Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [adv] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The report spells out a series of options , and leans towards a plan which would put men on the Moon in 2001 to build a base there as a springboard for the Martian expedition 10 years later . |
| 2 | Sociology has come very late to the university , compared with the other social sciences , and although it has found a base there in a way which the arts or journalism have not , even they have increasingly strong academic connections . |
| 3 | And meant only for summer and early autumn ; no heating apparatus except the open fires , and a kitchen rather on a par for mod cons with my cottage at Otters ' Bay . |
| 4 | More modern valves contain a diaphragm instead of a washer , and are generally far more reliable . |
| 5 | On that occasion he had made a case both for a tutor-organiser to increase provision for trade unionist students and also for one to develop work in the New Towns of Harlow , Stevenage , Hemel Hempstead and Hatfield . |
| 6 | Sears is challenging this in a case now before a Denver appeals court . |
| 7 | Most surveys show that a basket of food still costs a bit less at a supermarket than it does at an independent grocer 's ; but The Economist did not find that this week . |
| 8 | ‘ Ca n't you look a bit less like a nun ? ’ he demanded with masculine vagueness . |
| 9 | Mrs Quigley was wearing a loose white robe with a hat and a veil rather like a bee-keeper 's . |
| 10 | Acting for a buyer , check the filed plan with the contract plan , if any ( you 'll have done this before exchange , if entries and plan were delivered with the draft contract ) ; but normally , except on the sale or lease of a part only of a property , the supply of a copy of the filed plan by the seller avoids the need for a contract plan . |
| 11 | But one can also think of style as manner irrespective of such external connections , by identifying distinctive patterns of language use in a text simply as a means of differentiating it from other texts , on the general assumption that such distinctive patterns must be a part of the text 's overall effect . |
| 12 | A text well within a reader 's competence may not invite reading because it is dull , predictable , and appears to have no relevance . |
| 13 | And he said no , buy a badge now with a dog 's head on depending on the breed of dog you 've got , and it says on it I live here . |
| 14 | They 're out looking for seed money and a board now with a deadline of December . |
| 15 | Where no defence to claim or counterclaim has been served in the High Court , the defendant or plaintiff must , within 14 days of the receipt of the notice of hearing , deliver at the court office a defence together with a copy for the plaintiff or defendant as the case may be . |
| 16 | He came back readily when his name was spoken ; they saw him not tools-in-hand in his lodge under the church , nor frowning thoughtfully over his tracing tables , but naked to the waist and brown in the harvest-fields , swinging a sickle instead of a mallet , a slender young fellow with grass seeds in his tangle of dark hair , who might have come out of any cottage in the hamlet . |
| 17 | Better still , the whole board should be protected within a framework rather like a picture frame with its face covered with clear polycarbonate sheet . |
| 18 | ( WES AD LIBS BACK REF ) ( ANNE ) Still to come on Central News , a look ahead to a motoring marathon . |
| 19 | Finally tonight , a look ahead to a series of reports focussing on the future of farming . |
| 20 | Now a look ahead to a series of special reports on Central next week , when we look at the future of transport . |
| 21 | Finally tonight , a look ahead to a series of special reports starting tomorrow on Central . |
| 22 | Time rocks on , and now she 's out on her own with a guitar instead of a pen , but a similar equation of pain transmuted into wild pride and sheer beauty . |
| 23 | Time rocks on , and now she 's out on her own with a guitar instead of a pen , but a similar equation of pain transmuted into wild pride and sheer beauty . |
| 24 | The first time saw you with Clapton , you just used a guitar straight into a Boogie . |
| 25 | Nathan Bryce might have a temporary advantage , but no slate-eyed , ruthless , mercenary businessman with a calculator instead of a heart was going to get the better of her . |
| 26 | Has that come up in your er in your well we were coming back there one night from my aunt 's and er there were quite a lot of policemen about and I was only a little boy , it was before the First World War and my father said to one of these policemen , what 's happening so , oh we had a tip-off he says that er there 's these Whirly Gang folks and in the morning we saw somebody 'd been maimed or killed , but er that was another bit of interesting news around , and I remember down in Caldmore one day there used to be some ladies who used to come from , well they used to be , one of them used to call them the salt ladies , they used to come with blocks of salt on a , on a I think they used to come from and I saw a horse there as a kid and I , it had got a long gash right across its body and I said to this lady I said , what 's happened to this , she said oh the Whirly Gang and er I was in Paris in nineteen twenty two and er we got to this hotel and there was another Englishman on this trip and he said to me he said where do you come from ? |
| 27 | His Majesty , King George V , acting through Right Honourable Lord Rochdale , the Lord Lieutenant of Middlesex , presented the merged two Urban Districts with a Charter of incorporation , which raised the status of the united Districts to that of a Municipal Borough , entitled to have a Mayor instead of a Chairman of the District — as well as Aldermen and Councillors . |
| 28 | It was then possible to hide structural supports by aligning a figure suitably within a niche . |
| 29 | Belgion , a man who seemed to be equipped with a steam-boiler instead of a body , had criticized a remark of Eliot 's in After Strange Gods , namely that in order to study with thoroughness Hindu and Buddhist thought and the Sanskrit and Pali languages in which they were expounded , he would have been obliged to turn himself into an oriental . |
| 30 | A shadow moved by a light ahead on a path . |