Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun] [unc] [noun sg] [noun] " 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 | The beam came to rest on the Ngo brothers , and after a moment 's hesitation Duclos bent down and seized Hoc by the arm . |
| 4 | He poked his head slightly towards Joe , and after a moment 's hesitation Joe said , ‘ He would really shoot them ? ’ |
| 5 | Mary resisted the temptation to answer her back and after a moment 's silence Mum continued . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | After a steward 's enquiry Colour Chart was relegated to fourth place . |
| 8 | This was good news , as I had met him after a children 's charity evening and had found him shy , attractive and funny . |
| 9 | Fourteen Mafia bosses have been arrested by Sicilian detectives after a woman 's Mafia Godfather lover was gunned down by the organisation . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But the melody , apparently , had been the song of a gentleman 's music club . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | But the advent of almost universal programming in high-level languages alters the requirements of a computer 's instruction set . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It may be uneconomic or too inflexible to implement in hardware all of a computer 's instruction set . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Opposite Thomas Cook led the way in popularizing winter sports for women : the cover of a Cook 's winter sports brochure for the 1911–12. season |
| 24 | Nevertheless , estimates had already been obtained for the provision of a nurses ' recreation room and tennis courts for the nursing staff . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Old Steenie , he 'd make money out of a kid 's conker match ; Nigel 'd close The Mousetrap within a week . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Like something out of a kid 's lesson book , is n't he ? ’ chuckled Iris . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |