Example sentences of "[noun sg] a [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | This proved to be an unsatisfactory arrangement , and with the help of the Old Boys ' Association a four-acre field in Adswood was purchased . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Is your supper drink or your afternoon cup of tea a sacred ritual for you ? |
| 8 | In the wood , Cecil had carved into a tree trunk a small swing for a child that had since grown and died in Vietnam . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . ) |
| 13 | But Corden , mindful that in football a firm show of boardroom backing so often heralds managerial upheaval , said : ‘ I 'm not going to give him a vote of confidence ! ’ |
| 14 | flo plays wide midfield on norways national team — but i think he is used mainly as a target man for sheff utd. norw coach drillo wants to try a setup with one ‘ Flo ’ as both left and right wide midfielder , then trying to hit hard high , crosses from behind towards the ‘ towers ’ at the sides thus giving football a new dimension of play . |
| 15 | Television coverage has won American football a big following in Britain . |
| 16 | In fact , training horses is all about habits : good training consists of teaching a horse a whole series of good habits ; whereas a poor trainer teaches a horse some bad habits too . |
| 17 | Subsequent events were to make the horse a leading candidate for the greatest bloodstock bargain of all time , but when the new owner first saw his purchase he was horrified . |
| 18 | For the second year in succession a regional survey for the Grampian area was undertaken . |
| 19 | Elsewhere , however , as has been stated , it is not uncommon for a court to declare invalid a purported act of a legislature on the ground that the legislature in question had no power to pass such an act at all . |
| 20 | In the long run it may be possible to go further than this , to appropriate in the form of tax revenue a large part of the income which workers would otherwise have put into long-term savings schemes , and to expand commensurately the socialised provision for retired workers ( state pensions plus appropriate social amenities ) . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He justifies this implicit raising of the required standard partly in order to encourage pupils to continue caring about geography lessons ( as opposed to reading the newspapers ) and partly because it would be unfair to give pupils taking geography a better chance of reaching university than pupils taking , say , physics under the war-time difficulties caused by shortage of laboratories and physics teachers . |
| 23 | Joshua Morris had told them of Felicity 's impending arrival , and-ordered a light supper at seven to be eaten in their room . |
| 24 | Two recent studies exclusively involving patients with diarrhoea similarly reported the absence of potential pathogens in most patients with AIDS related complex while in most patients with AIDS a potential cause of diarrhoea was detected ; as the abnormalities detected in AIDS patients were obviously not necessary to produce diarrhoea at earlier stages of the disease , their causative relevance is doubtful . |
| 25 | As a result a small piece of low-level code is being reworked , hardly something to even write home about . |
| 26 | Headlines in a US paper saying that the Open Software Foundation has dropped Tivoli Systems Inc 's management framework from its Distributed Management Environment are flat out wrong and creating unnecessary waves : as our sister paper Unigram.X has already said , DME 1.0 is being made fully compliant with the Object Management Group 's Common Object Request Broker , a specification that post-dates development of both DME and the Tivoli framework and as a result a small piece of low-level code is being reworked , hardly something to write home about , and the Foundation says Tivoli 's framework remains central to the object management framework . |
| 27 | As a result a good model of the system may be obtained from a much smaller corpus of data . |
| 28 | But following the changes in Eastern Europe and the virtual ending of the cold war this particular danger has receded for the time being , and as a result a new process of gradual disarmament by the major nuclear powers has begun . |
| 29 | The recently-held Day of Recollection for members of the APC and friends had been greatly appreciated and as a result a further Day of Recollection will be held in the spring . |
| 30 | As a result a random increase in aggregate demand is likely to produce a positive deviation of aggregate output from its natural level . |