Example sentences of "['s] [noun sg] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Davidson emphasises above his own role in Provincial 's response a team effort , not only in the sense that he had to delegate a great deal in such a multi-faceted role — although ‘ logically planning goes together with finance and not only did we have the capacity to take on overseas but control of subsidiaries fits too ’ — to his deputies , and , but that the whole company was involved . |
| 2 | Dieter did not prove a popular leader –many thought that he had accepted the Marienburger 's money a little too readily –and he was replaced by Wilhelm III , Prince of Altdorf and Elector Count of the Reikland . |
| 3 | He is an active member of the World Wildlife Fund , completely untouched by Central Television 's exposure a few weeks ago , and he carefully disposes of his old sump oil . |
| 4 | After Courtney 's trial a senior detective revealed that Courtney had probably abused 100 other women . |
| 5 | Exactly how many ‘ teeth ’ such a fish has to ‘ sink into the mild mannered moggy ’ is doubtful , but we bet it gave the cat 's foot a nasty suck … |
| 6 | Rose gave Baptiste 's earlobe a hard pinch . |
| 7 | Today , when councils like that in Tewkesbury restore old Meeting Houses — in Tewkesbury 's case a Baptist chapel down a narrow lane opposite the great Abbey Church — Baptist visitors are as surprised as everyone else at the austerity of the past . |
| 8 | Several states maintain Soviet military advisers on their soil , in Syria 's case a substantial number . |
| 9 | Apart from other considerations , many other almost insuperable obstacles , in order to get hold of Mike or her father she would have to go through switchboards and in her father 's case a secretary . |
| 10 | The weaknesses are of exaggeration , and in Illich 's case a romantic and utopian nostalgia for a past that never existed . |
| 11 | Sally 's sister a little girl of three months , Daryl had meant to tell Sally what her mother had said and had forgotten and now she remembered . |
| 12 | In the early years of the BAA 's existence a satisfactory clerical records service relating to employees was maintained and operated manually . |
| 13 | It 's not that my family deliberately kept Fred 's existence a secret . |
| 14 | Sharpe blew the Prince 's whore a kiss , then rode to find a crossroads . |
| 15 | You can imagine the population of th , of a nearby town , every now and again they would come down and perhaps throw some food over in this man 's direction a loaf of bread , a , a a a a a a , a hunk of meat or , some other food every now and again so he would keep alive . |
| 16 | Not until the appearance in United Nations World , dated May 1951 , of an article by Professor Hans Thirring , entitled ‘ Is Peron 's A-bomb a swindle ? ’ , was Richter spurred to put pen to paper But his rejoinder , ‘ Argentina has no atom bomb ’ in the July issue of that journal , was a disappointment to those expecting some scientific enlightenment . |
| 17 | The surprise announcement of British entry into the Exchange Rate Mechanism appeared to have solved , at least in the short term , the long-standing divisions in the party and government over the correct approach to Europe — divisions that had contributed to Lawson 's resignation a year earlier . |
| 18 | He was assuming that the slice had come from Miss Tuckey 's kitchen a makeshift to arm ‘ Praeger ’ while the others went to get a van or just new instructions since they would n't have planned on removing a body . |
| 19 | But the possibilities of domestic tension were increased by Warnie 's presence a hundredfold . |
| 20 | He sensed Rodo 's presence a few metres ahead of him . |
| 21 | When he was fetched from the Common Room his walk had a touch of spring , and he came into Pumfrey 's presence a shade more jauntily than would have been the case if he had been interviewed earlier . |
| 22 | Erm and also we take take the second year 's payment a year later . |
| 23 | We take the second year 's payment a year later . |
| 24 | And we take the second year 's , this is a sales pitch , we take the second year 's payment a year later . |
| 25 | Desert Orchid would not have given Norton 's Coin a second thought since their Kempton meeting , for he had his public to deal with . |
| 26 | In 1346 Archbishop Stratford was ordered to read to the clergy and laity assembled in St Paul 's churchyard a recently discovered Franco-Norman agreement ( actually concluded in 1339 ! ) to invade England ; publication was to be accompanied by a sermon and a solemn procession , ‘ so that by this means the people of the kingdom might be roused to esteem the king more fervently and pray more devoutly for his expedition in order that he may keep the people safe from Gallic machinations ’ . |
| 27 | She fell back among her pillows , her widow 's veil a curling black crown behind her head ; one narrowly white-cuffed hand still held the glass of whisky erect — there was a magnificence in her yielding . |
| 28 | So that 's a fish 's backbone a vertebra , so that would go in there . |
| 29 | She 's calling the girl 's mum a prostitute . |
| 30 | Horror brings Eliot 's chorus a sense of unnatural reversion which earlier he had found associated with anthropological discussions and had detected behind Lawrence 's ‘ explanation of the civilised by the primitive ’ sending his characters back ‘ to reascend the metamorphoses of evolution ’ . |