Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Ceauşescu 's vices were mundane , but probably more damaging to his people as a whole than a debauched emperor 's capricious treatment of Ancient Rome 's élite . |
| 32 | That his departure can be dated as late as the reign of Mehmed I Uzuncarsili 's alternative suggestion is , however , rendered unlikely by the fact that there exists a dated Rajab 808/December 1405-January 1406 which carries the signature of Ibrahim b . |
| 33 | Well the objective was the maintenance of a friendly regime er in a country which had become part of the American sphere of influence . |
| 34 | Well the objective was the maintenance of a friendly regime er in a country which had become part of the American sphere of influence . |
| 35 | As a student social worker , I recall accepting a depressed client 's statement that ‘ if I did n't drink , I would go mad ’ as a rationale for his continued drinking . |
| 36 | If you are arranging a cheeseboard , place some Farmhouse Lancashire alongside a traditional Stilton , a ripe Brie , a tangy goat 's cheese and a low fat cheese to a well-balanced selection to please most tastes . |
| 37 | But that 's sounds what , can I just ask again , so you have a roast chicken yo , and you mix two |
| 38 | ‘ Loma Negra : a Peruvian Lord 's Tomb ’ continues until 4 July . |
| 39 | Great-aunts were sometimes significant : a Scots farmer 's old sister , ‘ very straightlaced … you sat like a mouse ; ’ or the great-aunt of a Portsmouth docker 's daughter , ‘ an old , old lady ’ , who liked to celebrate receiving her weekly pension — ‘ Every weekend , pension day , she had a wee brown jug and she used to send me up the beer shop to get half pint o'stout . |
| 40 | By the time a Scots undertaker 's horseman and his widow were dead , ‘ the little they had was all gone ; ’ and this would have been typical enough . |
| 41 | The band was a right dog 's breakfast , with no bass player , an over-enthusiastic banjoist and a jealous pianist who thought he was being diddled out of his fair share of solos . |
| 42 | And she was saying that 's a right bitch 's such a bitch 's such a bitch and then to she goes I like you but Shavina 's a fucking bitch . |
| 43 | About , a right poof 's game see he 's a cunt the football . |
| 44 | Someone 's made a right pig 's ear of them , and that 's a fact . |
| 45 | And if you spill your supper in your lap , well , the shop 's a dry cleaner 's agent too . |
| 46 | it 's a dry cough int it ? |
| 47 | It was the AMA 's Peter Westland who , at a private King 's fund College seminar on phase two of community care implementation last April , called on Wordsworth to help express his fears about care management 's impact on service users . |
| 48 | She taught music in a private girls ' school in Edinburgh . |
| 49 | A headmaster who resigned from a private girls ' school is waiting to see if he 's to be prosecuted for allegedly importing child pornography . |
| 50 | Nevertheless it is probably fair to assume that a private customer 's needs will be for " standard " investments . |
| 51 | He has , says a friend , a taste for fast driving and also has a private pilot 's licence — he has been known to take friends on duty-free trips to the Continent . |
| 52 | It is now the norm for an Inspector ( Engineering ) to hold a Private Pilot 's Licence as well as engineering qualifications . |
| 53 | Throughout his life Blumlein was a trustworthy and loyal man with a passionate interest in the arts , music , and aviation — he held a private pilot 's licence from 1929 and often flew a biplane or Moth . |
| 54 | Congratulations to Catherine Hopkins , a member of Barbara Norton 's Finchampstead class , who to her other qualifications ( she 's a pharmacy technician , a cordon bleu cook and a herbalist ) has added a private pilot 's licence . |
| 55 | At the crown of Port Solent is Oyster Quay , an outstanding development of spacious , luxury apartments with a private residents ' leisure centre , including swimming pool and gymnasium . |
| 56 | Medical confidentiality you 're you 're just sitting there with bloody a private conversation we that I went for treatment with my doctor , and and the recommendations that she 's given me in , well well what 's the point er what er what 's going on ? |
| 57 | But secularizing moves by the English liberals — over the Education Bills of 1902 , 1906 , and a private member 's Bill of 1911 — led the Irish hierarchy to question some of the political intentions of the Irish politicians , who it was feared might sell out the church 's interest in schools . |
| 58 | That means it will be the first time abortion has been debated as part of government legislation , rather than on the basis of a private member 's Bill . |
| 59 | One of the topics being raised at the coming General Synod in a Private Member 's motion is the whole question of our treatment of animals , and I include an article about this . |
| 60 | A PRIVATE member 's bill to introduce payments for Crown servants who were exposed to radiation during nuclear weapons tests and have since contracted leukaemia and other cancers , and to the dependants of those who have died , was presented to the Commons by Mr Bob Clay ( Lab . |