Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] [coord] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bhattarai met with the King on May 15 and afterwards a statement was issued from the Royal Palace explaining that the drafting committee had been abolished . |
| 2 | Gavin Jones is 12 years old and also a pupil at Llantarnam School . |
| 3 | He was a Polynesian Hawaiian , thirty-two years old and already a legend on the North Shore . |
| 4 | Kevin O'Neil was just thirty years old and already a part of it in Dublin . |
| 5 | She was twenty-five years old and still a virgin , and as she looked at her image in the mirror great tears welled up and spilled over as she relived Ace 's words . |
| 6 | The Treasury and Civil Service Committee ( Second Report , 1987–8 ) recommendation that departmental reports should give information about the costs of major publicity and advertising is to apply for departments who spend £½ million or more a year on paid UK publicity . |
| 7 | An executive earning , say £15 000 a year in salary may cost the employer as much as £80 000 or more a year to maintain in the overseas location . |
| 8 | All the other players you hear about from time to time , Charlton , Giles , Hunter et all but never a word about Harvey . |
| 9 | Law had indeed already done enough as leader to make his departure unthinkable and so a memorial was drawn up by Carson and signed by almost all the party 's backbenchers , stating full confidence in Law and begging him to stay on with a revised tariff policy . |
| 10 | As Maggie turns , I catch a flash of eye , fairy blue but just a bit milky . |
| 11 | An inadequate list may include reduction in infant and child mortality better employment prospects for educated children making investment in education worthwhile and therefore a cost related to the number of children ; women 's status in the household and extent of emancipation in making decisions ; education of parents and enrolment rates in education for children , and women 's participation in the formal labour force ( where pregnancy implies unavoidable loss of earnings ) . |
| 12 | REPEAT TIME is used to schedule LIFESPAN RDBI to run repeatedly at given time intervals , for example nightly or once a week . |
| 13 | Annabel Croft , once the British No 1 but now a star of stage and the small screen , cringed at the quality of her performance in the opening round of the Volkswagen National Championships at Telford yesterday . |
| 14 | With the same 14 mm bait I will now be using a size 4 and possibly a size 2 . |
| 15 | Two cars are drawing up outside Number 17 and quite a lot of people are going in the front door . |
| 16 | Three young men with loop and stud earrings in one ear ( the lad on the Caledonian Canal fishing boat was not as individual as I had thought ) had three beefburgers and a pie each and then a chocolate KitKat with their tea . |
| 17 | Remember it used to be three inches long and now a foot long , with a flapper |
| 18 | George , a former school truant and now a construction trainee , said : ‘ At least I did something … but the others , you saw them at school , just lazy . ’ |
| 19 | The result is a beautiful leisure park , one and a half miles long and nearly a mile wide , in the middle of the Danube . |
| 20 | The least able sailors first and then a minute later the next group start and so on , finishing with the best sailors who often have a handicap of 10 minutes on a 25-minute race . |
| 21 | Letters A-F could be paired with the symbols in Fig. 5.4 and then a string of random letters , say BCEFADDB etc , would be required to be coded by use of the relevant symbol . |