Example sentences of "a [adj] drive " in BNC.
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| 1 | A pleasant drive this morning to Monterey through Cannery Row , the colourful setting of John Steinbeck 's novel ; stop at charming Carmel before continuing along Pacific Coast Highway , which affords stunning views of California 's rugged coastline . |
| 2 | They had a pleasant drive down there ( Goodwood was over and London deserted ) and arrived at sunset ; on this occasion the food was not a great success . |
| 3 | In other circumstances , this would have been a pleasant drive . |
| 4 | By this time the day was warm and sunny , giving a chance for the final photographs or video recordings before a pleasant drive home . |
| 5 | The section only requires that the constable or warden should be on a road and a driver entering a road from a private drive in contravention of a constable 's signal under this section could commit an offence . |
| 6 | There is usually a maximum number of dwellings permitted off a private drive on new estates . |
| 7 | The path from the back of the Rectory to the church , though legally a public bridle path , was in fact almost a private drive used by the Rector and occasionally by riders cutting across to the Broad . |
| 8 | A broad drive , bordered with straggling bushes and a few trees , led down to what the map showed as Stoney Piggott 's Road . |
| 9 | As Anastasia has a right-hand drive , overtaking safely can be difficult , and a passenger is an invaluable set of additional eyes . |
| 10 | Some British colleagues thought it was overweight and underpowered , so after trying a right-hand drive 1.8GL version recently , I looked up with some trepidation what I had said about the car on my voting form six months ago . |
| 11 | And the fact that he 's a left-hand drive he 's erm perhaps not got quite the view out of his offside mirror , or our offside mirror it would be to us , that perhaps somebody like yourselves have with er a right-hand drive vehicle . |
| 12 | South Africa is one of the few countries in the world where people drive on the left , so that most motorcars have a right-hand drive . |
| 13 | After 30 minutes , Chiddingfold were level , 'Mill failed to clear their lines from a free-kick and a low drive took a double deflection off Peter Daynes and Peter Boxall to leave 'keeper Peter Liles stranded . |
| 14 | The highly-athletic Lewis bagged him at 197 , stooping and clutching a low drive . |
| 15 | With the second half only four minutes old , Darren Tilly wriggled into the box and squared for Thaws who hit a low drive past Warner . |
| 16 | After just eight minutes a strong drive by centre Pete Manning was stopped short of the line but the ball was quickly moved for scrum-half Watts to score . |
| 17 | Stewart made the mistake of moving too far across his stumps and then trying to flick a straight ball to leg , while Hick went third ball after lunch to a sloppy drive at Kapil Dev and an edge to second slip . |
| 18 | It had been built on a piece of glebe land behind the church , with a narrow drive running up beside the churchyard wall , separating it from the lane , isolating it from other houses . |
| 19 | The cottage stood about two hundred yards back from the road , accessible only by a narrow drive flanked on both sides by stone walls . |
| 20 | A narrow drive ran through a garden that was full of late summer flowers that were still blooming in the warmth of the autumn sun , and large , spreading trees that threw irregular patches of shade . |
| 21 | It is a spacious drive , clearly an upper-class area , with a coach passing pedestrians dressed for a crisp spring day . |
| 22 | From there to Budapest via Györ ( pronounced Dyir ) and Tatabânya , both rather unattractive towns , was a three-hour drive across unbroken plain on a swelteringly hot morning . |
| 23 | If you 're taking a holiday more than a three-hour drive from here , he thought , I 'll have to find a different way of doing this . |
| 24 | McMahon robbed Speed just outside the City penalty area and a sharp counterattack ended with Quinn taking the ball wide of his marker , Whyte , and beating Lukic with a thunderous drive which went in off the underside of the crossbar . |
| 25 | Given the ball by Jamie Redknapp , Walters moved in from the left flank , used his famous double shuffle to find some space and then beat Hooper with a thunderous drive . |
| 26 | In between , however , he did launch a thunderous drive into the roof of the net after 22 minutes when Iain Dowie helped on keeper Tim Flowers 's clearance . |
| 27 | It was on the par 3 sixth hole where Lawrence scored his memorable feat after a 142-yard drive from the tee with a six iron . |
| 28 | A fabulous drive from Knell cannoned back off the Cliftonville upright from fully 25 yards — and the visitors breathed again . |
| 29 | Her body was found in the driver 's seat of her own jeep , a left-hand drive model . |
| 30 | Clock that it 's a left-hand drive , and therefore perhaps give a little bit more consideration to that driver and anticipate the fact that he might come out . |