Example sentences of "[noun] a [det] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Goa a former union minister , B. P. Singh , was appointed Governor on March 15 . |
| 2 | and finally , our amblings from Kimblesworth cricket club a few weeks back erred in suggesting that Maltby , near Thornaby , dropped out of the National Village Cup because they thought Kimblesworth a bit far . |
| 3 | OUR friends at Mission Impossible , Darlington FC 's un surpassed fanzine , carried an enthusiastic review a few editions back of a book on the fall and fall of Workington Town . |
| 4 | In May a former deputy director of the US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency said that the USA would be violating the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile ( ABM ) Treaty if it deployed a newly-tested missile tracking device as part of its " Star Wars " defence system . |
| 5 | One of the first things we do , after settling in — we show up at this little garage or car cemetery a few blocks south . |
| 6 | The following year , however , the Party took what was perhaps its most momentous decision in the mountains a few miles south of the Chinese border . |
| 7 | Before the summer holidays , the House of Lords carried an amendment moved by Lord Peyton a former Conservative minister , which allows British rail to bid against private companies for franchises to operate services . |
| 8 | So from the beginning of 1972 there have been involved in five major enquiries relating to Northern Ireland a former Lord Chancellor ( twice ) , a present and a former Lord Chief Justice , a Lord of Appeal , and a High Court judge . |
| 9 | A large dresser lends the kitchen a more country look |
| 10 | San Quentin Point is the third part of a trilogy which began with THE NEW INDUSTRIAL PARKS NEAR IRVINE , CALIFORNIA ( 1975 ) — a foundation block of the " New Topographics " — and was followed by PARK CITY , a book of 102 photographs which describe the construction of a ski resort of that name a few miles east of Salt Lake City , Utah ( published 1980 ) . |
| 11 | Magharba reinforcements from Bishr turned up and camped in a clump of trees a few kilometres west of town . |
| 12 | Even an area a few metres square can be turned into a mysterious little haven , where every turn of the path reveals something fresh and exciting . |
| 13 | Sedgebrook is a pleasant village in the flat , once marshy area a few miles west of Grantham , near the confluence of two rivulets . |
| 14 | He was on patrol with two other UN military observers when the mine exploded as they were driving around a small bridge a few miles north of the temples in Siem Reap province . |
| 15 | The fire probably started in a rubbish dump , above an old strip mine a few miles east of the town , in May 1962 . |
| 16 | Staff should be discouraged from carrying over anything more than a few holidays a few days holiday from one year to the next , unless it 's for specific purposes , such as climbing , catching dingo or visiting Aunty Mabel in New Zealand . |
| 17 | The most important river in the region is the Marne which starts life in dramatic surroundings a few kilometres south of Langres , not far from the magnificent Château le Pailly . |
| 18 | Mark Jones gave Stockton a half time lead , with Tony Robinson equalising after the break . |
| 19 | He reached Haslemere in early afternoon , hired a taxi and discharged it fifteen minutes later on the other side of the road from the Skein of Geese Hotel and Restaurant a few miles south-east of the town . |
| 20 | The company , incidentally , was founded by his Evenwood born dad also George a former ABA boxing champion . |
| 21 | Listening to the autumn wind moaning across this corner of the sparse Northumberland coastline a few miles south of Berwick-upon-Tweed , where Nora Simpson had lived for all of her married life , their memories of her were vivid . |
| 22 | Short of a catastrophic breakdown , the chances of that happening were close to zero even before the race started , because Koch is determined to freeze out Conner and make the final an all America Foundation affair . |
| 23 | ‘ There 's an airfield a few miles north , between here and Trapani . ’ |
| 24 | Take the T V away and conversation collapses and dies and in a survey a former German couple , they took away lots of and they were nearly suicidal and they were nearly murdering |
| 25 | There are 7 finely rugose arm spines , with large secondary points on the shaft giving the arm spine a more rugose appearance . |
| 26 | Lochmaben lay some fifteen miles down Annandale , its fortalice a former Bruce stronghold , now a royal castle , of which it appeared , since the present Earl of Carrick 's shame and declension , Douglas had had himself appointed Keeper , by the Regent . |
| 27 | IT IS understood that this is the first time a former LMS type has been on the line and follows the successful hire of former GWR 2-8-0 3822 by the WSR this year . |