Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [subord] a [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Play could also be abandoned today in the fifth one-day international after an agreement reached yesterday about what to do if there is crowd misbehaviour among the 25,000 sell-out crowd . |
| 2 | Nine people were reported killed and 27 injured when a tanker owned by British Petroleum collided with a cargo ship off the Belgian coast . |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't see why it should be any different if a person loses a brain function . ’ |
| 4 | Traffic was delayed and a short stretch of the A66 eastbound closed when a lorry tipped over in Cleveland yesterday . |
| 5 | We find it odd , even offensive , if a boat looks like a teapot and at best quaint when a teapot looks like a boat . |
| 6 | In Krawec ( 1984 ) , a case of careless driving where a death resulted , the Court of Appeal held that the proper basis for sentence is ‘ the quality of driving , the extent to which the appellant on the particular occasion fell below the standard of the reasonably competent driver ’ , to which ‘ the unforeseen and unexpected results of the carelessness ’ are not relevant . |