Example sentences of "in a [adj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Ceauşescu 's chief intelligence adviser , Ion Pacepa , defected to the United States in 1978 , he claimed that Ceauşescu had been engaged in a long-term strategic plan codenamed ‘ Red Horizon ’ . |
| 2 | Dressed first in a spangled blue bra top and sequined red shorts , she is step perfect . |
| 3 | I do n't think they got a true picture , especially not of C1 , because the staff reacted in a helluva different way to when the cameras were n't there . |
| 4 | YOUR award-winning BNFL News has had the honour of representing Great Britain in a prestigious European editing competition . |
| 5 | BNFL News has also had the honour of representing Great Britain in a prestigious European editing competition . |
| 6 | DARLINGTON chef Michael Pearson found the recipe for success in a prestigious nationwide cookery competition . |
| 7 | Rostov grinned , brought his sword back in a fancy two-handed reverse , bowed , then somersaulted exuberantly . |
| 8 | They present a critical agenda involved in a current cultural confrontation — questioning the ideological partiality of a neo-conservative critical perspective , which apparently refuses to confront the terms on which it asserts its authenticity and which limits the range of cultural artefacts it will admit as civilised discourse . |
| 9 | The technology is based on the observation that , when particles are placed in a rotating electric field , they too rotate in a characteristic way . |
| 10 | In June , a well-to-do gentleman in a charged emotional state , ran into the Reading Police Station , where he was confronted by Chief Constable Peck . |
| 11 | Legislative authority is vested in a unicameral 12-member Parliament which is popularly elected for up to four years . |
| 12 | Legislative authority is vested in a unicameral 12-member Parliament which is popularly elected for up to four years . |
| 13 | Legislative power is vested in a unicameral National Assembly consisting of a Speaker , three senators ( appointed by the Governor General in accordance with the wishes of the Prime Minister and Leader of the Opposition ) and 11 representatives who are popularly elected . |
| 14 | Legislative authority is vested in a unicameral National Assembly which sits for five years and consists of six appointed Senators and 15 popularly elected representatives . |
| 15 | Legislative power is vested in a unicameral National Assembly consisting of a Speaker , three Senators ( appointed by the Governor-General on the advice of the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition ) and 11 representatives who are popularly elected . |
| 16 | Legislative power is vested in a unicameral National Assembly which sits for a five-year term and consists of six appointed senators and 15 popularly elected representatives . |
| 17 | Legislative power is vested in a unicameral National Parliament , the 109 members of which are elected for up to five years by universal adult suffrage . |
| 18 | Legislative authority is vested in a unicameral National Parliament , the 38 members of which are popularly elected for up to four years . |
| 19 | Legislative power is vested in a unicameral National Parliament , the 109 members of which are elected for up to five years by universal adult suffrage . |
| 20 | Legislative authority is vested in a unicameral National Parliament , the 38 members of which are popularly elected for up to four years . |
| 21 | Legislative authority is now vested in a unicameral National Congress , with 100 members elected for five years by universal adult suffrage . |
| 22 | As a result of constitutional reforms adopted by referendum in April 1983 , legislative power is vested in a unicameral Legislative Assembly ( which replaced the National Assembly of Community Representatives in 1984 ) consisting of 67 members elected for five-year terms by universal and compulsory adult suffrage . |
| 23 | Temporary leadership in a world-wide free trade of manufactures enabled , for the first time , a population growing at between 200,000 and 350,000 people per year to be fed without dependence upon domestic food production . |
| 24 | In the centre of the room was a stone chair on a raised dais , and it contained a slumped figure which did not move but said , in a brittle old voice , ‘ Come in , young man . ’ |
| 25 | There are 30 craftsmen at Bringwyn and they 've become blase about working in a stately Victorian ballroom . |
| 26 | In the second phase attention will be focused on personal and metaphysical problems encoded in a disorientating existential discourse . |
| 27 | That particular ghost was said at first , because she 'd lived in a hulking great castle with fields and forests and things , and when she saw it again it was a council estate and , as I said , a supermarket . |
| 28 | In a 1989 White Paper and 1992 Green Paper ( DTI , 1989 , 1992 ) the UK government declared an intention to revise UK law in the direction of consistency with Articles 85 and 86 of the Treaty of Rome . |
| 29 | In a Labour Monthly article , " The United Front and Revolutionary Unity " , Palme Dutt developed the theme that the United Front created on 17 March 1933 was merely a preliminary to the creation of a new Left party . " |
| 30 | Its arms flicked snow loose in a final fastidious gesture of contempt , and then the whole thing began to tilt . |