Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] [noun sg] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | LIFEBOATMEN went into action this afternoon when a raft overturned and broke up during the annual Merseyside Police charity race on the Mersey . |
| 2 | LISBON — The British aircraft carrier Ark Royal cut short a five-day goodwill visit here yesterday as controversy flared between US and Portuguese officials over the arrest of 121 American and British sailors during an alleged street-fighting rampage . |
| 3 | It had made her feel like a dutiful grown-up daughter , visiting a hypochondriac distant relative once a week . |
| 4 | POSC says it 'll call for the development of a set of industry-specific widgets next year when a more complete range of interface recommendations will be presented . |
| 5 | The good news is that he will not be rushed off to stud afterwards and will campaign for further honours next year when a move up to a mile and a quarter might be considered . |
| 6 | Given the option , would you prefer to spend 80 minutes hard labour twice a week at placed like Lancaster Park , Christchurch or lying on the beach at Famagusta ? |
| 7 | Is Community Economic Development merely a means of shifting the responsibilities for unemployment , deprivation etc. , onto the deprived themselves or is it an acceptance that government economic policy has failed so-called deprived areas and that something new is needed ? |
| 8 | for the night , so , cos the woman at the hotel said er , oh she said want a double room this time not a single |
| 9 | T. D. I was on duty on Lambeth Road junction one day when a feller came up to me and said , ‘ There 's a body floating in the canal . ’ |
| 10 | The Shankill councillor said he wants the crash barriers erected on the Springfield Road close to the scene of an accident last week when a woman and her young child were struck by a stolen car . |
| 11 | The series of events began at the CastleCourt shopping complex at teatime last night when a woman , with her one-year-old child , was putting her shopping in the back of her Ford Granada . |
| 12 | In the 1987 United Kingdom general election only a handful of very small parties that were genuinely political fielded candidates . |
| 13 | The situation was brought to a head last year when a woman was knocked over by a bus in Prebend Row . |
| 14 | That does n't mean he 's going to draw it , he 's actually drawing on average this guy around a thousand , hundred pounds , one thousand two hundred pounds he 's been thousand pounds , but he 's actually drawing one thousand two . |
| 15 | Newall was arrested in August this year when a Royal Navy frigate intercepted his yacht off Gibraltar — an operation that cost an estimated £250,000 . |
| 16 | Vital evidence was found by Eric Langmaid , Valiant 's engineer , on searching Spring Flight next morning when a diary was uncovered . |
| 17 | He was due to be released on conditional bail last night once a surety had been produced . |
| 18 | One agent in North 's employ remembered being over at CIA headquarters one day when a call came in to him from North , ‘ and everybody in the room gave me a dirty look . ’ |
| 19 | There is The Times front page of 16 November 1976 , on which I announce that ‘ the Lebanese civil war — or at least that stage of the conflict that cost … almost 40,000 lives — came to an end this morning when a Syrian army , 6,000 strong and accompanied by hundreds of tanks and heavy armoured vehicles , occupied the entire city of Beirut . ’ |
| 20 | Parents of young children with the lung disease cystic fibrosis , like 3 year old Poppy Roberts , have to give their children intensive physiotherapy twice a day to keep their lungs clear of congestion . |
| 21 | They say that when the decision was made to transfer the spinal unit at Harlow Wood to Nottingham 's Queens Medical Centre about a third of the hospital 's work was removed and no new contracts were negotiated to fill the gap . |
| 22 | The terrace of the château made an admirable grandstand one evening when a heavier raid than usual was in progress . |
| 23 | DEFENDING champions Ajax Amsterdam were knocked out of the UEFA Cup last night when a 1–0 home victory was not enough to claw back a 4–2 first leg deficit to French club Auxerre in the quarter-finals . |
| 24 | PATIENTS were stranded in their beds as a torrent of flood water swept through a North Wales hospital last night when a freak rain storm brought havoc to parts of North Wales . |
| 25 | and his wife , who have a grown-up son and daughter , are looking forward to celebrating their Ruby wedding anniversary this year just a month prior to 's retirement . |
| 26 | An inquest has revealed she was killed by a faulty , twenty year old machine just a day after she 'd bought it from a relative . |
| 27 | He added : ‘ We have the spectator Prime Minister -not a power at the heart of Europe but a void at the heart of the British Government . |
| 28 | ‘ I happened to be in Annabel 's nightclub last year when a path was opened for Fergie and a man yelled ‘ hi ’ to me and introduced her highness saying ‘ Hey Tak , bow to the Duchess of York and say hello . ’ |
| 29 | These machines created a stink in holland last year when a magazine showed how they could be used to copy paper money . |
| 30 | Andrew Dobbs , who was twenty seven and from Gloucester , died at Amsterdam airport last year when a bag of cocaine burst in his stomach . |