Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adv] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then Ramsey said , ‘ I think you will find Lincoln rather a quiet place . ’ |
| 2 | Richard Cunningham , a botanist who had been trained at Kew by William Townsend Aiton , elder brother of John Townsend Aiton ( who had trained Gould as a gardener at Windsor Castle ) had been murdered by Aborigines only a short time before Gould 's departure while collecting on an expedition along the Murray River . |
| 3 | Probably they owe their exceptional size to the fact that Marlborough was a great sheep market from the earliest times , and Thame possibly a great cattle-market . |
| 4 | At the outset of World War Two , with Hungary still a neutral country , Peto travelled to London on business . |
| 5 | Both belong to the Caprice club which skates at sports centres at Middlesbrough , Eston and Shildon just a quick flip from their homes . |
| 6 | The Falangists were also displeased , partly because they were opposed to the principle of monarchy , and partly because , in stating specifically that the ideological basis of the regime would be provided by an amalgam of political forces , the Law of Succession choked off their hopes of making Spain exclusively a Falangist state . |
| 7 | Murad II was about to go on campaign , however , and in his haste gave Hocazade only a provincial kadilik , that of Kestel near Bursa . |
| 8 | With Main Street already a raving success and Babbitt about to hit the bookstores , de Kruif was in awe of the great novelist . |
| 9 | Yet the Steward and Moray were only youths and the Constable not much more , and inexperienced , with Sir Archibald scarcely a renowned warrior . |
| 10 | Joy come here for Mr Scott when Fwancis just a little boy . ’ |
| 11 | The arrival of the police to her Well Street home a short time later started the nightmare which continues for Joan even today . |
| 12 | This is an exceptional band — David Narcizo on drums , Leslie Langston on bass , Tanya Donelly a talented singer-songwriter in her own right — but the star here is Kristin Hersh . |
| 13 | A scarlet neon sign , Susan 's Sauna , subject of many nudge-nudge jokes at work , but to Vic merely a useful landmark , glows above a dingy shop-front . |
| 14 | There was in the UK only a moderate amount of vocational training and relatively few people with formal technical qualifications . |
| 15 | Grimsby always a hard team to beat are going well again … |
| 16 | I want , I think , I , I , I. Never a real thought for anyone else . |
| 17 | New Romance was the bridge between gothpunk and 1980s pop ; it was a mixture of dressing up , fancying a change from punk austerity , going dancing and liking David Bowie perhaps a little bit too much . |
| 18 | The cat was halfway up the tree , and it took Virginia quite a long time to reach it . |
| 19 | Is he aware that from Brunswick in Germany tomorrow a nuclear waste consignment will be arriving at Dover ? |
| 20 | Of the offences uncovered by the BCS only a tiny proportion were crimes of serious violence , and very few were serious property offences such as burglary or car theft . |
| 21 | In Britain only a small start has so far been made . |
| 22 | Enter his wife , and Oswald Moseley still a Labour man who laid into the Tory government before 1,500 people in Shildon Hippodrome . |
| 23 | King Bob hardly a true Brit |
| 24 | In Shropshire too a similar picture has been revealed by Mr Rowley . |
| 25 | I been to New York only a short while back . ’ |
| 26 | The Symon Unconformity has been picked at the base of a thin coal sequence which might correspond to the Phillipsii Chronozone of the upper Westphalian C. Thus a limited gas potential can be attributed to the base of the Barren Measures sequence . |
| 27 | So I flipped some cattle from the farm of and right between Egilsay and Rousay just a short distance , oh maybe a quarter of a miles or thereby , and oh did the shipping perfectly well and and went home and by the time I got home the message had arrived back before me that the there were two old cattle among the younger ones that the fellow had put there just to feed up and the last we saw of them was going up over the island and that was okay we thought everything was okay . |
| 28 | In Essex recently a main contractor was fined £1,500 and a roofing contractor £3,000 after an incident in which roof edge protection had not been provided . |
| 29 | He held for Alice altogether a great fascination , but she steadfastly refused offers to go and see him in the nursery , and ignored him the few occasions he was on show . |
| 30 | The place had certainly been nearer Nunes than Hadleigh , three miles nearer , though of course Hadleigh was a town and Nunes merely a small village . |