Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [indef pn] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , why not kick off with a long tropical cocktail in Trader Sam 's beach bar — freshly picked fruits , a tall glass , a cascade of ice , and a healthy splash of something a little stronger ! |
| 2 | That 's what I 'm saying , they need , they need just a little , in fact we do here you could argue , er , I feel that all the elements there are of a turning into something a bit ugly , I think , I think they were very quick to drop those statues down , now I know , I know the fellow who in , who set up the K G B could have been the most popular bloke in the Soviet Union , but nonetheless , er he was down within a day , I hear this morning that Yeltsin 's talking about border changes and quite frankly they 're moving too quick and Gorbachev at least was providing a bit of restraint , and I think it , they want to think in terms of decade . |
| 3 | The custody officer does have an obligation under section 147 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 and the Code of Practice on Detention , Treatment and Questioning , to make a record of everything a person has with him and this may , of course , necessitate a search . |
| 4 | By means of the balance — long used by assayers and druggists , but less by theoreticians — he made chemistry into something a little more quantitative than it had been . |
| 5 | Fred begins to feel an appetite for something a bit more substantial than speculation . |
| 6 | There is a skill in coping with real life software and once you realise this fact you can start to live with your computer in something a little closer to harmony ! |
| 7 | A cup of tea may be her usual tipple , but on such a special day , Nancy allows herself a drop of something a little bit stronger . |
| 8 | But four main factors are singled out by Chris Green for the currently greatly improved outlook : the record investment currently being made , at the end of 1989 amounting to an astonishing million pounds a day ; the success of the Networker train whose carriages in 1989 were being delivered at the rate of one a day ; the enormous level of London station development both enhancing the environment ( who at the start of the 1980s would have thought of treating a terminus as a shopping precinct ? ) and producing revenue on the grand scale ; and the steady introduction of Integrated Electronic Control Centres ( discussed in detail in the signalling chapter ) . |
| 9 | If the world 's 1984 stockpile of nuclear weapons were compressed into bombs of the size dropped on Hiroshima , it would take 4,600 years to go through them all if they were let off at the rate of one a day . |
| 10 | They would start construction at the rate of one a year from 1982 onwards , and they would ideally be PWRs . |
| 11 | Though officially designated European Architectural Heritage Year , listed buildings , we calculated , were disappearing at the rate of one a day . |
| 12 | Tate left a number of finished canvases which had never been shown and Edwin decided to release them at the rate of one a year through Ismay Gorton 's , the London gallery which handles his work . |
| 13 | Artillery shells slammed down on Sarajevo , sometimes at the rate of one a minute , as rebel Serb tanks and infantry attacked Bosnian defenders in the strategic western suburbs of Stup and Azici . |
| 14 | It began with seven mortar rounds in quick succession , then shelling , often at the rate of one a minute for five hours with no let-up . |
| 15 | Because in fact to do all of our assignments you probably only need to do an average of one a day . |
| 16 | The combination of the two learning processes could produce a sharply peaked preference for something a bit different from the familiar when other things are equal . |
| 17 | There are two ancient mild steel peg belays here , but they are best ignored in favour of something a touch more modern . |
| 18 | The health of little Frances Bean Cobain is the X factor that elevates all this second-hand scandal into something a whole lot scarier , something much more important . |
| 19 | The end result might only be a slight scratch , but the potential might have been in that situation for something a lot worse . |
| 20 | Here 's somebody having a go at something a little creative . |
| 21 | After the fun and games of the Cheranganis it was time for something a bit more serious , so we headed for Mount Elgon , in the far west of the country , straddling the border between Kenya and Uganda . |
| 22 | Guynemer once claimed that if the Germans used such planes he could have guaranteed a bag of one a day . |