Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [prep] a [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your share price seemed to take a bit of a knock the other day when Roy made some comments about referring media conglomerates to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission . |
| 2 | You might get a bit of a mixture a few other birds not always sparrows . |
| 3 | With a text on a word-processor no one version is final , any version can be altered without a trace . |
| 4 | ’ … thus to take a case like that in question of a purchase from a retailer the reliance will be in general inferred from the fact that a buyer goes to the shop in confidence that the tradesman has selected his stock with skill and judgment . ’ |
| 5 | To report from the front , there is now a gadget that can be fitted to your refrigerator that makes a noise like a pig every time the door is opened . |
| 6 | Win or lose , in a contest over a collectorship the office was a liability to a politician , more apt to cost him friends than to lead to anything useful for his interest . |
| 7 | If you were to die as a result of an accident the Plan would pay out up to £40,000 to your estate . |
| 8 | In Cairnplace Ltd v CBL ( Property Investment ) Co Ltd [ 1984 ] 1 All ER 315 , it was held that there should not be inserted in a renewal of a lease a provision that the tenant should pay the landlord 's costs despite the fact that there was a similar provision contained in the previous lease . |
| 9 | It sold at a high enough price per pound to cover the cost of carrying it across the Atlantic , and Jamestown enjoyed a tobacco boom , though the increase in exports from 20,000 lb. in 1617 to 350,000 lb. in 1621 was not enough to enable the Company to show a profit , because the ( wholesale , pre-duty ) price fell from four or five shillings a pound to a shilling a pound at the same time . |
| 10 | In such a mess in a town the lighter fragments blow about : the main squalor is on the ground . |
| 11 | ‘ IT really is a friendly and fun restaurant ; not a place for a tête à tête . |
| 12 | There was one day when I was in Dunedin preparing a preview for a match the next day and was told that late in the afternoon Otago would be training at Carisbrook and I might there obtain their team for the morrow . |
| 13 | It is suggested that when someone is threatened with a weapon during a crime the victim may focus his or her attention on the weapon to a degree which may subsequently hinder identification of the assailant . |
| 14 | Only a blessing from a deity the victim devoutly follows , expending a Fate Point , or a Dispel Magic from a 4th level Wizard , will allow the amulet to be removed . |
| 15 | In order to amount to a gift to an individual the property transferred by the donor must : 1 . |
| 16 | After about a quarter of a mile the track emerges onto more open land dotted with trees , and you can find some lovely juniper bushes here . |
| 17 | Half of eighteen is nine so half of one eighty would be nine times ten so ninety degrees is a quarter of a turn a quarter of the way round . |
| 18 | I went in as usual , took off my greatcoat and tunic and tie and made some small pancakes and dipped them in boiling fat — used to take me a quarter of an hour every night . |
| 19 | After a quarter of an hour the sick Du Camp had had enough . |
| 20 | Mr Bruce Napier , a chartered clinical psychologist once in charge of the society 's disciplinary procedures , said : ‘ If you go to see a therapist for an hour a week to talk about your most intimate feelings , it is understandable you may develop more powerful feelings for him than you would for your bank manager or solicitor . ’ |
| 21 | Also the Transport Authority was expressly empowered to require the Executive to provide a service at a cost the Executive considered to be too high , so long as the Transport Authority provided the necessary additional cost . |
| 22 | In Dew v. Parsons ( 1819 ) 2 B. & Ald. 562 an attorney was held entitled to set off against a claim by a sheriff the excess amount which he had paid to the sheriff for the issue of warrants over what the sheriff was legally entitled to charge . |
| 23 | I had been sitting at the table housed in the living room bay window , trying to write a paper for a tutorial the next day , but Gavin and Janice had chosen to punctuate their highly audible coupling sessions ( in what the more tenacious core-areas of my long-term memory still sporadically insisted had once been my bedroom ) with an almost equally noisy episode of tortilla chip eating . |
| 24 | ‘ I come twice a week at a pound a time , so that 's thirteen , say , and then there 's all the times I 've come with me cans . |
| 25 | But I know from personal experience that gardens can get a bit messy — you ca n't take a dog for a walk every time it wants to ‘ go ’ , even with the best will in the world . |
| 26 | It has been calculated that the 1½-inch quills penetrate tissue in this way at a rate of an inch a day . |
| 27 | The London hotel corridor is full of minders , all sporting various degrees of cowboy drag , and a manager with a belly the size of Memphis . |
| 28 | In addition to this , candidates are required to submit a dissertation on a topic The course has been developed with a view to preparing students for proceeding to research work in their field , or seeking employment in cultural institutions or the media . |
| 29 | Your Mum 's got a fanny with a split the wrong way . |
| 30 | So it might be a fraction of a day a fraction of twelve hours a fraction of one hour . |