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 | Stage : The Council has a Borough-wide District Plan currently in place . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's a single-storey steel warehouse , open at both ends . |
| 10 | Therefore training a connected speech recognition system with isolated words may not be satisfactory for a connected word recognition system ( McInnes & Jack , 1988 ) . |
| 11 | Therefore training a connected speech recognition system with isolated words may not be satisfactory for a connected word recognition system ( McInnes & Jack , 1988 ) . |
| 12 | A market-maker is connected with an offeror or a target company in the same way as a connected fund manager . |
| 13 | In the case of a connected fund manager exempt status is relevant only where the sole reason for the connection is that the fund manager is controlled by , controls or is under the same control as a financial or other professional adviser ( including stockbrokers ) to the offeror or target company . |
| 14 | And Taylor showed his brain is still functioning with a resilient game plan that countered Brazil 's touch-passing and darting spin-offs . |
| 15 | This enables it to build a 238-pin ZIF socket , which will house OverDrive Processor technology , into Premmia machines . |
| 16 | John Prean , a grateful committee man , said : ‘ In two years the club has been completely transformed . |
| 17 | A grateful stock market was apparently convinced that the war would be over in a matter of hours , and so the Dow Jones roared to a 114-point gain . |
| 18 | One performer was a deaf flute player who had the habit of playing long after the others had finished . |
| 19 | Too many teachers of deaf people find themselves learning communication skills on the job — a slow process in the absence of total immersion in a deaf language environment — and their deaf pupils mirror their frustrations ; too many teachers of deaf people do not have a knowledge of a specialist subject and persist in taking generalist primary school approaches into secondary and further education . |
| 20 | A ring receiver worn by a deaf football player responded to a remote control signal from the referee . |
| 21 | Another member of the quintet , one Lyamshin , a post-office clerk , gets himself asked to parties where ‘ he would give imitations of a pig , a thunder storm , a confinement , with the first cry of the baby , etc. , etc. ; that was what he was invited for ’ ; and later we hear of him ‘ mimicking , when requested , various types of jews , a deaf peasant woman making her confession , or the birth of a child … ’ . |
| 22 | Founded and endowed by Leo Bonn , a deaf merchant banker and financier , the bureau had made a good start , but went into decline during the war . |
| 23 | More than 100 jobs have also been found through a community employment and enterprise centre set up in the shopping centre and through a residents-run job club . |
| 24 | After the team had gone off , I decided to visit a needy church member first and only had time to knock on one door before the agreed time to report back . |
| 25 | Topless and nude , ladies are strewn in abundance on a hilly grass beach and in the sunken leaves below the lifeguard . |
| 26 | The northern tip of the Grey Mountains gradually declines into a hilly upland region known as the Gisoreux Gap — the principal route between Bretonnia and the Empire . |
| 27 | How much harder it is to turn away from Rosa Burger , from her internal wrangling and the external forces that bear down on her , than from a faceless newspaper report . |
| 28 | Somewhere up in the clouds there is a faceless organization man who menaces people with punitive restrictions , stifling rule-books , unyielding systems and incomprehensible decisions . |
| 29 | In a historic test case his parents Allan and Barbara , along with Airedale Regional Health Authority , are seeking a change in the law that would allow them to disconnect the feeding tube and let Tony die . |
| 30 | Mr Munby was summing up on day two of a historic test case that will decide the fate of Tony , who has been in a coma for three and a half years . |