Example sentences of "a [noun prp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first night a girl put her hand inside my trousers was during a Kenneth More film about the sinking of the Titanic . |
| 2 | Acquired as a corroded fuselage frame , upper/lower wing panels and a fin & rudder in 1988 , restoration has meant fabricating the undercarriage , acquiring a Lynx radial engine ( on loan from the Italian Air Force Museum ) and building from scratch the tailplane , elevator and engine cowlings . |
| 3 | It is clear that a leisure centre can turn a Monday-to-Thursday out-of-town operation into a seven-day-a-week one and thus substantially increase occupancy rates . |
| 4 | These may originally have been compiled by a Touraine monastic house so that the new rulers of the area could be commemorated in its prayers ; but like the genealogies of the comital house of Flanders , they were soon adapted to a more secular purpose . |
| 5 | The significance of his additions lies largely in the proof they provide that a Touraine monastic source was the subject of study within the count 's own household by a secular clerk of distinction . |
| 6 | Even in the war-fighting role described by Mark Hewish ( Countdown to the cruise , 31 March 1983 , p 878 ) , it is not credible that a 12-yard accuracy is needed to destroy bases , camps , etc with a 10-Hiroshima sized bomb . |
| 7 | Apart from the Garter , the Order of the Thistle , the Order of Merit , and the Royal Victorian Order , other decorations come not from the fount of honour but from the desk of a Whitehall functionary or the nudge of a political friend . |
| 8 | Each step of 1:50,000 is a rise of approximately 2.5C so that considering we started with a 3C a LM 1 is just over 5C , LM 6 = 17C , LM 12 = 31C , LM 30 = 73C ( all approximate figures ) . |
| 9 | Well , here 's a clue : he played a Gretsch 6120 with a Gibson P-90 pickup in the rhythm position . |
| 10 | Fifty parents of seven-year-olds forced the head of a Cardiff primary school to suspend testing the national curriculum by threatening to take their custom elsewhere . |
| 11 | Ultrastructural examination of tumours was performed under a Joel JEM-1200 EX electron microscope after routine glutaraldehyde-osmium tetroxide fixation . |
| 12 | A 67 kDa tripartite fusion protein consisting of GST-Protein A-TAg ( 1–272 ) was used as a probe on Western blots of a HeLa whole cell extract ( 12 ) . |
| 13 | But he did rather cynically produce a proposal that the laibon ( or chief religious authority ) of the Tanganyika Masai , and his ‘ chosen men ’ , the laigwenak , should be constituted a Masai Native Authority . |
| 14 | That list may provide the five most authentic hallmarks of a Vatican II spirit present and active in the Catholic Church twenty-five years later . |
| 15 | is a Sussex Cheddar-type cheese made on a large scale but only from the milk of a single Friesian herd . |
| 16 | He had met her while staying with his Burne-Jones cousins at Rottingdean , a Sussex coastal village which had not then become a suburb of Brighton . |
| 17 | The campaign , run by a Sussex antique dealer , Andrew Fenton , and a St Andrews doctor , David Reid , is supporting the mother — known only as Mrs W for legal reasons — in calling for the immediate return of all seven children . |
| 18 | This Lawrence Kasdan masterpiece is only being screen for one week as part of a William Hurt season at London 's Barbican cinema . |
| 19 | But he met a William Meek in Washington State and together they started planting orchards . |
| 20 | They are Sandra Grieve , a party vice-chairman , Rhona Kemp , a Grampian regional councillor , Marilyne McLaren , a Lothian regional councillor , and Alan Reid , a Renfrew district councillor , writes Peter Jones . |
| 21 | Eagan , Minnesota-based Cray Research Inc has received its first order from South Africa : the South African Weather Bureau in Pretoria wants a Cray Y-MP2E supercomputer . |
| 22 | Using a CRAY X-MP supercomputer in the late 1980s , BP exploited oil reservoir simulations in its North Sea operation . |
| 23 | This behaviour is in contrast to the nonmetallic temperature dependence of ( T ) found for Rb-doped C 60 when C 60 crystals grown from a CS 2 solution were used . |
| 24 | B.C. , who won the 27th final 35–3 , were thankful to be ahead by three penalties to one at the interval against a Newfoundland XV that showed a little respect for a line-up that included World Cup players in Dan Jackart , Ron Vanden Brink , Jeff Knauer , Roy Radu , Steve Gray and Tom Woods . |
| 25 | Livingston is also reported to have recruited a Norweigan dietary expert at a cost of £6,000 to provide evidence of his innocence but the expert is alleged to have disappeared with the money . |
| 26 | Should he get back into Oxford and try for a First and a Rugby Blue ? |
| 27 | Wearing a Marlene Dietrich-style tux and top hat , Madonna caressed the thigh and slapped the buttocks of a lingerie-clad female dancer . |
| 28 | This has now been taken by a full scale ‘ mock-up ’ nose cone of a Trans-Manche Super Train ( TMST ) . |
| 29 | A scientist working for a Moscow chemical research institute was arrested on Oct. 22 under article 75 of the RSFSR Criminal Code , which encompassed revealing state secrets . |
| 30 | It adopted on April 8 a resolution on establishing a Moscow municipal militia . |