Example sentences of "an [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fanfare is an activity-based course for young learners which promotes a highly positive attitude towards learning English . |
| 2 | ‘ As for value for money , it was n't per se my main concern but reorienting it from an activity-based approach of what the cost of something was to VFM in terms of delivery to the patient — evaluating what we were doing well in the sense you or I as doctor-patient would expect , the outcomes of value to the patient , establishing how much it costs to deliver ( something we could n't do but are better at now ) and then asking if it is reasonable value for money or , more interestingly , why it is cheaper in one place than another , benchmarking it . ’ |
| 3 | One of these houses ( No.9 ) was in fact put on the market in 1991 , for an upset price of £90,000 , and was valued at £100,000 — considerably less than £106,000 . |
| 4 | A goalless first leg at Hillsborough had left the whiff of an upset mingling with the burgers and Bovril , but Wednesday cleared the air ruthlessly with four first-half goals in the space of 23 minutes . |
| 5 | But Djwa rightly perceives that ‘ reading through Cohen 's work we become aware of an unsatisfied search for an absolute . ’ |
| 6 | During the more prosperous years of World War II , the Board of Trade reported an unsatisfied demand for shoes , which it explained by referring to a backlog of demand created by the inability of families to buy them during the 1930s . |
| 7 | Because agriculture is such a basic industry throughout the world , good opportunities exist for agricultural posts overseas and the Third World in particular has an unsatisfied demand for graduates , once they have acquired the necessary experience or postgraduate qualifications in an appropriate field of tropical agriculture . |
| 8 | Convinced that the general public had an unsatisfied thirst for knowledge , he took an active part in several educational activities . |
| 9 | This catfish exhibits an usual form of ‘ parental care ’ , not dissimilar to that of the cuckoo — which is infamous for laying its eggs in the nests of other birds and leaving them to be hatched and raised by the involuntary ‘ foster-parents ’ In the case of Synodontis multipunctatus , it swims in and out among mouth-brooding cichlids which are in the throes of spawning and releases its eggs at the same time as the cichlid , whose eggs it often devours . |
| 10 | A growing disenchantment with this policy , and with other developments at the museum , including the Turner Prize , reached a climax in an unsigned profile of director Nicholas Serota which was published in The Independent on 28 November 1992 . |
| 11 | As Mr Reed 's release seemed imminent , an unsigned statement on Tehran radio commenting on events since last week 's release , said ‘ the United States has failed to reciprocate the goodwill shown by Polehill 's captors ; in view of Washington 's position , resolving the hostage crisis is much slower than previously expected ’ . |
| 12 | Geologically , this area is an alluvial fan of a giant rock slide of granitic gneisses . |
| 13 | Gross has happily classified some 3,000 under various headings : Self-Love ( ’ To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance ’ — Oscar Wilde ) ; Love , Jealousy , Libido ( ’ No woman so naked as one you can see to be naked underneath her clothes ’ — Michael Frayn ) ; Secrets ( ’ There is something about a cupboard that makes a skeleton terribly restless ’ — anon ) and Criticism ( ’ In some cases taking up the trade of critic is only an embittered form of renunciation ’ — Albert Guinon ) . |
| 14 | Non-essential traffic would be diverted to ‘ district ’ and ‘ primary distributors ’ ( Figure 3.1 ) The ‘ environmental area ’ concept was seen as applicable throughout the city , producing an interlacing framework of distributing roads embracing cells of quieter activity . |
| 15 | In TRACE II , recovery is possible through an anti-clockwise circle of excitation . |
| 16 | The mammoth was related to but distinct from the modern elephants , and therefore it must be an extinct species of the same genus . |
| 17 | As noticed ( p. 59 ) it is now known that the graptolites were an extinct branch of the phylum Hemichordata , an insignificant group today , consisting of a few encrusting colonial organisms . |
| 18 | The graptolites are an extinct group of colonial organisms , with a geological record extending from the Cambrian to the Carboniferous . |
| 19 | Many of the fern-like fronds that can be found in Carboniferous rocks belong to an extinct group of plants sharing a common ancestor with the ferns , but distinct enough to be regarded as entirely separate . |
| 20 | Carol Shawcroft , 19 , and Raoul German , 31 , were among seven people who died when the pleasure trip helicopter smashed into an extinct volcano at 3,000ft . |
| 21 | The central feature of the vast complex is a Formula One racetrack , curving round an extinct volcano in such a way that the entire circuit can be viewed from one vantage point . |
| 22 | This supposition has been overshadowed by the ‘ Vendobionta ’ hypothesis , in which Ediacaran animals are thought to constitute an extinct clade of multicellular eukaryotes , neither diploblast nor triploblast , with a unique construction of tough cuticle and mattress-like body , and possibly the absence of alimentary tract , musculature and nervous tissue . |
| 23 | Because the pictures are two-dimensional , it is all too easy to confuse the eye with an unsuitable choice of background . |
| 24 | He said : ‘ This tragedy could have been avoided because the method of decanting used in an enclosed space with a direct source of ignition available and the use of an unsuitable type of hand lamp did not constitute a safe system of working . ’ |
| 25 | Secure as he thought in possession , Lewis brushed this aside as being an unsuitable subject for discussion at such a time . |
| 26 | When the issue has not been discussed because it is felt to be too painful to talk about or because it is considered an unsuitable topic of conversation , then there may be problems . |
| 27 | Their presence in normal schools would be disruptive to the general process of education and an unsuitable environment for the children concerned . |
| 28 | It was , of course , still an unsuitable role for her , a seventeen-year-old dancer disguised as a Circassian boy . |
| 29 | His alcoholism would have made him an unsuitable colleague for revolutionaries obsessed with the need for secrecy and the dangers of indiscretion . |
| 30 | I was of course reminded of my mission regarding the young gentleman and it occurred to me that an outdoor setting , with the general proximity of nature , and in particular the example of the geese close at hand , would not be an unsuitable setting at all in which to convey the sort of message I was bearing . |