Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun] [noun] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A house that cost £5500 to build typically cost a council tenant £3.18 a week , a mortgage payer £6.37 a week and someone with a private landlord £10.09 a week . |
| 2 | Before the site became part of a private country park the building was lived in by a local tenant farmer named Mrs Hollington . |
| 3 | On detecting a possible interference condition the primary silhouettes are echoed into the boxes for the designer to complete the search by visual examination . |
| 4 | Every time we go I have to wait for ages in the cold hospital wearing a scratchy towelling robe the colour of sick and drinking black coffee . |
| 5 | In the ornate portal of a mansion-block department store an old man with buttoned overcoat and brown burnished shoes stood talking at the rain . |
| 6 | At a low operating speed the phase current waveforms for a stepping motor are almost rectangular . |
| 7 | Conversely with a low gear ratio the effective load inertia is high and the motor accelerates slowly , but has to reach a relatively low stepping rate to move the load at a satisfactory speed . |
| 8 | It has : a strong rhythm repetition a sense of humour Try to bring all these out as you read it . |
| 9 | A consequence of some forms of harmonic distortion is that a strong signal modules a weak one . |
| 10 | We can assume that in a normal working session a lexicographer will spend a relatively long time thinking as opposed to manipulating text . |
| 11 | We have heard the ultimate nonsense from the hon. Member for Cynon Valley ( Mrs. Clwyd ) , who has said that if a Labour Government order a fourth boat they will not put any warheads on it . |
| 12 | Late one night she forgets to turn off the gas after heating up some left-over mutton vindaloo , and a loud explosion rocks the mansion as Tracey 's beautiful designer kitchen goes up in smoke . |
| 13 | A shattered drain half-filled the hole with lumpy , scummy water . |
| 14 | With the help of computer games and a mobile information centre the staff here are well equippped to change attitudes . |
| 15 | The Bag Lady , there 's a strange cardboard city the length of the Strand , with people extending or begging hand . |
| 16 | Having recognized the urgency of the problem — that , as we have seen , there is no pre-service teacher-training requirement for new entrants to the colleges and under half of the existing teaching force have a professional teaching qualification the Report made six main recommendations . |
| 17 | Until that fatal weakness is overcome , I fear that the understandably-depressed Dr David Marsh will continue to find chairmanship of a professional football club a far less rewarding pastime than captaincy of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club . |
| 18 | Also in ITV 's winter package of programmes announced yesterday include Jilly Cooper 's new lust-in-the-saddle mini-series Riders and a controversial documentary series The Good Sex Guide hosted by Making Out star Margi Clarke . |
| 19 | The story that one of them must have told a Daily Sketch reporter a year later was that sitting in a West End club and finding the cold unbearable they had decided to go somewhere warm . |
| 20 | In a few days time the nation will again pay lip service to the thousands killed in action during the Second World War , while preparing to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Battle of the Atlantic with a spectacular visit from a NATO fleet in May . |
| 21 | In a few years time the two German states could be virtually a single economic area . |
| 22 | In a few years time the fundholders may have very little room to manoeuvre but will still have to cope with the burden of administering their fund . |
| 23 | In the long run I think it will be a loss to the Government , for the very simple reason we have got to meet this competition and if we do n't in a few years time the housewife possibly will be paying a lot more money for the produce . |
| 24 | I , I shall be seeing the you know in a few weeks time the daughter she 's a , she 's er Rene that was erm Eddie , who were very big pals of mine and we go to the anniversary lunch together so we 're all over eighty but erm you could n't the bread shop , was another confectioner 's shop , and then turning round the corner you come to another shop , up two steps , which was and that was another type of confectionery and shop , then you get as far as the corn and seed people er they used to have a shop in Street as well , and then before the First World War there was the butchers and they sold foreign meat . |
| 25 | ‘ A bleedin' gymnasium wiv a ring an' a punch bag , an' lockers , an' a washin' place , an' … ’ |
| 26 | Is a heaving scrum of pushchairs , children , mums , grandads and dogs in the cloakroom at five to nine on a wet Monday morning the best way to start the week ? |
| 27 | They have cottoned on to the fact that the dealers come up with a different brand name every week . |
| 28 | There will be a different support band every night and everyone attending the London Town And Country Club gig will get a free 7-inch single — featuring an as yet undecided live track from the Anytime , Anyplace , Anywhere tour and a track from the new LP , due for release in early 1991 . |
| 29 | There will be a different support band every night and everyone attending the London Town And Country Club gig will get a free 7-inch single — featuring an as yet undecided live track from the Anytime , Anyplace , Anywhere tour and a track from the new LP , due for release in early 1991 . |
| 30 | Mam chose instead to take us to a different hill station every year so that we travelled the length and breadth of India , from Kashmir in the far north-west , four days ' journey by train and road , to the Nilgiri near Simla , and Darjeeling . |