Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] a [det] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She remembered only two things about New York with affection : the man at Pennsylvania Station , perched high in a little glass box , who announced the trains in the rhythm of a square dance , and the man who returned her purse which she 'd dropped on the platform — a black man . |
| 2 | A court in Pune ( Maharashtra ) on Oct. 24 convicted and sentenced to death two militant Sikh separatists , Harjinda Singh and Sukhdev Singh , for the assassination in Pune in August 1986 of a former Army Chief of Staff Gen. Arun Vaidya [ see p. 35249 ] . |
| 3 | Among the names on the list was that of a former Finance Ministry official and that of Soka Gakkai , a lay Buddhist group which had close links to Komeito . |
| 4 | Situated only 200 metres from the beach and within a three minute walk from the shops and nightlife , the Royal Playa is perfect for an all action holiday in the sun . |
| 5 | Oh , so far from paying any extra for a another television set , you are not happy at paying what we 're paying at the moment ? |
| 6 | This particular defence was optional in the EC Product Liability Directive but has been adopted in the United Kingdom ; it seems sensible because standards of safety change over time and what might seem perfectly acceptable now might be considered grossly unsafe in a few years time . |
| 7 | We started it off in , in nineteen seventy , early seventies with an all radio system , and we were the only Fire Brigade in the country that started it off , called the multi-tone radio system of communications . |
| 8 | On May 28 , 1990 , his trial , the first of a former Pasok minister , began . |
| 9 | The other parties to contest the 1989 election were the Botswana People 's Party ( BPP ) ; the Botswana Independence Party ( BIP , Motsamai Mpho l. ) ; the Botswana Freedom Party ( BFP , formed in September 1989 by a former BNF member of parliament ) ; the Botswana Progressive Union ( BPU ) and the Botswana Liberal Party ( BLP ) . |