Example sentences of "a [adj] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And spokesman Trevor East admitted : ‘ It 's been a trying few days for us and we are very disappointed to miss out again . |
| 2 | Roger Payne , the BMC 's national officer , with his wife Julie-Ann Clyma , Iain Peter and Allen Fyffe , spent a memorable four weeks in the Soviet Tien-Shan , making ascents of two 7,000-metre peaks : Khan Tengri ( 7,010 ) metres ) and Pik Pobeda . |
| 3 | Mark Laughlin rounded off a memorable 24 hours for the Edinburgh side by scoring the winner in the 49th minute . |
| 4 | Starting at the outskirts of Pinderfields , it 's a solid 13 miles of undulating tarmac broken up only by the grass playing fields of Pinderfields at the finish . |
| 5 | Since then I have spent a solid twenty years in the service , with posts at the U. K. Delegation to N. A. T. O. , Bonn , Peking , and now Oslo … |
| 6 | She will now return to the court on May 25 where she faces a possible two years in prison or an unlimited fine . |
| 7 | If you need a little bit of nudging by the people working with you , er , then there 's a possible two points for the team . |
| 8 | Even so-called ‘ fundamentalists ’ usually insist that although it is an axiom of faith that God really created the world , he did not necessarily do so in a literal six days of twenty-four hours each . |
| 9 | HLA class I and class II alleles were serologically typed at the Tissue Typing Laboratory , NSW Division , Australian Red Cross Society Blood Transfusion Service using the standard National Institutes of Health test for class I and a modified National Institutes of Health test using immunomagnetic beads for class II . |
| 10 | unless we get a usual three inches of wet snow and that 'll stop everything , you never know do you ? |
| 11 | He was suffering from the heart disease congestive cardiomyopathy which sent his heart soaring from a normal 70 beats per minute to a dangerous 400 . |
| 12 | With a boost in public increase brought about by the opening of the line extension to Glyndyfrdwy the Railway is now clearly in a higher division with a respectable 5½ miles of operating length . |
| 13 | Our second meeting , once the regulative café au lait had been taken and a strenuous five hours of talk had been put behind us , was concluded by a guided tour of his beloved Montreal , whose night-time allurements were enthusiastically described in a car hired for the occasion , and concluded by a celebratory meal at one of his favourite Indian restaurants , toasting each other 's health and futures in an excellent Chablis . |
| 14 | A scant two hours from Paris and we were comfortably settled into our lovely rooms at the Chateau de la Muire . |
| 15 | We tend to think of most Central American countries as somehow linked by the Caribbean Sea to the Caribbean islands and cultures ; but all the republics have Pacific coastlines — and so Guatemala , El Salvador , Honduras ( with a scant 45 miles of Pacific shoreline along the Gulf of Fonseca ) , Nicaragua , Costa Rica and of course Panama can rightly ( if pedantically ) be thought of as Pacific nations . |
| 16 | It is perhaps only incidental that one of the most distinguished fathers of modern political thought , Tom Paine , spent a turbulent six years in Lewes ; he came to the town in 1768 as an excise officer , a job he combined with a local tobacco business . |
| 17 | AFTER barely a year in the job , Peter Ueberroth — famous for giving Los Angeles a profitable Olympic Games in 1984 — has resigned from the Rebuild Los Angeles ( RLA ) commission . |
| 18 | Stephen thought it a curious place to leave one 's car , blocking , or partly blocking , the northbound roadway , while taking it a farther ten yards on would have enabled its driver to pull in onto the bridlepath that traversed the Vale as far as the Reeve 's way . |
| 19 | He said : ‘ It 's been a fabulous two years for me at Leeds and the lack of goals has been my only disappointment . |
| 20 | George also holds the record for the number of goals scored in a single season from the flank with a fabulous 22 goals in 1927–28 . |
| 21 | Exactly a year ago , Wright , who has a paltry six goals to his name this season , was playing well enough to be making his full Scotland debut against Northern Ireland , but here he looked leaden-footed and posed little threat . |
| 22 | ‘ I was surprised at Steve , ’ said Dick , after watching the world junior champion clear only a paltry 2.05 metres on Sunday compared to double European Cup winner Grant 's 2.25 . |
| 23 | I managed to get in hundreds of leaflets , through a few loyal workers in the Department , but these were either destroyed or had little effect ; or more likely , were not adequately distributed out of fear . |
| 24 | The Dane did not look too happy when substituted 10 minutes from time , and Newcastle faded after his departure , surviving a few uncomfortable moments before the end . |
| 25 | A few unhappy lines from long lost relatives ? |
| 26 | Either way , a whole house-shell could be put up in a few hours by a few successive foam-formings of the main walls and pillars . |
| 27 | ‘ I 've had a few hasty assignations in lay-bys to pass over pots of prepared food that no one must know were n't prepared by the hostess , ’ says Mrs Anderson . |
| 28 | A few hasty notes in July show that he continued to visit 6 Patten Road , and occasionally to have dinner there , until their separation became a reality , when Helen took up a resident post as governess with the Wards , at 33 Bath Road , Bedford and Edward spent August with his father 's relations at 17 Woodville Street , Pontardulais , while his younger brothers became pupils at a small denominational school in Ammanford . |
| 29 | She 'd tacked a few scraps of old cotton into a baby-gown too and sent it round next door for the new Rattrie baby , born very inconveniently , as it turned out , the day after the funeral , her fit of generosity entirely misplaced , since the child had only lived a few hours and the gown — upon which Odette had worked a few hasty stitches of embroidery — had ended up in the pawnshop — Cara had seen it herself in the window — to help pay , she supposed , for yet another infantile disposal . |
| 30 | Jack had borrowed boots and skis for me and I stumbled out into the great outdoors and enjoyed a few hasty lessons down the snow-covered slopes of the mountain . |