Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun] [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking after a child is a full-time job , not something to be slotted in when you have a spare moment . ’ |
| 2 | This is gon na get really tedious after a bit is n't it ? |
| 3 | Men die to win democracy for their countries , which after a while is taken grudgingly ; and its practitioners come to be seen as less skilled , worthy and entertaining than the aristocrats of sport . |
| 4 | I he obvious inference after a time is that the man was homosexual and that the men talking were , too . |
| 5 | The courts have also been reluctant to find a breach of a duty of care on the part of the Prison Department , even when the health of a prisoner is at issue . |
| 6 | The expectation of the future value of a currency is , strictly speaking , unobservable . |
| 7 | ( 8 ) Rights of control must be exercised in good faith and the oppression of a minority is unacceptable . |
| 8 | For it is characteristic of an agnostic to hold that the existence of a god is a possibility in which there is no good reason either to believe or disbelieve ; and it is characteristic of an atheist to hold that it is at least probable that no god exists . |
| 9 | The acid test of a skill is to watch someone else doing something effortlessly and then to try it yourself — you quickly discover that there is much more to it thin you imagined . |
| 10 | The acquisition of a skill is a tortuous process that takes us through the following sequence : |
| 11 | The internal representation of a skill is called a schema . |
| 12 | The performance of a skill is dependent on practising it and so a pupil 's success will be crucially dependent on how recently it has been practised . |
| 13 | The shape of a jigsaw is determined by the shapes of the pieces , but there are objects with well-defined shapes which are not explicable by the shapes of their constituent molecules . |
| 14 | So fraction of a total is fifty over one fifty . |
| 15 | There is , of course , absolutely no doubt that even when only a facsimile of a document is available a professional historian or amateur specialist can gain a great deal from its perusal ; much more so when there is the opportunity to examine the original itself . |
| 16 | In English practice ‘ personal service of a document is effected by leaving a copy of the document with the person to be served ’ ; it is not sufficient to leave the document with a member of his family or an obliging neighbour . |
| 17 | In practice , natural language indexing tends to rely upon the terms present in an abstract or the title of a document , although sometimes the full text of a document is used . |
| 18 | Clearly , the only totally adequate indication of the content of a document is the text of the document in its entirety . |
| 19 | Where personal service of a document is required , it may be served by a court bailiff , or if the person to be served attends and is present at court , or in the court office , by any other officer of the court . |
| 20 | ‘ What sort of a description is that ? |
| 21 | Under both the TransAction scheme and the traditional style , the preparation of a transfer is usually undertaken by the buyer 's conveyancer . |
| 22 | Moreover , the possibility of a conversation is denied with a model who presents an uplifted chin and who looks over the artist 's and viewer 's heads . |
| 23 | But , the real advantage of a boilie is that it is so tough ( the carp do not know it is soft on the inside ) that a carp takes the bait by sucking it straight back to its pharyngeal teeth in its throat . |
| 24 | You will find that only a small quantity of milk is necessary and that a quarter of a pint is quite sufficient to accompany the full daily Fibre-Filler allowance an eighth of a pint with each portion . |
| 25 | ‘ Analysing relations is not only indispensable to the decision of what kind of a structure is needed . |
| 26 | The architecture of a computer is usually defined in terms of the format and effect of machine-level instructions . |
| 27 | Fortunately , death or personal injury resulting from the use of a computer is a rare occurrence , but other forms of loss or damage might be more common ; for example , in a business context where a computer may be used to assist with decision-making , there is a strong probability that a financial loss will be blamed on the computer . |
| 28 | I suppose one advantage of a computer is that it can store and remember a great deal of information . |
| 29 | ( What kind of a rest is it meant to be for me with a querulous adolescent ? |
| 30 | As has already been suggested , the management of a school is concerned primarily with the development of its pupils . |