Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] and a [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | My own specimen is in tropical conditions but I have seen young specimens for sale in a tank along with Sterlet and medium-sized Orandas and a retailer I know has told me that he has a customer with an extremely large ( 12″ ) Asiaticus kept in totally cold water with common Goldfish . |
| 2 | NoGGIN events later in the Spring include a special invitation to the Brahms concert on 1 March , a Gilbert and Sullivan Society production on 12 March and a quiz night on 10 April . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'll get some TCP and a plaster . ’ |
| 4 | Blimey , a chat with old Fanshawe and a shower all in the same day . |
| 5 | Dwyer , a tower of strength in the full back berth , was in danger of missing today 's All Ireland final until a visit to Old Trafford and a date with United physio Jim McGregor put him well on the way to recovery . |
| 6 | Dwyer , a tower of strength in the full back berth , was in danger of missing today 's All Ireland final until a visit to Old Trafford and a date with United physio Jim McGregor put him well on the way to recovery . |
| 7 | About an hour later I was taken to the railway station in a closed van by another N.C.O. and a soldier with a rifle . |
| 8 | The Director of Public Prosecutions in Northern Ireland is currently considering whether charges of obstructing the police investigation should be brought against a free Armagh and a man who has admitted being the crucial Source A referred to in the programme . |
| 9 | He urged his new Crimean commander ( another Gorchakov and a relative of the Russian negotiator in Vienna ) to " think of the year 1812 and trust in God . |
| 10 | A similar displacement occurred much earlier in the New World where the enconomienda system was established in Latin America and a plantation economy in the Caribbean islands , both of which suddenly displaced local cultivators . |
| 11 | Please send me your full colour leaflet which explains the benefits enjoyed by Friends of Historic Scotland and a membership application form . |
| 12 | A copy of this was forwarded for our attention in early March and a reply was sent on 24 March , a copy of which is enclosed herewith . |
| 13 | Water condition : Soft and slightly acid to slightly alkaline , with up to 10 DH and a pH of 6.6–7.6 |
| 14 | He had solved the case with a male DS and a DC . |
| 15 | It is envisaged that these studies should be completed in early August and a consultancy process will then commence . |
| 16 | Also known as the ‘ hippogriff ’ , these were winged creatures born of the union of a male GRIFFIN and a filly . |
| 17 | This year 's run was on a sunny Sunday in early April and a record number of JM runners took part to raise money for the Cancer Relief Macmillan Fund . |
| 18 | To our church came such spiritual giants as Rev Reginald Barlett of Samoa , and the South Seas , Miss Mabel Shaw of Mbershi , whose adopted daughter is helping with modern Zambia , a housewoman from Dr Ida Scudder 's hospital at Velore , central India and a missionary from China who knew about the conditions there and in Hong Kong , and who had also met Toyohiko Kagawa of Japan and knew that , in very truth , this son of a Geisha and who knows who , was a world figure , now pleading at the League of Nations for more attention to World Health than to armaments . |
| 19 | The group is strongest in the resilient Midlands and a land bank stretching five years is good security . |
| 20 | She was one of three WPCs and a sergeant seriously injured when a knifeman went berserk last year , just 100 yards from yesterday 's explosions . |
| 21 | In late 1984 Feshaie and a friend left home and simply walked until they found some EPLF fighters . |
| 22 | In those days they did n't use mileometers , what they did was they took any particular route number and the number of journeys they did , because in those days a bus kept on a route which applied , say between Witton and Rushmere Heath all day , did n't run around like they do nowadays and erm when the schedules were prepared , each bus had got a route number or was placed on a route number , say one Witton , two Witton , three Witton and a copy of its schedule was recorded on another sheet and the mileage , having known what the mileage was and we 'd used to obtain that from the Borough Surveyor 's Department , er I think it was about nine point one four miles a return trip Witton and Rushmere Heath , er you 'd work out how many journeys they did there and say well that bus was due to run a hundred and twenty six miles during the day . |
| 23 | Her boyfriend , despatch rider Andre Hanscombe , 29 , helped in a reconstruction with little Alex and a friend who bore a resemblance to Rachel . |
| 24 | On the first day of the session 372 of the 426 deputies present voted to elect Punsalmaagiyn Ochirbat , hitherto Chair of the Presidium of the People 's Great Hural and a member of the Mongolian People 's Revolutionary Party ( MPRP ) , as Mongolia 's first President . |
| 25 | Croatia was effectively split as eastern Slavonia and a stretch of the Zagreb-Belgrade motorway near Okucani came under Serbian control . |
| 26 | According to The Times of Dec. 29 this was a reference to events in Eastern Europe and a warning to the Soviet Union not to interfere in China 's socialist system . |
| 27 | After a day 's botanising near Tunbridge Wells , they relished ‘ a bottle of pretty good Madeira and a couple of large rabbits , well dressed ’ . |
| 28 | It is a search for wholeness in life which expresses , reflects and is grounded in the wholeness of the Triune God and a transformation of our Christian system . |
| 29 | Thanks to her capable care — and much to the surprise of the doctors — he did n't succumb until the age of seventy , despite his daily ‘ only bit a pleasure ’ , ten Woodbines and a box of Swans . |
| 30 | Being a bit of a Pink Floyd and a club scene fan , I was joyous to hear a sample of the Floyd 's ‘ Shine On You Crazy Diamond ’ with a Soul II Soul beat on the radio . |