few , including iron and steel , were taxed at a rate which made continental products very expensive and thus gave English manufacturers a clear field in the colonial market . |
| 9 | Jon-Tex High Build ( in nine colours ) is a ready-mixed , water-based paint , which gives even badly weathered masonry a heavy-duty finish in one coat . |
| 10 | As a result a random increase in aggregate demand is likely to produce a positive deviation of aggregate output from its natural level . |
| 11 | The Wadeville killing , the bloodiest in recent months , came a day after political leaders from the Government , the African National Congress and other groups agreed on terms for a transitional executive council ( TEC ) which will give the black opposition a powerful voice in Government decisions . |
| 12 | SPORTS enthusiasts representing Petersfield Chamber of Trade gave their opposition a tough fight in the four chamber sports competition on Saturday with Liphook emerging as victors in the final moments . |
| 13 | We are unlikely to have in mind a causal circumstance in this case . |
| 14 | But speaking of poets and their works has brought to mind a brief meeting in Chicago with Carl Sandberg , the great contemporary American poet . |
| 15 | Presidents usually nominate persons of the same political party as themselves , but at the lower levels of the federal judiciary a critical factor in the President 's choice is the views of the senators of the state in which the appointee is to serve . |
| 16 | The efforts that Sony has put in for the NEWS outside Japan would give NEC a flying start in the US and Europe should it decide to enter the international workstation market . |
| 17 | Loudon 's avowed objective , ‘ the amelioration of the great mass of society in all countries ’ , may appear to a modem reader grandiose , but to the Victorian reformer a bloodless revolution in housing seemed the best way of avoiding the carnage already witnessed on the European mainland . |
| 18 | Remote-control video cameras scanned back and forth , while up on the roof a nervous-looking teenager in grey overalls went his rounds , hugging a machine-gun for comfort . |
| 19 | Erm was Llaneilian a small place in those days ? |
| 20 | Frederick Starr calls the second and third principles " decentralization " ( which involved giving local officials more power but preserved the notion of bureaucratic or " ministerial " hegemony ) and " self-government " ( which meant introducing representative organs and giving non-bureaucrats in the provinces a larger say in the management of their affairs ) . |
| 21 | We may observe in the future a continued trend in the use of sub-contractors , consultants , and other external agencies , thus reducing the core size of currently large firms . |
| 22 | When census tracts are scrutinised in this neighbourhood a sharp division in experience becomes apparent . |
| 23 | Subsequent reports indicated that opposition parties had questioned the draft constitution 's stipulation that national assembly seats allocated by proportional representation ( half of the total , the rest being elected on a constituency basis by majority vote ) should be based on presidential election results , thus effectively guaranteeing the president a favourable majority in the assembly . |
| 24 | It was the goals from McStay , McAllister and McClair which gave the Scots a stirring win in Norrkoping , and the bite of McCall which gave them a formidable balance . |
| 25 | Just behind the car a small gap in the curtains reveals a door which leads into the motel apartment . |
| 26 | Not until the end of the Napoleonic Wars did increased specialization effect a sharp drop in the number of transfers from military to civil service . |
| 27 | At the turn of the century , Kenneth Grahame could confidently give the water vole a leading role in The Wind in the Willows : almost everyone knew this small rodent from almost daily acquaintance . |
| 28 | Data accumulated subsequently suggests that the M 52 could have been flown safely and might have given the British aircraft industry a commanding lead in supersonic fighter development . |
| 29 | She visited the United States a second time in 1902 , as a founding member , with Susan B. Anthony , of the International Council of Women . |
| 30 | In the United States a sharp drop in Scholastic Aptitude Test ( SAT ) scores ( an examination used widely to select students for college admission ) has been evinced as ‘ proof ’ of falling standards . |