Example sentences of "an [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the one hand , it is difficult to see how some of Porter 's ten cost-drivers can be used to assign costs to products in an activity-based costing sense . |
| 2 | After all , one alternative upon discovering from an activity-based costing system that many products are unprofitable is to focus on reducing their costs rather than close down their production lines . |
| 3 | by nervous fingers , how an upset teaspoon will |
| 4 | But services still suffer , and many capital projects — including an urgently-needed day centre — never get started because the council can not afford to maintain them . |
| 5 | And Porter 's Head — an unsigned Bristol outfit that are protégés of Neneh and Cameron — whose frontman Jeff Barrow wrote ‘ Someday ’ . |
| 6 | Charles Dickens had something similar on his mind when , in an embittered flogging essay of 1860 , he accused ‘ The Ruffian ’ of making London 's streets as perilous as a ‘ solitary mountain-spur of the Abruzzi ’ . |
| 7 | An embittered West Country clothier complained in 1739 that the only persons who supported the poor were those who did not know of " the insolence , idleness , debauchery , frauds and dishonesty " of the weavers . |
| 8 | ‘ I can not see how they are going to pay all of us from membership dues , ’ an embittered party bureaucrat said at headquarters , adding that most of them would have to be given six months ' notice . |
| 9 | An embittered Joe Engelberger , the founder of Unimation , believes the reason for America 's robot failure is that ‘ we have bean-counters running our companies . |
| 10 | So on September 12 1987 , an album was issued by an extinct pop group . |
| 11 | But at the Redgrave you sit back and watch an unarguable Macbeth unroll . |
| 12 | While cyclists can currently travel from Merthyr to Talybont-on-Usk using a combination of disused railway lines , forestry tracks and minor roads , the stretch between Talybont and Brecon is along an unsuitable canal towpath . |
| 13 | The crystal structure of the met repressor-operator complex shows two dimeric repressor molecules bound to adjacent sites 8 base pairs apart on an 18-base-pair DNA fragment . |
| 14 | An archaeologist who has transformed the way people think about his area of study ; a communicator who can make an enthralling TV programme ; a lover of contemporary art who has persuaded the Fellows of his Cambridge college at least to tolerate biannual sculpture shows ( one of which involved digging up the hallowed lawns ) ; and now , since his peerage which gives him the forum of Britain 's Upper House , a politician , with strong views on how to preserve the world 's history as encapsulated in its archaeology : Colin Renfrew at fifty-five has an enviable career and range of interests . |
| 15 | The controversial Mildmay fences posed no problems they could not solve and , eight months in advance , everything is set for an enthralling Boxing Day confrontation in the King George VI Rank Chase at Kempton Park . |
| 16 | It took them until the 100th minute of an enthralling Rumbelows Cup semi-final second leg to finally break down Spurs ' gallant resistance as former Cobh Ramblers player Keane met Gary Crosby 's corner to beat Erik Thorstvedt with a thumping header . |
| 17 | By a writ issued on 15 November 1988 and a statement of claim dated 16 February 1990 , the plaintiff , Christopher de Martell , claimed damages from the defendants , the Merton and Sutton Health Authority , for personal injuries and consequential loss arising out of the alleged negligent treatment afforded to him at St. Helier Hospital , Carshalton , on or about 5 February 1967 when his mother , who was pregnant with the plaintiff , underwent an attempted forceps delivery and a caesarean section . |
| 18 | An attempted Army rebellion in support of imprisoned former Col. Mohamed Alí Seineldin was crushed by loyalist forces on Dec. 3 . |
| 19 | THREE men appeared before Darlington magistrates yesterday charged with offences relating to an attempted kidnap incident in Darlington on January 18 . |
| 20 | The boozy juror , who is in his thirties , made his amazing request a minute before the lunch break in an attempted murder trial at Inner London Crown Court . |
| 21 | RAMBO star Sylvester Stallone 's son is to be quizzed over an attempted murder plot , it was revealed last night . |
| 22 | A WHO-DUNNIT on stage turned into an attempted murder inquiry when the baddie shot his victim for real . |
| 23 | POLICE investigating an attempted murder bid on a leading Shankill Road loyalist have appealed for information from anyone who witnessed the attack . |
| 24 | He said that the woman , who had been diagnosed as a schizophrenic in 1986 after an attempted arson attack , would probably not be fit to stand trial because of her mental condition . |
| 25 | EXPLOSIVES smuggled in the soles of training shoes were to be used in an attempted daylight breakout by more than a dozen IRA men in a top security prison , it emerged yesterday . |
| 26 | Police had given chase after foiling an attempted ram raid in Marlborough . |
| 27 | The officer , who carried on to arrest a man suspected of an attempted bank raid , was in hospital yesterday . |
| 28 | He told the story of a loner , a drifter , a maverick boy who went from banner-waving at public meetings to protest at experiments on animals , all the way to incendiaries and assault and finally an attempted car bomb . |
| 29 | BOOKMAKERS William Hill suspended bets on Charles renouncing the throne after fears of an attempted betting coup by royal insiders . |
| 30 | CLEVELAND police are today hoping to interview a man thought to have made an attempted suicide bid by leaping from a Stockton bridge . |