Example sentences of "[noun prp] [coord] [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | felt too tired to drive me on to ESF 's house , so I got there by bus , or rather by two buses ( an easy change ) , the first starting from about a hundred yards from and the other stopping just behind the Zoo by Primrose Hill and only a few minutes from Eduardo . |
| 2 | Situated close to Harrods and just a few doors along Beauchamp Place from Kanga , the dress shop owned by Prince Charles 's confidante Lady Tryon , San Lorenzo has been at the centre of much that has happened around Diana this year . |
| 3 | I thought I was getting David and maybe a few personal possessions , but when he actually turned up , he was with a friend in a very large van , and this rather ethereal , thin , slightly spotty figure that was David in those days , dressed in extremely scruffy clothes , emerged from this van carrying a twelve string guitar , which it transpired was a present from Pete Townshend . |
| 4 | We have been paying them in England since 21 February and virtually a third of claims have been met . |
| 5 | One has the odd title of the Boulevard du B.A.B. , revealing that it has taken over the line of the old tramway , the Bayonne-Anglet-Biarritz ; the other , further back from the coast , is the N10 , once the crowded highway along which French motorists hurtled into northern Spain but now a gentler place to drive , the motorway having supplanted it . |
| 6 | Disappointment for Oxford , joy for Swindon and perhaps a few more converts to Rugby League . |
| 7 | It was Annabel 's friendship and her acceptance by the Kirkley family that really kept her in the House of Christ the Saviour , where there was no laughter except in the kitchen with Sister Cecilia and sometimes a covert smile from Sister Aloysius . |
| 8 | If it is , soil maps can be obtained from the London Map Centre or Sanfords and possibly a detailed ‘ narrative ’ of the various soil types , their qualities , and their shortcomings . |
| 9 | In 1949 Italy became a member of NATO and later a founding member of the EEC whose charter was established in the Treaty of Rome . |
| 10 | A list of 1797 provides the information that the 25 per cent of London 's banks who did not act as agent to even one country bank included most of those in the West End but only a few of the older of the Lombard Street group . |
| 11 | You can get to the top by cable-car from La Mongie or up a rough but bearable toll-road from the Col du Tourmalet , which is open only in July , August and September . |
| 12 | What is certain is that the pre-1989 Austin/MG range , all Skodas , Yugos and quite a few Lancias do not , which does not help already depressed resale prices . |
| 13 | The wine villages of Alsace also sound decidedly Germanic with names such as Marlenheim , Turckheim , Riquewihr and Ammerschwihr and here a curious German dialect is often spoken . |
| 14 | We 're talking just under two hundred in Denmark and just under three hundred in Norway it may be cost-effective for us to do it ourselves with initial distribution from Stansted and maybe a local person doing any new distributions but I think in all honesty it will be as cheap for us |
| 15 | Opinions range from the circle of Mantegna to Antonio Lombardo or even a Milanese follower of Leonardo , but the absence of comparative material makes it difficult to pin the bronze down . |
| 16 | How do you feel about the possible threat of intervention from from Europe or even a High Court action ? |
| 17 | ‘ Look , Tel , here in the City it 's a very nice status symbol and a fine example of German craftsmanship , but in Brixton its a Bob and therefore a legitimate target for any kid big enough to keep a tyre wrench in his nappy . ’ |
| 18 | Over the same period , over 400,000 immigrants have come to Britain and over a million people have emigrated to other countries . |
| 19 | Gas accounted for some 3% of energy consumption in 1983 and the first energy plan projected increasing this through more LNG imports from Libya and Algeria and possibly a direct pipeline link with Algeria — the Segamo project . |
| 20 | The European Community , for its part , wants to extend its existing aid agreements to cover Libya , Iran and even a postwar Iraq . |
| 21 | As two independent companies , now of roughly equivalent size , they felt both a spiritual bond against the major companies such as EMI and Warners and also a natural sense of rivalry . |
| 22 | Initially , there was a close range try from Tony Keegan and then a superb handling move involving sleight of hand from Martin Smith — an Old Edwardian who bears a striking resemblance to the Leicester maestro , Les Cusworth - resulted in Rupert Moon plunging over . |
| 23 | With the likes of Martin Amis ( still the leader of the pack — a fine first of The Rachel Papers could now fetch £500 ) , Julian Barnes , Dick Francis , Wendy Cope , John Mortimer , Kazuo Ishiguro , Tom Stoppard and quite a few more , one has to be fairly quick off the mark ; with others , a more leisurely approach is adopted , either because the first edition tends to hang about , or — in such cases as le Carré and Forsyth — when the initial print runs are so huge as to discourage panic buying . |
| 24 | Bismarck soothed the anxieties of the smaller states with a Genscher-like formula about wanting a German Prussia and not a Prussian Germany although , of course , the latter was the result . |
| 25 | The journey to Liverpool Street station was just a trundle around the Northern Line from Camden to Moorgate and then a short walk , and I accomplished it in good time . |
| 26 | His best friend Lawrence Macmillan , 24 , also now in London and also a two-time EA vet , agrees . |
| 27 | the seams , however , neat , will be improved by a deliberate decoration , for example , some matching bought braid , a long plait which could end in a tassel at the floor end , or a further narrow piece of matching Fair Isle or even a different woven pattern , stitched on to conceal the join . |
| 28 | HARRY CONNICK Junior at 25 ( right ) has been hailed as the new Frank Sinatra and tomorrow a packed Liverpool Empire will sit entranced , no doubt , listening to the man and his jazzy style of laid back music . |
| 29 | HARRY CONNICK Junior at 25 ( right ) has been hailed as the new Frank Sinatra and tomorrow a packed Liverpool Empire will sit entranced , no doubt , listening to the man and his jazzy style of laid back music . |
| 30 | The 387ft-tall Commercial Union tower , designed by architects GMW and now a shattered shell , was widely praised at the time of its completion in the late 1960s as a successful adaptation of the modern American commercial style , fronting a Manhatten style piazza . |