Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun] [noun sg] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | TAKE a pleasant day trip on a glass-bottomed boat to Isla de los Lobos , about a mile-and-a-half off the coast from Corralejo . |
| 2 | A pleasant basement bistro with a delicious French menu . |
| 3 | Roses — a rich peach shade with a good strong scent . |
| 4 | Figure 2 illustrates lysozyme mRNA in a colonic biopsy specimen from a patient with longstanding ulcerative colitis . |
| 5 | Dustin Hoffman is nearly unrecognisable as Mumbles , a whining stool pigeon with a twisted mouth that completely changes his face . |
| 6 | Foundering plan to make a depressed mill town into a Guggenheim satellite for contemporary art has until 31 July to raise $12 million |
| 7 | As a direct result of these projects discussions were held with management level representatives of a large number of local companies , ranging from a multi-national electronics firm to a local laundry service . |
| 8 | Choose from a 3-day Golfing Holiday to a 5- or 8-day Coach Touring Holiday . |
| 9 | The back thrusting foot is then returned to the floor to form a right back stance with a forearm guarding block , which was the original position . |
| 10 | A right hand response to a left field presentation ( indirect or crossed reaction ) , however , would mean that the hemisphere initiating the manual response is not the hemisphere receiving the stimulus and therefore some finite interval of time is required for a nervous impulse to cross from one half of the brain to the other in order to generate a response . |
| 11 | Dee ( 1971 ) observed that left handed subjects with sinistral relatives showed , as a group , a left ear advantage while subjects without left handedness in their pedigree showed a right ear advantage on a verbal dichotic task . |
| 12 | For example , of a group of normal right handers as many as 15 per cent usually fail to show a right ear advantage on a verbal dichotic test ( Bryden , 1978 ) . |
| 13 | One ingenious aid is Bucket Pockets , a durable nylon band with a double row of pockets that fits around an ordinary bucket to make a carrier for the tools , gloves or other small items you wish to have with you in the garden . |
| 14 | Make up a dry mortar mix with a minimum of water , then fill the joints . |
| 15 | There is a private beach club with a bar , set on the sandy beach 300 yards away , across the main road . |
| 16 | I remember being shocked at one time when I heard one of my predecessors say that his objective as chairman was to retain our position as a private company operating on a world basis in the chemical sector . |
| 17 | That undertaking seemed to be developing into a commitment to conduct a private murder investigation in a foreign country . |
| 18 | Adjacent to La Rive is the Wine Room , a private dining area with a large central table and bottles stored around the walls . |
| 19 | Joanne was 4 years old and attended a private nursery in a private housing estate within a large city . |
| 20 | Willi had , somehow , over the years , forced everyone into the custom of dressing as though it were a State ball instead of a private dinner party in a prosperous farmhouse . |
| 21 | Theresa was wearing jeans and a grubby sweat shirt with a map of London 's Underground across the front . |
| 22 | Bird brains A Welsh rugby team had to play a Spanish soccer team during a tour , after a language mix-up in arranging the game . |
| 23 | Margaret Somerville ( McGill ) , fresh from the human rights conference in Vienna , displayed a cartoon — a solid brick wall with a paper thin door of human rights . |
| 24 | At Puebla , the Inter-Oceanic Station of the National lines was a solid stone range with a squat central tower . |
| 25 | The SJ-20 has a solid spruce top with a fairly pronounced built-in arch or ‘ belly ’ . |
| 26 | Early drafts of a possible EC directive on a Europeanwide deposit protection scheme are being discussed . |
| 27 | They hope to build eight single bedrooms with flats for families and a possible leisure complex with a swimming pool and whirlpool . |
| 28 | Mrs Labno left instructions that her two-year-old pony , called Baby , should go to Claire House - which will house eight single bedrooms , family flats and a possible leisure complex with a swimming pool and whirlpool . |
| 29 | Figure 2.3 shows a possible Freeman encoding of a handwritten letter a . |
| 30 | Around his waist he wore a broad leather belt with a bone-handled knife clasped in a sheath and as usual in the presence of the coolies his right hand rested on its hilt as if it were a ceremonial sword . |