Example sentences of "[noun prp] in a [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maleeva-Fragniere captured the first set after holding off Graf in a marathon eighth game that went to 11 deuces . |
| 2 | Crawford jumped at the chance to star alongside Barbra Streisand and Walter Matthau in a Hollywood musical , having just turned down 10,000 to appear in a British film . |
| 3 | President Carlos Salinas de Gortari visited seven United States states and Canadian cities on April 7-12 , in a tour aimed at allaying doubts over the inclusion of Mexico in a North American free trade bloc . |
| 4 | The mood was caught by Welford Beaton in a November 1930 report : |
| 5 | The North Down side are due to play Cliftonville at the Oval on April 2 — the same night Northern Ireland 's schoolboys face England in a schoolboy international at Castlereagh Park . |
| 6 | Details of the rises , expected to raise an extra £278 million for the NHS , were revealed by Health Minister Dr Brian Mawhinney in a Commons written reply . |
| 7 | He played there for Scotland in a youth international against England . |
| 8 | This land of little more than 2m people and 24m sheep , enclosed between China and Russia in an area three times the size of France , had already appealed for emergency food aid to get it through the winter when the worst snows for 50 years hit three provinces in the south-west . |
| 9 | The four-year-old was murdered in the crowded shopping centre of Warrington in a blast that injured scores of people including other children . |
| 10 | There was support notably from hard-line leaders in Iran for the proposition that opposing US forces was akin to a holy war , a view given prominence when it was articulated by the Iranian spiritual leader Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei in a Sept. 12 broadcast , although Iran continued to affirm its backing for UN sanctions . |
| 11 | The result is a broad comedy directed at a fast lick by Murray on a marvellously cluttered set by Simon Higlett in a Manchester Royal Exchange production . |
| 12 | LONE yachtsman Tom McNally launched his mission yesterday to sail the Atlantic in a boat six inches shorter than him . |
| 13 | The Liverpool and Kirkby Knowsley teams plan to meet at Penny Lane in a Merseyside Under-15 Cup game , seven days before the next round of the national trophy . |
| 14 | But that 's precisely the achievement of former children 's television presenter Peter Duncan in a brand new stage version of Erik the Viking starting its UK tour at the Wyvern Theatre in Swindon . |
| 15 | Bonds issued and/or traded in the UK in a currency other than sterling are known as eurobonds . |
| 16 | Zachary Wong of the liberal political group Meeting Point was returned to the Legco in a Dec. 8 by-election . |
| 17 | The battling Daly turned in a power packed display to snatch the game against Myles Greenfield of Dunbarton in a PGL final thriller . |
| 18 | At one time for example she was reported to have been racing around Melbourne in a brand new pink sports car . |
| 19 | He settled in Denver where he worked with Yank Lawson and Bob Haggart in a group that later became known as the World 's Greatest Jazz Band . |
| 20 | Kitson in £1.3m move FOOTBALL : Derby County yesterday smashed their transfer record when they signed Easington-born striker Paul Kitson in a £1.3 million deal from promotion rivals Leicester . |
| 21 | Ernest Hemingway is reputed to have considered the descent from Monte in a toboggan one of the strongest emotions of his life . |
| 22 | They are travelling to play Oulton in a friendly this Saturday to get acclimatised and each player has been given a personal training programme to get ready for three games in three days . |
| 23 | A pity about that Dutchman : their union had taken place in a narrow cabin on the North Sea , crossing from The Hague to Harwich in a Force Nine gale , and they had omitted to exchange names and addresses . |
| 24 | I hope you can join us all at the same time next Saturday ; United at home to Barnsley in a division two match . |
| 25 | The new development comprises 54 two and three-bedroom family homes , designed and built by Wimpey in a £1.8 million contract for the United Kingdom Housing Trust . |
| 26 | ARSENAL have made the first move towards landing Everton 's Martin Keown in a £2.5 million deal . |
| 27 | Revamped Bristol Rovers include central defender Andy Tillson and rugged midfield man Gary Waddock , bought from QPR in a £470,000 joint deal 48 hours ago , against Wolves . |
| 28 | February 4 , 1984 was the date when then Town boss Bobby Ferguson sent Dozzell on as a substitute for the injured Eric Gates in a home First Division game with Coventry City at Portman Road . |
| 29 | I remembered the honesty of Masquerade in a force five wind , and then I thought of all the good days to come ; days of Ellen and me and Masquerade in far seas , and I must have smiled , for Robin-Anne nodded approval of whatever silent answer I was framing to her question . |
| 30 | Ocsian Williams of Arfon battled through three tough sets before going out to George Wilshier of Manchester in a marathon second round encounter in the mens ' event . |