Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] a [noun sg] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | And where for a moment a gap had shown between her boot-top and her heat-suit , a midnight vein swooped across the wall to form a bulge that thickened out towards the naked skin of her leg . |
| 2 | it is not restricted to conduct causing or intended to cause injury or damage but includes any other violent conduct ( for example , throwing at or towards a person a missile of a kind capable of causing injury which does not hit or falls short ) ( Section 8 ) . |
| 3 | ( 2 ) Where under an agreement an officer of a regional council is placed at the disposal of a district council for the purposes of this section , that officer may perform the duties of clerk or assistant clerk of the aforementioned boards . |
| 4 | Where on an arbitration an award has been made against a party in his absence , the award can be set aside , but , in this instance , by the arbitrator only ( Ord 19 , r 5(2) ( Term 6 ) ) . |
| 5 | When the Constituent Assembly was dissolved after the 1917 Revolution , and the Bolsheviks ' Land Decree had stolen the main plank of the Socialist Revolutionaries ' platform , Siberian and Black-Earth peasants alike failed to give any further support to their still loyal party , despite the fact that for a period an SR-dominated Directory prevailed in eastern Russia . |
| 6 | Not only does this increase costs and emphasise differences between richer and poorer children but it also contributes to a very inflexible and inefficient distribution of learning materials , since under this system ‘ shared ’ material is never bought — only class texts — and it is by no means uncommon to find that as a result a class may end up with only two or three books at its disposal , all in multiple copies . |
| 7 | Although for a man a stab wage was invariably better than piece-rates , it could sometimes be the other way round for women . |
| 8 | Very few were included in the initial lists of historic buildings and as a result a very large number have been demolished . |
| 9 | For instance , if the surveyor failed to carry out his inspection and to present his report within the agreed time and as a result a house at a bargain price was lost , then a claim could properly be made for compensation . |
| 10 | This had necessitated a large number of meetings , particularly for the Socialisation of Industries Committee and the Social Services Committee : ministers had tended to bring too many items to committee ; senior ministers had wanted to keep an eye on their more junior colleagues , and as a result a heavy burden fell on a handful . |
| 11 | The recently-held Day of Recollection for members of the APC and friends had been greatly appreciated and as a result a further Day of Recollection will be held in the spring . |
| 12 | When I replaced him he was quite stressed and as a result a week later became ill and had a fungal growth on him . |
| 13 | For David there is not really a lot more to tell except perhaps that I got some new teeth and as a result a few more pounds have been gained . |
| 14 | Twenty-two years of war had honed that skill to near perfection , and as a result a mother in France would soon be weeping . |
| 15 | Headlines in a US paper saying that the Open Software Foundation has dropped Tivoli Systems Inc 's management framework from its Distributed Management Environment are flat out wrong and creating unnecessary waves : as our sister paper Unigram.X has already said , DME 1.0 is being made fully compliant with the Object Management Group 's Common Object Request Broker , a specification that post-dates development of both DME and the Tivoli framework and as a result a small piece of low-level code is being reworked , hardly something to write home about , and the Foundation says Tivoli 's framework remains central to the object management framework . |
| 16 | But following the changes in Eastern Europe and the virtual ending of the cold war this particular danger has receded for the time being , and as a result a new process of gradual disarmament by the major nuclear powers has begun . |
| 17 | ICAS has been invited by the Bank of England for its considered views on the subject and as a result a report is being sent to the DTI and to other interested bodies . |
| 18 | At the meeting in January 1989 the focus of discussions was the social dimension of the SEM , and as a result a steering committee was established to maintain progress in the development of the " social dialogue " . |
| 19 | The need for training in the area was identified through the Ballybeen Estate Strategy Steering Group and as a result a ‘ Training and Education Working Group ’ was established . |
| 20 | British industry 's rates of growth were markedly below those of its European counterparts and as a result an absolute advantage was transformed into an absolute disadvantage over the period . |
| 21 | He was still interested in politics , and for a while a fairly active member of the Labour party , especially during the miners ' strike when he and Solowka canvassed on their behalf . |
| 22 | It was like taking a step back into the past , and for a moment a little shiver ran down her spine . |
| 23 | Nevertheless drawings by him still lined the hall which led into the bar , and for a period a mural by Minton , with some assistance from others , hung in the dining-room where visitors could dine simply or expensively , eating plates of goulash or a champagne supper , seated at scrubbed oak tables and benches . |
| 24 | The guitar was playing again , this time in slow rhythm , and after a while a voice broke in . |
| 25 | Again , like many other therapies , questions will be asked to give an overall picture of yourself and after a consultation a remedy may be given . |
| 26 | There was a bar at the entrance where one paid a few marks for a drink , and behind a curtain an auditorium of perhaps twenty or thirty comfortable seats . |
| 27 | Metroprolol was then added and titrated against heart rate until within a week a final dose of 25 mg thrice daily was attained , resulting in a resting heart rate under 80 per min . |
| 28 | Similarly if in a language a woman referred to her son by the same term as she used for the son of her sister , this showed that the system of terms developed at a time when the two sisters would have been co-wives of the same man or men . |
| 29 | A more wide-ranging reason is that love of things , especially artificial things , could be seen as the besetting sin of modern civilisation , and in a way a new one , not quite Avarice and not quite pride , but somehow attached to both ( see pp. 68 , 128 above ) . |
| 30 | She knew she ought not to mind his advances — they were only natural really , and in a way a compliment . |