Example sentences of "[noun sg] of a [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SKY-HIGH insurance premiums mean few people can now afford the luxury of a ‘ hot hatch ’ but that does n't mean you will never be able to get behind the wheel of a sporty performance car . |
| 2 | Freelance cameraman Andy Styczynski , 32 , spotted the elusive bachelor at the wheel of a white Rover Montego — and chased after him in a VW Golf GTi . |
| 3 | Now I believe that the time has come for us to think again about the theological side , the theological er and I make this proposal consider the feasibility of a theological examination anti- semitism and the convenor is ready to accept it Thank you sir . |
| 4 | Following your letter of 3 October , I am pleased to be able to tell you that the Transportation Committee agreed on 2 November that a new independent study should be carried out to assess the costs and feasibility of a half-hourly passenger service on the South Suburban route . |
| 5 | In its report of that name published in November 1987 it called for a full national strategy in cooperation with Eurotunnel , British Rail and regional interests to ensure that the potential benefits of the Tunnel are maximised ; the support of necessary infrastructure projects which do not meet current criteria for approval ; and a full technical study of the feasibility of a high speed rail link between Manchester and Continental Europe . |
| 6 | Not everyone , however , accepts the desirability or feasibility of a longer working life . |
| 7 | Mrs Rundle 's handwriting was black , round and stately , progressing across the paper with the majesty of an antique Rolls Royce . |
| 8 | The earliest study reported a significant association of a particular RFLP haplotype of the COL1A2 locus and alcoholic cirrhosis . |
| 9 | KEPT ON PRIVATE land near the International Helicopter Museum , Weston-Super-Mare , is the fuselage of an ex-French Air Force Nord Noratlas . |
| 10 | Prisoner is a puzzle game and computerisation of a little plastic puzzle the author bought in an airport lounge . |
| 11 | DETECTIVES are hunting the killer of a friendly bus driver gunned down as he walked up the driveway to his North-East home . |
| 12 | He concludes that high relief was essentially a response to high food prices rather than to perception of a chronic employment problem . |
| 13 | These would culminate in the sitting of a multiple choice paper . |
| 14 | Supported Distance Learning is seen to be a highly cost-effective way of teaching English in Eastern Europe , where the acquisition of the international language of business is essential for the regeneration of a free market economy . |
| 15 | The biggest concern of the executioner , a man named Billington , was that the now quivering bulk of a fifteen stone woman would snap her head off as the rope took up the slack on the trip through the trapdoor . |
| 16 | There was to be a Consumer Credit Commissioner with wide powers and many responsibilities , including administration of a comprehensive licensing system . |
| 17 | Flames gutted the bedroom of a first floor flat in Saltersgill Avenue , Middlesbrough , at the weekend . |
| 18 | Cleveland police say a fire started in a first-floor bedroom of an unoccupied council house in Dartford Close , Stockton , was started deliberately . |
| 19 | It would take place in a different context , nevertheless there would be that opportunity and no doubt the adequacy of a public consultation exercise at the proposed modification stage would be a matter for the County Council themselves to decide . |
| 20 | He committed himself to helping the future of rugby when he was elected president of a relaunched Young England Club . |
| 21 | The English court had given leave for the service of a writ upon the president of a Panamanian shipping operation at a stated address in Lugano or elsewhere in Switzerland . |
| 22 | Hiroyasu Watanabe , the former president , and Jun Sataome , the former managing director , were detained on Feb. 14 along with Michio Ouchi , the former chief accountant of a golf course company and Yasuo Matsuzawa , the president of a medical equipment company . |
| 23 | As the President of a leading textile firm put it ‘ When the ship is about to be wrecked heavier cargoes should be thrown off to sea ’ ( quoted in Tsuda 1980 p.2 ) . |
| 24 | The brutality and unprovoked nature of the attacks , together with the fact that the victims were white and middle class — the jogger was a vice president of a leading securities firm — whilst the assailants were black or Hispanic , meant that the case received a massive degree of publicity and became symbolic of US racial tension and urban violence . |
| 25 | Prisoner of conscience Yndamiro Restano , president of an unofficial opposition group known as the Harmony Movement , was convicted of rebellion and sentenced to ten years ' imprisonment in May ( see Worldwide Appeal , pages 20–21 ) . |
| 26 | July 1749 , Hogarth acquired the Copyhold of a red brick villa , of the Queen Anne style , with a garden of about a quarter of an acre containing an old mulberry tree , not far from Chiswick House , and it became known as Hogarth House , and the lane by which it was approached became known as Hogarth Lane — now part of the Great West Road Extension ( A4 ) into central London . |
| 27 | FOOTBALL : Promotion to the Premier League will cost Middlesbrough £400,000 in bonuses following the collapse of a London-based insurance company . |
| 28 | The former communist Imamali Rahmonov , Chair of the Tajik Supreme Soviet since the collapse of a pro-Islamic coalition government in November [ see p. 39192 ] , entered the city , and on Dec. 12 he began peace talks with Islamic opposition forces . |
| 29 | The new governor of Rhode Island closed more than half the state 's banks following the collapse of a private insurance fund which guarantees deposits at 45 banks not insured by the federal government . |
| 30 | We report here the characterization of a 0.96 Kb cDNA clone which contains the coding sequence of ribosomal protein S2 from Drosophila melanogaster . |