Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun prp] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 It was of course , this unit for which the maintenance crews had been flown to the island by the 10 R.A.A.F. Squadron Sunderland a few days earlier .
2 William was in one of his father 's two dwellings on High Street , while Thomas had taken over one of the original Fountain Lane/Cowards Batch houses built by his forefather William a hundred years before .
3 In French West Africa a few stations , like the fine one at Bobo-Diolassu in Senegal , were built in a recognizably local style .
4 Benredjeb gave former WBC champion Hodkinson a few problems before being stopped in the eighth round of a European featherweight title challenge in December 1989 .
5 But that led him to be grilled by detectives for two hours because he unwittingly bought a cabinet stolen from an old lady in North Oxford a few days before .
6 His reckless stance cost Britain a BILLION pounds propping up the pound and may well yet force up interest rates .
7 Ademar had become the undisputed head of the Taillefer family after the death of his brother William a few years earlier .
8 If the sale had gone ahead , Rio Tinto would have developed Wheal Concord , refining its ore in the modern processing plant at Wheal Jane a few kilometres away .
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