Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] [noun sg] [coord] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alongside the Vauxhall car won by Drake for a year , and the £400 team manager 's prize collected by Graham Howell , Royal Berkshire were presented with a magnificent Vauxhall Indoor Trophy and a cheque for £2,500 . |
| 2 | And erm you work out whether your preference is very strongly this way or a bit this way or a bit that way . |
| 3 | A public meeting went ahead as planned in Leyburn last night and a petition to Parliament will still be handed to Mr Hague in the town today . |
| 4 | More than 100 MPs have already signed a Commons Motion asking the Government to reject proposals to change the present 999 system and a Day of Action has been organised for December 8 by the Union of Communication Workers . |
| 5 | Mark 's effects are relatively straightforward , comprising : TC Electronics delay , an Alesis Quadraverb , a Boss CE-200 Chorus and a Zoom 9010 . |
| 6 | Trisha McCulloch , mother of Michael ( six weeks ) , says , ‘ A roomy , padded bag with little pockets either side and a flap over the top which becomes a mat is worth its weight in gold . |
| 7 | According to reports on Dec. 7 , the victim of the alleged rape , Farhana Hayat , had named Irfanullah Marwat Khan , a close adviser to the Sind provincial government and a son-in-law of President Ghulam Ishaq Khan , as responsible for instigating the attack against her . |
| 8 | Climbing quite slowly in total blackness , I eventually reached what I now think of as ‘ the landing ’ ( though it 's quite unlike the landing of my real home , which has a sash window one side and a row of pale blue banisters the other ; this one is barely shoulder width , and blind both sides ) . |
| 9 | Soon afterwards one of the tourists attempted to escape and in the ensuing battle one Israeli and a guerrilla died . |
| 10 | Caroline 's got chips hot dog and a chocolate milk shake . |
| 11 | WACC was directly involved in two activities at IAMCR 's recent conference : the MacBride Round Table and a consultation on Communication Ethics . |
| 12 | This four-in-one sleeping system comprises a fleece liner , a Softie 3 Merlin sleeping bag , a Para-Tex bivvy bag and a compression stuff sack . |
| 13 | The traditional system of a class examination each term and a degree examination at end of session is still employed , but in most departments account is taken of work done in class . |
| 14 | A square vessel and parts of other domestic articles of wood were found about eight feet down in a peat moss at Strathmore , near Gruinart , and bones of a fifteen years old girl and a cow horn were turned up by the same peat diggers . |
| 15 | The Barry Hills-trained seven-year-old was a model of consistency last season , winning this Group Three event and a trio of other contests over distances around two miles . |
| 16 | Yeah , that , that needs something if you actually set up a system and then a business meeting one month and a speaker the next , it puts a lot of pressure on one of us or some of us to , to , erm , this is true . |
| 17 | Do you have any of the peeler 's , they have a peeler one end and a knife the other , interchanging by the handle , I 've seen them here before . |
| 18 | Lothian and Borders Police later said that an inquiry had been held into the actions of officers that night and a report sent to the procurator-fiscal . |
| 19 | The market has been in the doldrums in the wake of the suppression of the pro-democracy movement in China this summer and a decision by an arm of the Chinese Government to make an investment of the size being planned by CITIC is likely to have a considerable impact . |
| 20 | On Jan. 30 the government also announced that it was sending to Israel eight launchers for Patriot missiles ( equipped to deter aircraft rather than Scud missiles ) , eight " sniffer " vehicles for chemical warfare detection , 50 similar vehicles from the former East German army and a commitment to provide two submarines subject to approval by the relevant parliamentary committees . |
| 21 | The program , in S-record form , is down-loaded from the VAX filestore , or else from a BBC floppy disc or a cassette , into the TUTOR 's memory . |
| 22 | Particular course offers may include the requirement to obtain a Distinction in BTEC National Diploma or a Grade B at Higher Level in the Republic of Ireland Leaving Certificate in specific subjects as part of the entry requirements eg. in a modern language for admission to some courses which include a major language component |
| 23 | However , the royalty is based on the retail price less VAT and a percentage of the packaging charge , to which record companies require artists to contribute . |
| 24 | Not for her the gentle , feminine title First Lady and a background role choosing the Oval Office curtains . |
| 25 | But 1973 instead became most significant for the October Arab-Israeli War and a quadrupling of oil prices which further deepened the West 's economic difficulties . |
| 26 | It 's at times like these that the brain cells slip into surrealist ‘ wavy picture ’ mode as you mentally conjure something with a 10 inch wide fretboard and a progression of thick wound strings tensed across it , creating monstrous internal forces and straining various components to breaking point . |
| 27 | We play with plasticine , draw pictures and start learning to count ; a white-haired lady with a navy blue costume and a bun presides . |
| 28 | The plan meets the garrulous approval of the exiled monarch Wladislas , who calls himself ‘ a middle-class professional man ’ and who is relieved to escape from the rivalry of priests and nobles and the expense of entertaining courtiers of extravagant tastes who ‘ love dressing up in uniforms , putting on swords and attending state balls ’ and whose appetites are such that ‘ a bullock roasted whole and a couple of pigs go no distance at a supper table in Lystria ’ . |
| 29 | He won a silver medal for 5,000 metres at the World Junior track championships last year and a couple of months later he took fourth place — again at Junior level — in the World cross country championships in Boston . |
| 30 | C is sometimes called the Jordan canonical form and a submatrix such as unc is known as a Jordan block . |