Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun pl] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Penny Peysner , senior social worker at Bassetlaw Hospital , told me that the district had planned to open a special day centre for elderly mentally ill people at a social services residential home , using the mental illness specific grant . |
| 2 | EVIDENCE was growing last night of a cover-up over a British Airways jumbo jet captured in Kuwait by Iraqi troops as the Gulf War erupted . |
| 3 | Take advantage of this brand new collecting opportunity and you could soon be aboard a British Airways scheduled flight to any one of 140 international destinations . |
| 4 | The princess flew back to Britain as an ordinary passenger aboard a British Airways scheduled flight . |
| 5 | Comdisco had been playing in a high stakes financial game known as risk arbitrage , hoping to get ahead of the rapid run-up in a company 's share price when it became the object of a takeover ( or the reversal of fortune that occurred when a takeover fell apart ) . |
| 6 | A 1920s shop experience in a fully-furnished Valleys general store of the period |
| 7 | All were powered by GE engines and were to formate on a Lear Jet flown by H Clay Lacey for a public relations photographic sortie over the Mojave Desert . |
| 8 | In the SAS he undoubtedly learned rather more than that , including the survival skills which he has had to draw on so often in expeditions which have not always gone according to plan.He has been a full-time explorer since he was 25 and ‘ like everybody else , in every career , you do n't retire until you have to , ’ he says.His CV reads like a non-stop Boys Own adventure — shooting up the White Nile in a hovercraft , parachuting on to the Jostedalsbre Glacier and negotiating more than 4,000 miles of Canadian and Alaskan rivers.Between 1979 and 1982 , he circumnavigated the world on the Transglobe Expedition , becoming one of the first men ever to reach both the North and South Poles overland . |
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| 10 | Gourlay came through from her semi-final clash against Margaret Johnston , the twice previous winner , when she clinched the deciding set 7–0 and Mary Price , from Desborough , had a straight sets semi-final victory over Welsh representative Sylvia Froud . |
| 11 | He must be able to decide rightly whether a native chiefs first offence should be punished , or whether patience should be exercised until he has offended ten , nay twenty times — either course may be the right one , it depends entirely on circumstances . |
| 12 | I actually believe that one of the areas where the Catholic Church did a lot of damage , is that because of a celibate clergy this obsession with sex has exaggerated it too much . |
| 13 | What wattage is a traditional 24″ fluorescent tube for aquaria ? |
| 14 | We know he will enjoy watching the sports programmes despite the fact that Bristol Rovers football team have not quite made it on to Sky TV yet ! is well know for being a keen supporter of Bristol Rovers , a fact which did not go unrecognised by who presented him with a beautiful jugglers top hat in his favourite team 's colours . |
| 15 | On a quartz-feldspar-rock fragments triangular diagram these more susceptible minerals plot together in one corner . |
| 16 | The government has also stepped more boldly into the contentious territory of clinical standards by requiring every doctor to participate in medical audit and , at the instigation of the Royal Colleges , setting up a Clinical Standards Advisory Group at central level . |
| 17 | ISSUED HERE as a double 12″ white label pack , so it 's impossible to say which mixes will actually end up on the street . |
| 18 | to establish a Benevolent Fund and a Medical Benefits Provident Fund and other such Funds either contributory or non-contributory , to be administered by the Executive Committee in accordance with bye-laws made for that purpose ; |
| 19 | An excited fan planted a kiss on the Duchess of York 's cheek yesterday as she practised for her new role as a United Nations roving ambassador . |
| 20 | It has all the joy of being in a United Nations peace-keeping force . |
| 21 | PLAYERS from England , Scotland , Ireland , Norway , Denmark , Sweden , Iceland and Spain were on duty in the 111th north London derby — at times they needed a United Nations peace-keeping force to maintain law and order . |
| 22 | To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what discussions he plans to have with the United Nations Secretary General about a United Nations peace-keeping force in Yugoslavia . |
| 23 | Two hundred and fifty British troops are preparing to fly to war-torn Croatia as part of a United Nations peace-keeping force . |
| 24 | A few governments say that they own weapons to provide a part of a United Nations peace-keeping force . |
| 25 | After his release and recovery he joined a United Nations medical programme for Third World nations , and reached Celebes in the early 1950s as part of a team of sixteen other doctors and nurses . |
| 26 | A United Nations military inspection team has left Iraq after they were denied the use of cameras to monitor missile sites . |
| 27 | ELITE United States troops backed up by a dozen helicopters stormed a building in south Mogadishu today and arrested 17 Somali militiamen after a brief gunfight , a United Nations military spokesman said . |
| 28 | and it 's just a take on , so I watched what I said , but erm , we mentioned it , we , we did n't see very much about it we just said it 's coming up we 'll have , we 'll let you in for a full details next month so |
| 29 | The current models use a General Motors automatic transmission ( with R-R 's own finger-light electric selector ) and German-made electronic engine management systems and anti-lock braking . |
| 30 | If neither of the two previous options appeal , or your new company will not accept your old pension value into its own scheme , you can go independent and have the transfer value of your pension invested by a life company into a personal scheme — normally either a Section 32 buy-out or a protected rights personal pension . |