Example sentences of "a [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And this excitement , and the feeling of being involved in a half-guessed-at mystery , became her private obsession as she went about the house , visited the shops and looked after the children . |
| 2 | Larry Ellison 's having quite a month : not only did Oracle finally get version 7 out , his house got a to-die-for spread in Architectural Digest . |
| 3 | Now but for you , you see , one man 's protest is a about river pollution , for example , a good example . |
| 4 | They 're not called double they 've sort of got a about rainfall and temperature . |
| 5 | Erm , street , you , you know where that big church is , by the light of big round a about road . |
| 6 | It is known from the account of Ali Tusi 's life in the that while muderris at the Uc Serefeli medrese in Edirne with a salary of 100 akce a day , he was ordered by Mehmed II to compete with Hocazade , then muderris at the Zeyrek medrese in Istanbul , in writing a between al-Ghazali 's Tuhafut al-falasifa and the philosophers . |
| 7 | Here M 's indirect request for L to wash the dishes is in Caribbean accented English with a Creole grammatical structure ( a for Standard it is . ) |
| 8 | These alterations were shown to segregate with all family members known to have the mutant XLA locus in their respective pedigrees ( see Fig. 2 a for pedigree analysis of patient B ) . |
| 9 | We came upon the idea of asking this question as the result of going to a for Change conference . |
| 10 | But you know if you wanted to talk about sanctification , as a for instance , that 's growing in grace and holiness , becoming more the person that God wants us to be . |
| 11 | In the diagram , grammatical categories are shown by letters ( d for determiner , a for adjective , n for noun ) . |
| 12 | Kasmin 's shop posted a For Lease sign some weeks ago , although he remains in Cork Street until he can identify a new tenant for his property . |
| 13 | He put a solicitor down , and last time I spoke with him I was defending him on a for fraud . |
| 14 | The purpose of the session really is to give this training course an overview and also to , to sort of have a for training . |
| 15 | More than 100 jobs have been axed , a For Sale sign has gone up over a large slice of its assets and chief executive Andros Stakis has been ousted . |
| 16 | Just a tired row of shops opposite and a seedy-looking pub on the corner and a disused laundry with boarded-up windows and a For Sale notice . |
| 17 | Most house sellers use an estate agent , who will help set a selling price , circulate your property 's details to potential buyers , put up a For Sale sign , arrange appointments , take viewers round and negotiate the sale . |
| 18 | But there was a FOR SALE board up , new today , he had n't seen it there this morning when he set out for the meeting with the AC . |
| 19 | Last season it seemed as though Fairclough was one of those being blamed for the porous Leeds defence ( without the benefit of TV or live matches I 'm going entirely on what I read ) , and was one of the players stuck with a for sale sign at the end of the season by Wilko . |
| 20 | There 's an article on the best chip potato ( the Piper calls that particular tune ) , a piece on pizza parlour v burger bar ( headlined ‘ War and Pizza ’ ) and a For Sale advertisement for a cafe/take away in Darlington ‘ takes £5,000 p.w . |
| 21 | There 's always a for sale sign out outside one of those or one of those . |
| 22 | John Simon found Dustin ‘ always endearing with that sour-grapefruit face and voice of his , both of which , paradoxically , ooze the juice of human kindness ’ , while David Thomson thought that Dustin ‘ was near his best , managing old age easily and riding the picaresque adventures of a put-upon outcast all the better because of his own denial of starriness . |
| 23 | They were eleventh in Division Four when he began his managerial career as a frowned-upon caretaker twelve months ago . |
| 24 | After 123 a of quiescence , noticeable seismic activity began on 20 March , 1980 . |
| 25 | The wind was a of darkness , among the gusty trees . |
| 26 | The third factor that has been given was the effect of the current recession which although these although a of communication is mentioned also provides a steady source of income to the National Federation . |
| 27 | The c i /c a of wheat cultivars increased only slightly from 0.63 and 0.66 at 225μmol mol -1 to 0.66 and 0.69 at 350μmolmol -1 for Yaqui 54 and Seri M82 , respectively . |
| 28 | And er , keep the lemons and things in it , and then , the freezer is just for and when there was like a of stuff at Christmas , they put stuff in it from downstairs , |
| 29 | And a of course is also what they used to get when you wanted to make mealy puddings you made them with the the intestines of an animal and that 's also called a . |
| 30 | Well there is a of course the tannoy coming in , the |