Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her Dutch cleaning lady would be coming round in the morning — let her do it , thought an exhausted Olga a few minutes later , as she shakily bathed her face under the cold tap ; Boyd could darn well pay her more housekeeping to cover the extra hours of work . |
| 2 | ‘ I say , was n't that Rolls a smashing job ! |
| 3 | But on 12 March a peremptory summons came from the archbishop , who had gone to Vienna to attend the celebrations marking the accession of the new emperor , Joseph II . |
| 4 | Public-service workers in such unions as NUPE and NALGO objected to the effects of the 5 per cent pay norm on low-paid workers , and on 22 January a national strike of 24 hours was declared by public-service workers . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | On 30 November a Special Board Meeting was called . |
| 7 | In fact ever since the pair of them started going out together they 've been going on about having to find poor old Jenny a new man . |
| 8 | In Latin America a second wave of nationalism , which may be regarded as a continuation of the national independence struggles against the Spanish and Portuguese empires in the early nineteenth century , has developed vigorously in the present century in opposition to American economic dominance , and has been connected more or less closely with socialist and reforming movements directed against the internal domination of these societies by an upper class composed of landowners , and more recently , of elements of a national bourgeoisie . |
| 9 | And what 's more , if she 'd been about in your time , instead of that man , nice little Neville Chamberlain , she 'd have given your old Hitler a few right-handers below the belt ; and seen to it that Britain was armed to the teeth , with an airforce twice the size of the Luftwaffe instead of a few old men with pitch forks and a handful of plucky chaps like yourself to keep the Nazis out . |
| 10 | For example , in many accents of the Midlands and North-Western England a particular set of words contains a vowel ( represented by ‘ o ’ in the spelling ) which is pronounced as in RP but as in these other accents ; the list of words includes ‘ one ’ , ‘ none ’ , ‘ nothing ’ , ‘ tongue ’ , ‘ mongrel ’ and ‘ constable ’ . |
| 11 | Early that January a bitter wind blowing off the far Urals seized East Anglia in a grip of ice . |
| 12 | In early March a confidential report by the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) reportedly called for long-overdue structural reforms and a broad-based austerity package to be introduced after the April election . |
| 13 | In early March a special campaign newsletter will tell solicitors how they can become members and take part . |
| 14 | This glaciation has given the Outer Hebrides a complex relief of rock knobs , and small , peat- or water-filled hollows , and intersecting linear grooves or valleys often occupied by lochs and lochans . |
| 15 | By 10 July a firm front had been established , some 96 kilometres wide and 24 kilometres deep . |
| 16 | In the early morning of Saturday , 1st July a colourful group of parrots , tigers , pandas , elephants , bats and many other species gathered at London Zoo . |
| 17 | ( In early January a high-level US defence advisory group had recommended that the USA should reduce its warheads to 5,000 , as compared with the current stock of 11,000 and the 9,000 permitted under START — see p. 38320 . ) |
| 18 | This iron ore , together with the coal , the invention of the hot blast furnace , and the capital from the traders and factory owners , made Central Scotland a suitable place for an iron industry and , by a later invention , for a steel industry . |
| 19 | In northern and central France a stupendous number of cathedrals and large churches were constructed in the thirteenth century . |
| 20 | Will Carling promised a packed Twickenham a real game and he delivered , captaining a side in which Stuart Barnes reminded the world of his quality , Robert Jones proved he is Britain 's top scrum-half and Mick Skinner and Ben Clarke roared defiance to the whistle . |
| 21 | The township got electric light a few years ago , yet for as long as anyone could remember power-station cooling stacks had blasted out steam day and night ; the power went to white Johannesburg a few miles down the road . |
| 22 | As early as 31 July a presidential letter had bluntly warned the British prime minister that while " initial military success might be easy … the eventual price might become far too heavy " . |
| 23 | Thus , when on 21 October a Florida-based plane piloted by Díaz Lanz bombed Havana , Castro 's violent denunciation of the United States before a mass rally ( on 26 October ) lacked an ‘ objective correlative ’ . |
| 24 | Each Sunday a voluntary park warden will lead the way on a six hour walk to Silver How . |
| 25 | In eastern Germany a female wolf has given birth to a cub for the first time in decades . |
| 26 | In late May a new government commission on the further dissolution of the Stasi was set up , chaired by Diestel . |
| 27 | On 9th May a one day course will be held at Central ( Stanhope ) Institute , Longford Street , for all those teaching the mentally handicapped , their helpers and any other interested persons . |
| 28 | With Robert Jones and Aled Williams a dominating half-back force , Wales coach Alan Davies will need little prompting about the men he should choose for the Test in two weeks time . |
| 29 | THE dramatic arrival of Dean Saunders has given Dalian Atkinson a new lease of life at Aston Villa . |
| 30 | On 11 August a Dutch government surveyor , Captain Ferzenaar , made another examination of the island at close quarters , but he prudently stayed on his boat . |