Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [adj] [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He must be a physician , having books of physick and a herbal by him . |
| 2 | The details are immaterial , and it is sufficient for present purposes to say that they were concerned with two subjects , namely the accounts of Carrian and a building called Gammon House . |
| 3 | Through her Cambridge years and long afterwards she simply accepted them as evidence of Esther 's eccentricity and originality — and it was not , after all , difficult to be original in a period when most female undergraduates , fresh from school and far from well off , ventured little further in terms of home-making than a cushion or a chianti bottle , a photograph or a teddy bear , a gingham frill round an orange box or a postcard collage on the wall , a modernist paper mobile or an arrangement of seaside pebbles . |
| 4 | To the chagrin of Buckingham , however , because it meant the postponement of the opening of the College , the CNAA declined in 1974 to approve Buckingham courses in general and a law degree in particular . |
| 5 | Darren Grannell , 28 , of Lord Street , Latchford , Warrington and Lee Day , 22 , formerly of Warrington but now living in Weston-super-Mare , denied assaulting PC Roy Aspinall but changed their pleas to guilty after a trial had started . |