Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have always spoken and used European languages a lot and my wife Annie is the same . |
| 2 | I should n't bother I should just carry on chucking a bit on here and there same as everybody does , I ca n't see many buggers go for that bloody eight pound a bag . |
| 3 | In normal character-printing mode a program sends instructions to the printer to print a character string in a form such as PRINT ‘ ( message ) ’ and the printer hardware selects the appropriate dot patterns for each of the characters in the character string ‘ ( message ) ’ . |
| 4 | I says yo you go out to your flipping eleven pound a week |
| 5 | Adenauer 's other achievement was to build up a personal relationship with Charles de Gaulle which made possible a Franco-German rapprochement of real depth and made the European Economic Community a reality . |
| 6 | The usual fifty pence a strip ? |
| 7 | He has a share in a four-seat Piper based at Teesside Airport and , as he prepares to retire on March 31 , he is looking forward to putting in more than his usual 70 hours a year flying time . |
| 8 | Regional French dishes a speciality . |
| 9 | Might I ask the right hon. Gentleman a question about which I gave notice to his office earlier this morning ? |
| 10 | Might it not also be possible to find the right hon. Gentleman a researcher who can at least draft a simple apology ? |
| 11 | About eight or 10 chief constables are not asking for an increase in police forces for next year — — and I shall be glad to send the right hon. Gentleman a list . |
| 12 | The University has been allocated from the European Social Fund a number of training grants tenable on the following full-time postgraduate courses : |
| 13 | The shots on show at the Isabelle Bongard in celebration of the ‘ Mois de la Photo ’ are remarkable for their elusive light effects a testimony to Mercardier 's patience . |
| 14 | The glossy commercial features a killer whale … several seal lions and a voice-over by Angus Deayton , but some people are sceptical whether it 's the way to create the right impression |
| 15 | Juliet visualised him standing in Sister 's office , his soft brown eyes concerned and tender , his curly brown hair a bit ruffled , a smile at the corner of his mouth . |
| 16 | But as I argued earlier , there is in every social scientific theory a component which Schumpeter called ‘ vision ’ , but which could also be described as the background ideas in a paradigm , that is influential in determining the focus of attention and the choice of central issues for analysis . |
| 17 | From at least 1805 , therefore , there existed within the French foreign ministry a bureau which collected details of foreign armies and navies and their movements . |
| 18 | Most people visit the town to ride on the Pichi Richi Railway a service operated through the Flinders Ranges by a veteran steam locomotive known as the " Coffee Pot " . |
| 19 | The top five men and women will win vouchers , the top 100 finishers a T-shirt and everyone receives a commemorative mug and certificate . |
| 20 | It also cost the German central bank a guarantee of a fixed future rate of conversion of dollars into marks . |
| 21 | the wife , the husband and the children because they had n't got the continual visual simulation a picture paints a thousand words , this is where we have O H P . |
| 22 | ‘ Like I said — ’ I went into my story — ‘ I was supplementing my meagre twenty-five dollars a day plus expenses by working nights for the Fuller Brush Company . |
| 23 | Why ca n't Scottish Nuclear pay a bonus when our performance was even better ? |
| 24 | Can you spot the old Irish jigs a mile off ? |
| 25 | Following the imposition of rigorous communist policies a coup in December 1979 supported by the entry of about 80,000 Soviet troops installed a more moderate communist regime . |
| 26 | The new League kicked off with a 25 per cent drop in attendances compared with the old First Division a year ago . |
| 27 | The premiss of afrancesado policy was , therefore , the cessation of the patriot rebellion which made French military intervention a necessity : they consistently clung to the idea of a negotiated settlement as a way out of their difficulties . |
| 28 | Incidentally , boat rental arrangements in this tour package are inclusive of a storm-damage waiver and a very thoughtful 100 free nautical miles a day . |
| 29 | Fran had only been to the luxurious floating restaurant a couple of times , but knew from experience that the food was excellent and very expensive . |
| 30 | Where there are concurrent criminal proceedings a parent may seek an adjournment of the care proceedings until the criminal process is completed . |