Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [indef pn] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's what I 'm saying , they need , they need just a little , in fact we do here you could argue , er , I feel that all the elements there are of a turning into something a bit ugly , I think , I think they were very quick to drop those statues down , now I know , I know the fellow who in , who set up the K G B could have been the most popular bloke in the Soviet Union , but nonetheless , er he was down within a day , I hear this morning that Yeltsin 's talking about border changes and quite frankly they 're moving too quick and Gorbachev at least was providing a bit of restraint , and I think it , they want to think in terms of decade . |
| 2 | The custody officer does have an obligation under section 147 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 and the Code of Practice on Detention , Treatment and Questioning , to make a record of everything a person has with him and this may , of course , necessitate a search . |
| 3 | Fred begins to feel an appetite for something a bit more substantial than speculation . |
| 4 | Yet it was through the derided Teenybop that the next pop generation came , as young women quickly moved from varieties of Osmond to something a bit meatier — men who instead of masking the femininity of the adored object , flaunted it and made it part of the package . |
| 5 | They would start construction at the rate of one a year from 1982 onwards , and they would ideally be PWRs . |
| 6 | Tate left a number of finished canvases which had never been shown and Edwin decided to release them at the rate of one a year through Ismay Gorton 's , the London gallery which handles his work . |
| 7 | Artillery shells slammed down on Sarajevo , sometimes at the rate of one a minute , as rebel Serb tanks and infantry attacked Bosnian defenders in the strategic western suburbs of Stup and Azici . |
| 8 | It began with seven mortar rounds in quick succession , then shelling , often at the rate of one a minute for five hours with no let-up . |
| 9 | But four main factors are singled out by Chris Green for the currently greatly improved outlook : the record investment currently being made , at the end of 1989 amounting to an astonishing million pounds a day ; the success of the Networker train whose carriages in 1989 were being delivered at the rate of one a day ; the enormous level of London station development both enhancing the environment ( who at the start of the 1980s would have thought of treating a terminus as a shopping precinct ? ) and producing revenue on the grand scale ; and the steady introduction of Integrated Electronic Control Centres ( discussed in detail in the signalling chapter ) . |
| 10 | If the world 's 1984 stockpile of nuclear weapons were compressed into bombs of the size dropped on Hiroshima , it would take 4,600 years to go through them all if they were let off at the rate of one a day . |
| 11 | Though officially designated European Architectural Heritage Year , listed buildings , we calculated , were disappearing at the rate of one a day . |
| 12 | Because in fact to do all of our assignments you probably only need to do an average of one a day . |
| 13 | Fortunately for me , some of my friends and relations like something a bit more unusual , so I have been working out some new ideas for this year for those ‘ champagne ’ garments on a ‘ lemonade ’ income . |
| 14 | The combination of the two learning processes could produce a sharply peaked preference for something a bit different from the familiar when other things are equal . |
| 15 | There are two ancient mild steel peg belays here , but they are best ignored in favour of something a touch more modern . |
| 16 | The end result might only be a slight scratch , but the potential might have been in that situation for something a lot worse . |
| 17 | The NRA suffered two defeats earlier this year : in Virginia , which restricted handgun purchases to one a month , and in New Jersey , where gun-rights advocates lost a three-year campaign to repeal the state 's restrictions on selling assault rifles . |
| 18 | After the fun and games of the Cheranganis it was time for something a bit more serious , so we headed for Mount Elgon , in the far west of the country , straddling the border between Kenya and Uganda . |
| 19 | Guynemer once claimed that if the Germans used such planes he could have guaranteed a bag of one a day . |
| 20 | Big buttons are easier than small ones , so it may save time as well as tempers if you replace small buttons with something a bit more chunky . |