Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [subord] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Through her Cambridge years and long afterwards she simply accepted them as evidence of Esther 's eccentricity and originality — and it was not , after all , difficult to be original in a period when most female undergraduates , fresh from school and far from well off , ventured little further in terms of home-making than a cushion or a chianti bottle , a photograph or a teddy bear , a gingham frill round an orange box or a postcard collage on the wall , a modernist paper mobile or an arrangement of seaside pebbles . |
| 2 | But his ruthlessness made him as much a figure of fun as a minister of fear , and whatever his future holds , Souness will always be pursued by a sense of resentment in Scotland . |
| 3 | Actress Jeananne Crowley on Carlton Television boss Michael Green I CHEERED like mad when a couple of papers got clobbered with damages of half a million pounds . |
| 4 | Although about an inch less wide than a Guild F-50 or a Gibson J-200 , this is still definitely not an instrument for players of the short-armed variety . |
| 5 | Bosnich made three appearance for United before a work permit problem forced him to return home to Australia . |
| 6 | But music types in Manhattan and Hollywood say that they can see a country act as plain as a barn door . |
| 7 | Why this should make a critical difference is far from clear since a company can create a fixed charge of accounts receivable or a mortgage of future property . |
| 8 | Darren Grannell , 28 , of Lord Street , Latchford , Warrington and Lee Day , 22 , formerly of Warrington but now living in Weston-super-Mare , denied assaulting PC Roy Aspinall but changed their pleas to guilty after a trial had started . |
| 9 | It just shows that there 's more to demo-making than a bunch of programmers having fun . |
| 10 | A DC changes state to REJECTED if a user has rejected the DC using option 2.2.0 but only when the last interested user has assessed the DC . |
| 11 | Nothing could be more provocative to Tolkien than a word without a referent ( emnet , wodwos , Gandálfr , ent ) , except perhaps an ancient poem written off by modern scholars as hopelessly irrational . |
| 12 | In CD 's day railway signal-lights were normally kept at green , but changed to red when a train was actually in a station or about to enter it . |