Example sentences of "[adj] a [noun pl] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Its engine was American , its assembly was completed in America , it would n't have happened without Shelby 's American dream , but underneath it all the Shelby AC Cobra was a British a sports car as you could wish to see .
2 Pal Peter Barrett , 45 , in the country with him to instal a communications network , was badly injured .
3 In the past , it often seemed that the fines were too small to be effective — the maximum fine a magistrates court can impose is £2,000 .
4 However if that is not possible a personnel software package will require to be purchased for the PCs already available .
5 However , in April a thief who fled from a house in Hartlepool , Cleveland onto an adjacent cricket pitch was apprehended on the boundary by two of the fielding side — one a prison officer , the other a police cadet .
6 SUSPECTED Muslim extremists shot dead a plainclothes policeman as he left his home near Assiut in southern Egypt , police said .
7 Bentley went to the gallows after pal Christopher Craig shot dead a police officer during a bungled warehouse robbery .
8 Certainly erm I do n't know what Norman says , but I would say on the phone to you , Let's make it absolutely clear that this is er in the main a telesales operation .
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