Example sentences of "[noun pl] [subord] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | New car registrations were nearly 16 per cent higher in the latest three months than a year earlier . |
| 2 | He 'd sold his own car for cash in Carlisle , and he had more important uses for his funds than a guest-house bed . |
| 3 | Come to that , she had much better legs than a man of Gav 's mental age deserved . |
| 4 | I glanced over , thinking that she had much better legs than a woman of her age deserved . |
| 5 | Indeed , it is often the ability of management to agree the deal with much less protection in the way of warranties than a trade purchaser would accept that helps management to win the deal from the vendor . |
| 6 | It seems that problems of proof loom large here : there is a fear that the unscrupulous would manipulate any law permitting ‘ mercy killings ’ , and the argument is presumably that this would put at risk more unwilling parties than a law allowing euthanasia would benefit willing parties . |
| 7 | As a Scottish paper remarked at the time , it was not his first dismissal , ‘ Bremner has had more early baths than a miner on night-shift . ’ |
| 8 | There were few things more calculated to endear a prince to his subjects than a display of stern retribution on unjust officials . |
| 9 | He became ‘ more loathsome in my own eyes than a toad … . |
| 10 | In many cases the question will be answered by looking at the terms of the contract between the parties although a description of the parties as " employer " and " employee " is not conclusive . |
| 11 | Describing London as ‘ a city of illusions , subject every now and then to a series of harsh awakenings ’ , The Echo ( 11 August 1898 ) believed that while some of the stones were undoubtedly exaggerated they nevertheless served a purpose : ‘ We steadily shut our eyes to the submerged lawlessness of less fortunate districts until a series of Whitechapel outrages , or Hooligan exploits , make us not only aware of what is going on , but actually afraid of our lives . ’ |
| 12 | Indeed , there is no way of defining ‘ relevant ’ , and thus maintaining the list within finite bounds until a theory is specified . |
| 13 | Additional considerations if a client is not a corporate finance client |
| 14 | 0403.5 Additional considerations if a client is not a corporate finance client |
| 15 | She spent the morning scrubbing out the ponies ' boxes because the Rutshire team manager , miffed that Drew seemed to have utterly taken over , threatened dire reprisals if a blade of straw was left on the floor . |
| 16 | On the one hand , they stated that , because they felt relatively isolated from the ‘ rest of the world ’ , counselling sessions provided a means of release , particularly as they felt that the counsellors were more in contact with their own reality than individuals from ‘ official ’ agencies : |
| 17 | It might help designers if a history of mismatches that arose during trials and the actions taken to correct them , was kept ; indeed we feel that some of the particular cases do lead to useful generalization . |
| 18 | His home and farmland , upwards of 300 acres , could be submerged along with some 50 other homes if a reservoir at Great Bradley , near Newmarket , is built . |
| 19 | The objections will be considered without the presence of the parties unless a hearing has been requested . |
| 20 | You can fiddle with brightness settings , depending on which scanner you use — and WSP supports most — should you need to , but we have found little need to adjust the settings unless a page of text has been particularly light or very dark . |
| 21 | However , an attractively designed computer is less likely to fall within the scope of registered designs because a person buying a computer is more interested in the performance of the computer ; its appearance is not important to a material extent , although it must be acknowledged that the Design Registry and the courts took a fairly liberal attitude prior to the changes to the 1949 Act and are likely to continue to be generous in this respect . |
| 22 | The children are in role as islanders who have decided to abandon their homes because a volcano is becoming active . |
| 23 | He then had to stay in prison for two months while a schedule of his debt was prepared , he was examined by the court and he agreed to surrender his property . |
| 24 | The majority , a balance of 75% , are bullish about UK equities over the coming 12 months while a balance of 51% are enthusiastic about Japanese shares . |
| 25 | On-load refuelling , the ability to remove and insert fuel rods while a reactor is running makes it easier to control burn up . |
| 26 | Staff at Presto stores throughout the region wore Yellow Brick Road T-shirts and caps while a charity disco and pea and pie supper was held at Darlington Memorial Hospital . |
| 27 | Staff at Presto stores throughout the region wore Yellow Brick Road T-shirts and caps while a charity disco and pie and peas supper was held at Darlington Memorial Hospital . |
| 28 | The paper is moved both backwards and forwards in very precise steps while a pen carrier holding four miniature ballpoint pens moves across the surface from left to right and vice versa . |
| 29 | On and upward , slow now with the altitude telling on legs and lungs alike , the route was measured in numbers of steps before a rest was needed . |
| 30 | Boat rescue : RAF helicopter rescued two survivors after a boat capsized in Bristol Channel off Llantwit Major , South Glamorgan . |