Example sentences of "[noun sg] a [noun] [unc] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they playlist a band 's record , then that band think the playlist is ‘ marvellous ’ . |
| 2 | What I do n't do is pretend to be a socialist , organise five hundred pound a head er ticket dinners as Neil Kinnock does , champagne and then have the gall next day to go to on the nineteenth of July , on the very day when saw what the Labour Group are doing to this city . |
| 3 | ‘ In preparing this Address I had the opportunity to reflect back over the last thirty years , reliving those working days when wages were extremely low , working conditions poor and when in industry a person 's life was cheap . |
| 4 | They stopped for the night in a small village a day 's ride from the foot of the mountain . |
| 5 | Since under Israeli law a minister 's dismissal only took effect 48 hours after the initial announcement was made , government politicians had sufficient time to reach a solution to the crisis . |
| 6 | Since under Israeli law a minister 's dismissal or resignation only took effect 48 hours after the initial announcement was made , Shamir left just enough time to clear the Cabinet of Labour ministers before the Knesset vote . |
| 7 | However , the Court of Appeal decided in Burton v Islington Health Authority [ 1992 ] 3 WLR 617 that at common law a child en ventre sa mρere and unborn at the time of the defendant 's negligence has a cause of action for injuries caused by that negligence . |
| 8 | The Council denies their rent 's too high and even though the new owners have made the hut a cabbies ' shelter in name only at least Oxford 's most unusual historic building is once again back in use . |
| 9 | I never intended to imply that I would be the first artist to employ hanging cloth ( my use of Walter Benjamin necessitated for this kind of work that I block the aura of the collection and re-route it toward another kind of signification , as well as reference a museum 's depot ) but I am confident that anyone who has visited my installation comes away knowing what my contribution is . |
| 10 | A well designed 2 bedroom semi-detached house situated in an extremely quiet cul-de-sac a stone 's throw from Port Meadow . |
| 11 | A guardsman got up and thanked him in English for granting the battalion a week 's leave . |
| 12 | Oh , God , how convoluted can a woman 's mind be ? |
| 13 | It is not a simple case that we can run along , sell a few houses , get the capital receipts and suddenly we can go off and have a wonderful programme and replace the assets which we have sold and when we 're talking about assets in this case I think there 's one crucial difference between us and you and that is we recognise that that is n't just an asset it is a person 's home a person 's home , that 's so important an a I 'm , just to talk about it as if it is is something else , y'know , just some petrified lump of cattle , petrified lump of stock money that was doing no good whatsoever , is a nonsense and I think most of us would agree that it is a complete and utter nonsense . |
| 14 | Is your home a burglar 's paradise ? |
| 15 | Above the laughter a man 's voice carried and Robert Menzies recognized the wine-merchant from Weem . |
| 16 | After a moment a man 's voice said in Italian : |
| 17 | At that moment a child 's bone snapped . |
| 18 | There were many records of such manifestations , from reliable and intelligent observers , who had often described the curious incident before they could possibly have heard bad news from India or Australia , where at that moment a friend 's life was endangered . |
| 19 | Beyond the winds , beyond the cawing of the unclean birds along the crags , beyond the scrabbling of a rock lizard or other hopeful , hungry brute , beyond any sound a mortal 's hearing might detect , there is something else . |
| 20 | WELL done to the residents of Deadwood , South Dakota , who are fighting Kevin Costner 's £25 million plan to make their town a gambler 's paradise . |
| 21 | It is only necessary to behold thus the least phenomenon , however familiar , from a point a hair 's breadth aside from our habitual path a routine , to be overcome , enchanted by its beauty and significance . |
| 22 | Giving divinity a dog 's chance |
| 23 | This suggestion might tempt those who notice that although we do normally accept without query a person 's description of his own sensory states , we sometimes object by saying , for instance , ‘ Surely that traffic light does n't look orange to you . |
| 24 | With multiple logistic regression a mother 's report of ‘ blueness ’ was the best predictor for hypoxaemia in the newborn infants , with an accuracy of 62% . |
| 25 | In which case a researcher 's task is to translate this rather abstract and vague notion into some operational form . |
| 26 | In either case a company 's growth objectives may make foreign markets very attractive . |
| 27 | More significantly the same civil law principle led Sir Robert Phillimore , in the Admiralty Court in The George and Richard ( 1871 ) L.R. 3 A. & E. 466 , 480 , to hold that a posthumous child , later born alive , ranks as a child of its father — in that case a ship 's carpenter who lost his life when his ship was blown on to the rocks and wrecked following disablement in a collision — for the purposes of Lord Campbell 's Act , the Fatal Accidents Act 1846 ( 9 & 10 Vict. c. 93 ) . |
| 28 | By contrast a child 's bedroom seems safe . |
| 29 | The illustrations were engravings based on original daguerreotypes , the text a Reformist 's account of lower working class life . |
| 30 | On a practical level a GP 's surgery generally has a receptionist . |