Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] in a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once upon a time another German government let Lenin cross another Germany in a sealed train on his way to Russia . |
| 2 | HOMELESS baby Heidi Grady is living in a rusty old Toyota in a public car park … right under the nose of the council which refuses to house her . |
| 3 | For example , for the very simple case of an ion with a single d electron , such as Ti 3 + , the free ion term is 2 D. In an octahedral field this splits into a lower state 2 T 2g and an upper state 2 E g , just as the d orbitals split into t2 g and e g sets . |
| 4 | The aim was to join Croatian and Serbian Serbs in a Greater Serbia . |
| 5 | That story is now presented by Historic Scotland in a permanent exhibition — ‘ The Honours of the Kingdom ’ — in rooms adjacent to the Crown Room in Edinburgh Castle . |
| 6 | Remember the KOs by Bonecrusher Smith , Tim Witherspoon , Mike Tyson and that saved-by-the-bell escape from Jumbo Cummings in an early bout ? |
| 7 | The girl responded , gripping Anne in a desperate embrace . |
| 8 | So he had lived in childhood and adolescence in the same country rectory , taking part each Sunday in a familiar liturgy which reflected , interpreted , and sanctified the changing seasons of the farming year . |
| 9 | If the interdependencies do not involve all SBUs in a corporate group , it might be possible to form largely separable business clusters and form the portfolio-grid analysis in terms of those rather than smaller SBUs . |
| 10 | DENNIS CONNER 'S hopes of reaching the America 's Cup defenders ' finals suffered a further setback when his Stars & Stripes lost to revamped America in a close race in a shifty wind on smooth water . |
| 11 | A new Junior School was opened on 8th June in a converted house — " Listad " — in Davenport Park . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Mr Horie , 54 , set out from Hawaii on 29 October in a canoe-shaped boat with a set of bicycle pedals connected to a propeller . |
| 15 | The four parties — the Mongolian Democratic Party ( MDP ) , the Mongolian Party of National Progress ( MPNP ) , the Mongolian United Party ( MUP ) and the Party for Mongolian Renaissance ( PMR ) — had been easily defeated by the ruling MPRP in a general election held in June 1992 [ see p. 38962 ] . |
| 16 | AN air force officer who fled Communist Cuba in a stolen MiG 23 jet fighter has snatched his wife and children to freedom in a new daredevil flight . |
| 17 | Er Front Street in a small race at Nottingham . |
| 18 | As Hunt saw the situation on that first Sunday in a new team , he could not be certain about his own capabilities . |
| 19 | The gangling 22-year-old , a modern linguist at Queens ' College , Cambridge , is said to have a serious chance of becoming ‘ the first Kinnock in a thousand generations ’ to achieve first-class honours . |
| 20 | If we were to present separate maps for unemployment by sex , the map for females would show southern Italy in a worse light , but female unemployment data are particularly prone to non-comparability because of wider differences between countries in the definitions used . |
| 21 | Democracy negotiators are due to start a two-day meeting in Johannesburg on 1 April in a fresh bid to thrash out terms for transition to democracy after more than 300 years of white rule . |
| 22 | Living in the house , Farrel soon discovered , was like being a very junior NCO in a senior officers ' mess . |
| 23 | He has recreated the mood of his beloved Provence in a lyrical mural of clustered vines . |
| 24 | If one wished to sum up the ‘ spirit of the age ’ in early sixteenth-century Italy in a single word , that word would have to be ‘ neo-Petrarchan ’ . |
| 25 | After reading of Helen Wright 's good fortune in September Amicus Ivan McNeill wrote to tell me of his luck in winning a three day family trip to Euro Disney in a free draw organised at his local Esso petrol station in Ballymena , County Antrim . |
| 26 | All of a sudden , the prospect of an economically over-mighty Germany in a fast-changing continent has made the pragmatic path seem complacent and a more radical approach altogether more urgently attractive . |
| 27 | ‘ Conservatives alone have a vision of a modern Scotland in a confident Britain . |
| 28 | Ten more years of his pontificate might have set both the church and the statesmanship of western Europe in a different direction . |
| 29 | What does seem strange in retrospect is the choice of church the couple made for their wedding : the Parkeses had strong Nonconformist tendencies , though they had baptised young Elizabeth in an Anglican church , St Dunstan 's in the West . |
| 30 | ‘ Thank you , sir , ’ said Sergeant-Major Philpott in a clipped bark . |