Example sentences of "a [adj] bbc " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , in 1982 , independently of the Dragon Project , Charles Brooker , a retired BBC engineer , carried out a magnetic survey of the Rollright Stones . |
| 2 | A three-man BBC crew and Reuter correspondent Frances Kerry were surrounded by the mob when their interpreter fled in fear of his life . |
| 3 | Their strong support came after a top BBC manager also backed Mr Birt , while admitting he and the corporation and Mr Birt were damaged by the row over his tax deal — which enabled him to be treated as self-employed and his pay to go to his private company . |
| 4 | He was later to become a top BBC foreign correspondent , newsreader and co-presenter of Radio 4 's Today . |
| 5 | Their strong support came after a top BBC manager also backed Mr Birt , while admitting that the corporation and Mr Birt were damaged by the row over his tax deal which enabled him to be treated as self-employed and his pay to go to his private company . |
| 6 | Mr Carey , 46 , a distinguished BBC journalist for 23 years , said he expected to liaise constantly with broadcasters on what footage they required . |
| 7 | Its fourth issue devoted a page to analysis and views of the smaller , 21 July Vietnam demonstration half a page to strike reports from Manchester and London , two pages to a suppressed BBC script on racism , and almost a page to Malcolm X and an excerpt from American black power advocate Julius Lester 's Look Out Whitey . |
| 8 | ‘ If you had continuous music , it would be like keeping the pubs open all day , ’ he was told , which Benn summarized as ‘ a real BBC view that it is bad to give the people what they want . ’ |
| 9 | Asked about the recent fall in the pound , he explained in a later BBC interview : ‘ On the average , the exchange rate today is pretty well the same as it was three years ago . |
| 10 | In a previous BBC serial about the moral bankruptcy and satanic drabness of a fictional new town , the polite credits ' acknowledgment to the real modern conurbation which had admitted the cameras had an inadvertent satirical ring . |
| 11 | NORMAN YARDLEY was an extraordinarily gifted games player who rose to become captain of Yorkshire and England , later becoming a regular BBC commentator and chairman of selectors . |
| 12 | The more important of these consists of three Schubert songs — Ganymed , Du liebst mich nicht , Lachen und Weinen — from a 1952 BBC broadcast with Britten at the piano . |
| 13 | ‘ You 've been listening , ’ announced Ken in a pointed BBC accent , ‘ to an excerpt from Forever Amber . ’ |
| 14 | The archaeology proposal came in with a standard white , upper-class male name attached to it , a safe BBC voice , and I said , ‘ Lovely idea , ca n't stand the presenter . |
| 15 | Miss Padstow , 37 , a former BBC researcher , has not previously been married . |
| 16 | Author Brian Hoey , a former BBC Court correspondent , gives an insight into how royals like Charles and Di are tracked on journeys in bugged cars . |
| 17 | It was Mr Grade , a former BBC boss , who gave the go-ahead to the hit soap EastEnders . |
| 18 | It was the kind of immaculate timing you would expect from a former BBC producer . |
| 19 | Twice married , a former BBC Radio 4 panellist and one-time Harlech TV ‘ weathergirl ’ , Amaranth was a woman in search of a husband , an income of £100,000 a year and a seat in Parliament . |
| 20 | As a former BBC war correspondent , he not only had the gift of the gab but was able to keep his head . |
| 21 | Journalist Tom Kilgour , a former BBC TV presenter , meets Malcolm Colley of the Northumbria Region of the National Rivers Authority [ NRA ] . |
| 22 | That the word is intended pejoratively was made clear in a 1987 BBC radio documentary on Karajan entitled ‘ The Price of Perfection ’ . |
| 23 | In spite of being scheduled around the five o'clock timeslot , Doctor Who has always been a fully-fledged BBC Drama Series , made by the Drama Department in the same mould as Z Cars , Adam Adamant Lives , or , more recently , Blake 's 7 and All Creatures Great and Small . |
| 24 | It won many awards , including a Wildscreen ‘ Panda ’ , and is now a best-selling BBC video . |
| 25 | A script for a 1942 BBC broadcast went for £500 , the Air Ministry design certificate for Lancaster prototype BT308 fetched £3,100 , a signed menu from the Dam Busters celebratory dinner on June 22 , 1943 realised £2,900 and an early sketch and calculations by Chadwick for the Avro Vulcan , together with his slide rule and desk-set was sold for £6,100 with most of the Chadwick collection going to a telephone bidder . |
| 26 | It must be clear to everyone that when the testimony of members of Colonel Gadaffi 's government is used in the British press as reliable evidence against a female BBC correspondent , then that person is out of favour . |
| 27 | As Bauer put it in a recent BBC television discussion of covert recognition , ‘ Our normal experience of perception , of seeing objects or faces as an all or none process , is a trick that the brain plays on us ’ . |
| 28 | A recent BBC documentary on the subject showed the dramatic results achieved by Chinese herbal remedies on troublesome skin conditions such as eczema psoriasis and herpes . |
| 29 | ITV has the early morning three-times-a-week CinemAttractions , while Selina Scott has a new BBC TV entertainment programme . |
| 30 | Next week Miss Horrocks stars in a new BBC 2 comedy , Absolutely Famous , with Joanna Lumley , Jennifer Saunders , June Whitfield and Julia Sawalha . |