Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] a [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.

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31 If you were to die as a result of an accident the Plan would pay out up to £40,000 to your estate .
32 • If you were to die as the result of an accident the Plan would pay out £40,000 to your estate .
33 What 's the good of a bed a bed without a mattress ?
34 Returning to the argument in The Future of an Illusion an imaginary antagonist argues that civilization depends upon people continuing to believe in God , otherwise they will not act in a moral way .
35 Analysis of the contractor 's programmes should begin at the tender stage so that from the onset of a contract the attainability of the programme ( and thus the completion date ) have been assessed .
36 What Marslen-Wilson and Tyler propose is that at the onset of a word no reduction of the cohort by context has occurred , and that initial reduction of cohort size depends solely upon sensory input , not context .
37 Nevertheless she agreed to the luxury of a lie-in the following Sunday morning , even allowing her sister to fuss over her a little .
38 Such groups can properly be described in terms of free association within a generally accepted cultural diversity , though it must be noted that even here , in many cases , the diversity is established by these initiatives , rather than prepared for them , and that in the cases of particular branches of an art the initiatives often involve significant local conflict .
39 North of Clachan Bridge it has remained as a clear bench on either side of a strait no wider than an average English lowland river .
40 The waste from the pit would be dumped on one side of a hill a short distance away .
41 Six seconds of fame after hours of queueing for this fan of a fan THE Lamports had queued for four hours before they were interviewed for the Antiques .
42 In general , the longer the term of a loan the higher the interest rate .
43 In Cairnplace Ltd v CBL ( Property Investment ) Co Ltd [ 1984 ] 1 All ER 315 , it was held that there should not be inserted in a renewal of a lease a provision that the tenant should pay the landlord 's costs despite the fact that there was a similar provision contained in the previous lease .
44 The diesel car offers more and more people the benefits of reliability , longevity and fuel economy and with the aid of a catalyst the diesel car is as environmentally ‘ sound ’ as a fully catalysed petrol car .
45 It was just dawn in Shepherd 's Bush , and he could make out without the flame of a candle the narrow , tightly packed words crabbing across the paper .
46 My party consists of Mrs. G. with an attendant a woman who has accompanied Ladies twice to Calcutta , our little boy , two men one as a collector , the other as a servant , and a nephew 14 years old who will settle there ; in the next cabin is a Surgeon with his wife and family .
47 Red and white currants here in rows , berries like glass beads , gooseberries with a ripeness the colour of rust on their green cheeks .
48 Although the system illustrated receives its phase control signals from a microprocessor a number of less sophisticated alternatives are presented later in this Chapter .
49 Are soaps in a sense the subconscious of patriarchy — where patriarchy is reflecting on itself via these various problematic issues which are unresolvable within the terms that patriarchy sets ?
50 She was able to act as a reconciling agent in a way no one could ever have foreseen .
51 Like sleep-walkers in a dream the coolies began advancing out of the shade towards the ship .
52 two cars in a circle a black and a red one
53 It is perfectly simple , relatively speaking , to store on magnetic tape within a computer a full catalogue entry , including a classification symbol or symbols , and to label each segment of the information in such a way that the computer can be programmed to find it on demand .
54 To catch a frisky horse or a young colt in a field the horseman placed a little of the mixture of oil of origanum , oil of rosemary , oil of cinnamon , and oil of fennel about his person .
55 So Gough , who had a brilliant European Championship , has to sit on the bench with Roxburgh and sweat it out against Portugal in a match the Scots have to win .
56 lists in an appendix the prospective purchasers , if any , already identified in each participating member 's country
57 They predict that within a decade such polymer films will be able to store Gigabits of data in a film the size and thickness of a dime .
58 If he copies from another drawing in a book the translation from the three-dimensional plane to the two-dimensional drawing will have been done for him , so he will not have had to observe as carefully and think as much as he would have had to do if he had made his own translation .
59 It 's just that Mary Connon and Arthur Evans were seen in close confabulation over a drink the Friday before she died . ’
60 ‘ Valerie , ’ the editor of the Mail on Sunday said to me once , after I had filed a neat and convincing piece on an earthquake the ground had trembled beneath me in Rome , where Lou was playing with the London Symphonic and a wall had fallen on top of me and trapped me for two hours — ‘ you are the mistress of controlled reportage .
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