Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] a [adv] [vb pp] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The population of about 1,250 is served by two shops and a well appointed inn . |
| 2 | There are good fish restaurants and a recently opened camp site with full facilities . |
| 3 | until I came across a small display above bottles of castor oil , laxa suppositories and a well known laxative was a sign reduced for clearance ! |
| 4 | He returned home only for a week or so each month and spent most of his time in his bathroom , which contained a colour television , telephones and a fully stocked cocktail bar . |
| 5 | Gerhard Schröder ( SPD ) was sworn in on June 21 at the head of a Cabinet in which the Greens held two portfolios : Women 's Affairs and a newly created portfolio of Relations with the Bundesrat . |
| 6 | Most agree that of all the candidates for the directorship of the National Gallery , Rusty Powell is perhaps the least art-historically rounded , despite having written several well received catalogue essays on American nineteenth-century paintings and a recently published monograph on Thomas Cole . |
| 7 | By the turn of the decade , the partners and a specially created employee trust bought the business back from Henderson Administration — by way of a cash payment and a short-term fixed interest debenture — long before the term ‘ management buy-out ’ became part of everyday business vocabulary . |
| 8 | The exhibitionist streak that had been confined to fancy-dress parties at Virgin 's weekends away now found full public licence ; Richard Branson embarked on a sort of alternative career in fancy dress that would see him , over the years , photographed in airline captain 's uniform , as Peter Pan , Spider Man , City Gent and , on one occasion and for reasons that were never entirely clear , in the bath , wearing only bubbles and a cunningly placed newspaper . |
| 9 | Baked potatoes , green beans and a nicely basted pork roast . |
| 10 | Benjamin pointed to the Sea Barque , a narrow tenement three storeys high with a great ale stake tucked under its eaves and a gaudily painted sign hanging tipsily over the battered door . |
| 11 | The constitution was remarkably like that of the European Community , with a Council of Ministers and a directly elected assembly . |
| 12 | She does n't know how he got through the main doors and an electronically operated gate to get in to the courtyard where the car is always left unlocked . |
| 13 | The tentacle pores of this latter group are open and often armed with small spine-like tentacle scales except in Ophiosparte which has open tentacle pores but a well developed tentacle scale which forms a continuous series with the arm spines . |