Example sentences of "an [noun sg] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cleveland Outlook social activities group meet at Kilburn for an 8-mile circular walk , lunch at Abbey Inn , Byland Abbey , 10.20am . |
| 2 | Zuwaya said they would not have wanted to win an election that way ; and some Magharba — admittedly few , the majority being unquestioningly jubilant — said that just ends had been achieved by improper means . |
| 3 | But B of course if you did badly in those elections in May the government might have done badly in May , then morale would have been rock bottom of having to go into an election , he would have had to go for an election six weeks later or they 'd run out of time , yeah . |
| 4 | It 's even more confusing cos some systems of by thirds I think they go , they go on wards there 's some wards do n't have an election one year , when the neighbouring one does . |
| 5 | ‘ We had an election last year . |
| 6 | There might even be an election next year . |
| 7 | The Labour leader knows and the rest of the party knows that there could be an election next year , in which case when Labour meets for it 's conference in autumn ninety-one , Mr Kinnock could be addressing them , not as leader of the opposition , but as Prime Minister . |
| 8 | From the number of lengthy interviews she has given in recent weeks , it seems pretty obvious that the opposition has been playing the Prime Minister 's game — she clearly intended to hold an election next month . |
| 9 | Mr Major has already asked Chancellor Helmut Kohl and other EC leaders to delay any decisions , at least until the EC summit at Maastricht in early December : presumably he expects to call an election this autumn . |
| 10 | The Library is fortunate to have an almost complete set of the publications of the Tragara Press : an addition this year was a copy of Sylvia Plath 's Mirror ( Edinburgh , 1966 ) . |
| 11 | It 's an excuse used time and time again that we ca n't do anything because it would be blown up . |
| 12 | He could n't use the bathroom as an excuse this time . |
| 13 | In groups of five they each save weekly after which one of their number can take a loan and invest in an income generating project . |
| 14 | The bank defended the terms saying they are a 50 p.c. premium over Midland 's price before last month 's bid proposal , 27 p.c. above net asset value and will give an income 442 p.c. better than Midland 's reduced dividend . |
| 15 | John Butterworth joined the company as an apprentice 30 years ago he says Westcott has changed beyond all recognition . |
| 16 | One print worker who was daubed and paraded on a trolley around Croydon in Surrey as an apprentice 25 years ago said : ‘ The worst thing was if they did n't do anything to you at all — it showed you were n't wanted . ’ |
| 17 | He felt , when he woke the next morning , that his life was at an end-a complete disaster . |
| 18 | An endowment linked option is available . |
| 19 | It is 25 inches long , 2 inches in circumference near the mouthpiece , and 8 inches in circumference at the other end ; the larger end has an aperture 4 inches in diameter . |
| 20 | The five types included one built to British Standards , a second ‘ standard ’ seat with an aperture 0.07 m longer than currently recommended , and three other elongated seats contoured to give various degrees of thigh and buttock support . |
| 21 | Lying in bed , after sex , silently weeping when your partner has gone off to sleep , is an experience many women are familiar with . |
| 22 | Luckily Emma and Sophie were spending part of the afternoon with one of their friends , who lived in an apartment two floors down . |
| 23 | The results indicate that pupils need more practical experience but the result of an APU practical test item suggests that lower attainers would currently do no better in a practical than in a written test situation . |
| 24 | The preface of each of the three books , obviously an APU plug-in module , reveals the secret . |
| 25 | The preface of each of the three books , obviously an APU plug-in module , reveals the secret . |
| 26 | On an APU sponsored visit to the USA , Burstall and Kay ( 1978 ) drew the following lessons from the USA experience : that the APU should obtain information that is , on the one hand , of use to teachers and on the other to decision-makers ; and that the information collected must be related to needs rather than being simply that which is easy to collect . |
| 27 | He had never found a suitable gift , and there had n't been an Easter that year , the only gift many families had received had been blood and fire . |
| 28 | Constitutions embodying decentralization bind the bourgeoisie against the short-run pursuit of their material interests , reflecting an abstentionist strategic rationality . |
| 29 | The new service is expected to run twice an hour six days a week from Monday to Saturday between 9am and 5.30pm . |
| 30 | ‘ For half an hour Russian pilots were flying over the base , preventing a missile and bomb attack by two Georgian SU-25 fighters , ’ an air force spokesman was quoted by Itar-Tass news agency as saying . |