Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Amused speculation on whether the new vicar could really be casting lustful glances at the choir-mistress produced an effective antidote to the emotional tension a few minutes earlier . |
| 2 | In this case a few records are updated very frequently , a few very seldom , and most records are updated more or less an average amount ; the distribution is shown in Fig. 6.21 . |
| 3 | Certainly my own identikit picture of the classic nasty old git a Tory faces is about 68 , wears a string vest and the trousers of an old suit , bears remnants of a tattoo on one shoulder and comes at you from the door of a council house with an unkempt garden in Mansfield , waving a stick and blaspheming mightily . |
| 4 | The ‘ Romance ’ from The Gadfly became , of course , a popular favourite a few years ago when it was used as the theme for the TV series Reilly : Ace of Spies , but as played here by the Chicago Sinfonietta under Paul Freeman it 's altogether drier ad more reticent — no comparison at all with the recording by the USSR Cinema SO under Emin Khachaturian on CfP which glows with warmth and stylish authenticity . |
| 5 | Vincent was sold into private ownership and was reborn as a very luxurious yacht a few years later , often to be seen and remarked on by cutter crews in yachting circles . |
| 6 | Without any ends at all for which to survive life would be , in the strict sense of the words , not worth living , and on this boat a few decencies preserved without regard for consequences would be the last ends left which he values for themselves . |
| 7 | On the German side a few bombs were dropped to keep up the pretence , but they were left strictly alone by fighter aircraft , of course . |
| 8 | Before concluding this chapter a few remarks on the subject of doubling strings by wind may be useful . |
| 9 | The cost of a united Germany is going to give the German Chancellor a few headaches , but when you consider what a mess Berlin was less than fifty years ago , the future for this city looks brilliant . |
| 10 | It would have been a very different scene a few weeks earlier . |
| 11 | On the ground floor , where the lard wheel of the former mill was driven by the waters of the Rhine , there is a restaurant famous for its cuisine , with a wooden ceiling an arched windows giving a scenic view of the Rhine . |
| 12 | I have asked myself this question a thousand times , a hundred thousand times . |
| 13 | After that very public proposal a few minutes ’ privacy are definitely called for . ’ |
| 14 | Instead he had worked for several years for Lintas , the advertising agency owned by Unilever , only abandoning this job a few months before war broke out in order to concentrate for a period entirely on his painting . |
| 15 | Spencer Stuart went through this process a few years earlier in a more effective way . |
| 16 | I had three questions on this point a few minutes ago . |
| 17 | Lorentz returned to this point a few months later when he was reviewing Fritz Lang 's German film M . |
| 18 | First , at this juncture a few points in regard to what might be meant by ‘ baroque ’ . |
| 19 | One damp , cold , windy night a few weeks later , Fagin put on his heavy coat and , with the collar pulled up high to hide his face , left his home . |
| 20 | He taught at the College of Further Education a few miles from Spaxton ; she had met him through a rambling club . |
| 21 | On the brown surface a few globules of half-sour milk swam and coalesced . |
| 22 | He had heard this request a thousand times . |
| 23 | It is worth quoting here from a speech made by Gladstone when he opened St Martin-in-the-Fields public library a hundred years ago , and a few words in answer by W.H. Smith who , incidentally , was of the opposite political persuasion : party politics were not involved in these vital matters then . |
| 24 | ‘ But I do n't want to be sharing my life with anyone , gorgeous hunk or not , ’ Shannon had pointed out mildly , managing with an effort not to remind Kelly they 'd been over this ground a hundred times before . |
| 25 | By closing this door a million times to your fears , you will gain the strength to create newness in your life . |
| 26 | Kiernan reports suggestions that Lermontov 's own death ( like Pushkin 's in another duel a few months before ) may have been murder , a murder planned by court reactionaries . |
| 27 | It had been given particular poetic stimulation a few months earlier when , at 15 , and musing in a second-hand bookshop in the city , he had come across a book of poetry by the Spanish poet , Federico Garçia Lorca , a book he has carried with him ever since , as Manzano records . |
| 28 | The teleology of evolution as a goal-seeking activity persists in indefensible form a hundred years later in the writing of biologists . |
| 29 | Zen had watched this cycle a dozen times or more when he felt a touch on his shoulder and turned to find Gilberto grinning up at him . |
| 30 | This state of affairs has complicated my present task , since what was current when I began thinking about this book a few years ago , and , indeed , when working on earlier drafts of it , is now ceasing to be so . |