Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The poorest countries — especially in Africa — also have a devastating debt problem which , though small by international standards and offering no threat to the West 's financial systems , nevertheless represents a crushing burden for the peoples of these countries . |
| 32 | It seems an odd word until you discover that this little boy was born with a devastating skin condition which is baffling the medical world and making his young life a misery . |
| 33 | Barry Stewart , prosecuting , said Sinclair , who was born with only one arm , was a persistent confidence trickster who had served a sentence of 18 months imprisonment for deception in 1990 . |
| 34 | Portillo , in whom Nigel Lawson saw ‘ something quite out of the ordinary ’ , is the son of a Spanish law professor who fought for the republicans in the Spanish civil war and a left of centre Scottish school teacher . |
| 35 | The Aiwa VCR contains a solid state memory which stores each TV field as it is read off tape . |
| 36 | Appreciably bigger than Skipton , High Wycombe , as the leading town of Buckinghamshire , contained a solid merchant class which made per capita wealth there half as high again as in the villages of the Chilterns where really rich men were thin on the ground . |
| 37 | Ahead of me was a glass-panelled oak door which led out to the sun terrace . |
| 38 | We can consider reasonably clear cut examples of the use of local landmarks and of home stimuli , but when we come on to a possible map sense we shall move into one of the more unsettled areas of the science . |
| 39 | This breaking of demarcation rules plunged Roy into the centre of a possible strike situation which threatened to halt production . |
| 40 | This in his opinion would make aircraft easier to guard against sabotage , no mention was made of a possible air strike which had not occurred to the air staff . |
| 41 | Lord Howe is being tipped along with Lord Whitelaw as a possible heavyweight figure who could be brought in to help John Major with the government 's presentation of policies . |
| 42 | A HARD-UP Middlesbrough man who travelled to London in search of work but ended up plastering sex-for-sale stickers in the capital 's call-boxes to raise some quick cash , was going straight back to his parents as soon as he could , Marylebone Magistreates Court heard . |
| 43 | The receptor consists of a single transmembrane protein containing a cytoplasmic tyrosine kinase which is separated into two ( boxes ) . |
| 44 | Ballymena worked hard but it still was n't enough against a low-key Portadown side who only clicked into gear at the finish . |
| 45 | Drawing into its ranks many former communists , including Iliescu and Prime Minister Petre Roman , the NSF had capitalized on its position as a broad centre-left grouping which filled the vacuum left by Ceausescu 's demise . |
| 46 | There is an elegantly refurbished reception area , stylish bar and TV lounge and a broad sun terrace which is the setting for occasional musical evenings . |
| 47 | He must have had charm , nevertheless , not to mention a broad Somerset accent which may have added to his own special brand of eloquence . |
| 48 | It was only much later that I realised the reason for the request and also for the resulting laughter , namely the enjoyment of a broad Somerset accent which had come with me , and traces of which can still be recognised by West Country people nearly seventy years later . |
| 49 | A terrific midwife hales them up and down stairs to the first antenatal session . |
| 50 | B — can scarcely rise , the referee is in a fit of temper , attacks P — with stool , P — chases him round ring — gong goes for the 4th round — P — still has stool so B — picks up the water bowl and with a terrific bang lands it on P's head . |
| 51 | A modified HLCA system which would reduce the upland agriculture/ conservation conflict has been detailed earlier in this chapter . |
| 52 | Indian scientists have identified varieties with a modified leaf structure which confers some resistance to taphrina . |
| 53 | For a prestigious London client who requested anonymity , this close-up of a carpet border shows the details on one corner of the carpet laid within a large reception area . |
| 54 | Both were boys of 8 years old and had their imaginations fired by Perry Mason , a fictional TV lawyer who helped the poor . |
| 55 | Now he is trying to recapture his old swing having attempted a Faldo-type swing refit which has n't worked . |
| 56 | It has a Vietnamese cast and is about a timid servant girl who influences the lives of a large household . |
| 57 | Dustin played a timid bank clerk who dreams of being a ladies ' man , although he does not seem to be short of girlfriends . |
| 58 | HP agreed to take a small stake in Convex earlier this year under an agreement that includes Convex using the PA RISC family in a massively-parallel computer system it is designing , and also involves each company taking some of the other 's products on an OEM basis . |
| 59 | erm If you take a novel like Dorothy Sayers ' Gaudy Night , which is offered as an example of a classic detective story which really is also a novel about academic life , it 's a love story , I think as a love story and as a novel of academic life it 's in many ways very good indeed , but I think as a detective story it 's completely uninteresting you know because one part has to fade in order that the , the other should come into focus . |
| 60 | A CLASSIC Rolls-Royce limousine which had been in the same Scottish family for 60 years made £21,275 at a Sotheby 's weekend car sale at the Royal Air Force museum , Hendon , North London . |