Example sentences of "a [adj] [adj] [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The landlord claimed a well-dressed young man also passed through the village about the same time . |
| 2 | ‘ I would have thought a whacking great palace more to your taste ! ’ |
| 3 | They also agreed to resume constitutional negotiations , suspended since June [ see p. 38948 ] , and committed themselves to the election of a constituent assembly and the inauguration of a non-racial transitional government as soon as possible . |
| 4 | THE parents of a baby boy who died from injuries suffered before birth won a historic legal victory yesterday when three judges allowed their damages action against a health board to go ahead . |
| 5 | Work down the neck and over and across shoulders , continuing until you feel a pleasant warm glow all over . |
| 6 | It looked like a pleasant small town anywhere , mostly bungalows on leafy streets . |
| 7 | It can become a pleasant social occasion rather than a chore . |
| 8 | He smiled infuriatingly at her , lifting a hand to run it over his dark hair , seemingly as relaxed as though they were just sharing a pleasant little chat rather than this frosty interview . |
| 9 | Saltley was recorded in the Birmingham The New Illustrated Directory of 1858 : ‘ Saltley , formerly a pleasant little village about two miles out of Birmingham , but now , from the great demand for building sites , virtually a part of the town itself , is remarkable for the immense manufacture of railway carriages , at the works of Messrs. Joseph Wright and Sons . |
| 10 | He is marrying a rich American heiress tomorrow and is spending his last night on the town as a free man . |
| 11 | Other dinosaur track evidence reveals a medium-sized biped weighing about half a ton , seeming to run at 43kph , which is faster than a man but still considerably slower than a racehorse . |
| 12 | These have dramatically altered and of course improved archaeologists ' knowledge about the duration of various episodes within pre-history , and it now seems possible that archaeology , and particularly prehistoric archaeology , will eventually have a dated historical sequence as clear as that used by historians . |
| 13 | As you launch the program you 're greeted with a friendly main menu rather than a blank screen . |
| 14 | That night over a pretentious dinner ( ‘ delicate strips of milk-fed veal on a bed of herbs and accompanied by a tangy aromatic sauce specially prepared by our chefs ’ ) in a pretentious modern hotel and fortified by a bottle of local plonk , my Producer John Reynolds and I resolved to telephone the Palace Chamberlain in the morning , say that owing to a technical fault the film was not usable , and did the king have a spare hour in which we might shoot the interview again ? |
| 15 | I had never considered myself as a shy quiet child so drama and acting never bothered me . |
| 16 | The opening salvo was fired by Japan , which produced a slick 20-minute video optimistically titled ‘ The Truth About Drift-netting . ’ |
| 17 | In his 1981 book Life Itself Crick suggests that life came to our world because a billennia-old extraterrestrial civilization deliberately sent out vast numbers of spacecraft packed with living spores , hoping thereby to ‘ seed ’ countless potentially life-supporting planets in the Galaxy . |
| 18 | You are a right crafty bastard as far as women are concerned . ’ |
| 19 | You are a right cheerful bastard tonight . |
| 20 | THE great whodunnit over the Di smear letter caused a right royal tizz yesterday . |
| 21 | The note , from a private Indian lawyer reportedly acting at the behest of one of the middlemen who received pay-offs , was understood to have been delivered by Solanki on Feb. 1 while attending the World Economic Forum in Davos . |
| 22 | Derby took control in a devastating 12-minute burst early in the first half . |
| 23 | Tertian , winner of the Somerville Tattersalls Stakes at Newmarket last October , goes straight to the Guineas , with Pat Eddery aboard , but the present state of the market surely indicates the need for a solid Classic pointer more than anything else . |
| 24 | Monetary limits applicable for small bankruptcies , a reference to an insolvency practitioner for a report on a possible voluntary arrangement etc , are set out in the Insolvency Proceedings ( Monetary Limits ) Order 1986 . |
| 25 | 10,000 MANIACS play a low-key live show later this month , the day after the release of their new LP ‘ Our Time is Eden ’ . |
| 26 | Differs from Sand Partridge especially in cock 's striking head pattern , white stripe through eye being always flanked by a broad black stripe above and a narrower one below . |
| 27 | Even if we believed that the public interest could perhaps be equated with goals supported by a broad social consensus so that the spectre of management indulging its own personal moral and political preferences under the guise of pursuing socially worthwhile goals no longer haunted us difficulties would still remain . |
| 28 | A ROW over plans for a Teesside mosque is set to provide the ammunition for a fiery public meeting tonight . |
| 29 | Pancevski himself appeared to come down on the side of the Serbian position by stressing repeatedly that political pluralism " must be based on socialist orientation and the federal structure " and asserting : " The LCY finds unacceptable the thesis according to which the essence and form of political pluralism are reduced to a classic multiparty system alone . " |
| 30 | Off to one side of the house stood a low whitewashed building originally used as stables and later as a garage , but which , after much industrious clearing , cleaning and the application of repeated coats of apricot-white emulsion now did duty as studio-cum-shop . |