Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The image of the housewife as a cabbage makes a number of appearances in answers to the question about writing housewife on a form ( it is mentioned by twelve of the forty women ) . |
| 32 | We can now turn right to the other end of the book , where there should be another paste-down and free endpaper , though in earlier books the latter will often be missing , having been appropriated by some seventeenth or eighteenth century housewife as a shopping list or for copying a cooking recipe . |
| 33 | Remembering that I am not defining housewife as a woman dancing attendance on a healthy but indolent male but as a person looking after babies and others who need looking after , what do feminists think the housewife should live on ? |
| 34 | The use of strong colour contrast as an aid to orientation is shown graphically in the Welsh Office Package ( 1984 ) . |
| 35 | In general this was the pattern for Polish industrialisation as a whole — a phenomenon that took place when there was the least chance of Poland ever regaining an independent existence . |
| 36 | The specimen pictured is displaying , either to an adjacent female in courtship , or to a competing male as a warning . |
| 37 | Making yourself aware of bias and adopting alternative usages should prevent the tacit presumption by your reader of the white male as a norm . |
| 38 | Dale Spender describes the tendency to refer to the male as the norm and women in pejorative terms as a ‘ rule ’ of language ; she use the term ‘ sexist syntax ’ to describe this . |
| 39 | A surge in borrowings from 29% to 55% of shareholders ' funds was largely due to a buying spree during the year when NFC shelled out £75m on 16 businesses . |
| 40 | Two people are awaiting trial in connection with the attack , but 5 others , including Howard Banton , chief clerk for a firm of solicitors in the town , have appeared in court at Cheltenham , accused of conspiring to pervert the course of justice by plotting to persuade a witness to withdraw a statement . |
| 41 | His father started as an accounts clerk for a road haulier ; his mother was a shop manager . |
| 42 | They live in Langford Village , two miles from Bicester in Oxfordshire Barbara works as a clerk for a removal company , Joelle is a care assisstant at a home for the disabled , while Bobby is still at school . |
| 43 | Sidney Lee in his life of Shakespeare , 1908 edition , attributes his accurate use of legal terms to observation of his father 's legal battles and early association with members of the Inns of Court and there is also a suggestion that on his arrival in London he may have been employed as a clerk for a lawyer . |
| 44 | Erm , resolution that Synod appoints Jo , John as Synod clerk for a period of up to three years to commence at a date mutually convenient to him and the present Synod clerk . |
| 45 | ‘ It means I 'm the sort of town clerk for the garrison , ’ he said . |
| 46 | Both had begun the war as conscientious objectors , Vaughan ending it as an Orderly Room clerk for the Army in a prisoner-of-war camp in Yorkshire . |
| 47 | As this was my first experience of squadron life , I quickly fell into its easy way , I was rather surprised to find I was already selected to play rugger for the squadron the following Sunday , and also went straight into the squadron tennis team . |
| 48 | She drew the pan of milk off the fire and carrying it over to the table , quickly poured it into a pint pot into which she had already spooned a generous measure of treacle . |
| 49 | A boatload of men came ashore to demand a ransom of 2000 guineas [ £2100 ] , or the surrender of the local vicar as a hostage , for not attacking the town . |
| 50 | The Government have made clear their opposition and abhorrence for the fatwa to which the hon. Gentleman referred , but he differs from the view of his colleagues on the Opposition Front Bench if he wishes to stop trade or perhaps impose an embargo on trade with Iran or , indeed , any other country . |
| 51 | Enya as a composer drifts alone in uncharted ether . |
| 52 | It was designed in the Grecian style by Edward Taylor , a York architect who used red brick for the body of the building and stone for the dressings . |
| 53 | And physically it was n't any worse than when I fell off my bike as a kid and was concussed for an hour or two . |
| 54 | ( He had always used a lady 's bike as a teenager because he thought the middle bar on a man 's one might do him a mischief if he cocked his leg over it carelessly . ) |
| 55 | And with Christmas coming , they 're asking anyone who 's thinking of giving a bike for a present , to think of giving the right clothing as well . |
| 56 | When I first came to the region I had thoughts of using a bike for a lot of short travelling . |
| 57 | My wife had determined that I must swop my old bike for a car after I told her of an encounter with an old pupil of mine as I was toiling up the hill by the power station in Haughton Road , Darlington . |
| 58 | I would be on my bike for the rest of my life , stuck on the stopping train to nowhere . |
| 59 | Victory at the Donington event and other impressive results were enough for Huberts to secure his signature with a brave promise of a factory bike for the future . |
| 60 | ‘ Yeah , all right ! ’ commented Ealing 's prodigal singer/songwriter Jamiroqua , who celebrated signing a big-money , eight-album deal with Sony by spending the rest of the day testing the taxi bike for THE FACE . |