Example sentences of "[pron] a [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was terribly embarrassed ; not only was I a convent girl but the skirts were worn down to the ankles and women just did n't show their legs in those days . |
| 2 | ‘ The inspector here is to have a suitable flower piece and I a Constable landscape . ’ |
| 3 | I a woman doctor available ? |
| 4 | She sounded really cheesed off about I said how 's your revision going , cos I knew she was doing revision , she went cccckkk I try a maths paper and I ca n't do that , and I a chemistry paper and I ca n't do that and I really . |
| 5 | I will surely give someone a heart attack … |
| 6 | Driving licences , in particular , are like giving someone a cheque book . |
| 7 | There 's not many men who are n't even relations that 'd give someone a record player for a wedding present . ’ |
| 8 | Give someone a fighting chance |
| 9 | We allow ourselves a little bit more time to get the design right cos the reason we got it wrong in the first place was because it was a quick spend project and nobody er had time to do it properly . |
| 10 | well in the early days I only got er , what was , what was your , yours a quarter horse power motor was n't it ? |
| 11 | Some argue that the horrors of Bosnia call to mind the Holocaust , to which a memorial museum in Washington has just been dedicated . |
| 12 | This silly and childlike regressive behaviour can not be allowed to go on in a relationship in which a couple care for one another . |
| 13 | This work arose out of a project in which a sample survey program was written specifically for use by developing countries . |
| 14 | Two thousand , two hundred and fifty-four ( 2254 ) citations were retrieved , from which a sample set of 305 citations were checked against the two databases . |
| 15 | Two thousand , two hundred and fifty-four ( 2254 ) citations were retrieved , from which a sample set of 305 citations were checked against the two databases . |
| 16 | From this it followed , among other things , that molecules had a shape in three-dimensional space , and the brilliant German chemist Kekule ( 1829–96 ) , in the very Victorian situation of a passenger sitting on top of a London bus in 1865 , imagined the first of the complex structural molecular models , the famous benzene ring of six carbon atoms to each of which a hydrogen atom was attached . |
| 17 | In the GLC case , which was the last in which a cinema film had been subject to charges of indecency , Lord Justice Bridge agreed with Lord Denning that the common-law test still applied to films , but went on : |
| 18 | These include allegations against various solicitors of negligence in connection with the execution by C.M.C. and the plaintiffs of a legal charge in favour of B.M.T. to secure a loan of £420,000 ; the giving of personal guarantees by the plaintiffs in respect of this indebtedness ; and subsequent proceedings brought by B.M.T. in which a possession order was made in respect of the bakery and a money judgment was given against the plaintiffs as guarantors for a sum of nearly £375,000 . |
| 19 | Similarly , for assets acquired before 31 March 1982 and transferred before 6 April 1988 , the Revenue will defer the valuation needed to determine the heldover gain , for which a 50% reduction under Sch 4 , TCGA 1992 is due , until the transferee disposes of the asset . |
| 20 | In addition , since no test is completely accurate ( that is , all tests have a reliability co-efficient of less than 1 ) , it is desirable to have information regarding the level of confidence which a test user can have in any obtained score . |
| 21 | Quite small paranota could also control the attitude of falling insects and might subsequently have increased in size through an additional selective process to improve the angle at which a gliding flight occurred ( Hinton , 1963 ; Flower , 1964 ) . |
| 22 | ( 3 ) The permitted hours for premises in respect of which a hotel licence a restricted hotel licence , a restaurant licence , an entertainment licence or a licence under Part III of this Act is in force or which are a registered club shall , on weekdays , be the period between eleven in the morning and half-past two in the afternoon and the period between five and eleven in the evening and , on Sundays , be the period between half-past twelve and half-past two in the afternoon and the period between half-past six and eleven in the evening . |
| 23 | ( 1 ) This section shall apply to any premises for which a hotel licence , restricted hotel licence , or restaurant licence is held and to any premises for which a public house licence or refreshment licence is held and in respect of which an application for Sunday opening has been granted under Schedule 4 to this Act if the licence-holder gives notice of the application of the section to the premises in accordance with the provisions of section 58(1) of this Act , and the effect of the application of this section to those premises shall be that , for the purposes mentioned in section 58(3) of this Act , the permitted hours on Sundays shall be extended by , the addition to them of the hours between five and half-past six in the evening , and subsections ( 4 ) , ( 5 ) , ( 6 ) and ( 8 ) of that section shall apply accordingly . |
| 24 | One possible situation in which a peer group would not cause a loss of efficiency is where democracy acts as a spur to individual effort and productivity . |
| 25 | Under the Acts , a protected tenancy is a tenancy under which a dwelling house is let as a separate dwelling , and the use of the words " tenancy " and " let " means that licences are excluded . |
| 26 | The recipe may be found on p.203 of Cooking with Pomiane , of which a paperback version was published by Faber in 1976. if obtaining a copy of either version should entail a search , 1 do not think anyone will regret the time spent on it . |
| 27 | The regulations which a licensing board may make are concerned with procedure only . |
| 28 | Yet if talk of permanent or irreversible changes may be too bold , the Thatcher government has created a new agenda , one which a successor government will find difficult to reverse . |
| 29 | The time at which a futures contract gets sold is vitally significant . |
| 30 | This provision against set off enables clearing members to comply with reg 3.04 of the Financial Services ( Client Money ) ( Supplementary ) Regulations 1991,5 which requires the opening of a client transaction account6 ( money credited to which must be segregated ) with every exchange or clearing house with which a futures broker authorised under the 1986 Act registers client transactions . |