Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb -s] a [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beautifully decorated inside and out , the Maria offers a good standard of accommodation and traditional family hospitality at a reasonable price . |
| 2 | ‘ The death of Marcos offers a momentous opportunity for the Aquino government to rally the people behind the ideals which swept it to power : freedom and democracy , bread and justice . |
| 3 | The Belmore Centre in Stoke Mandeville offers a bewildering combination of alternative treatments for the body , mind and soul . |
| 4 | Shamir receives a frosty reception from US President Bush during a Washington meeting . |
| 5 | Plymouth reader JOHN RUNDLE offers a step-by-step guide to breeding Neon Tetras . |
| 6 | Once the world 's largest woollen mill , now a working museum , Armley Mills offers a realistic glimpse into Yorkshire 's industrial heritage . |
| 7 | Little was known about the products of many of these areas , and much research still needs to be done but Collecting Lustreware goes a long way to redressing the balance . |
| 8 | At one point in Maus II , Vladek 's wife Anja plays a murderous game of hide-and-seek , chased up and down the bunk beds of a vast , empty Auschwitz barracks by a guard reduced in close-up to a pair of vicious piggy eyes above a snarling snout ( Poles are pigs in a world where Jews are mice efficiently exterminated by German cats ) . |
| 9 | I was particularly taken by Debra Gillett as the likeable innocent who takes some hard knocks before the night is out , while Danny Webb offers a memorable portrait of the sharpest and most driven of the salesmen , cruelly torn between elation at his own success and a growing awareness of just how grubby the whole operation is . |
| 10 | WCJ 's Pyscho Buttress has a new line between Sunrise and Early One Morning . |
| 11 | The Corrado also has a multi-function computer , while the Calibra has a no-cost option of metallic paint . |
| 12 | Goulding has a wild streak in him which has got him sent off twice and sin-binned four times . |
| 13 | Sea-lion Island has a tremendous wealth of wildlife within a comparatively small area ( the island is less than eight kilometres long by three across ) and has all of the five penguin species regularly nesting in the Falklands . |
| 14 | ( The field of Waterloo has a special significance for the regiment ) . |
| 15 | Alba Adriatica has a long beach of fine , golden sand where holiday life is taken at a relaxed unhurried pace . |
| 16 | Louis Armstrong has a good claim to being the most influential popular singer of the century . |
| 17 | He suspects that Ivor has a secret collection of stolen coins . |
| 18 | Fulham has a good atmosphere in the evening , and I think a bookshop is the perfect place for people to meet , ’ says Harriet Currie . |
| 19 | In the first issue , as has already been mentioned , McKerrow places a strong emphasis on " facts " . |
| 20 | Brooklands has a legendary place in motor racing history , not only in Britain , but world-wide . |
| 21 | ‘ Pally has a soft spot for his old club . |
| 22 | As Honorary Secretary of the AAA Road Running Committee , and successful organiser of some of Britain 's best road races , Colin Gostelow has a vested interest in fighting road running 's corner . |
| 23 | The first stage in the manufacture of ‘ Melinar ’ is the production of base polyethylene terephthalate , for which ICI has a European capacity of about 120 kt , part at Wilton and part at Rozenburg . |
| 24 | ICI has a high reputation for its commitment to research , but even so I was surprised by the wide range of high-powered work going on at their Brixham Laboratory . ’ |
| 25 | The fact that Marianne places a great deal of store by marriage but not its permanence comes as no surprise to Warren Colman . |
| 26 | Sussex has a longstanding tradition of interdisciplinary work in this area . |
| 27 | While Brighton has a superficial symmetry of appearance when viewed from the beach , or in early nineteenth-century engravings , close examination shows almost the exact opposite . |
| 28 | ‘ Ben has a wicked sense of humour . ’ |
| 29 | The 17th-century Brodie Castle in Forres has a fine collection of furniture and paintings . |
| 30 | Mr Hobbs said , with pride , ‘ Mrs Hobbs has a professional interest in the theatre . |