Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He summarizes the kind of attitudes and assumptions towards religion which a majority of children when they arrive in school for the first time will be likely already to have assimilated . |
| 2 | I think they rather wanted me to wear my old farm clothes , but we compromised with a grey check skirt which a good friend gave me , and a blue jumper . |
| 3 | I have also been writing an evening class programme which a colleague and I hope to get some funding towards from the local enterprise culture . |
| 4 | This exported oil or gas is not , as it is in the West , that part of production which is surplus to domestic requirements ; it is a quota which a decision has been taken to meet in order to fulfil a particular objective . |
| 5 | Woodruffe helped him drink some Scotch and put him in Rogers 's limousine which a mechanic had brought over . |
| 6 | Banging sounds emanating from the boiler may be caused by a build-up of scale , especially in hard water areas ( see under Corrosion ) or to air being drawn into the system — usually a design fault which a heating expert will have to trace for you . |
| 7 | Many observers also underestimated the strength of disillusionment with Carter 's record : his administration appeared formless and accident-prone , and the President himself a man who know how to gain power but how to use it . |
| 8 | For each area of study which a centre is currently offering the centre is required to submit to HCIMA for forwarding to the centre 's moderator three copies of the following : |
| 9 | I travelled in and they did an interview which a fine man called Peter Canham heard on his car radio . |
| 10 | In other words , it was not a straightforward rule which a national court , or even the European Court , could apply directly , but essentially a question of policy for the Council , the role of the Court being limited to checking whether the Council had overstepped the limits of its discretion . |
| 11 | Between them , they have solved the problem of finding a role for an institution which a few decades ago looked to be under siege . |
| 12 | They were brought in shiploads and bundled away in an institution which a Swiss newspaper recently called ‘ an antechamber of death ’ and a British journal ‘ a modern entrance to Hades ’ . |
| 13 | And there are many blanks left in the weeks of courtship which a loving faith fills with happy assurance . |
| 14 | General Abakumov , by bitter irony himself a Jew , was shot on the orders of his rival , Lavrenti Beria , in 1951 . |
| 15 | For instance , the maximum period of imprisonment for simple theft was three years , much longer than the six months term which a police court could now impose . |
| 16 | Accounts are also kept for shareholders , but American accounting laws allow studios to guess how well a film will do in each of its markets ( an invitation either to claim profits early or to put off losses ) ; for the tax man ( ditto ) ; and for various stars who have been promised shares of a film 's net profit — a figure which a studio wants to keep as low as possible . |
| 17 | It 's time to get Britain working again sets out Labour 's programme for national recovery — the immediate action which a Labour government will take to get the economy out of recession . |
| 18 | Mr. Newman has argued that the earlier decisions involved the application of prior restraints and exercise of the discretion of the court , whereas the issue of a writ in libel is the first step in an action which a party has a right to take and consequently is outside the principles enunciated in those cases . |
| 19 | In the circumstances , any aid which a politician could offer was a very material favour which would long be remembered by the friends of the individual in difficulties . |
| 20 | Any effective loft which a golfer may have enjoyed through using a flexible shaft can be restored by an adjustment of the clubface . |
| 21 | It gives a sharper focus to an interview , helping the worker cope with the flood of reminiscence which a lonely old person may release . |
| 22 | The car itself a new Rover 3500 was far from memorable in Gloucestershire ; it was probably the only British saloon a local landowner would think of owning . |
| 23 | While MP for Pembroke boroughs from 1695 to 1702 ( he was to sit again , for Haverfordwest , 1718–22 ) , he was responsible for the introduction of several legislative measures to suppress ‘ vice and profaneness ’ , notably the Blasphemy Act of 1698 , aimed principally at anti-trinitarian heretics , and the ill-fated ‘ immorality ’ bill the following year , originally designed to tighten the laws against prostitution , but injudiciously extended to make adultery itself a misdemeanour , and for this reason rejected by Parliament as impracticable . |
| 24 | Is n't your ambition itself a sin ? |
| 25 | None the less , within the Review itself a particular kind of space was offered to modernism , seen especially in reviews written by Bateson ( see pp. 81–2 ) . |
| 26 | Bedford ..... 6 Wasps ...... 57 BEDFORD have now conceded 117 points in their last two matches and this latest reversal served only to illustrate the plight of a club who a few months ago were celebrating their arrival in the Courage First Division . |
| 27 | But it was four pou it 's three pound something a pound Ann . |
| 28 | her last ones , about two pound something a bag |
| 29 | It 's four pound something a wheel there . |
| 30 | going charge eighty pound something a quarter , but that , that 's the line which Chris said I |