Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To have 32 seeds in a 128 women 's singles draw , would be nothing less than a protection racket . |
| 2 | ‘ It was a 128 Sports , ’ he admits , ‘ which proudly announced its 70 hp on a flash down the side . |
| 3 | When life gets too stressful , I play a Moody Blues album from end to end . |
| 4 | He is awaiting a decision from Edinburgh on his application for a Historic Buildings grant , but once completed the castle loses its scheduled monument status and becomes a listed building . |
| 5 | In the past , such houses had always been offered to the National Trust , which had initially taken them without endowment , accepting instead an undertaking that the Ministry of Works would make good any deficit on repairs and maintenance through a Historic Buildings Council grant . |
| 6 | There is clearly now an urgent need for a Historic Stations Trust to remove those treasures that remain beyond the reach of the hammers of the destroyers , both official and unofficial , so that at least part of this precious heritage may be handed down to future generations . |
| 7 | We tarried awhile to watch Messrs Anderson and Rowe perform doughty deeds with caber and shot on a pleasant summers day . |
| 8 | There are trees here , inviting a picnic , and a pleasant anglers ' path may be followed up-river to bring Ben Stack , the most shapely of the mountains hereabouts , into close view . |
| 9 | There was still a pleasant Scots lilt to her Voice . |
| 10 | He spent three years in New York State as resident secretary of the Sleepy Hollow Country Club , a rich men 's recreation park on the Hudson River , whence he could keep an eye on wealthy Irish-Americans . |
| 11 | The claim was made in an article published in the Wall Street Journal on Feb. 6 , which suggested that Clinton had received a four-year deferment from the draft by promising to join a reserve officers ' training programme ( ROTP ) at the University of Arkansas . |
| 12 | The Sports Centre has a medium-sized sports hall and an adjoining minor hall , which are used for basketball , indoor tennis , indoor hockey , martial arts , netball , table-tennis , badminton , fencing , and fitness training . |
| 13 | a Retrospective Chances Module . |
| 14 | What is perhaps a simpler within-subjects design , that shown last in Table 5.1 , has been employed by Eisman ( 1955 ) and in a series of experiments by Grice and his colleagues ( Grice and Davis 1958 , 1960 ; Grice and Hunter 1963 ) ( see also Grice 1965 ) . |
| 15 | According to a Which ? report , 40 per cent of menus in NHS hospitals claiming to have a healthy food policy failed to reach an acceptable score in a nutritional values survey . |
| 16 | Among more modern works he owned Garrick 's copy of Drayton 's Polyolbion , a 1550 Piers Plowman , and the first edition of the works of Taylor , the Water Poet . |
| 17 | All 129 passengers aboard a Scandinavian Airlines System ( SAS ) survived after it crash-landed near Stockholm on Dec. 27 . |
| 18 | ( a ) for solicitors to enter into a multi-national partnerships with members of that profession ; and |
| 19 | Some companies are engaged in only one of these activities ( e.g. a single distillery or a warehousing company ) and some are engaged in all of these activities ( e.g. a multi-national drinks conglomerate ) . |
| 20 | They used minute-to-minute data to fit a simultaneous equations model of the determination of spot and futures prices for the MMI . |
| 21 | Schwarz and Laatsch ( 1991 ) again used a simultaneous equations model , and applied it to data for the MMI from 1985 to 1988 . |
| 22 | Using a simultaneous equations model , they regressed this measure of volatility on its own lagged values , lagged values of the volatility of the spot value of the S&P500 index , three volume measures , a maturity variable and day-of-the week dummies . |
| 23 | He was also convicted of having possession with intent to endanger life of a cache of explosives and arms found at another house five doors away during a simultaneous police search . |
| 24 | Stirling had a lucky encounter , however , with Brigadier John Marriott , a Scots Guards officer whom he had known in Cairo . |
| 25 | Peter McBride , who has two young children , was hit in the back as he sprinted away from a Scots Guards patrol in Belfast 's republican New Lodge area . |
| 26 | ‘ Well , I made a right balls of that , ’ he admitted frankly . |
| 27 | Easy way to sort them out this with with trig or with Pythagoras you 're only working with a right angles triangle . |
| 28 | When a learner-reader miscues he or she is ‘ projecting important personal meaning into the story ’ — ibid . |
| 29 | Thieves broke into two premises in Drury Lane , Braintree , and attempted to get into a third.They stole £1,000 in cash and cheques from a dry cleaners , and £130 cash from a hairdressers . |
| 30 | Does he have an account with a dry cleaners ? |