Example sentences of "[noun] ['s] [adj] [noun sg] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Purists may just possibly consider the analogy with Kipling 's powerful verse a bit over the top , bordering on the hyperbole , but what matter ? |
| 2 | Mo Johnston , playing only his second game after a two-month absence , scored in the 63rd minute to cancel out Mark Wright 's towering header a minute earlier . |
| 3 | That the two paired strands formed a double helix was in Crick 's original view a nuisance ; they had to be unwound . |
| 4 | One could almost say that the second scenes really belong to the interludes which precede them though in the final act Britten adds to Grimes 's last monologue a reprise of the first interlude , whose function is to close out the musical form of the opera as a whole . |
| 5 | We sat in the packed aisles , the building 's relative simplicity a delusion for what was to follow . |
| 6 | Although at the end of Bair 's lengthy work a number of contradictions and conflicts do remain , this is nevertheless a meticulously researched study which provides many insights into de Beauvoir 's world . |
| 7 | Well no how much does it work out to stay at Kit 's twelve pound a night in n it ? |
| 8 | Meeting in the home of the Council of Europe , it brought back memories of that body 's inaugural session a decade earlier ; the same tangible mood of excitement and sense of history was present . |
| 9 | It would take time to set that to rights , and make of Carlotta 's old home a palace fit for her brother to live in . |
| 10 | 420 ( 55% ) responders were working , and of these 235 ( 56% ) had less than two weeks ' sick leave a year . |
| 11 | ‘ The Adventists have an agreement with the Town Hall to give each woman 100 pounds weight of donated US foods monthly , in exchange for three days ' municipal work a week . ’ |
| 12 | The assessors , including the architect Sir Norman Foster , found Horden 's winning design a blend of technological innovation and sculptural massing . |
| 13 | At first they bumped each other , Rose 's soft bosom a cushion for Léonie 's chin . |
| 14 | Well forty pound a week 's forty pound a week extra |
| 15 | Suddenly I saw behind Stapleton 's smiling face a heart with murder in it . |
| 16 | On the river 's northern bank a troop of black-uniformed Prussian Hussars shadowed the Red Lancers , and it was those Hussars who , rounding a bend in the Sambre Valley , discovered a party of French engineers floating a pontoon bridge off the southern bank . |
| 17 | Changes in the computer market , and in Microsoft 's own activities , are set to make Mr Gates 's firm look a lot less unassailable . |
| 18 | ‘ in a doctor 's professional judgement a patient needs NHS care … |
| 19 | Take-up on that scale could make Mr Major 's first budget a lot more memorable than it first appeared . |
| 20 | Examples : Consider the following : a painting of a giant a sailor 's personal log a letter to a friend left behind after a move . |
| 21 | Eu 's new image a waste |
| 22 | Li Shai Tung let his left hand rest on Shepherd 's upper arm a moment , then nodded . |
| 23 | Police believe he was set up by Jim Craig , who ran the UDA 's multi-million pound a year extortion rackets . |
| 24 | For the first time in Wigston 's long history a class of gentry was beginning to appear ; moreover , substantial holdings were passing into the hands of absentee landlords . |
| 25 | When he eventually turned eighteen his father told him he had no further objection to his being baptised , a decision based more on Rajiv 's co-operative attitude a year before than on his recent coming of age . |