Example sentences of "a [adj] boeing " in BNC.
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| 1 | The electronic gadgetry , integrated by Grumman into a modified Boeing 707 aircraft , is the air-to-ground equivalent of the air-to-air AWACS air-surveillance system . |
| 2 | For a woman , Kim Hyun-hui , was arrested and was to receive the death sentence for planting a bomb on a Korean Boeing 707 , killing all 115 people . |
| 3 | Of free will I chose to fly to India , taking as my travelling companions a stallion and two mares , in the back of a decrepit Boeing 707 on its third time round the clock . |
| 4 | To borrow an analogy from an eminent astronomer , if you take the parts of an airliner and jumble them up at random , the likelihood that you would happen to assemble a working Boeing is vanishingly small . |
| 5 | American Airlines , based in Fort Worth , Texas , is presently losing about $81 million a month on the Stansted link , which has been running a daily Boeing 767 service to Chicago since June . |
| 6 | A BRITISH Airways pilot killed himself after being blamed for nearly flying a packed Boeing 747 into a hotel . |
| 7 | The Stratotanker is a converted Boeing 707 . |
| 8 | A Libyan Boeing 727 crashed on a flight from Benghazi to Tripoli on Dec. 22 , killing all 158 people aboard . |
| 9 | A Chinese Boeing 737 crashed near the tourist resort of Guilin in Guangxi province , southern China , on Nov. 24 , killing all 141 people on board . |
| 10 | One package simulating 40 very different aircraft is perhaps over ambitious , but the flight models are just too similar — sometimes the only way to remember whether you are flying a 747 Boeing or a Harrier jump jet is to use the external view ! |
| 11 | It was entirely fortuitous that the aircraft involved was a Boeing 707 and that Geoffrey had formerly been a BOAC Boeing 707 captain . |
| 12 | This week , the Austrian airline took delivery of a new Boeing 767 which has christened ‘ Enzo Ferrari ’ , in memory of the Commendatore who died in 1988 . |
| 13 | It 's no secret that those guerrilla bands contain a fair proportion of characters who are just as undesirable as the dictatorial governments they 're supposed to be fighting and who would have no hesitation in disposing of those $60,000 missiles , at a fraction of their cost , to any passing terrorists who , in turn , would have no hesitation in loosing off one of those missiles at a passing Boeing 747 , preferably one packed with five hundred American citizens . |