Example sentences of "[noun prp] in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rangers and Aberdeen will meet at Ibrox on Tuesday in a re-arranged match . |
| 2 | Before using a UK PPL in a ZK-registered aircraft visitors must obtain a New Zealand licence validation . |
| 3 | Swansea manager Frank Burrows adds Reuben Agboola to his squad after an injury to Keith Walker in a 0-0 draw with Plymouth this week . |
| 4 | When I arrived back at the cafe , I found Kathleen in a perplexed mood . |
| 5 | The new Chromatography catalogue from Rhô-Poulenc contains a unique combination of products never before offered to U.K. Chromatographers in a single brochure . |
| 6 | In April 1965 Crawford opened with Harry H. Corbett in a new comedy , Travelling Light , at the Prince of Wales Theatre , where he had enjoyed such success in Come Blow Your Horn . |
| 7 | It is with the publication of Ideology and Utopia in an English translation in 1936 that the sociology of knowledge begins its uncomfortable incorporation into the discipline of ‘ sociology ’ . |
| 8 | Cézanne 's method of building up form by a series of parallel hatchings or small overlapping brush-strokes is used by Picasso in a severe and logical way ; indeed , in the gouaches of early 1909 this method of work becomes almost a refinement of the earlier , cruder striations . |
| 9 | The play portrayed the life and fantasies of Zoditch , a crusty , lonely old publishing clerk ( played by Dustin in a high-pitched nasally projected voice ) , responsible for reading the diary of Chulkaturin , a nineteenth-century Russian landowner who died young . |
| 10 | Similarly another story involved Kylie in an Australian restaurant . |
| 11 | Poor man ! thought Meredith in a sudden burst of commiseration . |
| 12 | It had seemed a good idea , but how could she ask for Dana in a strange shop ? |
| 13 | Prompt at four o'clock , Dr Neil , complainingly dressed in his best suit at Matey 's request — ‘ Do I have to ? ’ he had said , rolling his eyes at McAllister — Matey in a bottle-green velvet gown which McAllister had not seen before , McAllister in her best sateen skirt , white blouse , and small lacy cap with streamers , were all sitting in the parlour when the doorbell rang . |
| 14 | East Lothian is part of Edinburgh 's hinterland , yet most of the district is to join with Berwickshire in a new council . |
| 15 | East Lothian is an integral part of Edinburgh 's hinterland , yet most of the district is to join with Berwickshire in a new council . |
| 16 | Prost , starting from a record seventh successive pole position at the start of a season , was beaten off the grid by Hill in a startling getaway which also saw the two Ferraris of Berger and Jean Alesi of France surge through from the third row to take third and fourth places . |
| 17 | And yet , for all its size , this remained an unusual sort of an empire , not consolidated , in the customary imperial manner , in some glossy West End towerblock but scattered around Notting Hill in a random assortment of properties , in varying states of ramshackle informality . |
| 18 | It stood way up Brandon Hill in a rambling garden that in summer was full of overblown roses , but now under the dying rays of a winter sun , was a ruin of dead leaves and straggling yellow grass . |
| 19 | The Support Force was launched in September 1992 by the DoH in a disastrous public relations exercise . |
| 20 | TOUGH-GUY actor and boxer Mickey Rourke caused an uproar when he beat Canadian middleweight Terry Jessmer in a farcical televised bout in Madrid , Spain . |
| 21 | Nine Pullmans were restored to their former splendour ( but with modern air braking ) at Carnforth in a remarkable £3 million project . |
| 22 | Informative , in helping communication with parents about how their children are doing ; and with governing bodies , LEAs in a wider community about the achievements of a school ; |
| 23 | Also on Saturday , June 27 , shareholders of the West Somerset Railway will join in the festivities with a ride over the Quantocks in a special train from Bishops Lydeard to Minehead . |
| 24 | A pleasant week in the Bristol Channel when we reached Bristol once more , then on to the Scillies in a nasty little summer gale , finally reaching Southampton at the end of June . |
| 25 | Shevardnadze in a strong speech at the UN General Assembly in New York on Sept. 25 characterized Iraq 's invasion of Kuwait as " an act of terrorism against the nascent new world order " , and , apparently going further than Gorbachev had suggested at Helsinki [ see above ] , stated that the Soviet Union was prepared to support the use of force against Iraq , in a UN framework , if the Iraqi occupation of Kuwait continued ; on Sept. 30 he confirmed Soviet willingness to join a UN force if necessary . |
| 26 | She blanked out the sudden picture of white sands and her and Lucy in a scented olive-grove evening … her heart panted to slake its thirst with dreaming , but she slammed the scenes of happiness as illusion , mirage . |
| 27 | Oh , it was true that Dad and Charles had joined forces with Lucy in a deafening chorus of encouragement , to such a degree that she 'd felt almost piqued by their eagerness to be rid of her . |
| 28 | ) . Their biggest hit was called ‘ But I Love Sergeyevitch ! ’ which was probably the first pop song to treat Mikhail Sergeyevitch Gorbachev in a friendly if rather frivolous manner . |
| 29 | Homo sapiens sapiens seems to have replaced the Neanderthals in a few thousand years about 30000 years ago . |
| 30 | I would like to ask if it might be possible for Oxford University Press to make use of the track Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head by Sacha Distel in a non-broadcast educational video . |