Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only once , last autumn , had there been an unnerving lift , a well-dressed man in a Mercedes , who had wanted Luke to drive on towards Devon with him , had offered him dinner and a night at a hotel , had put his hand high up on Luke 's thigh , and been altogether menacing . |
| 2 | Dinner is taken by candlelight at a well-dressed table in the elegant dining room . |
| 3 | The most serious problems over credit use — sometimes an extreme manifestation of one of the general problems , such as the relationship between ignorance , high-cost credit use , and over-commitment ; sometimes something quite distinct — are too rare to show up in a quantifiable way in a sample survey such as ours . |
| 4 | The bar was against the far wall , plentifully stocked and presided over by a bleached blonde in a white beaded sweater . |
| 5 | When Ace arrived back at the hospital with Petion- and the Doctor , she found Howard talking animatedly , but not entirely cheerfully , to a hawk-faced man in Marine uniform and what she thought of as a Smokey-bear hat . |
| 6 | President De Klerk , he said , had not begun to address the central issue , ‘ that is , the creation of a non-racial democracy in a unitary state ’ . |
| 7 | Although the plans were later cut back , the Suez crisis encouraged a three-fold increase in the then current plans for new nuclear power stations . |
| 8 | Increased oil revenues in 1990 [ see p. 38071 ] accounting for a rise in foreign exchange allotments for several industries , were reported to have made possible a three-fold increase in car production , announced by the Ministry of Heavy Industries on Aug. 6 . |
| 9 | The key demands of the protest were a monthly minimum wage of the equivalent of US$536 , a three-fold increase in the basic pension to US$450 , reform of legislation linking pay to productivity and a new collective wage bargaining law . |
| 10 | The Middle East was the most successful region and a three-fold increase in activity is in prospect there in 1993 . |
| 11 | As for London , a three-fold increase in tonnage cleared did not lead very quickly to a solution to the severe congestion of the Pool , on which was concentrated a cargo handling facility employing 120,000 men . |
| 12 | Walcott suggested there was a three-fold division in the House of Commons at this time : the government interest , which comprised placemen , pensioners and those who in other ways were dependent upon the Court for their position ; a large body of independent back-bench MPs ; and a middle group of professional politicians , which could be divided into seven " connections " , each tied together by family and personal relationships and electoral interests , and which were caught in a struggle for power between the " ins " and " outs " . |
| 13 | But a frontal attack in the face of barbed wire and entrenched machine-guns was unlikely to succeed , and it guaranteed heavy losses . |
| 14 | He caught sight of a dark-haired boy in a bright red shirt and green shorts coming out of the shop . |
| 15 | As Miss Fergusson explained the extent and purpose of their journey , the diplomat studied her : a dark-haired woman in early middle age , with protuberant black eyes and rather full , reddish cheeks which pushed her lips forward into a pout . |
| 16 | For Abelard there is a transforming energy in love which can change people . |
| 17 | In 1878 , the Citterio family started selling their cured meat to a grateful public in Milan . |
| 18 | The first recorded death of a deaf person in a railway accident occurred in Cardiff in June 1875 when a 60 years old Irish visitor , John Thomas Morris , was struck by a train whilst walking along the tracks . |
| 19 | This particular book Etchings Illustrative of Scottish Character and Scenery represents the first appearance of a deaf artist in pictorial literature . |
| 20 | He founded two cycling associations — the North Road Cycling Club and Cyclists ' Road Records Association , of which he was President for nearly 30 years — an unique achievement for a deaf man in a mainly hearing organisation . |
| 21 | The Hugh Bell School in Middlesbrough opened on 7th January 1895 with 7 scholars as a deaf class in a cold , cramped room near the magistrates ' courts — who were wont to complain frequently about the noise from the alleyway between the classroom and the courts where the children played . |
| 22 | A sub-Minoan tradition in painted pottery lingers long , and is replaced by a very individual form of Protogeometric , the later stages of which show , surprisingly , powerful influence from the East . |
| 23 | Out of 300 good class competitors , he achieved a brilliant second place on a hilly route in 59 mins. 7 secs . |
| 24 | Hence the enormous success of Oldham , a hilly settlement in East Lancashire with considerable reserves of coal , situated only 11km ( 7 miles ) from Manchester , the greatest yarn market in the world in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries . |
| 25 | Above : Car 710 en-route for the Tramway Museum , passes through a hilly street in Huddersfield . |
| 26 | Most of the southern states resisted this and in one particular state one that 's sprung to prominence in recent times , the State of Arkansas er and its capital Little Rock , the then state governor , who was n't then Bill Clinton but a man called Orville Forbus defied the supreme court 's order and on a historic day in nineteen fifty four a little troupe of black children trooped up to the local high school and were met by armed , armed police and turned away . |
| 27 | And all against the background of what appears to be a historic breakthrough in black South African politics as the cracks in the apartheid edifice widen and the government begins to lose its grip on the affairs of state . |
| 28 | THE RUSSIAN and Ukrainian Presidents struggling for power over the Black Sea Fleet may be pleasing their nationalist countrymen , but the sailors at the fleet 's Crimean headquarters feel only shame and humiliation at the spectacle of a historic navy in chaos . |
| 29 | It is set in a medieval castle in a historic town in Eastern Europe . |
| 30 | The opposition Free National Movement ( FNM ) won a historic victory in the general election held on Aug. 19 . |