Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun] [unc] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 A title of courtesy used in the UK in the address of a letter after a man 's family name , instead of Mr before it .
2 Also returning is centre Andy Hewitt who returns after a year 's charity work in London while Neil McCluskey , brother of Graeme , joins the students after a one-year stint in the States .
3 Mary resisted the temptation to answer her back and after a moment 's silence Mum continued .
4 After a morning 's sightseeing stop for a coffee , but beware the cafés in St Mark 's Square … a cup of coffee at Florian 's or Quadri 's costs around £3 , but prices improve the further away you get from St Mark 's .
5 After a steward 's enquiry Colour Chart was relegated to fourth place .
6 This was good news , as I had met him after a children 's charity evening and had found him shy , attractive and funny .
7 Fourteen Mafia bosses have been arrested by Sicilian detectives after a woman 's Mafia Godfather lover was gunned down by the organisation .
8 After a week 's crash course in teaching English to foreign students , she and a girl from Lincoln went out to Cracow , Poland 's second largest city , to work in a school for the blind and partially sighted .
9 The dish contained something shiny and wobbly and pink with a cherry on it , and in some strange way it managed to look like something you would n't eat even if it was pushed on to your plate after a week 's starvation diet .
10 In Section 8.1 it was explained that the determination of a currency 's exchange rate value is in principle broadly the same as the establishment of the price for any other financial instrument , commodity , or good .
11 But the melody , apparently , had been the song of a gentleman 's music club .
12 The only big businesses to receive a boost were oil companies : they will be allowed to write off the total cost of shutting down offshore oil fields against any corporation tax incurred during the last three years of a field 's working life .
13 But the advent of almost universal programming in high-level languages alters the requirements of a computer 's instruction set .
14 We can therefore use the execute to make up for some of the deficiencies of a computer 's instruction set ; examples might be the coding of jump tables where the Computer does not have indexed jump instructions , or operations on dynamically variable-length data where the operand length is coded in the instruction format ; the latter is illustrated in Figure 3.18 .
15 It may be uneconomic or too inflexible to implement in hardware all of a computer 's instruction set .
16 They were sometimes denied the authority necessary for the fulfilment of their expected role , and it was critically important that they were seen as part of a school 's management team rather than being relegated to the position of mere facilitator .
17 Another song celebrates the launching of a friend 's motor yacht , and a tiny fragment , Casa mia , was written for a house agent to use , when Puccini wanted to sell his house .
18 A useful example is the erection in a prominent place of a parents ' notice board where details of sales , wants , baby sitters , child minders , community activities , thank you letters , etc are displayed .
19 Our article on the surviving jacket of a King 's Regiment colour-sergeant of the 1820s is the contribution of Lt. Col. A. J. Moore , TD .
20 A report , published yesterday by Alan Bishop , chief inspector of prisons for Scotland , says members of a prisoners ' alcohol abuse group have given talks at secondary schools and have attended meetings of parent-teacher associations and community education committees .
21 Nevertheless , estimates had already been obtained for the provision of a nurses ' recreation room and tennis courts for the nursing staff .
22 Thus it can be seen that there is a clear relationship between the depth of each habitable room which is confined to the width of a church 's nave arcade bay and the usable area of the related existing window in the side wall .
23 Old Steenie , he 'd make money out of a kid 's conker match ; Nigel 'd close The Mousetrap within a week . ’
24 ‘ Like something out of a kid 's lesson book , is n't he ? ’ chuckled Iris .
25 The significant points to note from this passage are firstly the way in which the blood of delivery is unclean ; secondly the way in which in the case of a boy 's birth circumcision intrudes in the text and interrupts both the period of the mother 's pollution and the account of that pollution ; and thirdly , the way in which the woman is finally cleansed of her impurity through the blood of sacrifice as administered by a circumcised male .
26 Sharp whey-like sweat came off hum as she smelt his closeness ; he was walking her backwards into the recess of the arched double doors of a neighbour 's carriage entrance , sticking to her awkwardly , like children playing at dancing , standing on each other 's feet , and when he had her against the door , he took his hand from the underside of her breast , and fingering her nipple , made it rise , then tweaked it till it stood up higher ; twinges darted from her breast to her groin , and Rosa closed her eyes with a little gasp .
27 Gradient will develop an LS-API library and offer a Windows 3.1-compliant ‘ software wrapper , ’ WinLOK , to bring existing apps under control of a user 's system administrator .
28 But by the introduction of student loans , and the end of free tuition , it will make entry into higher education dependent more than ever on the size of a parent 's bank balance .
29 The discovery that varied aspects of a writer 's style point towards a common literary purpose is something that can only be demonstrated through the details of stylistic analysis .
30 In the first stages of a child 's head injury , staff here give vital support to the family .
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