Example sentences of "[noun] a [adj] [noun pl] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | At the gateway to the dock a black sports saloon had passed across a junction , unnerving her , but she doubted it had been Rory 's . |
| 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 | One of the first things we do , after settling in — we show up at this little garage or car cemetery a few blocks south . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | grease and flour a 7 ″ sandwich tin , pour in mixture and cook at 350 degrees , for 20 mins . |
| 7 | We now have in place a new estates officer for Cherry Hinton er can I ask that that there is a special report brought to the housing committee er before the summer recess on the possible solutions to the problems that have been identified ? |
| 8 | The creation of the appellation Alsace Grand Cru for 25 exceptional vineyard sites in 1983 was a dramatic departure from previous Alsace wine policy , but it recognised what everyone in the region already knew : that there were enormous differences in the wines produced from different sites with varying soils and microclimates , and that the best of these sites compared in quality with those of Burgundy or the German Rhine a hundred miles north . |
| 9 | At the 1836 festival a disguised police officer saw ‘ … two men , with an effigy of a man stuffed and coloured red , holding it in front of the bull . |
| 10 | In recent years a major balance-of-payments crisis had been prevented only by assistance from foreign governments and loans from multinational institutions ( particularly the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank ) . |
| 11 | Officials were forced to step in to calm the pair as they rowed on board a British Airways flight to a summit in Ottowa , Canada . |
| 12 | People will stand there and they will clutch something , you see their knuckles are white you know and these sort of things erm or they 'll have their notes you know here , and let's be honest about it yeah I can remember when I started training I think you know you used to cling to your notes a three feet flipchart , you know what ca n't you see ? |
| 13 | In these cases a Senior Police Officer has ‘ first read ’ of any papers and all other personnel involved have been required to enter into an undertaking to respect the security of the information . |
| 14 | Within fifty minutes a Metropolitan Police helicopter swung in across the fields , guided by the radio of the squad car , to deposit on the road behind the cars a small , bird-like man called Dr Barnard , the Chief Explosives Officer of the Met , a man who , thanks to the bomb outrages of the IRA in mainland Britain , had examined more explosion scenes than he would have wished . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | In October a public utilities commission was established to provide a legal framework for a programme of privatization , and to oversee the services provided by state enterprises targeted for sale to the private sector . |
| 17 | In the UK a Joint Exchanges Committee ( JEC ) was established in 1982 by London 's futures and options exchanges . |
| 18 | In fact , London qualified ambulance workers are being offered £12,100 , while to get anywhere near £25,000 a Metropolitan police constable would have to be putting in a huge amount of overtime — the annual pay of a PC with three years ' experience is £12,756 . |
| 19 | OFFER unhappy customers a proper complaints system and conciliation service . |
| 20 | Somehow among the chaos of coffee cups and a snowstorm of phonecalls and paper , she and Francis and a cheerfully unreliable string of volunteers threw together every month a gay arts magazine . |
| 21 | are reasonably senior , and the great thing is once they do you one favour that 's it , and it 's better because rather than have , for example a junior police officer , who has no idea of covering his tracks |
| 22 | Magharba reinforcements from Bishr turned up and camped in a clump of trees a few kilometres west of town . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Sedgebrook is a pleasant village in the flat , once marshy area a few miles west of Grantham , near the confluence of two rivulets . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | There are also enjoyable cruises along the River Arun and in August a lively arts festival takes place . |
| 27 | With its customary fury the northeast monsoon flung its nightly torrent of rain onto the close-packed ranks of rubber trees sprouting from the red-brown jungle soils of the Vi An plantation a hundred kilometres north of Saigon . |
| 28 | The fire probably started in a rubbish dump , above an old strip mine a few miles east of the town , in May 1962 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |