Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun sg] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | And why was such a well-dressed man using a brothel like the City of Dreams ? |
| 2 | Helping herself , Daisy noticed he never took his eyes off the play and was now turning on the windscreen wipers to watch a dark-haired boy coax a fat roan pony down the field . |
| 3 | In his speech to the Polish parliament he said that the changes in Eastern Europe provided a historic opportunity to build a Europe made up of independent democratic states , not divided into blocs and relying on the protection of superpowers . |
| 4 | It was only when I was almost in despair that I recalled having seen a letter written by a knitter from overseas , about an easy way to make cables and it seemed a pleasant way to take a break by referring back a few months until I found the letter from — you 've guessed it — June Shaw . |
| 5 | Only the ‘ comic ’ gabbling of alleged joker Jones spoils the mood , but this is still a pleasant way to spend a couple of hours . |
| 6 | There 's no reason why a fellow who wants to spend a pleasant afternoon playing a decent game of rugby should have his life ruined . |
| 7 | But here , if you were caught preparing an escape , the worst that could happen to you was fourteen days solitary confinement with books and writing materials , and it was often a pleasant change to spend a fortnight by yourself after months of compulsory association . |
| 8 | Executive Director of the Tour , Joe Flanagan , says : ‘ It is not a pleasant task to tell a girl that she is off the Tour for the next four weeks , or in a few cases , a whole year . |
| 9 | The Five Gates of Hell by Rupert Thomson ( Penguin , £5.99 ) — Moon Beach sounds like a pleasant place to take a holiday but is the complete reverse . |
| 10 | Christmas was coming and Ellen took a part-time job in the college office to meet the extra costs of the season , and there met Nerina 's mother , a pleasant woman wearing a serviceable sari and black lace-up shoes . |
| 11 | While a rich medium produces a well bushed out , richly dark plant with thick rootstock , a sand medium produces a tall , delicate-looking plant , with fewer leaves and slender rootstock . |
| 12 | It 's exclusive to club 18–30 , it 's near the centre of town , it has a great pool and sunbathing area , a waiter-service restaurant with a special buffet breakfast and a reputation for excellent food , a friendly bar serving a good range of snacks . |
| 13 | The Kremlin was also anxious to avoid involvement because of the potential loss of face if the USSR 's inability to send conventional military support to a friendly country undergoing a successful US action were to be made manifest . |
| 14 | I rustled up a friendly Australian to take a shot of Ted in action . |
| 15 | Ideology , whether in the form of religious cant or a friendly greeting creates a location for the individual which she/he fills by recognizing it as their place ( as a servant of God , as the person hailed ) . |
| 16 | Turn back through the pages of ancient history books on Venice and as far back as the year 1740 you will find tell of a friendly hostelry providing a refuge to weary travellers on this hotel 's site . |
| 17 | A friendly encounter gave a glow which lasted through the night . |
| 18 | ABOVE –Preconstruction' by Andrew Farmer showing a hypothetical probe approaching a black hole that is part of a binary system . |
| 19 | At Cirencester a panel containing a sixteen-petalled rosette has a comparable central device , however , the strongest comparisons are to be made with both of the Leicester mosaics , where eight-petalled rosettes similar to those in the Gloucester pavement are placed at the centre of a kaleidoscopic geometric design ( pI . |
| 20 | She comes into the room like a shy actress making a bad entrance , to find us poised round the door like actors on the set . |
| 21 | But the common story , so far as we can tell , was of a prospering contado helping a few of the citizens to be successful merchants , carrying local market goods and some from longer distances ; and if Francis ' father had not been a successful merchant trading into France , the saint would not have borne the name he did , nor suffered the intense reaction to his father 's worldly values which helped to inspire him on the path to poverty and heaven . |
| 22 | When all the contributions are joined together we should finish up with a representative item using a piece of apparatus . |
| 23 | For a Scandinavian tourist visiting a Mediterranean country , the situation would be reversed , though with probably more trivial consequences . |
| 24 | A Scandinavian study uses a randomisation scheme which will probably prevent the group from obtaining a scientifically valuable result . |
| 25 | ( a ) Where all or any of the principals of a multi-national partnership have a separate legal practice as foreign lawyers : |
| 26 | If you work for a company which insists that you drive a particular brand of car , resign , first writing off the car in an accident in which two teenage hookers and a hallucinating macaw reach a rather untimely end . |
| 27 | Recall that transfer was good for subjects trained in a simultaneous discrimination to raise a flap bearing the positive stimulus through seven inches but was less good for subjects trained to raise the flap only half an inch . |
| 28 | We have , therefore , two possibilities to offer at this stage of our thinking : a simultaneous approach offering a mixture of BSL and English presented concurrently by teacher and pupil , or a bilingual approach where both BSL and English are accepted and used as separate languages . |
| 29 | 113 Is There A Right Time To Buy A Car ? |
| 30 | IS THERE A RIGHT TIME TO BUY A CAR ? |