Example sentences of "a [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If firms incur fixed costs , a free-entry zero-profit equilibrium may result in too many firms operating with high average costs . |
| 2 | the Headrow was a new traffic artery in the central city , and in Birmingham a combination of inner city slum clearance and a long-proposed inner ring road promised much change , while in Coventry a young city architect , Gibson , saw the possibilities of a new central area . |
| 3 | Reaching forwards , Jed picked up a see-through zip-lock bag . |
| 4 | His braces were vivid blue and yellow zigzags and were button fasteners not clips , over a see-through white shirt which did n't have a collar . |
| 5 | Set in trailer park America , shot with an arthouse eye , it has divorced mom Brooke Adams struggling with wayward daughter Ione Skye , who gets pregnant by a wacky English geologist called Dank ( huh ? ) while the other daughter , 16-year-old newcomer Fairuza Balk , negotiates various adolescent crises . |
| 6 | ‘ Yes , I live very well , ’ he said , as I could see , for at that moment a well-dressed young woman came in and bought the carving of Maeve for twenty-five pounds . |
| 7 | It was driven by a well-dressed young man smoking a cigar . |
| 8 | The landlord claimed a well-dressed young man also passed through the village about the same time . |
| 9 | In the short time she had been in the City , she had been propositioned by a well-dressed lush , witnessed a gangland execution and been pursued through a deserted subway station by a bulky killer . |
| 10 | ‘ Some idiot might have seen a well-dressed elderly gent near the railway line and then you could have been questioned . ’ |
| 11 | The night before , a well-dressed elderly woman reeled towards him clutching a half-eaten burger and threw up all over his instrument . |
| 12 | For his last session , which was about cannabis , the sergeant brought along a whacking great sample of the stuff which he placed on the lecture bench in front of him . |
| 13 | So if there 's some evidence of a whacking great crack on his head … and if this had been deliberately inflicted rather than accidentally incurred … about seven hours ago , say … |
| 14 | But she 's got a whacking great alibi , sir . ’ |
| 15 | Er now I would think that the lexicon itself is just a w a whacking great look up table yes ? |
| 16 | ‘ I would have thought a whacking great palace more to your taste ! ’ |
| 17 | Just drew them a whacking great circle round it and |
| 18 | Well , I should imagine they 're just the same as their normal ones , and they 've stuck a , a whacking great white label on them , but I mean , you know , perhaps they 're of an inferior quality , I do n't know . |
| 19 | Under a seasonally dry climate this leads to the formation of a characteristically red-coloured , iron-rich horizon overlying a bleached pallid zone which has been effectively leached of ferric iron . |
| 20 | Money may have disappeared down a black hole ( the budget was $40m according to Hurd , though industry sources put it nearer $50m ) , but it has all been spent on spectacle , not marquee names : Ed Harris ( from Jacknife ) and Mary Elizabeth Mastroantonio star as an oil-rig foreman and the project engineer , both brought in to rescue a striken nuclear submarine . |
| 21 | They also agreed to resume constitutional negotiations , suspended since June [ see p. 38948 ] , and committed themselves to the election of a constituent assembly and the inauguration of a non-racial transitional government as soon as possible . |
| 22 | A special general conference of the predominantly Zulu Inkatha Freedom Party on Dec. 9 confirmed Mangosuthu Buthelezi as leader , and resolved to co-operate with other parties in working for a non-racial multiparty democracy . |
| 23 | The company claims peak performance of 12.8 GFLOPS , and says the machine offers a three-fold price-performance improvement over its flagship SX-3R Series supercomputers . |
| 24 | The company claims peak performance of 12.8 GFLOPS , and says the machine offers a three-fold price-performance improvement over its flagship SX-3R Series supercomputers . |
| 25 | Cooper had enlisted Sutherland as an ally , and in return , Cooper was to elevate Sutherland 's career and position as a first-rank European modernist . |
| 26 | It is a single-storey castellated building with Gothic windows in its rounded front and each side of its little porch , giving the keeper a view of the road in both directions . |
| 27 | It 's a single-storey timber-built residence with separate living quarters and within easy reach of the river . |
| 28 | The final alteration came in 1959 when , at long last , internal WCs serving the staff and pupils were added in a single-storey flat-roofed extension to the south . |
| 29 | It appeared to be an old two-dimensional film presentation ; an old fashioned oil-driven military vehicle was speeding across a verdant green field . |
| 30 | No banner represented a frontal conceptual attack on established mediocrity and habitual thinking with the exception of the International Situationist banner which read : ‘ Storm the Reality Studios : Retake the Universe ’ . |