Example sentences of "an [adj] [noun] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My Boss says a man rings in with an upset stomach and you know either he means a hangover or else his brother managed to get him a ticket for Wembley . |
| 2 | The article ended : ‘ The prince 's image has been badly damaged and statesman-like behaviour can not compensate for a young wife throwing herself downstairs in an attempted suicide while her husband strides to go out riding . |
| 3 | They have an absurd notion that what is successful is successful people . |
| 4 | The Government are getting into an absurd position and they should recognise that . |
| 5 | I indicated that legal action was , in my view , inappropriate in respect of what was a rather feeble attempt at satire , and the importance of the programme would be enhanced to an absurd extent if anyone depicted in it took it seriously , but none of us liked being ridiculed . |
| 6 | He produced the paper after supper , and dictated an absurd letter that I had to write out . |
| 7 | She knew nothing of the future other than that it was an inhospitable fog that no-one had any choice but to enter , but she was certain that there was a scene all laid-out and waiting for her where she brought in the name of the man — or woman — who 'd first talked to Chrissie and then run her down . |
| 8 | Chris was now an auxiliary fireman and he and Maureen could meet only when their duties permitted . |
| 9 | It 's an age-old problem and nothing that a dab of string lubricant or Vaseline would n't cure . |
| 10 | ( c ) Anyone who has committed an arrestable offence or he has reasonable grounds for suspecting has committed an arrestable offence . |
| 11 | Jessamy gave an involuntary shiver because she was afraid he was right . |
| 12 | Mister Tom had told him not to be afraid of the earth , but it was still wet from the previous night 's rain and occasionally he let out an involuntary squeal when his spade contacted a worm . |
| 13 | This is an unfinished work because everybody has a story to tell . |
| 14 | He 'd had an addled idea that he wanted to stand there all night , so that first thing in the morning he could approach the kids and explain to them what it was he was after . |
| 15 | A commitment fee is payable on an unused facility until it is drawn-down by the borrower while an agent fee is payable to the agent bank . |
| 16 | So if you have an unused runway or something that looks like one nearby , please use the conventional markings for a disused , unusable runway — white crosses or , at the very least , tyres or stakes painted white . |
| 17 | So we can distinguish then a third state in w which we can call an inactivated state and which will leave the channel closed , but also unable to respond as it would be able to do if it resided in a simple closed in a simple closed state which were responsive to gating . |
| 18 | It was an exhausted technique and its exhaustion quickly weakened the relationship of religious and secular . |
| 19 | For a while she thought that her visions had been a delirium , but then fell into an exhausted sleep when she received her sixteenth revelation in a dream which reassured her and made her deeply ashamed of her doubts . |
| 20 | Sien was in an exhausted doze when he went in with her small daughter and her mother . |
| 21 | Finniston pauses for an ironical chuckle as he recollects the weight of responsibility placed upon his shoulders at the time . |
| 22 | We did n't want to play an indoor stadium and we felt it was too soon to repeat Loch Lomond . |
| 23 | We actually went to an indoor show and I jumped Herbie in a Novice class . |
| 24 | As I entered the committee room from the standard uncarpeted passage , I was given a friendly and businesslike handshake by the chairman , Lord Franks , who had courteously got out of his chair to greet his witness — an unfailing politeness that I gather he extended to every other witness . |
| 25 | The landlord Alec Crossley kept an orderly house and his buxom blonde wife Grace was always jolly and invariably found time to listen to the troubles of her customers , even when she was hard put to it behind the counter . |
| 26 | He was still seen as tied to the ranks of the bourgeoisie by an umbilical cord that he had failed to sever . |
| 27 | Alongside the debates about the most appropriate method of caring for the elderly are concerns about the ‘ blocking ’ of acute beds by older people who no longer need the facilities provided by an acute setting but who , for other reasons , can not be discharged . |
| 28 | Candidates whose mother tongue is not English will be required to pass an Oral Test before they can be awarded a certificate . |
| 29 | Candidates whose mother tongue is not English will be required to pass an Oral Test before they can be awarded a certificate . |
| 30 | Alternatively , you can make an oral record if you have a dictation machine . |