Example sentences of "[noun] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The Count of Eu holds in demesne a manor which is called Hou . |
| 32 | Politicians who hoped to secure the representation of a burgh district were unlikely to succeed , or , if by some aberration a victory could be obtained , to retain the seat , without satisfying the demands of the burgh oligarchies , whose ambitions were rarely modest . |
| 33 | She gave Dot a peck on the cheek . |
| 34 | Use morning and/or night and dot a pinhead amount underneath and around the outside edge . |
| 35 | When Mrs Hollidaye had finished her praying and they were leaving the church , she stopped at the back and showed Dot a book with writing in it . |
| 36 | It 's anything to do with P A P dot A dot C dot . |
| 37 | Gloria gave Dot a hug and said , ‘ Take a peek at that , Dot . |
| 38 | It bottles only 4% of its production under the Cellaro label , paying growers a bonus for healthier grapes with a better balance of sugar and acidity . |
| 39 | Three-times world champion Ayrton Senna would give up £12million a year just to get behind the wheel for nothing . |
| 40 | The Faro a Colón ( Columbus Lighthouse ) , a favourite project of President Joaquín Balaguer which had cost an estimated US$25,000,000 , was intended to be inaugurated during a visit by Pope John Paul II on Oct. 9-14 . |
| 41 | The persona a person presents and the character he acquires in the eyes of the others drives primarily , we believe , not so much from what he does , but from how he does it . |
| 42 | Already he was well enough off to pay his army , with 6d [ 2.5p ] a day for the rank and file and 1s 0d [ 5p ] for the gentry , and soon after Prestonpans a ship bringing money , arms and a French ambassador-cum-political-adviser arrived at Montrose , 62 miles [ 99 km ] from Edinburgh , followed by two others carrying six field guns and a number of Irish officers . |
| 43 | But erm er when the W Winter comes on , the wind starts whistling round this place , it er cuts into your ears a bit . |
| 44 | Not that all these concerns about pedigree matter a damn as far as the music is concerned — it 's jus tot give your ears a clue as to what to expect . |
| 45 | At Langan 's Bistro , with its gallery full of prints , plates and drawings , a waiter stood ready to whisper into more receptive ears a list of the day 's specialities . |
| 46 | Since this is contrary to his teaching concerning the convertibility of means and ends , it is hardly likely that he would be unconcerned with the kind of religion a person might profess to follow . |
| 47 | Giving religion a chance : the formidable case against secularism |
| 48 | In religion a Quaker , in politics a Liberal , he was MP for Penryn ( later Falmouth ) from 1857 to 1865 and gave general but independent support to the third Viscount Palmerston , while favouring the extension of free trade and acquiring a reputation as a respecter of the rights of all religious denominations . |
| 49 | Just like anybody else , they have understood science to be a process of investigation , and religion a matter of faith . |
| 50 | Thereafter , you adopt a wholefood diet with a little or no dairy products and no more than one cup of coffee or two cups of tea a day . |
| 51 | Some of his patients were found to be drinking as many as 40 cups of tea a day ! |
| 52 | However , on 30 June we were told in response to inquiries by the court that she had not taken solid food since 21 June and that , although she had maintained a fluid intake of 12 cups of tea a day , her weight had dropped from 39 kg. on 16 June to 35.1 kg. on 30 June . |
| 53 | er which we stop for er we probably have a cup of tea a couple of times on the way down |
| 54 | The Soviet Union used to produce about 150,000 tonnes of tea a year , making it one of the biggest growers . |
| 55 | I do n't drink any all afternoon , coffee and tea a lot . |
| 56 | It takes a moment to realise that it is not some pagan idol , but a head of Christ on the cross , that the spikes represent the crown of thorns and that in the wreckage of the ancient trunk a face has been carved . |
| 57 | The child 's mother , Alison Margaret Cowley , 34 , of Allerthorpe , North Yorkshire was killed when her car was in collision with a lorry at roadworks a mile west of Bowes , near Barnard Castle on Thursday . |
| 58 | Lend Anna Kazan a fiver and you 'll be lucky to see it again . |
| 59 | For the astonishing fact is that Malcolm Allison , soccer 's oldest boss at 65 , has revitalised a Bristol Rovers side that had won only two of 16 games before he took over from the sacked Dennis Rofe a month ago . |
| 60 | The more , er er sophisticated erm wholesale er distributors now know that people just pick up from stock a box do n't they ? |