Example sentences of "[noun sg] [art] [adj] [noun] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | With all these elements in mind the best thing that a designer can do is tell you to cast off the stitches and leave the method to you . |
| 2 | All booths are identical from the outside with a single entrance the front door and a first floor balcony . |
| 3 | I had at my command a whole hour and a quarter , and I had my voice ; but the words … |
| 4 | But in the long run nature , which can not be ignored or defied with impunity , asserts its power ; … health fails … [ she ] leaves college a good scholar but a delicate and ailing woman … the special functions which have relation to her future offices as a woman , and the full and perfect accomplishment of which is essential to sexual completeness , have been deranged at a critical time . |
| 5 | There is the irony : that , just when British Empirical Socialism had come to terms with the idea of a mixed economy , when it had accepted that for the indefinite future a public sector and a private sector would co-exist , when the tangle of objections which the Webbs had seen to the development of a privately-owned industrial co-operative sector had been so far cleared away as to open the path to a natural growth of industrial democracy by a means which , because it reconciled the rights and interests of labour with those of ownership , would have been sustainable , the Labour Government ignored or overlooked the opportunity . |
| 6 | In a similar vein , Lord Moncrieff held in Robertson v Hall 's Trs ( 1896 ) 24R 120 ( at p134 ) : [ T ] his [ s 62(4) of SGA 1979 ] is in effect a statutory declaration that a pledge of , or other security over moveables , can not be created merely by completion of what professes to be a contract of sale . |
| 7 | The Company then provided a service from West Croydon to Mitcham ( Fair Green ) , with a car every nine minutes and a twenty minute journey time , normally using the bogie cars . |
| 8 | The Guardian reporter praised their ‘ soft man/hard man routine : Nields offers the witness a comfortable chair and a cigarette , Liman slaps him round the face and kicks the chair out from underneath him . ’ |
| 9 | At the entrance a small boy and a youth were waiting . |
| 10 | All you had to do was wear a long raincoat and a glum expression — the rest was simply implied . |
| 11 | The 1st Battalion The Green Howards and a bomb disposal squad cordon and clear an area scattered with armaments . |
| 12 | The Women 's Labour League , of which Mrs MacDonald was a leading member , took the same view , seeing in paid work the additional disadvantage that a woman had less opportunity to ‘ give thought and companionship to her husband ’ . |
| 13 | Rincewind stood up as slowly as he dared , and drew from his belt the short sword he had taken from the guard a few hours and a hundred years ago . |
| 14 | As Melissa dropped a coin into the hat , receiving in return a courtly bow and a murmured , ‘ Muchas gracias , Señora ’ , a nearby clock struck eleven . |
| 15 | Moreover , criminal violence showed no signs of abating : statistics revealed that in 1972 , for example , there was in the United States a murder every 28 minutes , a rape every 11 minutes and a car theft every 36 seconds . |
| 16 | whether in its style of economic management a weak state or a strong one is best for the economy . |
| 17 | So what you have got here is an a blocked up window an inserted doorway and a plastered surface . |
| 18 | Was that apparently empty fisherman 's hut an abandoned home or a gun emplacement ? |
| 19 | This challenge to ‘ universalism ’ need not pose in its place a simple relativism or a mere piling up of empirical descriptions . |
| 20 | A view of the park of the asylum where I am staying ; on the right a grey terrace and a side wall of the house . |
| 21 | Erm , quite how we arrange cos this , as Margaret says there 's a lot of business to get through on occasions , but er , this , this meeting seems to had a lot , but , you know , er whether we could alternate er a business meeting with a , a , a speaker so I thought functional meeting every two months and a speaker attending er , er the other month , erm , I 'm really sussing it open for ideas , what , what do other people feel and |
| 22 | Two distinct groups of tracheae enter the wing a costo-radial group and a cubito-anal group , and while in some forms ( Blattidae , Plecoptera and Homoptera ) the two groups remain separate , it is more usual for them to be united by a fine transverse basal trachea which is part of the basic tracheal framework ( Whitten , 1962 ) . |
| 23 | Anyway erm occasionally they will inflict upon the group a German person or a Swiss national . |
| 24 | Even targets of this order implied an ability to commission a boiler every six days and a turbo-alternator every twelve days for several years : well above the levels ever achieved before in Britain . |
| 25 | We argued that the sickness or crisis of capitalism was not at heart a technical matter but a lack of legitimacy with respect to the system itself . |
| 26 | If her answers were unsatisfactory , their report would be taken to a magistrates ' court the next morning and a petition for her " reception order " drawn up and signed by two people — preferably near relatives or representatives of the family . |
| 27 | Er now these are you know is the lexicon a Pascal module or a C module ? |
| 28 | Citizens ’ Advice Bureaux , for example , rely heavily upon volunteers with few paid advisers and it is argued that this gives the organisation a positive strength and a particularly good claim to independence and impartiality . |
| 29 | Was equal access to good housing and education a Black demand or a necessity inside a ‘ democratic state ’ ? |
| 30 | Fennel — Half a teaspoon of dried fennel or if fresh use the green tops and a piece of the stalk . |