Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adj] an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The next morning , this young dealer arrived at Tudorbury half an hour early . |
| 2 | Bill Francis had rung me from Marcus half an hour before I got back . |
| 3 | On Jan. 17 an agreement was reached with Italy for $400,000,000 due for 1986-88 to be repaid by the end of 1997 , with the first instalment to be paid in mid-1993 . |
| 4 | The Battalion was provided with a training area on Greenham Common an hour 's march away . |
| 5 | In March 1757 an application was made on his behalf to St Luke 's Hospital for the insane , a private asylum opened in 1751 by a group of London philanthropists . |
| 6 | In July 1991 an agreement reached by a conference of 17 states and international bodies nominated M. as provisional President of the Somali Republic , but M. 's interim government was unable to operate in Mogadishu , and various factions continued to control different areas of Somalia . |
| 7 | It has now doubled since January 1991 an increase of 824,000 . |
| 8 | On 22 January 1991 an order was made by consent in the Ontario court which , inter alia , granted to the father liberal and generous access . |
| 9 | On 31 July 1423 an army representing the combined power of England and Burgundy defeated a Franco-Scottish army at Cravant , while a year later , on 17 August 1424 , at Verneuil another army , led by Bedford himself , encountered and , after heavy fighting , convincingly defeated another such enemy army , this time reinforced by Genoese crossbowmen . |
| 10 | On July 17 an account of the accident also appeared in the Soviet Communist Party newspaper Pravda . |
| 11 | The persistence and weight of this criticism was no doubt one of the pressures that led the Auditing Practices Board to place ‘ going concern ’ high on its list of priorities , and in May 1992 an exposure draft proposing new auditing standards in this area was issued . |
| 12 | On May 4 an Army prosecutor , Maj. Raúl Rozas , had ordered the imprisonment of the Epoca journalist , Monica Lagos , who had reportedly uncovered the identity of a former secret agent allegedly linked to Letelier 's murder . |
| 13 | On Sept. 18 an opposition demonstration surrounded the television building in Tbilisi , interrupting a televised appeal for support by Gamsakhurdia . |
| 14 | On July 18 an appeal court in Bologna overturned the convictions of four people sentenced to life imprisonment in July 1988 for complicity in the neo-fascist bomb attack on Bologna railway station on Aug. 2 , 1980 , in which 85 people were killed and over 200 injured . |
| 15 | On the same day 45 soldiers were reported killed in an LTTE ambush , and on May 5 an LTTE suicide commando attacked a government naval vessel , killing the five crew members . |
| 16 | On 26 February 1992 an application was issued for the determination of that question . |
| 17 | In February 1952 an attempt was made to burn down an Evangelical church in Seville , and Cardinal Segura published a virulently anti-Protestant pastoral letter , in which he effectively accused Franco of betraying the sacred identity of Spain as a Catholic nation . |
| 18 | In May 1952 an Equalisation of Burdens Act provided compensation payments to refugees for the losses they had suffered as a result of the war . |
| 19 | By January 1593 an incident involving a royal servant coming to serve process on a member of his household had resulted in two spells in prison . |
| 20 | On May 6 an attempt by opposition deputies in the People 's Assembly to remove Gramoz Rucaj from the post of caretaker Interior Minister because of the Shkodër events had been defeated , but a majority had voted in favour of dismissing Procurator General Rrapo Mino and head of the Investigator-General 's Office Qemal Lane . |
| 21 | On Aug. 6 an explosion completely destroyed the Israel Military Industries munitions plant at Nof Yan , north of Tel Aviv . |
| 22 | On Aug. 29 an amnesty was announced for all political prisoners , said by the authorities to number 66 ; of these 44 had been arrested after the inter-ethnic massacres of August 1988 , and the rest had been accused of a plot against the government in March 1989 . |
| 23 | On July 13 an accord was signed in Gaza between the Fatah group , which constituted the mainstream of the Palestine Liberation Organization , and Hamas ( " Islamic Resistance Movement " ) . |
| 24 | In January 1858 an attempt was made to assassinate him as he drove with the Empress to the Opera in Paris . |
| 25 | The 22-member policy-making Interim Committee of the IMF announced on May 8 an increase of 50 per cent in capital resources . |
| 26 | Denmark and Sweden signed on Aug. 27 an agreement on the construction and the funding of a new road and rail bridge system over the Öresund strait which separated Malmö and Copenhagen . |
| 27 | The Danish government presented on Aug. 27 an austerity budget for 1992 , which it said would reduce the state deficit from its expected level of Dkr35,800 million in 1991 to around DKr30,500 million ( $2,700 million ) . |
| 28 | In December 1987 an agreement on unification was reached between the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front ( ZANU-PF , led by Mugabe ) and the other main party , the Patriotic Front-Zimbabwe African People 's Union ( PF-ZAPU ) , and the country became a de facto one-party state [ see pp. 35626 ; 36415 ; 37116 ] . |
| 29 | On May 1 an agreement was signed with Zambia opening the way for the establishment of representative offices in the two countries . |
| 30 | In February 1973 an eruption suddenly burst out on the tiny island of Heimaey , and for a time it seemed as though the town of Heimaey , Iceland 's biggest fishing port , would be destroyed . |