Example sentences of "an [adj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It continues as an usual inland resort set in woodland of silver birches , rhododendrons and conifers . |
| 2 | An unsigned internal letter dated 13 February to the operations staff at MEHQ states that Stirling was making arrangements with the Eighth Army for further raids . |
| 3 | As with an unsigned contractual document , this method of incorporation will work only if at the time of making the contract the buyer actually knew of the existence of the terms or else reasonable steps had been taken to bring them to his attention . |
| 4 | Participants must be actively involved in AIDS antiviral research and have an investigational new drug in the early stages of drug development . |
| 5 | Soon Britain will be worrying about rising inflation ; not long after , it will rediscover the difficulties of conducting an anti-inflationary monetary policy without an exchange-rate peg — and will begin to wonder about rejoining the ERM . |
| 6 | These need to be grasped if we are to understand him — and so to make use of him , rather than simply dismissing him as an embittered elitist pessimist . |
| 7 | AN embittered clerical officer stole rent collected from wheelchair-bound tenants of her employer when denied promotion . |
| 8 | ‘ It represents nothing more nor less than the imposition of the temple architecture of an extinct Mediterranean civilization upon the house design of a northern people ’ , remarks Olive Cook in her English House Through Seven Centuries . |
| 9 | The great range of South American mammals included an extinct giant guinea-pig , the size of a modern rhinoceros but a rodent ( I have to say " modern " rhinoceros because the Old World fauna included a giant rhinoceros the size of a two-storey house ) . |
| 10 | Given an unsuitable feeding place , they may become erratic in their response to food . |
| 11 | It was the stereotyped picture beloved of cartoonists — the family ( Nigel and a few cousins ) , trim in their black on one side of the grave , and the floosie ( Jacqui ) , in an unsuitable black cocktail dress and purple fur-collared coat , weeping on the other . |
| 12 | An unsuitable Palladian mansion in an unexciting East Anglian village on the edge of the black fens . |
| 13 | Yet when the final came around , frivolity — England sang ‘ Look on the bright side of life ’ in response to the ‘ Haka ’ — gave way to an enthralling forward battle with the All Blacks giving way to no-one . |
| 14 | Cricket this year switches to an eight-aside round robin for under-12 teams , run over two days . |
| 15 | Claims by the NSF that the riots were part of an attempted neo-communist coup were widely discounted . |
| 16 | The accident happened on the outskirts of Chester after a cross-county motorway chase from Warrington as police followed up a report of an attempted armed robbery . |
| 17 | The accident happened on the outskirts of Chester after a cross-county motorway chase from Warrington as police followed up a report of an attempted armed robbery . |
| 18 | There was an earlier fatal accident during an attempted forced landing by a Tomahowk near Walthomstow where an identical unit failed , resulting in severe smoke from the epoxy resin used in the encapsulated unit . |
| 19 | This insistence , however , does not mesh well with an attempted evolutionary account of language , which it is my concern to sketch . |
| 20 | Under Anne , it was only in 1708 , which saw an attempted Jacobite invasion of Scotland , that the Whigs were able to play the " no popery " card with any success . |
| 21 | According to reports reaching opposition groups in Cairo , an attempted military coup staged by a group of non-commissioned officers to overthrow the miliary regime of Gen. Omar Hassan Ahmad al Bashir was crushed on Sept. 12 . |
| 22 | They therefore disagreed with St Germain over a number of fundamentals : their view of the Revolution ; their view of the constitution ; the advisability of an attempted military solution ; their attitude towards France ; and , perhaps most importantly , their attitude towards Catholicism . |
| 23 | The motion had been proposed by President Lech Walesa , whose conflict with the minority Olszewski government , formed in December 1991 [ see pp. 38685-86 ] , had increased in intensity over the areas of defence and national security [ see pp. 38880-81 ; 38921-22 ] and over an attempted last-minute government amendment to the Russian-Polish treaty [ see p. 38922 ] . |
| 24 | Following the tumultuous events of 1955 — a revolution in Iraq , an attempted anti-Hashemite coup in Jordan and a short-lived civil war in Lebanon — the United States began to view Israel as its most stable friend in the region and a strategic asset against Soviet expansionism . |
| 25 | When I realise that here the attacks tend to take an absurd religious turn , I should almost venture to think that this even necessitates a return to the North . |
| 26 | ( Before the bloke behind the counter can reply , an enormously fat man with no neck and an absurd fly-blown haircut barges in front . ) |
| 27 | Dick Van Dyke 'as an absurd fake Cockney accent , yet young people all over the world still thrill to 'is performance in Mary Poppins . |
| 28 | I , too , 'ave an absurd fake Cockney accent but youngsters think I 'm a sad old man an' they refuse to buy my records . |
| 29 | It 's an absurd little thing really and yet somehow or other it 's important . |
| 30 | Lodges , clothing and large amounts of flour were lost to the soldiers , and war correspondent Tom Sutherland reported his discovery of ‘ a much worn pair of small moccasins and an absurd little rag doll under a tree ’ . |