Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] [noun sg] and [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ten minutes each girl and not a second more ! |
| 2 | Drawing a large invited audience of , the debate was chaired by Hugh Rossi , former chairman of the House of Commons Environmental Committee and now a consultant with Wimpey Environmental . |
| 3 | Laurent Fabius , a former Prime Minister ( in 1984-86 ) , appeared to have the support of President Mitterrand , but was opposed by the faction associated with Pierre Mauroy , the PS first secretary and also a former Prime Minister ( in 1981-84 ) , and Lionel Jospin , a former first secretary and the current Minister of National Education , Youth and Sport . |
| 4 | The data transmission path of this system has proved tortuously slow , having to pass through three programs each way and down a 1200 Baud communication line ; however , it does prove the principle . |
| 5 | A pull out left gains easy rock and just a little higher there is a perfect eagle 's eyrie of a stance , with good belays in a well pegged horizontal crack . |
| 6 | It turns out that the component in the venom of this snake that has such an effect binds to the muscle receptor on human muscle and other animals ' muscles , and it binds there much more tightly than the natural chemical transmitter , which is called estialcodine , thereby preventing the transmission of the nerve impulse to the muscle and gives the victim instant miocenia and presumably a nice meal for the snake in due time . |
| 7 | At 16 Gallacher signed for Tannochside Athletic , a Lanarkshire juvenile team and barely a year later he married a catholic girl , Annie McIlvaney , causing untold disputes within his family . |
| 8 | He was also chairman of the Leeds Northern Railway and later a director of the North Eastern Railway . |