Example sentences of "[adj] [Wh adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This can be illustrated by Lord Denning 's approach in Crowther v Shannon Motor Co [ 1975 ] 1 WLR 30 where a used Jaguar car with over 82,000 miles on the clock was driven for three weeks covering 2,300 miles before it broke down with engine seizure . |
| 2 | With such tourist pulling potential it was only a matter of time before the line of sections of it would hum again to wheel flange above fishplate … and so it proved in 1972 when a narrow gauge scheme was hatched to open 5.5. miles of trackbed between Pant ( Merthyr Tydfil ) and Torpantau . |
| 3 | It will be Ballymena 's first trip to Brandywell since that infamous day in 1972 when a United bus was subjected to an arson attack . |
| 4 | The first of what promised to be a long series of show trials of former senior officials of the ousted Ceausescu regime ended on Feb. 2 when a military tribunal in Bucharest found Emil Bobu , Manea Manescu , Ion Dinca and Tudor Postelnicu guilty of " co-authorship of genocide " in connection with the killing of demonstrators in Timisoara , Bucharest and elsewhere at the start of the December 1989 revolution [ see pp. 37104-05 ] . |
| 5 | Mujaheddin attacks on Kabul in October 1989 killed and injured many people including at least 30 when a surface-to-surface missile struck a bus shelter in a busy shopping district of old Kabul on Oct. 10 . |
| 6 | Fifteen years of one-party rule ended formally on Nov. 30 when a new Constitution came into effect which provided for multiparty democracy and a free-market economy . |
| 7 | Ian Gow , Conservative member of Parliament for Eastbourne since 1974 , was killed on July 30 when an Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) bomb exploded underneath his car as he was preparing to leave his home in the village of Hankham , near Eastbourne in Sussex . |
| 8 | Federal charges were filed against Keating on Dec. 12 when a federal grand jury in Los Angeles returned a 77-count indictment against him , his son , his son-in-law and two associates . |
| 9 | Miller , by contrast , holds that holist explanations are appropriate whenever a specific condition is met — whenever a social phenomenon would persist if the relevant properties of particular individual members of a society were different . |
| 10 | Benefits such as good facilities can make it worth travelling farther ; it 's amazing how a well-designed yard can cut down on working time . |
| 11 | Oh yeah Yes , it 's amazing how a big delight it is , despite all the bridges |
| 12 | It 's amazing how a huge c a huge cat like that can get underneath I 've just planted my bulbs |
| 13 | This rule for profit maximisation is illustrated in Table 2.1 where an individual firm is producing good X. As more and more workers are employed , with a given stock of capital equipment , the MPPL declines . |
| 14 | However , the College of Arms remained in charge of the obsequies of royal funerals until 1751 when a private undertaker , a Mr Harcourt , supplied and organized the funeral of Frederick , Prince of Wales . |
| 15 | The United States space programme suffered a serious setback in May 1991 when a congressional committee voted to reduce to $100,000,000 in the current fiscal year the projected $2,000 million budget for the Freedom space station , the construction of which was crucial to further manned missions to the moon and one to Mars , which President George Bush stated should be achieved by 2019 , the 50th anniversary of the first Apollo moon landing . |
| 16 | At least 31 people were killed on Oct. 26 when an armed group numbering about 20 attacked a fishing village near the Cap Skirring tourist area , 600 km south of Dakar . |
| 17 | A total of 223 people were killed on May 26 when an Austrian Lauda Air Boeing 767-300 , on its way from Bangkok to Vienna , crashed over Suphan Buri province in north-western Thailand . |
| 18 | The decision brought to an end a case which had begun in 1979 when a female student filed a complaint over the exclusion with New Jersey civil rights officials . |
| 19 | It also reflected philosophical scruples since it was n't obvious how a mechanical device could be conscious and , as Descartes is famous for pointing out , the only thing of which we can be certain is that we are conscious . |
| 20 | Phil was again unlucky with injuries in 1990–91 when a fractured rib in November reduced his contribution to modest proportions , but his distinguished career already assures him a permanent place in the Palace annals . |
| 21 | The real beginnings , however , were made in 1969 when a central cataloguing institute was set up in Rome , which became the present Istituto centrale per il catalogo e la documentazione ( ICCD ) when the Minstero per i Beni Culturali was founded . |
| 22 | Stephen 's big break came in 1984 when a young Manchester band by the name of The Smiths turned up to record a single , Heaven Knows I 'm Miserable Now . |
| 23 | Work began in 1975 when a small test-reactor at Ispra , near Milan , was switched by the Italian government to work on safety . |
| 24 | It should be obvious why a single structural or ‘ semantic ’ paragraph in Hinds ' ( 1977 ) analysis can extend over five orthographic paragraphs in a newspaper . |
| 25 | IT IS CURIOUS how an intervening bid , even if it does not have any great pre-emptive value , can throw a spanner in the opponents ' works . |
| 26 | This is the last bond to be actively redeemed until 1957 when a minor flurry of interest in activating redemption might have been responsible for some bond buying-in activity , although the Club waited until 1983 for the total buying-in to take place . |
| 27 | For the next century or so , the county was relatively free of French harassment , but the situation worsened considerably after 1360 when a French fleet burnt Winchelsea and followed this up with a regular series of raids on the coast . |
| 28 | The art of Benin first became known to the West in 1897 when a British military expedition confiscated thousands of works of art from the royal palace and exiled the king , Ovonrramwen . |
| 29 | A total of 261 people were killed on July 11 when a Canadian McDonnell Douglas DC-8 carrying Nigerian Moslems back to Sokoto after their Haj pilgrimage , crashed near Jeddah , Saudi Arabia , shortly after take-off . |
| 30 | A series of bar charts and summaries offer no less than seventeen different analyses ( fig 4 ) , and one of these charts is shown in fig 5 where an ideal model is conveniently offered as a super-imposition . |