Example sentences of "[adj] in a [adj] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , what may look like a good deal now , as the UK emerges from its adjustment period of higher interest rates and recession , could look rather different in a few years ' time . |
| 2 | To Las Vegas or Monaco da da da money money money funny in a rich man 's world . |
| 3 | The tournament is again a Belfast Telegraph copyright , and one of 12 in a European Seniors ' calendar now worth over £800,000 in prize-money . |
| 4 | Mugabe exhorts them to remember the sacrifices made in the war for the sake of Zimbabwe , but young people are seldom interested in a previous generation 's sacrifices — as he could have learned from history . |
| 5 | She traced the outline of his face with her eyes , loving the dear , untidy hair , the mouth that smiled widely and often , the eyes that were old in a young man 's face . |
| 6 | Their style of life was not much different from the ordinary Zuwaya : they had perhaps recently acquired better housing , but the new villas were not segregated ; food was no more generous , nor more delicate in a rich man 's house ; schooling and medical treatment were uniform . |
| 7 | The first was early in a young couple 's marriage . |
| 8 | After breaking the ice last month he was desperately unlucky in an amateur riders ' race having to be switched in the final furlong after getting off on the rails . |
| 9 | Jonna was not slow to remind them that he and Maisie hoped to see them at their wedding , due in a few weeks ' time at Easter . |
| 10 | The EEG unit electro-encephalogram unit is one of the most advanced in a British children 's hospital . |
| 11 | Charles made a cursory check for blood-stained fingerprints , the thread of a sports jacket made from tweed only available in a small tailor 's shop in Aberdeen , the scratch marks of an artificial hand or the faint but unmistakable aroma of orange blossom . |
| 12 | In broadcasting decisions have to be made quickly : a broadcast can not wait while some minute or other is pending in a civil servant 's in-tray . |
| 13 | Western Legend , off the course all last season with leg problems after gaining four victories early in his chasing career , returned to top form last month when scoring unchallenged in an amateur riders ' chase at Wincanton . |