Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There 's one person you meet sitting in a restaurant having a chat , and then that person will go and put on a see-through lurex all-in-one bodice and stand in front of 10,000 people and make a complete cunt of himself and not think about it . |
| 2 | A 17th century six-storey building with interesting painted ceiling and wall decoration . |
| 3 | I hired my somewhat reluctant steed from the East Farm in Abbotsbury , a working stud farm with the good fortune of having a 17th century thatched cottage as its farmhouse . |
| 4 | Date , time , Sao 2 , plethysmographic waveforms , skin po 2 , breathing movements , and electrocardiograms were continuously monitored and recorded on to a 128 kB digital memory card ( 86×54×3 mm ) , which was continually updated with the last 20–30 minutes of data . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The 68360 combines a 68020-based 32-bit central processing core and a RISC-based communications controller managing four high-bandwidth serial communications channels , each of which can support up to eight major communications protocols . |
| 7 | He was brought up by his widowed mother and her elderly Catholic lodger , Martha Freeman , daughter of a rich West Indian planter , and at the age of sixteen he was articled to an apothecary in Wells , Somerset . |
| 8 | I have been a rich tree-wife all summer |
| 9 | When programming ca n't be avoided , a friendly Access Basic language is provided . |
| 10 | What it most certainly is not , is ownership by national or local public authority : and because it does not look to the Government as its banker and so imposes no liability on the public sector borrowing requirement , it provides no levers for a hypothetical State economic planning agency to handle . |
| 11 | With Al White and Major Carl Cross at the controls of 20207 , after a series of tests the Valkyrie joined-up with four other aircraft : a white USAF F-5A Freedom Fighter flown by GE test pilot John Fritz ; a T-38A Talon flown by USAF Captain Peter Hoag with Joe Cotton in the rear seat ; a USN F-4B Phantom II piloted by USN Commander Jerome Skyrud with E J Black in the back and a red-tailed NASA-owned F-104 Starfighter flown by Joe A Walker . |
| 12 | Porter , one of the country 's most respected authorities on paediatrics , had taken a shy Puerto Rican intern called Carmen Rodriguez under his wing twenty years ago and given her the confidence to start up her own practice soon after graduating from medical school , and she was now one of New York 's most popular and in demand paediatricians . |
| 13 | Stuart , who plans to see an acupuncturist tomorrow in an attempt to cure the problem , may compete for the North in a representative match this weekend before endeavouring to raise her spirits for the Olympic trials meeting . |
| 14 | The results in this paper demonstrate that a portion of the VZV 140k protein comprising the C-terminal portion of region 1 and all of the conserved region 2 can be expressed in isolation in E.coli as a non-fusion DNA binding domain peptide that interacts with multiple sequences in the VZV gene 62 promoter . |
| 15 | Like a largish winter Black-headed Gull ( p. 149 ) , sharing its white forewing blaze , but with longer neck and longer , stouter , much darker red bill ( yellow in winter ) . |
| 16 | She now has a eight month old son Joseph … but is still coping with the loss of Ankeret … with the help of Sands , the Stillbirth and Neonatal Death Society … a self help group of bereaved parents . |
| 17 | presented photographs and caricature pictures in a simultaneous same.different matching task . |
| 18 | Twenty-five years ago , that team of scientists and electronics engineers charged with the awesome task of producing such a piece of equipment , included a thirty-seven year old Texan electronics engineer , whose star was rapidly rising in another quarter . |
| 19 | In The Netherlands , existing dikes and other protection works will have to be raised and reinforced at a cost of US $3.1–8.8 billion for a 70–200 cm sea-level rise ( Barbier , 1989 ) . |
| 20 | The Murphy 's Cup , a small-scale affair this season at St Pierre , Chepstow , next year becomes a full European Tour event at Fulford , York , while it is likely that the fourth event will have as one of its entrants no less a player than Jack Nicklaus . |
| 21 | A foresighted Air National Guard officer was instrumental in having the Airacomet saved and in 1955 the Air Guard transferred the airframe back to the Air Force for placement in the USAF Museum . |
| 22 | It was a right monstrosity that thing was n't it ? |
| 23 | I agree , he 's been a right arsehole this weekend , with that plus the fact that he singled out Leeds as being the team without a hope of catching scum . |
| 24 | It was Trainer himself who deftly headed in a right wing free kick at the start of the second period , but Ballycastle came back to equalise through Woods with two minutes to go before Gorman 's winner settled an exciting tie . |
| 25 | However , the visitors caught Quakers cold at the restart when a right wing free kick was floated in for Ronnie Jepson to nip ahead of his marker and stab the ball past Prudhoe . |
| 26 | A right wing military Government was set up in the South as a result of the peace conference was convened at Geneva in 1954 . |
| 27 | Julian Freeman-Atwood and a very strong London team of Steve Sustad , Mick Fowler and Victor Saunders are off to attempt Ultar , a 7,000 metre unclimbed peak in the Karakorum . |
| 28 | ES colonies were screened by digesting with Bam HI and hybridizing with the 3' probe , a 0.5-kb Pvu II fragment containing the TCR- α enhancer . |
| 29 | Jana Cilliers as Stella in A Private Life OVERNIGHT FILE |
| 30 | A private West German television company , SAT 1 , will pay more than $5.2m per year to broadcast the tournament and other ATP events in Germany , and the mayor of Frankfurt , Dr Volker Hauff , has promised to ‘ showcase ’ the event with a week of concerts , exhibitions and international symposiums . |