Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 31 | Well I do n't know , I feel happier now your dad 's had that bit of a do with that bloke , cos I feel that we can go to him |
| 32 | if you see what I mean , right I 'll re-draw all that bit in a minute this is all gon na be sort of black . |
| 33 | What did a boy still at university , with no prospects yet of any sort of career , what did someone like that want with a massive country house ? |
| 34 | Without any disrespect to them , we appreciate that Howard Wilkinson is n't the sort of a manager to make that decision without a lot of thought . |
| 35 | Because no one can know at this stage what those conditions might be , it would be unwise for anyone now to decide irrevocably to take that decision at a future date . |
| 36 | Yes I think they have the the best information to be able to make that decision at a local level . |
| 37 | It was about the height of Phoebe 's thigh and , after a flustered second , she remembered that decision with an instant clarity . |
| 38 | The assessment of whether an odour problem amounts to a statutory nuisance within s.92 of the Public Health Act 1936 is a most difficult decision and then to justify that decision before a court equally so . |
| 39 | Nothing to do with me : in fact , I spent six hours fighting that decision in a totally futile meeting with Topaz and three top-level gorillas from Resource Deployment with cottonwool in their ears and Closed For Lunch signs on their brains . ’ |
| 40 | This particular passage is Bukharin at his sophistical worst , since he rails against the ‘ freedom to labour ’ in a manner that dodges the real freedom that workers can obtain by forming trade unions ; this was not a negation of the ‘ freedom to labour ’ , but rather a redefinition of that freedom in a positive manner . |
| 41 | ‘ They must be free to drive their companies forward , but exercise that freedom within a framework of effective accountability , ’ the Committee stressed in its final report . |
| 42 | Dr Brice Pitt comments in Making the Most of Middle Age : ‘ So much publicity is now given to the art of making love , what men and women need from each other , and how to please your partner , that there is little excuse for a dull , unimaginative sex life even in the supposedly stolid middle-aged . ’ |
| 43 | A crystal grows , to be sure , but each part of a crystal is simply a repetition of every other part ; the same monotonous pattern of atoms , repeated over and over . |
| 44 | Not only do you have to complete lines of blocks , without leaving gaps but if you can make the numbers , which are displayed on each part of a block , add up to the target figure you get a bonus and a bomb . |
| 45 | This second point suggests that the interpretation of the two utterances is bound together in the sense that they are each part of a text which is , as a whole , consistent with the principle of relevance . |
| 46 | In classical technique , the calm spaciousness and perfection of each part of an enchaînement flows onwards in line as part of whole sentences in the choreographic design . |
| 47 | Londoners lead the buyers from the south east looking for that cottage with an acre , or the house beside a river or overlooking a rugged coast . |
| 48 | A new report claims that twelve people die each hour as a result of smoking , at a cost to hospitals of four hundred and thirty-seven million pounds . |
| 49 | The St Albans clock had two similar escapements , one to control the going-train and one to ring the bell each hour on a twenty-four-hour system with the number of strokes equal to the hour . |
| 50 | There was very little night-life except a fellow coming home on his bike . |
| 51 | She had hesitated but he could n't take that hesitation as a refusal . |
| 52 | How could he forget the intense little man in that crypt of a dining room ? |
| 53 | Being unwritten , the constitution also encourages a piecemeal approach to politics ; an approach that gives little protection against a determined , authoritarian state . |
| 54 | Also , the need to treat each instalment as a separate amount for ageing purposes means that a great deal of care will need to be given to the analysis of repayment mortgages . |
| 55 | They should put that fight into a computer 'cos I do n't think there will be a fight to compete with what that would have been . ’ |
| 56 | ‘ Although it was horrible to lose my titles , I look back at that fight as a great experience . ’ |
| 57 | Hall and Davidoff have studied Victorian domestic ideology ; they have shown the importance of that ideology to an understanding of what we might now consider to be a " natural " division between public and private spheres based on a supposedly " natural " division between the sexes . |
| 58 | Coat each hair with a fine translucent film which smooths down the rough surface & seals the hair to prevent moisture loss . |
| 59 | After all , mass-produced will always be mass-produced , but the whole point of mass-produced electrics is that you can walk into a store , pick the very best example from a row of several , spend a little money on a great setup , and maybe some pickups , and still save enough over a custom guitar to buy yourself an extremely nice amplifier . |
| 60 | I had bought them for very little money from a woman who looked needy . |