Example sentences of "in a [adj] [noun] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mark Walters climbed off the substitutes ' bench to score Liverpool 's two goals in a frenetic closing 13 minutes . |
| 2 | In a modern day Sleeping Beauty , set in New York , he wakes a medieval princess with a kiss . |
| 3 | The system of zoogeographical regions , now accepted by zoologists throughout the world , was the work of two great Victorian naturalists , Dr P. L. Sclater , who put forward his theories in 1858 , and Alfred Russel Wallace , who set down his conclusions in a classic book eighteen years later . |
| 4 | It was Trainer himself who deftly headed in a right wing free kick at the start of the second period , but Ballycastle came back to equalise through Woods with two minutes to go before Gorman 's winner settled an exciting tie . |
| 5 | Indeed , the addition to the conventional fountain is primarily a spotlight encased in a sealed alloy underwater lampholder unit . |
| 6 | Although by now she had had twenty years in which to accustom herself to Bernard 's outbursts in private , and , in a curious way this display of his male aggression was also a powerful magnetic force for her , she was nonetheless acutely embarrassed by any public display of his temper . |
| 7 | Most funding for traffic comes from the Department of Transport — but bids for cycling schemes are in a curious Catch 22 position : |
| 8 | In a close encounter last season , Gloucester pipped Northampton by 7 points to 6 . |
| 9 | In a close encounter last season , Gloucester pipped Northampton by 7 points to 6 . |
| 10 | A fatal submassive necrosis that occurred in a 68 year old lady who had received piroxicam for 15 months is described . |
| 11 | And the day of the funeral , recalled in a quasi-fictionalised form 18 years later , was no less memorable or searing : Breavman 's mother had stayed alone in her room leaving ‘ Nursie ’ to get the children ready . |
| 12 | Mr Clinton may say that he wants to concentrate on domestic policy until he is blue in the face ; the truth of the matter is that in a federal system such single-mindedness will not get him far , because most domestic policy is reserved to state and local governments . |
| 13 | The execution-style killings occurred at the Wat Promkunaram temple , the second-largest site of Buddhist worship in the country , built in 1988 in a remote location 20 miles west of Phoenix . |
| 14 | The Ford car in which Ian Spiro fled after the shooting was discovered in a remote area 100 miles east of San Diego , near the Mexican border . |
| 15 | Stuart , who plans to see an acupuncturist tomorrow in an attempt to cure the problem , may compete for the North in a representative match this weekend before endeavouring to raise her spirits for the Olympic trials meeting . |
| 16 | ‘ Has n't anyone asked where he got them from ? ’ inquired Scarlet , who still imagined , in her innocence , that in a developed society blatant wrongdoing could not go unobserved and unmentioned . |
| 17 | The new beer was launched in a bottled version last January . |
| 18 | On the way down from the summit of Broad Peak they passed Greg Child and the ailing Pete Thexton , who was to die in a lower camp that night from pulmonary oedema . |
| 19 | He 's been in a foul temper all day . |
| 20 | Perhaps in a foul world these men were seeking purity . |
| 21 | To group interestingly in a unified design inactive figures ranged along a single base-line is much more difficult . |
| 22 | He was born in a tiny South African town in 1945 . |
| 23 | A HONEYMOON couple hoping for the holiday of their lives instead ended up spending two weeks in a tiny cockroach infested apartment . |
| 24 | In general , a hedge will contain in a 30-yard length one shrub species for every century of its life . |
| 25 | Cantona hardly had a kick when he made his debut at Oldham as a second-half substitute in a 2-0 defeat last February . |
| 26 | Emily Ascher was dead , killed in a fictitious accident three days back . |
| 27 | Now , could argue that Greater York could be bigger or smaller , the local government commission , erm er there report is a very interesting read , I mean a number of the options that they 've looked at would be a gra er a city of York going out to the ring road , erm that might be one option , there 's a there there idea of of Greater York , they did harden , they did see some merit in in a Greater York unitary authority based on the Greater York planning study I think , erm whether that is going to come to pass only Mr Gummer presumably er knows , so my idea of Greater York is that it 's an area which is tied socially and economically to the city , you could argue as mobility increases , as the A ni nineteen is improved up through the County that really Northallerton now is perhaps more within the sphere of influence of York than it was ten years ago , erm e it was probably to a degree influenced by York even twenty years ago , erm I do n't think er there is much to be gained by debating where Greater York ought to be , the Secretary of State previously has n't been bothered about er amending it er it seems to us to be the reasonable area , and it 's a combination of five districts , erm erm erm who who who hopefully should be working together towards sorting out the er other problems of Greater York . |
| 28 | In a surprising development regional autonomy groups in the north , campaigning against the centralized state and against immigration , particularly from southern Italy , and advocating federalism , won 5.6 per cent of the vote overall , making them the fourth largest political force nationally . |
| 29 | The draw is everything in a 200 metres indoor race . |
| 30 | California 's Apple Computer did the same thing in a bigger way last October , when it halved the price-tag on its popular Macintosh model . |