Example sentences of "[det] a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This a times course of jumps in a ring and you have to go as fast as you can . |
| 2 | Now Sir Frederick , recently the police have made great strides forward in encouraging women to come and report rape because until recently they did n't and they did n't want to they did n't want to face the shame and they did n't want to face everything else , Sir Nicholas and and again his wife which is the most worrying I think of this a women saying that that that women deserve to be raped , erm it 's going to make women less likely to come forward is n't it ? |
| 3 | Well if you 've had enough that 's it then we 'll lose it and we do n't do anything else cos we ca n't keep doing that leaving half a bits and that , this and that |
| 4 | Should be worth half a careers officer . |
| 5 | We 've had half a months rainfall in one day . |
| 6 | Yeah because what they did they they 've done it a few a times though different people , look and see how far it is before it 's a blind spot . |
| 7 | I hope you realised they said a few a words on there that 's just been picked up like while I was |
| 8 | The reason firms should now re-engineer their businesses , argues Mr Hammer , is that rapid advances in computers , and their plummeting price , have made such a back-to-basics attitude possible . |
| 9 | Unlike condoms , dental dams are not freely available in public places , such a pubs , community centres and clubs . |
| 10 | In part Morgan believed that , in systems based on descent groups , spouses were held in common because , in such a society , people often talk of wives or husbands as ‘ having been married to such and such a gens ’ . |
| 11 | And and the shortage of er sewerage as such is not as su as such a criteria to on which to judge the provision of the new settlement because that 's part and parcel of the infrastructure that would be provided . |
| 12 | Erm particularly your question Mr chairman about er the principle against which such a criteria can be can be judged . |
| 13 | Most page printers will come with a selection which will invariably include a serif face such a Times , a sans serif face like Helvetica and , often , a monospaced face . |
| 14 | I 've got a trainee manager at the moment and I 've been trying to he 's just making such a balls up it 's easier not to . |
| 15 | This classification is only for convenience : top fruits , such a figs , mulberries , quinces and hazel nuts , frequently produce several main stems and therefore resemble shrubs , while apples , pears , plums and peaches are often grown in short-stemmed forms known as bushes ( not to be confused with bush fruit , an alternative term for some soft fruits ) . |
| 16 | No other organisation could have ‘ made such a Horlicks ’ of awarding an average 19 per cent pay rise . |
| 17 | ‘ where a police constable ( or a traffic warden ) in uniform ’ This point can be proved by starting the officer 's or the warden 's evidence by ‘ I am a police constable ( or traffic warden ) in such and such a police force and I was in uniform ’ . |
| 18 | It was very much a flats activity . |
| 19 | You may hear in the first syllable of ‘ photography ’ , in the second syllable of ‘ photograph ’ and in the third syllable of ‘ photographer ’ , but the brain recognises links between these a vowels and , and respectively , and supplies underlying vowels which change into the appropriate sound as the stress pattern changes . |
| 20 | and Paul was coming up the stairs , I said is that the police , is that a police car ? |
| 21 | It is after all a dealers ' fair and gives us a chance to show what we have to potential and established clients without the auction houses breathing down our necks . |
| 22 | Well i by definition it must be if it excludes all A classes for example . |
| 23 | Yeah and I used to see them many a times in |
| 24 | Cos I said many a times Arthur |
| 25 | Patterson spells many a words with e , and some of these ( such as rether ‘ rather ’ ) are plainly sporadic residues of rural Scots ( which has [ Ε , e ] in , for example , father , rather , gather and in other pre-dental/ alveolar positions ) ; before nasals , however , e for a is more evident in Patterson . |
| 26 | In fact the 3000 MkIII had gone the way of many a sports car in its dotage and started to take on a softer aspect . |
| 27 | Those a cans of erm it 's fizzy . |