Example sentences of "[noun] in a [adj] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their decision follows crowd trouble by supporters in a previous European Champions League match at Marseille last December , for which their punishment by UEFA was to play their home game against Rangers on 3 March in an empty stadium . |
| 2 | Their decision follows crowd trouble by supporters in a previous European Champions ' League match at Marseille last December , for which their punishment by UEFA was to play their home game against Rangers on 3 March in an empty stadium . |
| 3 | To this end the investigator shall circulate a questionnaire to about 150 traffic officers and inspectors in a major provincial Police Force to look at : views on the impact of Fixed Penalty Notices on police/public relations ; officers ' workload ; officers ' exercise of discretion ; supervisors ' mechanisms for monitoring discretion ; views on the proper extent , limitation , acquisition and training of discretion ; and attributes of the offence and the offender which influence officers ' decisions . |
| 4 | She gave us parties and disapproved of me teaching : Jennifer darling , surely you can get a job in a nice private girls ' school But when I was 14 and had awful tonsillitis she brought me lemon and honey and sat on the edge of the pillow holding my damp hand . |
| 5 | Self-gravity would shrink the Sun to a point in a mere 29 minutes , if the outward thermonuclear pressures were absent . |
| 6 | This combination demolished our dBase Benchmark in a mere 14 seconds . |
| 7 | The position of retired people ensures a degree of economic dependency for many , and poverty in a good many cases , which accentuates all other difficulties . |
| 8 | The system is so sensitive that the organs can detect changes in temperature as small as 0.003 degrees Celsius , while they can respond to such changes in an incredible 35 milliseconds — many hundreds of times faster than any human-made device . |
| 9 | Curbishley won the senior women 's race in an encouraging 63.7 seconds , even though she tore a ligament at the side of her knee at the halfway mark . |
| 10 | Pinochet Hiriart stated in his testimony to the committee in mid-January that the money , apparently used to buy out his share in a small bankrupt arms manufacturing company , was in fact a payment for three loans which he had personally secured in Europe for the company . |
| 11 | Four pupils of Denbigh High School are to take part in an unusual international communications project in Plymouth . |
| 12 | Several Squadron records were established during the Malayan Campaign , such as the delivery of 480,000lbs of bombs in a staggering forty sorties over four days . |
| 13 | In addition , there is more provision outside the state system and residential services appear less integrated into wider family and community approaches than would be the case in a generic social services department in the United Kingdom . |
| 14 | Even in 1993 , Keith points out , management information reaching the boardroom in a great many companies is often of poor quality , not timely , not relevant or unintelligible . |
| 15 | The hotel industry is responding to current trends with the development of leisure and fitness centres in a great many hotels . |
| 16 | ‘ I think it 's pretty well known that some of the ones that are going to get a particularly close look are the ones I mentioned , either because they are not being competed in by a lot of people in a great many countries , or they are expensive , and so on . ’ |
| 17 | And according to Autocar & Motor , it will reach 60 from a standing start in a mere six seconds . |
| 18 | The apartment 's previous owners had hired an expensive interior designer from New York and ordered her to trick out the rooms in a horse-country olde-English Spy-Cartoons look , which had been done to extravagant perfection , but McIllvanney was none of those things . |
| 19 | He supplied lists of fossils for publication in memoirs and described numerous new species in a great many papers . |
| 20 | Goulane Peggy was a comprehensive winner of its last match against Tailteann Lass , winning by 3 7 lengths in a calculated 29.14 secs for the 462 metres trip . |
| 21 | When the Liberation came , the French dealt with the open collaborators in a brutal few weeks of epuration — a purge in which some innocents suffered . |
| 22 | And we 'll bring you the results in a special local elections programme tomorrow night at eleven forty . |
| 23 | We received two apologetic refusals in a busy three days . |
| 24 | Mr Sandeman removed two blood clots from Leslie 's brain in a critical 48 hours after the crash . |
| 25 | In south-eastern Pomerania and the areas immediately around Danzig the Polish birth-rate was running at 36 per 1,000 of the population , which meant that by 1933 the Polish population of Pomerania had experienced a 28 per cent increase in a mere 15 years . |
| 26 | In the case of an Aboriginal teenager , John Pat , whose death in a Western Australian police cell in September 1983 led to public pressure to establish the inquiry , the Commission found that the victim had died after being injured in a brawl started by an off-duty policeman . |
| 27 | A 90-YEAR-OLD three-quarter from Japan is expected to be the oldest player on view in an international Golden Oldies rugby festival in Dublin later this month . |
| 28 | A 90-YEAR-OLD three-quarter from Japan is expected to be the oldest player on view in an international Golden Oldies rugby festival in Dublin later this month . |
| 29 | ‘ Calling my partner in a spare 15 minutes during the day is the best way to get important things discussed — it 's certainly quieter than at home , ’ says Andrea , who runs her own catering business . |