Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [vb past] [adv] an [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Her good looks made quite an impression .
2 Actor and acted-upon were either human ( e.g. , a girl , a milkman ) , animal ( e.g. a cow , a horse ) or inanimate ( e.g. a bicycle , a ball ) and the depicted action involved either an actor and acted-upon of the same class ( e.g. two humans ) or a different class ( e.g. a human and an animal ) .
3 The new building had both an organ and stained glass windows and was meant as a memorial to the brothers ' parents .
4 The Soviet Union proposed instead an agreement on consultations on Maltese security , which would not involve the establishment of a base and would include Soviet recognition of Malta 's status as a neutral country pursuing a policy of non-alignment .
5 The whole ceremony took under an hour but left quite an impression on me .
6 The whole process took just an hour .
7 The analysis of local politics became instead an analysis of ‘ urban ’ politics , a change given academic respectability towards the end of the 1970s , when the Political Studies Association changed the name of its Local Politics Group to the Urban Politics Group .
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