Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adj] [noun] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | LIFEBOATMEN went into action this afternoon when a raft overturned and broke up during the annual Merseyside Police charity race on the Mersey . |
| 2 | Despite adding digoxin 0.25 mg twice a day and diltiazem 120 mg three times a day , heart rate before discharge still exceeded 120 per min . |
| 3 | LISBON — The British aircraft carrier Ark Royal cut short a five-day goodwill visit here yesterday as controversy flared between US and Portuguese officials over the arrest of 121 American and British sailors during an alleged street-fighting rampage . |
| 4 | Christie 's hold similar auctions twice a year ; the first in January — also to mark Crufts — while their most recent , ‘ Man 's Best Friend ’ , was held in July . |
| 5 | It had made her feel like a dutiful grown-up daughter , visiting a hypochondriac distant relative once a week . |
| 6 | Is Community Economic Development merely a means of shifting the responsibilities for unemployment , deprivation etc. , onto the deprived themselves or is it an acceptance that government economic policy has failed so-called deprived areas and that something new is needed ? |
| 7 | for the night , so , cos the woman at the hotel said er , oh she said want a double room this time not a single |
| 8 | Readers may be surprised to learn that I have never owned anything larger than a 48″ × 18″ × 18″ , though at one point many years ago a 72″ × 18″ ( angle iron , with a divided front like the windscreen in very old Morris Minors ) nearly came to live with me . |
| 9 | referring to adjudication those cases where a client 's entitlement to benefit is in doubt ; |
| 10 | T. D. I was on duty on Lambeth Road junction one day when a feller came up to me and said , ‘ There 's a body floating in the canal . ’ |
| 11 | The Shankill councillor said he wants the crash barriers erected on the Springfield Road close to the scene of an accident last week when a woman and her young child were struck by a stolen car . |
| 12 | The series of events began at the CastleCourt shopping complex at teatime last night when a woman , with her one-year-old child , was putting her shopping in the back of her Ford Granada . |
| 13 | The situation was brought to a head last year when a woman was knocked over by a bus in Prebend Row . |
| 14 | That does n't mean he 's going to draw it , he 's actually drawing on average this guy around a thousand , hundred pounds , one thousand two hundred pounds he 's been thousand pounds , but he 's actually drawing one thousand two . |
| 15 | This means that , if trains took coal from a mine 10 kilometres up a branch line to a power station 100 km away , the model would expect only 10 per cent of the revenue to be lost if the branch line were closed . |
| 16 | It is now time to flesh these remarks out a little more and begin to orient the discussion toward some of the themes we shall be discussing in succeeding chapters . |
| 17 | At this mine two years ago a man was buried and later died after a massive roof fall in an extended cut section . |
| 18 | Vital evidence was found by Eric Langmaid , Valiant 's engineer , on searching Spring Flight next morning when a diary was uncovered . |
| 19 | He was due to be released on conditional bail last night once a surety had been produced . |
| 20 | There is The Times front page of 16 November 1976 , on which I announce that ‘ the Lebanese civil war — or at least that stage of the conflict that cost … almost 40,000 lives — came to an end this morning when a Syrian army , 6,000 strong and accompanied by hundreds of tanks and heavy armoured vehicles , occupied the entire city of Beirut . ’ |
| 21 | The terrace of the château made an admirable grandstand one evening when a heavier raid than usual was in progress . |
| 22 | What we try and do here is show young musicians how a major studio works . |
| 23 | The emphasis on map and compass skills comes in the wake of a near disaster last August when a group of 14 children and their young leader were airlifted to safety after being lost for two days east of Dalwhinnie in the Highlands . |
| 24 | DEFENDING champions Ajax Amsterdam were knocked out of the UEFA Cup last night when a 1–0 home victory was not enough to claw back a 4–2 first leg deficit to French club Auxerre in the quarter-finals . |
| 25 | PATIENTS were stranded in their beds as a torrent of flood water swept through a North Wales hospital last night when a freak rain storm brought havoc to parts of North Wales . |
| 26 | and his wife , who have a grown-up son and daughter , are looking forward to celebrating their Ruby wedding anniversary this year just a month prior to 's retirement . |
| 27 | An inquest has revealed she was killed by a faulty , twenty year old machine just a day after she 'd bought it from a relative . |
| 28 | And she used to go with the district nurses a lot to er to treat different people specially a long time I remember erm a young man erm h he had er I think it was cerebral palsy he had and er he was so fed up with himself he threw paraffin over himself and er set light you know on the top of the stairs and threw himself down . |
| 29 | He added : ‘ We have the spectator Prime Minister -not a power at the heart of Europe but a void at the heart of the British Government . |
| 30 | ‘ I happened to be in Annabel 's nightclub last year when a path was opened for Fergie and a man yelled ‘ hi ’ to me and introduced her highness saying ‘ Hey Tak , bow to the Duchess of York and say hello . ’ |