Example sentences of "a [adj] [adj] [noun sg] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Along the foot of the South Downs north of Chichester there is the well-known Goodwood raised beach at about 30–40 m ( 100–130 ft ) OD , with gravels which are readily recognisable as beach material : a low raised beach a few feet above present high tide level is to be found on the Gower peninsula in South Wales ; on the west coast of Scotland a raised beach at approximately 7 5 m ( 25 ft ) OD occurs on many of the islands , such as Arran , and in many of the lochs . |
| 2 | By 1291 settlers had created Middleton Sancti Georgii on a low silty plain a mile downstream , but this was abandoned centuries before the first guard called ‘ tickets please ’ . |
| 3 | Each territory would have been a complete business organisation in its own area , but because no territory would have been large enough to run a complete main line a great deal more co-operation would have been necessary than existed between the regions , and on a much more formal basis . |
| 4 | Now there was once a Queen , who might have been thought to have everything she could desire in the world , but had set her heart on a strange silent bird a traveller had told of , which lived in the snowy mountains , nested only once , raised its gold and silver chick , sang once only , and then faded like snow in the lowlands . |
| 5 | Pus cells are obvious in discharges from infected sites — even in a rheumatoid arthritic knee a thousand million may enter an inflamed joint in a day . |
| 6 | Christology gives a male human being a status which is given to no woman . |
| 7 | Apollon did n't help their cause when they had Marios Charalambous sent off for a second bookable offence a minute before the break . |
| 8 | Picasso had abandoned the use of a consistent light source a year earlier only to reinstate it a few months later in the paintings done in Paris during the winter . |
| 9 | Set in extensive grounds , and enjoying magnificent views of the Hahnenkamm and Kitzbuhlerhorn , the Schloss Lebenberg 's facilities include a large indoor pool a sauna , solarium , fitness gym and sun terrace . |
| 10 | Stray shots buzzing all around , Ace threw herself behind a large fallen stalactite a few yards from the sandbags , just as her ammunition ran out . |
| 11 | At Hyde Park Corner a tiny youngish man was followed onto the train by a large stocky man a sadistic smirk emerging from the corners of his mouth . |
| 12 | Tony was a Mancunian , a large stodgy boy a cut below her , in her mother 's ‘ humble opinion ’ . |
| 13 | When Mr. Leitch established his public house in the village of Ardersier , so conveniently placed to catch the military traffic from Fort George , he wisely retained his seat in the council of the royal burgh of Nairn , and for a valuable parliamentary elector a mere transfer to the desired post was very little for a member of parliament to arrange . |
| 14 | Government in Britain is not presidential ; it is a collective enterprise in which power is shared and for a beleaguered Prime Minister a power shared is a blame shared . |
| 15 | The choice by the Queen of Lord Home in 1963 was of some importance since the circumstances in which it took place illustrated the difficulties of the process and led fairly quickly to the adoption by the Conservative Party of a leadership election process that was designed ( like the Labour Party 's leadership election ) to make the choice of a Prime Ministerial successor a constitutional formality . |
| 16 | Home demand is surely not going to be stimulated by a reduction of half a percent or so in price and in any case , with 4 million unemployed , is a thriving domestic market a real possibility ? |
| 17 | It is hard to find a more pitiful sight than a clownfish desperately trying to associate with a shrunken unhealthy anemone a little larger than its own size . |
| 18 | The Intor workshop has already produced a first broad proposal a definition of the envisaged plant and its objectives . |
| 19 | The Metro almost makes driving in a big traffic-choked city a pleasure . |
| 20 | A Madagascan orchid , Angraecum , secretes its nectar in a green tubular spur a foot long that hangs from the lip of a star-shaped snow-white flower . |
| 21 | For instance , in the UK the Confederation of British Industry publishes a four monthly basis a national survey of the opinions of a lab sample of companies whether they expect their sales , exports , production , employment and investment to remain stable or change . |
| 22 | In a recent well-publicised controversy a group of scientists claimed to have obtained results whereby water that once had a certain substance in it continued to behave as if the substance was present even after the substance had been removed ; as if the water retained a ‘ memory ’ of the substance . |
| 23 | Trade union congress will shortly have a new general secretary a new leader . |
| 24 | And I 've seen her , done up and looking her very grandest , reach into a small-feathered evening bag , take out an antique cigarette case with an M in brilliants on it and offer a surprised young queen a condom . |