Example sentences of "a [noun] [pron] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Had he been in his place on Tuesday , when my right hon. Friend made the opening speech on the Loyal Address , he would have heard him say that the Government would introduce a measure to deal with the young thugs , as my hon. Friend calls them , who indulge in joyriding , a practice which hon. Members in all parts of the House deplore ; those young people will , therefore , be offending . |
| 10 | Not only were they more cheaply remunerated — at the church 's expense , mainly — and far more experienced in the business and technicalities of administration and negotiation , but their clerical status gave them a weight which most laymen could only acquire by aristocratic connections or by ennoblement ; lay chancellors , to be of any consequence , needed political and dynastic links , which could also spell danger for the king . |
| 11 | The smith was a freedman , tall and muscular , a Ch'noze whose facial tattoos indicated that he was of the family of a war-leader . |
| 12 | The movement of artefacts between one place and another is often loosely called ‘ trade ’ , a term which some archaeologists object to as the mechanism by which finds move is not always clear . |
| 13 | The Kingman Committee included traditionalists of an older generation such as Peter Levi , Professor of Poetry at Oxford , and Patrick Kavanagh , a poet whose conservative views were well known from his regular column in the Spectator . |
| 14 | Noting in passing how conclusively the ‘ frigifaire paten ’ rules out any notion of a translation of propertius ( unless it were a translation in the sense of a raucous travesty or ‘ put-down ’ — and indeed some academic latinists did misconceive Pound 's poem in that way ) , some early readers were understandably disconcerted by the inversions of conversational or prosaic word-order — ‘ Happy who ’ , ‘ Stands genius ’ — especially from a poet who some years before had seemed to polemicize for just that rule about word-order which he here flouted . |
| 15 | This political framework filled a continent whose physical characteristics were a long and indented coast , few very high mountains , moderate rainfall and temperature and much fertile land . |
| 16 | The months of frustration had begun to drain his enthusiasm , until the arrest of Terence MacSwiney , MacCurtain 's successor as Lord Mayor , and his death in Brixton Prison after seventy-four days on hunger strike banished at a stroke his returning doubts . |
| 17 | For 715 years Andorra has been a co-principality whose joint sovereigns are the French president and the bishop of the nearby Spanish town of Seu d'Urgell . |
| 18 | For 715 years Andorra has been a co-principality whose joint sovereigns are the French president and the bishop of the nearby Spanish town of Seu d'Urgell . |
| 19 | More a ‘ chip off the old block ’ than a fully-fledged offspring , it is nonetheless a piece which all admirers of VW should certainly hear . |
| 20 | Many of the incidents in your report ( ‘ Pregnant woman stabbed in weekend of terror ’ , 8 February ) would appear to have involved bloodshed and violence of a type which all commentators state is on the increase . |
| 21 | He found that they were suddenly eating pizza and jokingly said oh they might have got him one , so one of them used a police car to take him to the nearest all night pizza place and then he walked back to the airport and waited , having done a deal with the one taxi driver who was there , and he and shared a taxi , arriving home c. 0215 and then proceeded to have a meal of a MASS of pasta and sauce previously made by me , and of a type which both boys always ask day in day out when here or there ! |
| 22 | They said that , in the narrow passageway , a corridor whose opposite walls I can touch comfortably with two hands , I had picked up an aluminium chair , ripped it in half , swung it around and hit a policeman with it so hard that he had to shield his head . |
| 23 | His cast is wonderful , avoiding fussiness in a work whose circus-like twists and turns can so easily become a brawl . |
| 24 | He saw a young woman , slight of figure , with narrow , sloping shoulders and a waist his two hands could easily have spanned , yet full-bosomed , the outline of her breasts , the small mounds of her nipples , thrusting against the sprigged cotton dress which was slightly too tight for her . |
| 25 | It 's a pity her two husbands left her so well off that she has n't had to worry about money . |
| 26 | Note on a plan which internal walls take the structural load . |
| 27 | This is a skill which many pupils bring to the classroom but may have little opportunity to show . |
| 28 | A world set in a universe whose furthest reaches could be explored by any rambler with a pair of nailed boots , a packet of sandwiches , and a one-inch map . |
| 29 | This is the " fire which consumes everything that is dark " ( Fire of Love , prologue , p.47 ) ; at this stage of the treatise it is a metaphor whose full implications have not been developed , but it is the goal of this form of living . |
| 30 | Depression audiences were given a hero who first fights in the World War and then finds it difficult to settle back into a factory job ; this innocent man is then twice sentenced to a chain-gang , the second arrest coming after a period during which he had succeeded as a respectable businessman ; the film ends with him still on the run and having now to depend on crime to keep himself alive . |