Example sentences of "[noun sg] in [adj] [coord] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Andy Russell put the home side in front but a mistake by Kingstonian keeper Adrian Blake allowed Tony Adcock to grab the equaliser . |
| 2 | He joined as an assistant malting manager at Ipswich , and was made head maltster in 1968 and a director of in 1973 . |
| 3 | I believe that music-lovers are deluded when they claim to find artistic pleasure in any but a fraction of this music . |
| 4 | If the kitchen climate is changing , it 's because working conditions have lost the barrack room brutality which once characterised what was a pretty sordid job in all but a handful of restaurants and hotels . |
| 5 | They need , above all , to become familiar with the British role model for a school teacher in general and a language teacher in particular . |
| 6 | Mr Reed rose quickly through the bank , becoming an assistant director in 1976 and a director in 1979 , before being appointed head of the corporate finance department in 1984 . |
| 7 | the EEC directive in 1977 and a number of national projects , particularly MOTET have recommended training as an essential means for providing an adequate supply of teachers . |
| 8 | The Parliamentary Ombudsman was followed by a Local Government Commissioner in 1969 and a Health Service Commissioner four years later . |
| 9 | He was educated at Winchester College ( 1915–20 ) and Trinity College , Cambridge ( 1920–3 ) , where he read mathematics , winning an entrance scholarship , becoming a senior scholar in 1921 and a wrangler in the mathematical tripos in 1923 . |
| 10 | In the late 1860's , Rohde , a sensitive and highly intelligent person , was Nietzsche 's closest friend and so kindred a spirit that ambitious , albeit abortive , joint plans were regularly mooted : a collaborative book on Greek literature in 1868 or a year studying together in Paris ( scheduled for 1869 and frustrated by Nietzsche 's appointment at Basle ) . |
| 11 | Born Sergei Izvekov at Bogorodsk near Moscow , he pursued his religious vocation in a hostile climate of militant state atheism , becoming a monk in 1927 and a priest in 1932 . |
| 12 | Ever determined , she helped to re-establish the branch in 1930 and a Tutorial Class in Psychology was launched successfully in 1931 . |
| 13 | He rose further under the Commonwealth , becoming a commissioner for compounding and a JP in 1650 and a commissioner for indemnity in 1652 . |
| 14 | He obtained second classes in classical honour moderations ( 1898 ) , literae humaniores ( 1900 ) , and theology ( 1901 ) , and was awarded a Liddon exhibition in 1900 and a Denyer and Johnson scholarship in 1902 . |
| 15 | The pace of change differed from country to country : Poland , Romania and Bulgaria were effectively Soviet puppets by 1946 , but Hungary was only brought under Moscow 's control in mid-1947 and a coalition government survived in Czechoslovakia until February 1948 . |
| 16 | Fears of religious extremism were also revived by calls to turn the 6th century cathedral of St Sophia , converted into a mosque in 1453 and a museum since 1934 , into a mosque once more , and by attempts in April 1989 to introduce segregated bus services for women students in the city of Konya , 220 km south of Ankara , where fundamentalists controlled the local council . |
| 17 | Stutchbury was elected an associate of the Linnean Society in 1828 and a fellow of the Geological Society in 1841 . |
| 18 | While political independence is a contemporary and important fact of life in all but a handful of countries , the economic incorporation of their economies into the world economy continues and deepens . |
| 19 | Sarre ( 1981 ) points to the quite marked fluctuations in numbers throughout the 1970s ( although he recognizes the data limitations ) which reached a peak in 1972 and a low in 1975 , climbing back to about 155,000 in 1979 ( table 5.4 ) . |
| 20 | Yuri Skokov , Secretary of the Security Council , was considered sympathetic to the nationalist cause ; Chernomyrdin , 54 , Soviet Minister of Gas in 1985-89 and a member of the central committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ) in 1986-91 , was seen as representing the industrialists ' lobby , while Viktor Kadannikov , a relatively unknown figure , was manager of a large car plant ; deputy Prime Minister Vladimir Shumeiko was a supporter of Gaidar . |
| 21 | Well I ca , I can do a hundred and twenty odd in that thing in four and a half . |
| 22 | The failure of these traditional local economic strategies to stimulate and sustain local economic growth in all but a minority of places has led to the development of new forms of policy . |
| 23 | Resistance focused initially on nuclear testing and the existence of American bases on British soil , but it quickly broadened to encompass unilateral nuclear disarmament in general and a rejection of the Polaris missiles favoured by the then Conservative Government in particular . |
| 24 | The museum was opened to the public in 1977 and a number of publications on the collection have been written to date . |
| 25 | The Bank has been fortunate in that during this time we have been associated with a Grand Slam in 1984 and a share of the Five Nations Championship in 1986 . |
| 26 | She drew breath for the first time in three and a quarter hours . |