Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Their fame began innocently enough in 1893 when an enterprising baron founded a lottery to pay for the Rio de Janeiro zoo . |
| 32 | Another is the Great Orange Riot of 1971 when an Italian team , playing Spain in Cagliari , but tactlessly , without any Cagliarian representatives , was chased off the pitch by Outspan-wielding Sconvols . |
| 33 | Workhouse building , despite the permitting of parishes to combine for the purpose in 1723 , was until 1750 largely an urban phenomenon , for in the countryside out-relief was proving itself a more flexible and still not frighteningly expensive option . |
| 34 | There were four of us in our party — Henniker and I , a young man introduced to me as Tom Spalding , and a girl of about twenty-two also an articled clerk — called Diana Robinson . |
| 35 | Plexus , which went bankrupt in 1989 following an unstable transition from hardware to software production , was subsequently rescued by Dallas , Texas-based Recognition Equipment Inc . |
| 36 | Surprising how an innocent kiss like that can be … ’ |
| 37 | Many of them grew up during the student revolution of the 1960s when an extraordinary hostility to wealth , power and respectability came to dominate a generation . |
| 38 | One person was killed and six injured in Athens on July 14 when an anti-tank rocket narrowly missed Finance Minister Ioannis Paleokrassas ; the November 17 group claimed responsibility for the attack , which took place in Constitution Square , central Athens . |
| 39 | He was put down early in 1986 at the age of eighteen when an incurable heart condition was diagnosed . |
| 40 | The Contemporary Masters Index made up of ten internationally shown and collected artists shows a drop of 44% from the peak in 1990 yet an overall rise since 1985 of 235% . |
| 41 | But his bravery was called into question in 1967 when an ex-tory MP queried whether the MC was genuine or a fiction invented by the publisher . |