Example sentences of "[noun] a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE president of the Court of Governors of the University College of Wales , Aberystwyth , Sir Melvyn Rosser , has joined the board of Menter a Busnes , the agency that aims to make Welsh speakers more enterprising in business . |
| 2 | Several yeomen in Rutland were described as servants , while the Discourse of the Common Weal comments ‘ xl a yeare was good honeste wages for a yeoman afore this time , and xxd a wekes borde wages was sufficient ’ . |
| 3 | Just inside the doorway a police marksman lay on his face . |
| 4 | The main body of the investors was , of course , the Pioneers ' Society ; and it was primarily in intention and practice a consumers ' co-operative . |
| 5 | These do not exist in the hops and must be converted from precursor a acids which are present by an extended period of boiling . |
| 6 | We just popped out to get a beer and a burger , down-state a ways . |
| 7 | He looked at them like an auctioneer trying to improve a poor lot m a cattle market . |
| 8 | of the people asked thought that it was about privatisation , and that in Ayrshire a Systems Three poll showed 74 per cent . |
| 9 | The Council denies their rent 's too high and even though the new owners have made the hut a cabbies ' shelter in name only at least Oxford 's most unusual historic building is once again back in use . |
| 10 | European Community ( EC ) Finance Ministers in early October allocated Albania a balance-of-payments support grant worth ECU70,000,000 , conditional upon Albania concluding an agreement with the IMF and holding to its recommendations ( ECU1=US$1.39013 as at Oct. 5 , 1992 ) . |
| 11 | In order to maximise the long term impact this sports component has on participation in Scotland a Sports Information Point will be in operation throughout the Festival 's duration . |
| 12 | On 1 July a SOFRES poll in Le Figaro showed that 69 per cent of those asked predicted a ‘ Yes ’ vote . |
| 13 | Baltusnikas shot wide , scarcely believing he had so much room in the Republic 's penalty area ; Bonner finger-tipped a Kirilovas shot round the post ; Slekys shaved the post with a close-range toe-poke ; and then Bonner saved again from Stumbrys . |
| 14 | Parent a police officer . |
| 15 | In the family proceedings court certain procedural functions may be carried out by a single justice or in certain circumstances a justices ' clerk ( see Chapter 4 , 1 ) . |
| 16 | That expansion is absolute daily proof , I mean it does n't really sort of make sense now what does it mean , number one , number er A one A , the needs a airports and travel . |
| 17 | Phytoplankton of diatoms and other green algae is poorly developed ; chlorophyll a values of up to 8.0 µg 1 -1 were recorded , and annual production was estimated at 12.6 g C m -2 in a year ( Ellis-Evans , 198 la ) . |
| 18 | Chlorophyll a values up to 170 mg m -2 were recorded in spring and up to 40 mg m -2 in summer . |
| 19 | Productivity was concentrated close to the surface ; chlorophyll a values were high in summer and a daily peak production of over 300 mg C m 2 was recorded , decreasing rapidly below 1 m ( Heywood , 1984 ) . |
| 20 | For once though Town had the luck … about time to … and they made sure of victory with a well worked second goal from Andy Mutch … scoring against your old team is always sweet … even sweeter when it gives Town a favourites chance of reaching the next round of the cup … |
| 21 | Observers speculated that it offered Gorbachev 's conservative opponents probably their last chance to influence policy as a credible force in the central committee : in recent weeks a grassroots party revolt had toppled the conservative leaderships in several regions and cities , including Tyumen in West Siberia , Chernigov in the Ukraine , and Volgograd in southern European Russia , while conservatives were facing a rout in the forthcoming local soviet ( council ) elections ( in which party leaders had been encouraged to stand ) and in elections to party posts ahead of the 28th CPSU congress . |
| 22 | The University of Walkato , Hamilton , New Zealand reached its 25th Anniversary in 1989 and as part of the celebrations a Graduates ' Association was formed . |
| 23 | THAT CAPS IT ALL ! — yet another evocative photograph from the Rock Travel Company 's visit to Russia : Father Paul Moxon , of St Joseph 's , Wetherby ( right ) dons a typical Russian woolly hat while Vic Wilson , driver on the 6,000-mile journey , sports a police hat . |
| 24 | During the past few months the change to End Product Duty has made Stretton a Customs & Excise Bond , and Albany 's extensive experience in bonded warehouse operations came in useful . |
| 25 | I made one out of a pale wine a ros wine as well , the girls do n't like the red wine , but they like the ros wine |
| 26 | Bitterness is contributed by chemicals called iso- a acids . |
| 27 | For he said — Hugh Beringar said — that Brother Cadfael understands wounds , having been many years a man-at-arms . ’ |
| 28 | In a warm room a 24″ tank needs only 100W , 200W should cope with any conditions . |
| 29 | Every 4th or 5th shampoo , apply a penetrating treatment to really give your hair a boosts . |
| 30 | là dove vanno l'anime a lavarsi … |