Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] [adv] an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Ian Gow , Conservative member of Parliament for Eastbourne since 1974 , was killed on July 30 when an Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) bomb exploded underneath his car as he was preparing to leave his home in the village of Hankham , near Eastbourne in Sussex .
2 A total of 223 people were killed on May 26 when an Austrian Lauda Air Boeing 767-300 , on its way from Bangkok to Vienna , crashed over Suphan Buri province in north-western Thailand .
3 Two right-wing candidates faced a run-off ballot on July 5 following an inconclusive result in the presidential elections on May 17 .
4 One person was killed and six injured in Athens on July 14 when an anti-tank rocket narrowly missed Finance Minister Ioannis Paleokrassas ; the November 17 group claimed responsibility for the attack , which took place in Constitution Square , central Athens .
5 At least 31 people were killed on Oct. 26 when an armed group numbering about 20 attacked a fishing village near the Cap Skirring tourist area , 600 km south of Dakar .
6 The semi-embalmed remains of Col. William Higgins were discovered in Beirut 's southern suburbs on Dec. 21 following an anonymous telephone call .
7 A series of bar charts and summaries offer no less than seventeen different analyses ( fig 4 ) , and one of these charts is shown in fig 5 where an ideal model is conveniently offered as a super-imposition .
8 Under United States pressure following the murder of three US nuns by the security forces , the junta appointed Duarte as President in December 1980 [ see p. 30685 ] ; he stood down in April 1982 when an interim administration succeeded the civilian-military junta .
9 This rule for profit maximisation is illustrated in Table 2.1 where an individual firm is producing good X. As more and more workers are employed , with a given stock of capital equipment , the MPPL declines .
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