Example sentences of "a [adj] [adj] [noun sg] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Home cooking is provided in a reconstructed Welsh hill farm which overlooks a wildlife area sponsored by British Coal Opencast — perhaps a belated apology for destroying most of the surrounding countryside . |
| 2 | Although the knowledge sources in HARPY were designed separately , they were subsequently compiled into a unified directed graph representation which was then used to decode the utterance . |
| 3 | To develop a recovery method , Morgan , Saunders and Pickup used a Gem called Pseudomonas putida mt-2 , a modified common soil bacterium which may have wide applications for destroying toxic substances . |
| 4 | Having had a jinxed left back position it looks like we now have a jinxed central defender position ! |
| 5 | Moscato Spumante , Frassino £3.99 A sweet white wine from Italy , it was described as having a low local alcohol content which makes it easy to drink on its own and as an aperitif . |
| 6 | Serotonin is a low level nerve transmitter which naturally makes people feel alert and happy , and these are the sensations associated with the drug . |
| 7 | You can buy a number of products which will allow your fish to feed while you are away , including automatic feeders and holiday blocks , but for a normal two week vacation your adult fish will do just fine on what they can find in the tank . |
| 8 | Renault , a state-owned French car maker which is due to be privatised soon , is tipped in Milan as a likely partner , though suggestions of a grand alliance are pooh-poohed in Paris . |
| 9 | There is a specific Open Learning Scheme which can assist organisations in areas of training not already covered by existing schemes of assistance . |
| 10 | But many degrees were still wary of a specific residential care qualification which they claimed would tie workers to the job . |
| 11 | The General Health Questionnaire ( GHQ ) is a 30-item psychiatric screening instrument which collects data about symptoms in the previous few weeks . |
| 12 | When the need arose to find a new lord lieutenant for East Sussex in succession to the Queen 's horseracing chum , the Marquess of Abergavenny , the name which emerged from Downing Street was not that of another grand county family but Admiral Sir Lindsay Bryson , a retired naval engineering officer whose address , 74 , Dyke Road , Brighton , hardly hinted at rolling acres . |
| 13 | When gardening he often wore very baggy trousers with braces , gum boots and a waist-length black donkey jacket which hung loose and looked as if it was too short . |
| 14 | In the theory which accompanied this series it was shown that the function of regulated systems was to convert a ‘ rough ’ d.c. input voltage into a stable d.c. output voltage which would be maintained over a wide range of load current requirements as well as input voltage variations . |
| 15 | The decision , following a public inquiry in February , clears the way for a controversial gipsy transit camp which has been the subject of a long-running dispute between Warrington Borough and Cheshire County councils . |
| 16 | I fancied that except for a few corrugated iron roofs it still looked the same as when he had been here . |
| 17 | The airstrip itself had been built to serve a golf and diving resort that a consortium of Dutch and American businessmen had planned to build on Straker 's Cay , but the money had run out before the hotel or marina had been built and all that was left of their grandiose plans was this pinkish runway made of compacted coral and a few abandoned cement mixers which rusted forlornly where the hotel 's swimming pool was to have been built . |
| 18 | Tobacco was for men and a few old tinker women who sucked on a pipe . |
| 19 | One was a rheumatic Black Country labourer who would come threshing with a flail , wearing a smock . |
| 20 | But he discounts the German raid theory and thinks there was a British chemical warfare experiment which went wrong . |
| 21 | Another advertisement figured in the speech by Kenneth Clarke , the Secretary of State for Health , who parodied a British Medical Association poster which asked : ‘ What do you call a man who will not take medical advice … |
| 22 | Although South Korea recorded a growth rate of 9.1 per cent in 1990 , this was achieved largely through a boom in the construction industry manufactured by a government-backed residential building programme which aimed to construct 2,500,000 new housing units in 1988-92 . |
| 23 | In other words , it 's not an employment location , it is primarily a residential new settlement development which has some employment in it to satisfy employment needs of those who live there . |
| 24 | William Shaw was a Primitive Methodist circuit minister who was born in 1854 and died in 1931 . |
| 25 | It 's a little just a funny shaped bracket thing it 's sort of stand . |
| 26 | The device incorporates a high tensile steel tube which clamps to the steering wheel and an integral alarm . |
| 27 | It has been put together by a group of younger supporters , and the first issue comes complete with a free disabled driver sticker which should make parking at away games much easier . |
| 28 | In 1927 , a district known as the Housewife Lane area was demolished as a slum clearance scheme and its population of 710 ( 152 families ) was moved to the Mount Pleasant Estate , a self-contained municipal housing estate which had been specially built for the purpose . |
| 29 | Crawford was his elder brother , a flash local gang leader who prefers betting to honest work , and Jacqueline Forster was the sister who becomes pregnant by an American GI . |
| 30 | Channel 4 's ‘ Brookside ’ briefly flirted with a lesbian sub-plot based round a disorganised feminist printing collective which added spice to Heather and Nicholas 's conjugal difficulties . |