Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] a [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In nine times out of ten the vehicle concerned will be a motor bike or a motor car . |
| 2 | If you are at work all the time and find fitting in regular exercise rather difficult , then invest in an exercise bike or a rowing machine . |
| 3 | It is essential to ensure that where the premises form part of a larger building or a shopping centre the building ( or the shopping centre ) should also be insured as the tenant would wish the whole of the building to be reinstated in the event of damage or destruction and not just the premises . |
| 4 | Although one may talk of the ‘ total or partial destruction ’ of an object such as a building or a railway yard which may be a military objective , it is quite different , and unacceptable , to speak of the destruction of an area of land . |
| 5 | You can even call an acrobat or a football player great . |
| 6 | The biggest saving will be on the Heathrow-Palma route where a EuroClass Eurobudget return will cost £290 against the current business return ticket which costs £484 . |
| 7 | In the case of contracts creating continuing or recurrent liabilities incident to the disposition or holding of property , such as a settlement or a leasehold tenancy , the infant , on attaining full age , becomes bound unless within a reasonable time he takes steps to repudiate liability . |
| 8 | Harman LJ agreed that no specification existed but in applying the object and intent test he said : … one must regard the contract as a whole , and this is a contract where a sales representative in South Lincolnshire serving a firm which , as appears from the very clause in question … is a corn and agricultural merchant and animal feeding stuffs manufacturer . |
| 9 | ‘ If you meet a lady , she may be a Duchess or a lady tramp , you raise your cap . ’ |
| 10 | Such a phrase may feature as part of a quotation , or a paraphrase , as in indirect speech ; or it may be used in respect of an object which we know to be fictional , for example in the context of a story or a fairy tale . |
| 11 | Statements and documents filed at court are confidential and may not be disclosed to anyone other than the parties , their legal representatives , the guardian ad litem , the Legal Aid Board or a welfare officer without the leave of the court ( FPCR , r23(1) ; FPR , r4.23(1) ) . |
| 12 | The departments either reported to a finance director or planning director on the main board or a planning director positioned just below the main board but as a member of an executive committee . |
| 13 | No father ( of a case or a control child ) in this study had a recorded cumulative external exposure t penetrating radiation above 5 mSv before his child was conceived , and such low doses could accumulate from background radiation in about five years . |
| 14 | There is a danger , however , that number friezes badly used may lead children to relate for instance , five only with five ducks or a domino pattern . |
| 15 | If , however , SIB Core Rule 18(2) modifies the common law , unless an effective contractual provision or a trade custom authorises less than full disclosure to professional customers , this may be the position . |
| 16 | There is no reason why the ability to use a washing-machine or a pressure cooker should be limited to one person per household ! |
| 17 | Hang from a picture hook or a picture rail hook |
| 18 | Either a fabric softener or a soap powder rash . |
| 19 | She said well it was down to the last two she said , I had a choice between a red and green cushion or a fitness test . |
| 20 | Through her Cambridge years and long afterwards she simply accepted them as evidence of Esther 's eccentricity and originality — and it was not , after all , difficult to be original in a period when most female undergraduates , fresh from school and far from well off , ventured little further in terms of home-making than a cushion or a chianti bottle , a photograph or a teddy bear , a gingham frill round an orange box or a postcard collage on the wall , a modernist paper mobile or an arrangement of seaside pebbles . |
| 21 | A program ( issue 44 ) is a file containing a series of instructions for the computer which cause it to do a particular job ( such as behave like a word processor or a flight simulator ) . |
| 22 | As for burial in a churchyard or a church service for the dead person , the position is again a very complicated one . |
| 23 | All these problems tend to occur if the baby is n't positioned properly — ask for advice from your midwife or a breastfeeding counsellor of you have recurring problems . |
| 24 | Several stated that this was why they would not go to a GP or a Detoxification Unit , even as an out-patient . |
| 25 | Just a few more vegetables or a bouillon cube , ’ he turned to Penelope , smiling , ‘ and sometimes a great deal too many potatoes . ’ |
| 26 | Eat these kidney bean tartlets with freshly cooked vegetables or a side salad . |
| 27 | Serve with freshly cooked vegetables or a side salad . |
| 28 | At one time there was a mill at Kexby , either a windmill or a horse mill , according to one resident . |
| 29 | Jolly frosty snowmen and frozen fir trees will add a touch of cold comfort to a gin and tonic or a fruit cup . |
| 30 | While Drago and Apanage went into the small kitchen next to Drago 's workroom to prepare a meal , Cleo and Dauntless sat in a cosy parlour where a log fire warmed the stones of an enormous chimney breast . |