Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [subord] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The question of ‘ national styles ’ was one which greatly interested Panofsky whether a work of art was specifically Dutch , Italian and so forth . |
| 2 | This awareness of im-pending disaster was exacerbated in the early seventies when a slump occurred in the property market . |
| 3 | The major step forward in understanding the role of chlamydia in oculo-genital infection came in the early sixties when a group of workers in London published several reports connecting eye infection in the newborn baby with the presence of chlamydia in the mother 's genital tract and non-specific urethritis in the father . |
| 4 | The obvious dawned when a method of speeding the development time was spotted . |
| 5 | But the suspicion is that this was little more than a public relations exercise . |
| 6 | Planning and the rational model fell into disrepute in the mid to late 1970s for a number of reasons . |
| 7 | Those in the know say that ‘ vibe ’ was a hippy term that disappeared in Dublin during the punk purges but resurfaced in the late Eighties when a town bathing in the warm glow of U2 's global ascendancy rediscovered its ( hippy ? ) roots . |
| 8 | An institution was any establishment provided by the Council for reception and maintenance of the poor other than a hospital , a children 's home or a separate casual ward . |
| 9 | Traffic was delayed and a short stretch of the A66 eastbound closed when a lorry tipped over in Cleveland yesterday . |
| 10 | The approximations I used to derive the emission from black holes should work well when the black hole has a mass greater than a fraction of a gram . |
| 11 | The pair added a fluent 80 before a mix-up saw the latter depart , although TV replays suggested he was unlucky . |
| 12 | In Krawec ( 1984 ) , a case of careless driving where a death resulted , the Court of Appeal held that the proper basis for sentence is ‘ the quality of driving , the extent to which the appellant on the particular occasion fell below the standard of the reasonably competent driver ’ , to which ‘ the unforeseen and unexpected results of the carelessness ’ are not relevant . |