Example sentences of "[noun sg] a [adj] [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the gateway to the dock a black sports saloon had passed across a junction , unnerving her , but she doubted it had been Rory 's . |
| 2 | We now have in place a new estates officer for Cherry Hinton er can I ask that that there is a special report brought to the housing committee er before the summer recess on the possible solutions to the problems that have been identified ? |
| 3 | While Microsoft Corp rolled out Bill Gates to demo a slick-looking Windows NT , Univel Inc admitted that UnixWare is not as elegant as Windows and probably wo n't even come near Windows NT in look and feel . |
| 4 | Another enchanting piece in the same book , ‘ Chiome d'oro ’ , is described as a ‘ Canzonetta a due voci Concertata da duoi Violini Chitarone o Spinetta ’ ; the voices duet ( mostly in parallel thirds ) over an ostinato bass , each of their five strophes being introduced by one of three ritornelli for the two violini over the same ostinato . |
| 5 | At the 1836 festival a disguised police officer saw ‘ … two men , with an effigy of a man stuffed and coloured red , holding it in front of the bull . |
| 6 | Officials were forced to step in to calm the pair as they rowed on board a British Airways flight to a summit in Ottowa , Canada . |
| 7 | Perhaps one day an inspired current-affairs teacher will ask them about the long-term impact of the 1988 Education Act . |
| 8 | For £25 , £1 more than the new charge for MoT test for cars , a qualified driving instructor will give the driver an hour-long skills appraisal which will include at least 45 minutes of driving . |
| 9 | Somehow among the chaos of coffee cups and a snowstorm of phonecalls and paper , she and Francis and a cheerfully unreliable string of volunteers threw together every month a gay arts magazine . |
| 10 | are reasonably senior , and the great thing is once they do you one favour that 's it , and it 's better because rather than have , for example a junior police officer , who has no idea of covering his tracks |
| 11 | rings o movement an even lines o aert : |
| 12 | Moxon informed the embassy by radio , and halfway up Edgware Road a Metropolitan Police Rover closed up behind them . |
| 13 | Heaven knows whether he has it in him to take on the legacy of Melvyn Bragg in the 21st century , but he will give Artrageous ! the hip image a youth-oriented arts programme needs to convey . |
| 14 | In the press-box a tired sports correspondent finished his report with the words ‘ Attendance , 6,000 ’ . |
| 15 | I think the number of er er ex I think the fact that this is merely an exception a major exceptions policy that deals only with exceptional cases and the the Humberside structure plan refers to possibly once or twice over a planned period erm might er indicate it 's not intended to open to subvert section fifty four A. |
| 16 | At the same time a determined police search for Terry Place began in the area down by the river . |
| 17 | It 's the first time a leading drinks company has lent its weight to such a campaign . |