Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [adv] an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hotel is well placed for those keen on sightseeing — with the Via Veneto and the famed Spanish Steps both an easy walk away . |
| 2 | Even as mild a personality as Norman Bentwich was inclined to utter strong words when an entire Kindertransport was held up by Schonfeld because it was scheduled to depart from Germany on the Sabbath . |
| 3 | ‘ A few minutes ago an old man came to my office . |
| 4 | Only a few hours earlier an unexpected Meeting Notice had been issued , the agenda being simply ‘ To consider the conduct of Major H. R. Maxim ’ . |
| 5 | SOME years ago an enterprising manufacturer of home computer ‘ add-ons ’ produced a low cost robot arm that used standard model radio control servos to produce the motive power . |
| 6 | A few days ago an unco-operative van would have sent him back indoors in a state of deep despair . |
| 7 | A few days ago an elderly gentleman came into a Dublin suburban office with a bouquet of flowers and presented it to a female staff member . |
| 8 | And a few seconds ago an urgent message had come through from GCHQ at Cheltenham . |
| 9 | Some six months later an anguished letter arrived from the United States in which she said that since arriving in the USA she had barely had two weeks without an attack of herpes and could she possibly attend again when she was next in England . |
| 10 | They can also be classified by frequency , Some are published weekly , others monthly and yet others bimonthly or quarterly , and the " lead times ' or periods between material being received and appearing in the magazine can vary from three or four days to six months more an important point to bear in mind when planning a press campaign . |
| 11 | Appendix III shows how an eventual loan of cash from the weekly credit caller , at a moment of financial hardship , can change a poor family 's difficulties over making ends meet into sheer impossibility . |
| 12 | Fifty years later an administrative officer found the Masai to be perfect hosts : ‘ they do respect your privacy ; men of other tribes rather fuss round you , always sure there is something they have omitted to do as hosts , thus making a nuisance of themselves — but the Masai leave you alone ’ . |
| 13 | Fifty years ago an American airman died averting a disaster , when he crashed his stricken bomber into a field after steering it away from a busy town centre . |
| 14 | But the company has an opportunity to make other gains through a 50 per cent stake it has secured with BP in five surrounding blocks where an intensive exploration programme will begin later this year in an attempt to discover other ‘ elephant ’ fields . |
| 15 | whether it 's a large economic growth in Europe in places like Milan , Innsbruck er Barcelona , all have these systems where an extra terminal capacity is only part of the jigsaw that 's had to be met . |
| 16 | Three streets away an old man dropped a coin into a saucer of acid and swirled it gently . |
| 17 | It is therefore still important to examine the role of Ac-ASA in any in vitro experiment desiend to test the mechanism of action of 5-ASA and to bear in mind the differential absorption of these drugs when an intact cell system is used . |
| 18 | There are many reasons why an increasing number of people , men as well as women , find themselves in the role of home nurse nowadays . |
| 19 | The census has been for many years now an important instrument , among a range of such instruments , in the administration of the welfare state . |
| 20 | The Ulster Unionist chairman said that just over 11 years ago an 11-year-old boy had been killed in a no-warning IRA bomb blast in the town . |
| 21 | In many instances however an alternative form of publication is more appropriate , and it is to provide such a medium that this series of Occasional Papers has been launched . |
| 22 | There were many moments when an unexpected surge in the crowd could have resulted in catastrophe . |
| 23 | Elsewhere , they are less sanguine , covering the chronic weakness of their arguments in the figleaf of officialese : ‘ There are fundamental reasons why an aggregate estimate of the impact of economic and monetary union is not feasible . |
| 24 | Published in 1969 , this purported to be a record of a major American crisis and of the ensuing Project Wildfire — ‘ the crash mobilisation of the nation 's highest scientific and medical resources when an unmanned research satellite returns to Earth mysteriously contaminated ’ . |
| 25 | But is such a structure of opposing factors really an objective property of poetry , and can we therefore as a matter of principle allow our interpretation and evaluation to be guided by it ? |
| 26 | Some 30 or 40 years ago an elderly lady living near Knocknamuckley was speaking about a neighbour who had been taken into ‘ B ’ block in the Lurgan and Portadown Hospital . |
| 27 | Messages from LIFESPAN to several users Usually an administrative service , e.g. notifying all interested parties that a software modification has been requested . |
| 28 | The former Dublin captain , sent off after only four minutes following an off-the-ball incident with Donegal midfielder Brian Murray , could be left kicking his heels in frustration for the best part of the summer . |
| 29 | These are just two reasons why an environmental impact survey is needed but the planning committee have not considered this . |
| 30 | Two hundred years ago an eight-seater box for a theatre season cost a staggering 2,000 guineas , she learned . |