Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun sg] [adj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One in three of the Netherlands population own a car , and more than 137 billion kilometres are driven every year . |
| 2 | We have been round the BBC buoy many a time , so there is no excuse for hasty words , or mistakes . |
| 3 | She had not imagined Miss Grimes spending six-and-six a week on drink and might well have taken the attitude of the officious social worker . |
| 4 | There was a chap in from Auckland Park half a mile round the bend too . |
| 5 | By making do and searching for essential materials — in a war-torn country — a production unit was created in the University Pathology laboratory and enough crude penicillin was extracted for further essential laboratory experiments and to treat several patients in the Radcliffe Infirmary half a mile away . |
| 6 | Members , who are advised to take walking boots or track shoes because of the likelihood of a muddy site , have been given these directions to get to the centre : from the M5 motorway , exit 17 , take the B4055 , signposted Severn Beach : straight on through Pilning and across the A403 dual carriageway at the traffic lights , then through Redwick and take first left B4064 , signposted Severn Beach half a mile ; through first set of temporary traffic lights ( plant crossing ) , then sharp right at next set of lights ; look for visitors ' centre on left-hand side . |
| 7 | Its fourth issue devoted a page to analysis and views of the smaller , 21 July Vietnam demonstration half a page to strike reports from Manchester and London , two pages to a suppressed BBC script on racism , and almost a page to Malcolm X and an excerpt from American black power advocate Julius Lester 's Look Out Whitey . |