Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun sg] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For years they taunted bitter cross-town rivals Linfield for being a sectarian football club , for making Windsor Park a no-go area for Catholics . |
| 2 | Experts meeting at Thames Water 's Oxford Headquarters today are about to give Farmoor Reservoir a clean bill of health . |
| 3 | On Saturday night a stolen Ford Escort crashed on the Wood Farm estate . |
| 4 | On Saturday night a stolen Ford Escort crashed on the Wood Farm estate . |
| 5 | In one such incident , described in some detail , he tells us how ‘ one Friday night an enormous navvy pushed the head of a constable through a shop window and started quite a battle in which uniformed and plainclothes men cheerfully joined in ’ . |
| 6 | Every Tuesday morning an old lady called Mrs Lark came to the school . |
| 7 | This routine went on week after week , and might never have changed , until one Saturday morning a toffee-nosed lady who I had noticed standing on the corner for the past week , wearing a long black dress and carrying a parasol , strode over to our barrow , stopped and placed a white feather in Dad 's lapel . |
| 8 | County Nat West oil analyst Neil Thomas said that the inquiry 's decision could be affected by the furore surrounding the planned closure of Point of Ayr colliery a short distance from the Connah 's Quay station . |
| 9 | ‘ Royal ’ arrest An Australian farmer and his wife who declared their Queensland farm an independent country , calling themselves the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough , have been arrested for defying a court order to hand over the property to receivers . |
| 10 | The bracken on Barkin Fell was the colour of new rust and the sky over Barbon Manor a deep blue . |
| 11 | 5 Priestgate junction a one-way entry . |
| 12 | The Comintern 's aim was to convert a nationalist struggle into a broader social struggle ( in accordance with part of its remit ) , but Comintern officials made no serious attempt to fulfil the second part of the resolutions adopted at the Sixth Congress by setting up a Communist party in Nicaragua , which could have given the Sandinista movement an organisational base and therefore the possibility of continuity ( Cerdas Cruz : 1986a , pp. 363–97 ) . |
| 13 | Heart of England Way An 80 mile route from Cannock Chase to Chipping Camden . |
| 14 | But 29-year-old Davey , who now lives in a lavish Florida mansion a long way from the two-up two-down terraced house he was brought up in , has no guarantees of success . |
| 15 | One Harvard dealer an American boy , was fortunate enough to get close to this quickly By putting a wealthy client into some circumspect account trades , and so actually making him a lot of money , the dealer earned the client 's gratitude . |
| 16 | The French Environment Minister , Brice Lalonde , has declared the 3,000-hectare marshland of Guerande on the Atlantic coast a protected area . |
| 17 | On Monday morning an armed guard escorted the Admiralty 's cash for repaying the loan to Mr Alderman 's office on The Hard . |
| 18 | Two awards in quick succession have earned Courtaulds Engineering a gratifying safety double . |
| 19 | The vehicle was hijacked in the Shankill area a short time before the shooting and later abandoned at Slieveban Drive , Andersonstown . |
| 20 | Wain Wath Force is alongside the Birkdale road a short mile out of the village and can be viewed by motorists without leaving their cars . |
| 21 | YOU 'LL recall that Tory MP Nicholas Soames was sighted in the Commons wearing an unlikely lapel badge : Tortoise Lovers Against Cruise . |
| 22 | They were also tired and when Bath turned again to the Campese option an important part of the Gloucester defence lost concentration . |
| 23 | Sir Bruce hat a low opinion of civilian intelligence officers . |
| 24 | 1 In your opinion was the March Revolution a spontaneous uprising ? |
| 25 | It has taken Gary Pallister a long time to fulfil the promise that tempted Alex Ferguson to part with £2.3m but in America the Manchester United centre-half delivered a powerful case for elevation to first choice . |
| 26 | Was the Girlie winner a rich beauty with a weakness for crime reporters ? ’ |
| 27 | In Smolensk guberniia a long list of bridges , points , and crossings had been blown up in military action . |
| 28 | At the first pond on Hampstead Heath a raised brick platform juts out into the water . |
| 29 | It is possible that because of the more easily won ore from the Anglesey mine a certain amount of interest became lacking in the Coniston Workings . |
| 30 | On Saturday night there is a dance and on Sunday morning a civic procession to church when the President has the company of the Mayors of Richmond , Darlington , Middlesbrough , Stockton , Hartlepool and Ripon . |