Example sentences of "[adj] a [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1876 a handsome suite of royal waiting-rooms was erected and often used for luncheon parties when the royal party was on a shoot . |
| 2 | Gorry and Scott Morton ( 1975 ) , despite the problems of unclear boundaries between the three categories , find this a useful approach to the analysis of information requirements for management . |
| 3 | She had been over all this a thousand times in the real world , the world she privately thought of as the world of things . |
| 4 | There are many other examples of Dickens ' excellent style of writing in the novel , which add together to make this a perfect piece of writing of a rare quality . |
| 5 | It continues the development of oral/aural skills begun in Departures and adds to this a greater emphasis on reading skills , now that students have progressed beyond the beginner level . |
| 6 | Sally-Anne thought all this a great to-do about nothing . |
| 7 | For this a vast army of personnel is needed , working at different levels of generality — some dealing , at the ‘ sharp end ’ , with the actual , detailed discharge of functions ‘ on the ground ’ , others , at progressively higher levels , discharging coordinating or supervisory functions , which may involve an element of policy-making or , higher still , primarily concerned with overall general policy . |
| 8 | Acknowledged masters from James Joyce to William Trevor and other notables such as Edna O'Brien and John McGahern make this a first-rate introduction to Irish literature . |
| 9 | My mother who did virtually nothing except cooking and the housework Mrs Raffald did n't do , and who went hardly anywhere , clearly considered this a terrible waste of time . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , those unfamiliar with the original Dutch version ( which is most people ) may find this a satisfying way to while away an evening . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , those unfamiliar with the original Dutch version ( which is most people ) may find this a satisfying way to while away an evening . |
| 12 | I recently needed to mark off lots of chamfers , and found this a tedious job with a combination square on the end-grain . |
| 13 | Is this a turning point in our FA cup history : |
| 14 | Is this a temporary over-reaction by Germany 's friends , sour because their support for German unity seems to have brought them little solidarity now ? |
| 15 | Armed with this information we must now determine how meaningful it is and to do this a clearer understanding of the factors governing the shape of the polymer is required . |
| 16 | What was now needed was a means of countering Labour 's electoral appeal , and for this a Prime Minister with a cleaner political reputation would be needed . |
| 17 | It had been the first definite sign that something was wrong ; though she had been moody and withdrawn for some weeks before , he had thought this a normal reaction to her baby 's death . |
| 18 | Increased processing power and memory capacity have greatly reduced the manual ’ word-crunching ’ that was previously involved in corpus analysis , rendering this a viable technique for the compilation of collocation dictionaries . |
| 19 | Video technology has made this a frequent topic of male sporting conversation . |
| 20 | Overall there can be no doubt that this a major issue for all lovers of great music . |
| 21 | The companies found this a major block to their activities and eventually pulled out from the area : ‘ The companies never officially admitted that they were leaving , just sort of let their prospecting licences lapse … the reason they departed was because they could n't see any way that they could effectively operate with such total opposition . |
| 22 | You might think this a cheap revenge on a dead lady critic simply for pointing out that Flaubert did n't have a very reliable notion of Emma Bovary 's eyes . |
| 23 | And if , as the NES proposes , the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska is opened to drilling ( lobbyists give this a 50–50 chance of passing through Congress ) , the government will ensure that the drilling happens . |
| 24 | Is this a new way of selling insurance ? ’ |
| 25 | If this a new beginning for South Africa , their first Test since their isolation from international cricket in 1970 , because of their government 's apartheid policies , so it was for the West Indies . |
| 26 | ‘ Or is this a new form of office attire ? ’ |
| 27 | Was this a new area for you when you came to Suffolk because we have the docks close by , chemicals coming in there and at Felixstowe , |
| 28 | Is this a good way of thinking about the problem' ? |
| 29 | I 'll give you lots of support — Helen : Is this a good time for you to do this , though ? |
| 30 | ‘ The climate makes this a good place in which to bring up a child . |