Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was ‘ Pooper Scooper ’ Watkins , a young woman who insisted not only on picking up her dog 's faeces with a see-through plastic glove , but also on waving it in the faces of passers-by in order to emphasize her ecological soundness . |
| 2 | It was all happening to him , right there in a see-through plastic telephone nodule in the airport concourse with the crowds jostling and plaintive announcements coming over the Tannoy system , and the orange-juice machines gurgling and travellers humping suitcases about with those peculiarly tense expressions people always adopt prior to a long-haul flight . |
| 3 | SUPERSTAR Arnold Schwarzenegger plans to appear in a wacky movie spoof of his own career . |
| 4 | So I 'd spent the intervening three years elsewhere , writing for a fun pop paper and then polishing turds in the press office of a hateful record company . |
| 5 | Using acid phosphatase as a lysosomal marker enzyme , values for latency and supernatant enzyme ( calculated as a per cent of control values and expressed as means ( SEM ) ) were as follows : latency — 143.6 ( 38.7 ) % ; supernatant enzyme — 96.4 ( 2.8 ) % ( four experiments ) . |
| 6 | Charlton is aware of the problem , of course , and is planning a pre-tournament acclimatisation trip to Malta and early-summer friendlies in Portugal and Turkey . |
| 7 | About four miles or so west of Castelnuovo is the estate of Curina with a 17th century villa and rural outhouses which have been tastefully restored . |
| 8 | THIS production is the British premiere of a 17th Century work by the Spanish playwright Lope de Vega , but any assumptions we may have that it will be a genteel period piece are dispelled with the first few lines of dialogue . |
| 9 | Pond finds — a 17th century spur , 16th and 17th century buckles , a complete crotal bell , and 17th century coins weights . |
| 10 | Originally a 17th century patrician house , this is a lovely unpretentious hotel with the comforts and atmosphere of a private home . |
| 11 | A few evenings on this field , which had previously seemed barren , produced : crotal and rumbler bones ; medieval and Georgian buckles ; fifty copper coins ( 17th to 19th century ) ; buttons , a 17th century spoon ; a piece of 18th century watch fob ; and the smallest barrel lock that I have ever seen . |
| 12 | The kitchen doubles as a dining room , and the family gathers for meals around a 17th century oak tavern table scored with the marks of games of shove-halfpenny . |
| 13 | Included are a Georgian manor with swimming pool near Cambridge , a 17th Century inn with solarium at Chelmarsh , Shropshire , and a former 19th Century vicarage in Berwick-upon-Tweed , Northumberland . |
| 14 | Housed in a 17th century cottage , this fine collection of local domestic , agricultural , trade and craft tools forms one of Oxfordshire 's oldest small museums , set up by Mr George Swinford in the 1920s . |
| 15 | Do you know where I mean ? erm Well , that too , is a 17th century building , I 've got a an early 19th century Butler engraving of it here , and some pictures from the Alice shop itself , Now that was owned by a Walter Paine , both these citizens were well off brewers , erm those are just pictures of the same one , it 's a little bit of a problem because this is called the house belonging to the manciple of Christchurch . |
| 16 | The Abbey , a 17th Century mansion , in a beautiful parkland setting , was once a medieval nunnery . |
| 17 | In a rural setting , just 10 minutes from the NEC and Birmingham Airport , this imaginative conversion of a 17th century farmhouse has provided an elegant and charming hotel with all modern comforts . |
| 18 | The medal was awarded for this beautiful crystal wheel skeleton clock which is based on a 17th century design . |
| 19 | For instance , a night and half board at The Red Lion , a 17th century coaching inn at Grasmere , is available for £46 . |
| 20 | Converted from a 17th century paper mill , this hotel is built into the cliffs just half a mile from the resort of Minori . |
| 21 | If you can forgive Milton for what might now be considered to be a sexist remark , there is a 17th century solidity about his philosophy of learning . |
| 22 | Item No 1 : this appears to be a 17th century cloth fastener though it is much larger than normal . |
| 23 | This pub was originally a 17th century timber frame jettied building ; in the early 19th century its front was removed and a new rendered facade added . |
| 24 | This beautiful hotel , situated across a busy road from the fine shingle beach , retains the atmosphere and style of its origins as a 17th century summer residence . |
| 25 | Then there are the intimate , human scale museums such as the Anne Frank House , Second World War hiding place of the fated Jewish girl made famous through her diaries or the Amstelkring Museum , a church attic in a 17th century canal house . |
| 26 | This item is a 17th century escutcheon plate from a drawer |
| 27 | Jeanne Rynhart , who immortalised the Dublin heroine in a sculpture depicting her as a 17th Century prostitute , said Molly would always live in the city 's folk memory . |
| 28 | A £20,000 Alfa Romeo sports car , planned as a 17th birthday present for Daniel , will also be sold so there are no links with his father . |
| 29 | Stage : The Council has a Borough-wide District Plan currently in place . |
| 30 | At Vladivostok , the station which rose on Nicholas 's foundation stone was a baleful prison-like building with two blocks linked by a single-storey entrance range . |