Example sentences of "[noun] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | At the gateway to the dock a black sports saloon had passed across a junction , unnerving her , but she doubted it had been Rory 's . |
2 | No wonder a fellow-officer remarks how cheerful he looks , when he comes back . |
3 | On the ground floor , where the lard wheel of the former mill was driven by the waters of the Rhine , there is a restaurant famous for its cuisine , with a wooden ceiling an arched windows giving a scenic view of the Rhine . |
4 | But although Paul has been a guest on television shows such as the Hot Chefs and Master Chef , ‘ Gourmet Ireland ’ — a 15 part series due to be screened throughout the UK next year — offered the husband and wife team a new presenters ' role . |
5 | We now have in place a new estates officer for Cherry Hinton er can I ask that that there is a special report brought to the housing committee er before the summer recess on the possible solutions to the problems that have been identified ? |
6 | While Microsoft Corp rolled out Bill Gates to demo a slick-looking Windows NT , Univel Inc admitted that UnixWare is not as elegant as Windows and probably wo n't even come near Windows NT in look and feel . |
7 | Another enchanting piece in the same book , ‘ Chiome d'oro ’ , is described as a ‘ Canzonetta a due voci Concertata da duoi Violini Chitarone o Spinetta ’ ; the voices duet ( mostly in parallel thirds ) over an ostinato bass , each of their five strophes being introduced by one of three ritornelli for the two violini over the same ostinato . |
8 | The Park Row machine is one of several opened in recent weeks a various locations throughout Britain including the Rangers shop in Edmonston Drive , Glasgow , and the Scotmid supermarket in Old Edinburgh Road , Uddingston . |
9 | At the 1836 festival a disguised police officer saw ‘ … two men , with an effigy of a man stuffed and coloured red , holding it in front of the bull . |
10 | In recent years a major balance-of-payments crisis had been prevented only by assistance from foreign governments and loans from multinational institutions ( particularly the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank ) . |
11 | You can pass a mix of string an numeric parameters to the same procedure or function and a function can return either a string or numeric value , irrespective of the type of parameters passed to it . |
12 | Improv provides business an professional users with a unique set of capabilities for dynamic viewing and analysis , and , for building spreadsheets that can be easily reused , modified and shared over a long lifecycle . |
13 | Certainly my own identikit picture of the classic nasty old git a Tory faces is about 68 , wears a string vest and the trousers of an old suit , bears remnants of a tattoo on one shoulder and comes at you from the door of a council house with an unkempt garden in Mansfield , waving a stick and blaspheming mightily . |
14 | Officials were forced to step in to calm the pair as they rowed on board a British Airways flight to a summit in Ottowa , Canada . |
15 | A gangling porter with long sideboards emerged from the station buildings , gave the train driver a casual thumbs up , and blew a short blast on his whistle . |
16 | From Talagaad a narrow roads climbs up the side of the crater and enters the city via a tunnel bored through the rock of the rim wall . |
17 | The principal reason for this is the high degree of reliance a human places on linguistic information . |
18 | In Manhattan a fellow dashes about claiming he is the grandson of Balenciaga . |
19 | The circular free-standing columns in natural Lambshill heavily grained sandstone at the main entrance , and the wet dash render and reconstituted Cumbrian slate finish on the mansard roof , combine to give the building a traditional Scottish feel . |
20 | In these cases a Senior Police Officer has ‘ first read ’ of any papers and all other personnel involved have been required to enter into an undertaking to respect the security of the information . |
21 | Within fifty minutes a Metropolitan Police helicopter swung in across the fields , guided by the radio of the squad car , to deposit on the road behind the cars a small , bird-like man called Dr Barnard , the Chief Explosives Officer of the Met , a man who , thanks to the bomb outrages of the IRA in mainland Britain , had examined more explosion scenes than he would have wished . |
22 | In October a public utilities commission was established to provide a legal framework for a programme of privatization , and to oversee the services provided by state enterprises targeted for sale to the private sector . |
23 | In the UK a Joint Exchanges Committee ( JEC ) was established in 1982 by London 's futures and options exchanges . |
24 | Clearly , the number of males a female mates with has little or no effect on the numbers of her offspring . |
25 | In fact , London qualified ambulance workers are being offered £12,100 , while to get anywhere near £25,000 a Metropolitan police constable would have to be putting in a huge amount of overtime — the annual pay of a PC with three years ' experience is £12,756 . |
26 | Lots a diffwent fwuits . |
27 | OFFER unhappy customers a proper complaints system and conciliation service . |
28 | Perhaps one day an inspired current-affairs teacher will ask them about the long-term impact of the 1988 Education Act . |
29 | FRED6 stipulates disclosure requirements for both mergers an major acquisitions to enable users of accounts to understand the full impact of the combination on the continuing profits of the new group . |
30 | For £25 , £1 more than the new charge for MoT test for cars , a qualified driving instructor will give the driver an hour-long skills appraisal which will include at least 45 minutes of driving . |