Example sentences of "a [noun] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In they came accompanied by a Sister whose red QA cape clashed horribly with her beautiful auburn hair . |
| 2 | As the clues trickle out and the town 's secrets are slowly unmasked , Lynch luxuriates over the images onscreen , focusing on tiny details a motorcycle reflected in the pupil of Laura 's eye in an old home video ; a cryptic letter ‘ R ’ dug out from underneath her fingernail in a morgue whose fluorescent lights flicker nervously that makes the show such a visual delight . |
| 3 | The little girl to whom Wolfgang had impudently proposed marriage when they were children was now Queen of France ; and tales of her extravagant lifestyle at the glittering court of Versailles were stirring up murmurs of discontent among ordinary Frenchmen , setting alight a fuse which 11 years later was to blow not only France but much of Europe apart . |
| 4 | Erm and I mean you 've obviously got to judge a bit your own capacity |
| 5 | Thus shared use of computer , library and training facilities can be organised regionally or nationwide to a level which individual firms could never hope to attain on their own . |
| 6 | He was speared to death six years later by a Masai whose favourite bullock he insisted on requisitioning for a government destocking programme . |
| 7 | ‘ So I auditioned for them and they auditioned for me and we got to like each other and at that stage we did n't give a shit what each other looked like , we just realised that there was talent there . |
| 8 | I came across a text which Christian Zervos had written in 1931 . |
| 9 | If the central provinces are taken as typical , the neo-populist case is persuasive ; if , on the other hand , the outlying provinces are regarded as blazing a trail which central Russia would follow , it falls to the ground . |
| 10 | Confined to their present role , trade unions would remain a response to the exploitation , actual or hypothetical , of employees by employers — a response which meritocratic benevolence would , if performance matched intention , progressively reduce to a satisfied silence . |
| 11 | ‘ Perhaps you should go into a betting-shop yourself one day . |
| 12 | When the home country joins a CU whose external tariff is identical to that of the home country prior to participation in the union , domestic production falls to OB but domestic consumption rises to OE . |
| 13 | Frazer also mentions a sanctuary whose mephitic area contains only ‘ the eunuch priests of the Great Mother Goddess ’ , who have ‘ a look on their faces as if they were being choked ’ . |
| 14 | ( Gav looked defensive for all of a micro-second , a concession my lacerated self-respect fell upon with all the pathetic desperation of a humiliatingly defeated politician pointing out that well , things can only get better . ) |
| 15 | It is perhaps reassuring that they at least recognised utter nonsense when they wrote it , if disappointing that this was essentially a confession of failure by a Ministry whose central function had been to coordinate energy policy . |
| 16 | The explanation of this furrow was discovered in the 1960s and restored the reputation of a German geophysicist who proposed a hypothesis which most people disregarded . |
| 17 | Fort Marcy , who had won the race in 1967 , was third favourite in a field whose eight runners bore witness to a truly international contest . |
| 18 | A stile over a stone wall led into a field whose furthest wall consisted of the grey squat towers of the castle . |
| 19 | Wood engraving was a technique which most artists could not manage , so a craftsman was needed to translate the drawing ; on the other hand , an artist might be expected to do his picture on the stone , from which it would be directly printed . |
| 20 | Seeking to print the problem of a correspondent whose small son had , " taken a little girl behind the settee and pulled her knickers down " , she found her sub-editor had deleted the latter part of the quoted sentence and substituted , " taken off part of her underclothes " . |
| 21 | She gave her daughter a look which combined challenge and malice and then left them . |
| 22 | When a thinker unravels previously unnoticed implications of a familiar idea , one seems stupid to have missed them oneself ; but anyone who discerns a similarity which runs athwart the current categories , a poet by metaphor or a scientist by a new model or paradigm , can strike us with astonishment and awe , as a genius whose spontaneous flash illuminates what no logical operation within the frame of accepted concepts could have disclosed . |
| 23 | Since late fetal death is the death of a fetus whose gestational age is 28 or more completed weeks , it may practically be taken as equivalent to a still birth . |
| 24 | What Katherine found daunting was the ambience within : the large unsmiling woman who sat at a table in the entrance hall and stiffly handed her two sheets of paper , one with a map of the school which showed her own room clearly marked , the other with a long list of instructions printed in four languages , French , German , Italian and English ; a smell which mingled disinfectant and scouring soap ; the difference in temperature between the stifling main body of the school and the chill of the outlying wing where she found her room . |
| 25 | The doyen of the ex-Vietnam set is Tim Page , a photographer whose frequent brushes with death are the stuff of legend among the press corps . |
| 26 | And a photographer whose photographic equipment was lost in the city centre last week has appealed for anyone with information on the missing items to contact the police . |
| 27 | He had been local organiser for the National Union of Tailors and Garment Workers but in 1952 he led a breakaway which two years later merged with the ITGWU . |
| 28 | It is the characteristic chemical products of such enzymes that give a cell its individual shape and behaviour . |
| 29 | ‘ I bought Picnic because Nick Skelton told me to , he knew I did n't have the biggest cash flow in the world , ’ Steven Smith said of a horse whose awkward streak would have been reflected in the price . |
| 30 | Popham Down was a 66–1 outsider for the 1967 Grand National — a decent price for a horse who three years previously had won the Scottish equivalent at Bogside — but his backers did not enjoy much of a run for their money . |