Example sentences of "a [noun] [conj] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is particularly so for workers whose lives are related to work not as a vocation or as a career , but as a job for earning money to spend in private . |
| 2 | The paper was of poor quality and had been torn off a pad of the kind you might keep in a kitchen or by a telephone . |
| 3 | In particular , Marian liked to see the finish of a case when as a solicitor a case ‘ seemed to go on for ever ’ . |
| 4 | He got into the fish trade ; got on a bit and on a bit , and that 's how he started going to Lowestoft and buying his own . |
| 5 | In London , where he spent a number of years , he had gained a reputation as a crook and as a threatener of whites and defender of the coloured-immigrant population . |
| 6 | He accepted , as a necessity and as a form of self-punishment , Ricky 's need for women , but when Ricky returned from a weekend away he would ask rather bitterly , ‘ Was she worth it ? ’ |
| 7 | Briefly , it is how the composer , like the author of a sentence or of a line in a poem , groups his ‘ words ’ in order of importance so that they make sense . |
| 8 | Who not be hung for a sheep as for a lamb . |
| 9 | Then , perhaps a little frightened by his own rhetoric but thinking that he might as well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamb , he increased the figure to 1 million . |
| 10 | He was better placed in a university than in a school , and enjoyed more than he could have done in any other society the life of that great college , which was to be his home for the remainder of his life . |
| 11 | There are also management implications if there is more than one tenant in a building or on a floor . |
| 12 | FACING PAGE Many dogs will instinctively jump up either to seize a toy or as a greeting . |
| 13 | This publications audit will often turn up other interesting facts that you might have been unaware of like two departments doing exactly the same thing through different outside agencies or short runs being hammered out on page printers when they could have been more effectively produced on a photocopier or by a print shop . |
| 14 | Prior to participation in a CU and with a tariff rate upon supply from the potential partner and the rest of the world , the lowest priced source of import supply is the rest of the world Pw Sw . |
| 15 | From here you cross the road and go through an iron gate following the path west to pass a cottage and over a bridge . |
| 16 | But at the level we have now reached , the male is the active principle , embodying creative , spiritual light , and can be its representative , as a saviour or as a priest . |
| 17 | The Anaglypta range includes borders in both vinyl and ‘ Original ’ types , which can be used under a cornice or picture rail , as a dado to divide two different papers , above a skirting and around a doorframe to ‘ frame ’ a wall , or around a window . |
| 18 | As Sikes , Measor and Woods have found in their life history interviews with secondary teachers , many teachers regard examinations not as a constraint but as a resource for motivating pupils at an age when their enthusiasm for school might otherwise be waning . |
| 19 | This makes it possible to present Christianity both as a story and as a part of history , without dogmatism , but also with precision and accuracy . |
| 20 | He saw the state not merely as a division but as a combination of labour , an economic community or union every bit as real as the household or firm , and far more powerful . |
| 21 | At the ensuing parliament in April 1254 clerical proctors armed with plenary powers did attend and offered a grant but on a condition which the king found unacceptable : that he should remedy their grievances . |
| 22 | The woman , therefore , is placed under a severe set of conflicting pressures : on the one hand to develop her identity outside the home and , on the other , to develop and improve new and subtle human ‘ skills ’ as a housewife and as a mother . |
| 23 | Rudd 's promotions were probably attempts to remunerate a man who was of more value to the Tudor state as a cartographer than as a cleric . |
| 24 | It is perhaps like being on top of a big wave in a canoe or on a surfboard , but to try to describe it is to fail . |
| 25 | And I had a script but after a while you do n't you set that aside and use your own style . |
| 26 | She wore a soft , hyacinth-coloured jersey , for she had summed up Miss Cress as a rival and as a woman who took everything in , clothes , manners , appearances , weighed and judged them . |
| 27 | ‘ Better for a horse than for a man , ’ said Mrs Yaxlee with relish . |
| 28 | The difference between these tax bases arises at the practical level in that some things are more easily measured as a stock than as a flow , for example the value of a painting . |
| 29 | I mean we ca n't go into the private market and expect them or asking them to provide houses erm affordable houses as I say the question is what 's an affordable house , who 's got the money to buy the house I would presume , but obviously we know the situation is it 's the lower rent of market , the lower income groups and the unemployed that are suffering very much reasonable accommodation at a rent or at a price they can afford and I reckon this is what hopefully the government was after to say whether we 'll put in our policy and hope that we can get things . |
| 30 | At the same time I knew that my marriage had been a facade and in a way , by leaving , I felt I was doing the only honourable thing . |