Example sentences of "[noun] a [noun] [unc] " in BNC.

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1 If they playlist a band 's record , then that band think the playlist is ‘ marvellous ’ .
2 Again there is no guidance as to how to choose between the four categories , and no acknowledgement that such choices will be based on political perceptions of where in the organizations a group 's interests will be best protected .
3 In the country districts a woman 's life is not easy .
4 And always the edge of the loch and the lap , lap of its waves a stone 's throw away .
5 The main body of the investors was , of course , the Pioneers ' Society ; and it was primarily in intention and practice a consumers ' co-operative .
6 In other words a woman 's immune system is er able to deploy erm er antibodies against a , a , a , against sperm .
7 What I do n't do is pretend to be a socialist , organise five hundred pound a head er ticket dinners as Neil Kinnock does , champagne and then have the gall next day to go to on the nineteenth of July , on the very day when saw what the Labour Group are doing to this city .
8 Well it 's about four hundred pound a week int it ?
9 Over four hundred pound a week int it ?
10 Well forty pound a week 's forty pound a week extra
11 Minton 's largesse was attractive : Bernard still recollects how , at a time when he was earning £2 10s a week , in a timber yard off Greek Street , Minton astonished him with a gift of £10 , in effect a month 's wages .
12 ‘ In preparing this Address I had the opportunity to reflect back over the last thirty years , reliving those working days when wages were extremely low , working conditions poor and when in industry a person 's life was cheap .
13 Philosophy can , for example , bring to light a discipline 's tests for truth , and the criteria by which truth claims are normally evaluated .
14 Typically , a doctor aIters the state of a patient 's heaIth , the teacher shapes a pupil 's knowledge , and a hairdresser changes the physical appearance of a customer .
15 Well i it all depended the er When you'res a school er at school you see ?
16 Last week , workers accused union officals of blackmailing them into accepting a package which would give each former employee a week 's wages for every year of service .
17 The Advertisers Annual lists an agency 's accounts but these can go quickly out-of-date so check first .
18 In the longer term an owners ' association may wish to take over these activities from the management company , and some thought needs to be given to making this possible .
19 In effect an officer 's decision behaviour in marginal cases where his work may become visible to his supervisor and where there is no ‘ obvious ’ course of action comes to be dominated by a desire to minimize potential damage to his position in the agency .
20 Each had a feather-plumed bonnet and the filabeg , the small plaid , heavy wool an arm 's length wide and four arm-spans long , pleated and belted at the waist , the free end swung up and pinned over the shoulder of his saffron-dyed shirt .
21 A particularistic knowledge of what is ‘ normal ’ for this watercourse , this discharge , in this weather , at this time of the year shapes an officer 's expectations and equips him to attend to anything ‘ abnormal ’ .
22 At marriage a woman 's legal identity was submerged in that of her husband .
23 They stopped for the night in a small village a day 's ride from the foot of the mountain .
24 Since under Israeli law a minister 's dismissal only took effect 48 hours after the initial announcement was made , government politicians had sufficient time to reach a solution to the crisis .
25 Since under Israeli law a minister 's dismissal or resignation only took effect 48 hours after the initial announcement was made , Shamir left just enough time to clear the Cabinet of Labour ministers before the Knesset vote .
26 However , the Court of Appeal decided in Burton v Islington Health Authority [ 1992 ] 3 WLR 617 that at common law a child en ventre sa mρere and unborn at the time of the defendant 's negligence has a cause of action for injuries caused by that negligence .
27 The Council denies their rent 's too high and even though the new owners have made the hut a cabbies ' shelter in name only at least Oxford 's most unusual historic building is once again back in use .
28 I never intended to imply that I would be the first artist to employ hanging cloth ( my use of Walter Benjamin necessitated for this kind of work that I block the aura of the collection and re-route it toward another kind of signification , as well as reference a museum 's depot ) but I am confident that anyone who has visited my installation comes away knowing what my contribution is .
29 A well designed 2 bedroom semi-detached house situated in an extremely quiet cul-de-sac a stone 's throw from Port Meadow .
30 Gallup for The Daily Telegraph gave the Conservatives a hair 's breadth half-point lead over Labour , with the Liberal Democrats in danger of being squeezed as the two main parties battle to emerge as the largest party in a possible hung parliament .
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