Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 | The main body of the investors was , of course , the Pioneers ' Society ; and it was primarily in intention and practice a consumers ' co-operative . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Well it 's about four hundred pound a week int it ? |
| 5 | Over four hundred pound a week int it ? |
| 6 | Well forty pound a week 's forty pound a week extra |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | Philosophy can , for example , bring to light a discipline 's tests for truth , and the criteria by which truth claims are normally evaluated . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | At marriage a woman 's legal identity was submerged in that of her husband . |
| 12 | They stopped for the night in a small village a day 's ride from the foot of the mountain . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | A well designed 2 bedroom semi-detached house situated in an extremely quiet cul-de-sac a stone 's throw from Port Meadow . |
| 19 | Both uses can in French be covered by the same word ancien , but they are distinguished in that the separative use requires prenominal position , while the standard use has the adjective after the noun , as in : ( 43 ) l'ancienne école de Charlie a fait banqueroute ( 44 ) cette école ancienne a hébergé les fils des tyrans depuis des siècles The same distinction is also marked overtly in Thai ; in this case it is realized not by a difference of syntactic position , but by a different choice of lexical item . |
| 20 | A guardsman got up and thanked him in English for granting the battalion a week 's leave . |
| 21 | Oh , God , how convoluted can a woman 's mind be ? |
| 22 | Her voice was soft and low ; her complexion a child 's . |
| 23 | It is not a simple case that we can run along , sell a few houses , get the capital receipts and suddenly we can go off and have a wonderful programme and replace the assets which we have sold and when we 're talking about assets in this case I think there 's one crucial difference between us and you and that is we recognise that that is n't just an asset it is a person 's home a person 's home , that 's so important an a I 'm , just to talk about it as if it is is something else , y'know , just some petrified lump of cattle , petrified lump of stock money that was doing no good whatsoever , is a nonsense and I think most of us would agree that it is a complete and utter nonsense . |
| 24 | Is your home a burglar 's paradise ? |
| 25 | Above the laughter a man 's voice carried and Robert Menzies recognized the wine-merchant from Weem . |
| 26 | Er , I mean , deregulation a bill er is not perhaps gon na affect the numbers of statutory instruments going through the house and I think that er the city would continue without the statutory instrument , er I think the country would continue , it would go on if we 'd had n't passed these regulations and in essence are these four new statutory instruments really going to help run the country more effectively er are we imposing duties on auditors er and regulators er with the securities er er tied up with the investment board , another quango , er do we need all this ? |
| 27 | Joan 's just rung see they come over for , all of them come over for dinner every Sunday , and er Joan 's er Andrea 's going out with a crowd of them today she 's in with a nice girl a girl er married and the husband , he 's treats Andrea as if it 's a baby sister , so he 's more or less looking after her which is Joan 's very pleased about |
| 28 | After a moment a man 's voice said in Italian : |
| 29 | At that moment a child 's bone snapped . |
| 30 | There were many records of such manifestations , from reliable and intelligent observers , who had often described the curious incident before they could possibly have heard bad news from India or Australia , where at that moment a friend 's life was endangered . |