Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Originally there was considerable variety among the cattle of Wales , which at one time included the Glamorgan , said to have been an ancient breed of doubtful origin , possibly partly Norman or from a Devon cross . |
| 2 | Whether employed as a part-time sales assistant or as a manager , all staff are offered the opportunity to develop their careers within Thresher . |
| 3 | The synthesiser can be used either as a melodic or as a chorus instrument . |
| 4 | A tenancy that is something else — that is to say , either periodic or for a term certain but described as a tenancy at will — will inevitably be caught ( ibid per Scarman LJ at 217 ) . |
| 5 | Currently , over 6,000 students worldwide have registered for the Distance Learning MBA , either by dealing with Henley direct or through a Network of Associate Institutions in countries around the world . |
| 6 | For the ordinary user there are two main channels to buy a computer through — either direct or from a dealer . |
| 7 | The most important choice facing today 's buyer is n't whether to buy direct or from a dealer , but whether it 's worth paying extra for really good quality support and service . |
| 8 | It is clear that at a meeting on July 4 between Lord Young and BAe , discussions included various tax benefits for Rover , to be achieved through the removal of the ring fence on tax losses and sympathetic revenue treatment . |
| 9 | Where these problems are absent there appears to be little that a reasonably fit older person can not do with an efficiency equivalent to a high proportion of younger workers ( see Stones and Kozma , 1985 for a good survey of research findings in this field ) : ‘ It is clear that as a piece of anatomical and physiological machinery , the human organism becomes progressively impaired from the late twenties onwards . |
| 10 | It is clear that as a matter of prudent management in a firm of any size one of the partners or a senior member of staff should be given overall responsibility for ensuring that all partners and employed solicitors ( whether or not held out as partners ) comply with these basic requirements of professional practice ( by keeping a check on replacement and renewal dates , collating relevant statistical information , ensuring timeous completion and posting of applications , etc ) and that the firm is spared the embarrassment of financial penalties or , even worse , an unwanted dissolution . |
| 11 | As far as the County Highways Authority 's concerned , I think they 've made it quite clear that as a matter of principle , when they considered the new settlement , the new settlement proposal was then around nineteen hundred dwellings , larger than what is being proposed at the moment . |
| 12 | The Department pledges its support to staff who work within the spirit of the Guidelines set out in this document , and will make it clear that as a Department we are not prepared to accept threats of intimidation and violence from that small number of clients who use such methods to manipulate their social environment or evade responsibility for their behaviour . |
| 13 | It is therefore clear that as a result of the statutory machinery an individual can have a substantial measure of control over his own working life compulsorily delegated to an agent , a trade union , which he has not selected and may even have his own contract of service varied without his consent . |
| 14 | Now , in addition to that , and I do n't know if this is the source of the confusion , we 've also made provision in the ninety four five budget for another er camera site operation , except that it 's a lower figure because that does n't actually include the camera because we made it clear that as a result of the decision last time here we did n't want to create a , a permanent precedent that this committee always picked up the bill for the camera . |
| 15 | It is clear that for a girl to have any chance of succeeding , she must play the Tour in some style . |
| 16 | It is clear that under a system of well-conceived planning the resolution of competing claims and the allocation of land for the various requirements must proceed on the basis of selecting the most suitable land for the particular purpose , irrespective of the existing values which may attach to the individual parcels of land . |
| 17 | It seems clear that in a number of places the word for professional soldier has been misunderstood as meaning " thousand " . |
| 18 | It is clear that in a number of sectors concentration is significantly higher than in the economy generally . |
| 19 | It is conceivable that on a charge of rape a man might argue that he had in fact meant to perpetrate an act of buggery and that the sexual intercourse that took place was unintended . |
| 20 | Shaped like straw mushrooms , they are completely clear except for a gossamer veil which makes up their body . |
| 21 | The sky now suddenly seemed clear except for a CR 42 going down in a spin ahead of me . |
| 22 | In such cases failure is even more painful than with a home student , and one has heard rumours of failed candidates having to return several years of fees to their government , and suffering even worse penalties . |
| 23 | It seems to me manifest that in a world in which sexual activity is more and more openly presented in all media , in which sex is exploited for purposes of advertisement and entertainment at every level , and in which people 's sexual proclivities are discussed in the plainest terms , children at school need to be given clear information from an early age , and a chance to have their questions answered at various stages of their school career . |
| 24 | The radial shields are rounded triangular to teardrop shaped , slightly greater than a quarter of the disk diameter in length , distally contiguous except for a row of granules which runs along the suture . |
| 25 | The street below was empty except for a girl walking along sobbing quietly and a boy behind her trying to explain . |
| 26 | The doorway led into a small court with white walls and flat roof of red earth , empty except for a man sitting on the ground on a blue mat . |
| 27 | They were empty except for a caretaker or two . |
| 28 | The water trough was empty except for a layer of scum , a beer bottle and some sweet wrappers . |
| 29 | The incinerator was empty except for a trace of carbon ash . |
| 30 | In spite of the visual evidence , Lam is presented less as a modernist than as a rebel against modernism , as the outsider who challenges Europe on its own terms and wins . |