Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | About Picasso a great artist |
| 2 | But for Branson a quick death had become preferable to the prospect of prolonged agony . |
| 3 | But the Bolsheviks were determined to frustrate them and immediately after October a bitter struggle ensued between the workers and the party . |
| 4 | Pius XI had sanctioned for recital after Mass a special prayer to St Michael ‘ for the conversion of Russia ’ , imploring him to thrust down to hell ‘ Satan and all wicked spirits who wander through the world for the ruin of souls ’ . |
| 5 | Despite the beauty of Lear 's plates , the young artist felt his work for Gould a great strain . |
| 6 | It is hoped that this will be the sort of figure which will deter those exhibition event organisers , who in the past have been more than content to pay top players such as Seles a six figure appearance fee and cover any fine which they may have incurred . |
| 7 | No , not the Aussie soap but a seven-part drama series about Brenda a fortysomething housewife and mother of four children . |
| 8 | The team included the Celtic goalkeeper Johnny Thomson playing one of his last games for Scotland a few months before his tragic death . |
| 9 | In the Forest of Dean a special swanimote was held on 10 June 1634 : 800 presentments of offences against vert and venison , some referring to events forty years old , were drawn up for submission at the Forest Eyre in the following month . |
| 10 | Thanks to the Petersfield Society for the photo and Sean Street , author of Petersfield a Pictorial Past . |
| 11 | If you have time , pay a visit to Rossano which boasts an exquisite byzantine church straight out of the Arabian Nights or drive south towards Tropea a pretty fishing town with superb , golden beaches . |
| 12 | In the wake of Sputnik a large number of observers , sympathetic and hostile , were convinced that the USSR 's technical and scientific prowess , and the planning system which underpinned it , posed a profound challenge to the West 's values , institutions and international standing . |
| 13 | With very few exceptions , they found the world of FE a little alien , but showed no adversarial tendencies ; they were unanimous in their insistence on high standards and will help us attain and maintain these . |
| 14 | Great golf , a warm winter climate and top-notch accommodation , have contributed to making this area of Portugal a classic golfing venue . |
| 15 | Why is the system of farming on the lowlands of Scotland a good example of intensive mixed commercial farming ? |
| 16 | Along the foot of the South Downs north of Chichester there is the well-known Goodwood raised beach at about 30–40 m ( 100–130 ft ) OD , with gravels which are readily recognisable as beach material : a low raised beach a few feet above present high tide level is to be found on the Gower peninsula in South Wales ; on the west coast of Scotland a raised beach at approximately 7 5 m ( 25 ft ) OD occurs on many of the islands , such as Arran , and in many of the lochs . |
| 17 | For example , in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland a clear distinction must be made between the advantages of the central and eastern areas relative to the much poorer agricultural areas of the west and north . |
| 18 | He was only out of Yoxford a little way , and a friend of mine and myself we saw him coming — Sam James was his name . |
| 19 | Within the South West of England a wide distribution of second homes was found ; 10 per cent of the total building stock in the extreme north-west of Cornwall were used for this purpose but the figure was between 1 and 5 per cent in most districts ( South West Economic Planning Council 1975 ) . |
| 20 | The attack on Warrington may simply mean that there remains intact in that area of England a small cell of perhaps no more than two activists who escaped detection and arrest in operations following the gasometer explosion . |
| 21 | On a very hot evening at the beginning of July a young man left his little room at the top of a house in Carpenter Lane , went out into the street , and , as though unable to make up his mind , walked slowly in the direction of Kokushkin Bridge . |
| 22 | In the middle of July a sponsored climb took place to raise money for a local charity — Special Sport — who take handicapped people climbing at Harrison 's and North Wales . |
| 23 | At the end of December a major offensive around Sarajevo appeared imminent as some 10,000 Bosnian Moslem reinforcements gathered on Mount Igman above the capital . |
| 24 | For the next half-hour we watched hundreds of Allied planes bombing the town of Caen a few miles away from our positions . |
| 25 | It was widely rumoured that when the party leader , Klement Gottwald , died , in March 1953 , it was from grief at the death of Stalin a few weeks earlier . |
| 26 | It was decided at the Brdo kod Kranja meeting to hold by the end of May a separate referendum in each republic except Slovenia , which had already voted overwhelmingly for independence in a referendum in December 1990 [ see p. 37924 ] . |
| 27 | One evening at the end of May a middle-aged man was walking home from Shaston to the village of Marlott in the Vale of Blackmoor . |
| 28 | Attrition , bribery and plain common sense brought about the fall of Kyrenia a few weeks after Nicholas returned there , and although Carlotta , kept in ignorance , might have been devastated by the news , it held no surprises for the people of Cyprus . |
| 29 | With the death of Tixier-Vignancour a distinctive line of French politicians seems to have come to an end . |
| 30 | A week on Friday the twelfth of November a week on Friday the twelfth of November a big charity dance at the Al Alfreton Leisure Centre . |