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 . |