Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun sg] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The A.87 enters Glen Shiel at Shiel Bridge and after a level two miles in which the scenery is dominated by the highest of the Five Sisters , Sgurr Fhuaran seen in full stature , starts the gradual ascent to Cluanie , bypassing the old Bridge of the Spaniards , so called because of a battle here in 1719 between Redcoats and Jacobites , the latter being reinforced by Spanish troops . |
| 2 | After a slot-it-out 18 months , which has seen them circuiting Europe and America like Nigel Mansell switched to turbo-boost , they turn up here — excuse the expression — absolutely knackered . |
| 3 | At present there are no plans for structural repairs to the church , where problems first came to light after a survey two years ago . |
| 4 | After a year these shares could be sold freely . |
| 5 | But after a while straight pieces of knitting cease to be satisfying and we progress to shaping , which speeds up the making-up process and also saves on materials . |
| 6 | After a while strange stories were heard about him — stories of a secret , more dangerous life . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , Keegan is happy that Newcastle are going out of 1992 on a high after a roller-coaster 12 months on Tyneside . |
| 8 | Edberg is the sixth seed to go out of the men 's championship after a record five seeds were beaten in the first round . |
| 9 | The Angel Hotel , Bury St Edmunds , has already taken on two extra workers and is seeking four more after a bumper 12 months . |
| 10 | Out of a total 1,887 pupils excluded in all three categories last year , 164 ( 8.6% ) were black . |
| 11 | He continued his researches with vigour , having learned to drive a car at the age of seventy-five and despite the amputation of a leg three years later . |
| 12 | End of a school Many teachers were displaced in the fighting . |
| 13 | Lurid nonsense about somebody being pushed out of a window twenty years ago . |
| 14 | However , at the surface of a liquid these forces are unbalanced , with the result that there is a net pull inwards . |
| 15 | This was the archaic picture of a king ten times as large as a noble , a noble ten times as large as a merchant — and so on down to the almost imperceptible peasant woman . |
| 16 | Ward was sentenced to life imprisonment in October 1974 for the murder of 12 people , including nine soldiers , killed in an IRA bombing of a coach eight months earlier [ see p. 26458 ] , and she was also given concurrent 30-year prison terms for involvement in explosions at Euston Station in London and at a Ministry of Defence college [ see pp. 26873-74 ] . |
| 17 | Justin Simpson , in his article on the Stamford waits in The Reliquary in July 1885 , describes them crying out in the night after the performance of a tune these words by Shakespeare ; |
| 18 | We are making fast progress till suddenly a black van pulls out of a lane twenty yards ahead , brakes , and spills a sackful of coppers out the back . |
| 19 | But in 1944 , at the age of fifteen , she was judged to have the mental age of a child four years younger . |
| 20 | However suicidal they may feel , there is a lifeline ; a sympathetic listener on the end of a phone 24 hours a day . |
| 21 | Janet 's counsellor Mamie Graham is on the end of a phone 24 hours a day for those who find themselves at the sharp end of crime . |
| 22 | Little by little , however , the force of this long glen beneath the austere greyness of the Five Sisters touched Johnson , and he moved his position from that of first considering the political role of such remoteness , and the opportunities it gave for military strategies and subsequent escapes — Glenshiel had been the scene of a battle fifty-four years earlier in which local Highlanders unsuccessfully reinforced a Spanish invasion force — to being lulled by the sight of so many waters , brooks , burns , and silver rivulets , ‘ which commonly ran with a clear shallow stream over a hard pebbly bottom ’ . |
| 23 | His allegations of a BA dirty tricks campaign to force Virgin out of the sky have seen him hold his own against some of the best PR manipulators in the business . |
| 24 | The disadvantage of share schemes is , Mr Luder says , that ‘ it is all very well my being an employee of a subsidiary five tiers down of some major plc , and their saying ‘ Here is a dollar for a share option and you will be motivated if the share price rises ’ , but there is no direct link between cause and effect' . |
| 25 | I turned round and there , six feet away , was the edge of a crater twenty feet across ; that gave me a shock . |
| 26 | Abie Nathan , peace campaigner and owner of the Voice of Peace radio station , was imprisoned for 18 months on Oct. 6 for meeting with PLO chairman Yassir Arafat in July in defiance of a law forbidding contacts with the PLO . |
| 27 | John lost an arm and a leg as a result of a motorcycle 12 years ago and he has been provided with a £200 electronic device , the size of a cigarette pack , that uses electric signals to relieve discomfort . |
| 28 | Section 33 discretion was refused having regard to three factors : the prejudice to the defendant , the unsatisfactory nature of a trial seven years later and the potential claim the plaintiff had against his solicitors . |
| 29 | She was reminded again of that other time — of hands , cruel and insistent , travelling over her body ; of a man four times her age who in one brutal movement had stolen , as if by right , both her maidenhead and her innocence . |
| 30 | His hips were narrow , like those of a man fifteen years his junior , and his arms were long . |