Example sentences of "a [noun] [pron] [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a route which has much appeal to vendors but tends to be detested by purchasers who dislike the control placed on their ability to negotiate directly with the vendors . |
| 2 | This was pointed out in clear terms in a case which merits more attention than it sometimes receives , namely , Reg. v. Heston-Francois [ 1984 ] Q.B . |
| 3 | In a case which occurred some time between 1037 and 1054 , the abbot of Marmoutier complained in Geoffrey Martel 's court that a certain Bouchard had seized back a mill which his brother , with Bouchard 's consent , had earlier bestowed on the abbey . |
| 4 | And then you they ask you a number of questions , often pretty stupid questions , they go away and write a bit which contains some errors , or they broadcast a bit which does n't seem quite right , and then you feel cross and you say ‘ I 'm never going to speak to that lot again . ’ |
| 5 | They asked me to help dress the models who wandered around showing clothes to the ladies having afternoon tea in the restaurant , and after a bit I did some modelling myself . |
| 6 | City accountants Peat Marwick warned : ‘ With recovery still merely a hope we fear more bankruptcies . ’ |
| 7 | Direct responsibility for DMS policy in England and Wales was initially that of a panel ( a panel for Scotland remained separate for several years ) and this became a Board after the Committee for Arts and Social Studies was split in 1978 and a Committee for Business and Management Studies created — ; a decision which produced some controversy . |
| 8 | In a decision which surprised many commentators , none of the sons and daughters of top party leaders ( the so-called " princelings " ) were elevated to the central committee . |
| 9 | Being a composite they have some cleaning ability . |
| 10 | A driver who towed another car at a hundred miles an hour on a motorway has admitted reckless driving . |
| 11 | Is this a gang you gave some shit ? |
| 12 | It is difficult to believe that a writer who writes such drivel as does Paul Gallico could be so unpleasantly deluded with grandeur . |
| 13 | It is seen by the government as a measure which makes more people pay directly for local services and which will increase local accountability . |
| 14 | Thus Marx 's model of historical development was in many respects only a sketch which left many problems unresolved . |
| 15 | But , as several dealers told The Art Newspaper , waiving exhibition fees is a concession which makes little difference if a gallery can not make sufficient sales to recoup costs estimated at £10,000–40,000 for taking stock and staff to Madrid . |
| 16 | Of course , a contract which lacks any agreement to transfer property ( ownership ) at all , will fall outside the definition , e.g. a contract where one person agrees simply to borrow or hire another person 's goods . |
| 17 | Similarly , Marshall Sahlins 's work on the Hawaiian islanders in his Islands of History , though far more acutely aware of contending multiple narratives trying to ascribe different significances to the same happenings , is also organised so that it allows Sahlins to present a narrative wherein conflicting stories/histories are mapped out in a framework which explores these histories ' interpenetrations , their assimilations of each other rather than their refusals of each other . |
| 18 | About , for example , the internal problems in what was the Soviet Union , a story we began some years ago , but are now in danger of leaving hanging in the air . |
| 19 | As often the case , Froissart had a story which illustrates this point . |
| 20 | By a coincidence I met this man on the summit of Sergeant Man in the Lake District two months later . |
| 21 | Odo 's biography was written by a monk who had little interest in the miraculous and much in practical virtues . |
| 22 | Like a twat I decided that attack was the best way of preserving my job , and so I demanded that the board give me complete control over team selection , tactics , welfare etc. , with no boardroom interference whatsoever . |
| 23 | An amino acid is a chemical sub-unit of a protein , and ultimately everything that happens in a cell it produces some kind of protein , so you can see that erm the triplet or produces erm which is one of the , one of the er amino acids and so on and there are also punctuation marks U A A or U A G means stop , as does U G A , so when , when a R N A template running through a gets to a sequence which reads , where was it now , U A A it stops reading because it knows it 's got to the end of the gene . |
| 24 | I express no opinion upon the case where a local or other public authority brings a civil action under a statute which prescribes that action as being the only method of enforcing a law which it is obliged to enforce . |
| 25 | One librarian felt so hard up that she had begun looking for bargains at car boot sales — ‘ Adrian Mole in mint condition for 20p ’ — a practice which raises many questions about funding our schools . |
| 26 | . But on a Saturday I had another paper round , from the same people , which involved travelling from to the Sanatorium on Road which is probably two and a half mile , with a cycle , advertising Smiths with the carriers on . |
| 27 | Although an initial brain scan showed nothing to suggest she might have epilepsy , she demanded further tests and was finally diagnosed as having temporary lobe epilepsy a condition which plagues many schoolchildren . |
| 28 | Thus , for instance , a clause which provides that a seller gives no undertaking that the goods are fit for any purpose and purports to exclude the implied term in s14(3) of the SGA 1979 , or a term which disclaims any duty of care in negligence , is subject to the Act . |
| 29 | Quality assurance is a term which summarises those aspects of the design and delivery of qualifications which guarantee credibility to end users . |
| 30 | Indeed , it seems that a hearer who interpreted this utterance as conveying a specific proposition or set of propositions would miss out on much of its intended relevance . |