On page 72 of his Syntactic structures, Noam Chomsky writes:
One of the nominalizing transformations will be the transformation TAdj which operates on any string of the form
(71) T – N–is – Adj (i.e., article – noun – is – adjective)
and converts it into the corresponding noun phrase of the form T + Adj + N. Thus, it converts “the boy is tall” into “the tall boy,” etc. It is not difficult to show that this transformation simplifies the grammar considerably, and that it must go in this, not the opposite direction. When we formulate this transformation properly, we find that it enables us to drop all adjective-noun combinations from the kernel, reintroducing them by TAdj.