Example sentences of "[prep] [indef pn] [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Expertise and experience count for nothing if a fighter is n't mentally prepared before he enters the ring . |
| 2 | Fourteen weeks ' full maternity pay for everyone and an end to the confusing restrictions on how long you have to work for the same company to qualify for your job back are just two of the expected improvements . |
| 3 | Yes , I know , yes but I mean it 's interesting at lunch time I had a , I had a working lunch with someone and a month after we had finished all the work and stuff , we got on to a whole pile of other things and , and I was talking about some of the -ists and one of the -ists I was talking about was feminism and how I 'd been in an amazing meeting a few weeks ago where you know I used that word and the women , it was all a meeting with women , the women there had absolutely freaked at the use of the word feminism and feminists . |
| 4 | If the court wishes to regulate the child 's contact with anyone while a supervision order is in force it must make a contact order under s8 . |
| 5 | Transgressive reinscription : a turning back upon something and a perverting of it typically it not exclusively through inversion and displacement . |
| 6 | Meanwhile , the night was nearly ruined for everybody when a horde of beery Welsh rugby fans descended on the venue and proceeded to expose their gargantuan bellies in a threatening manner and generally menace the anorexic pop people present . |
| 7 | Sir Alistair 's light-hearted speech included a sideways swipe at Häagen-Dazs — ‘ it 's come to something when an ice-cream positions itself as the alternative to KY Jelly ’ and another at people who trade on their Scottish names as a guarantee of their trustworthiness — such as Robert Maxwell . |
| 8 | Lord Denning M.R. stated that the court could intervene if the Minister acted on no evidence , or reached a decision to which on the evidence he could not reasonably have come , equating the case to one where a court interfered with a decision of a tribunal which had erred in law . |
| 9 | Whether , however , privilege does extend to everything that a Member does as a Member is doubtful . |
| 10 | These poor people have done no harm to anybody and a lot of them will have fought wars for a lot of these same people who are now deciding to put them out of their homes in the twilight of their lives . |
| 11 | Most of these developments might be seen as making English less different , but the kinds of changes that go on in ‘ literary theory ’ are unlikely to be familiar to anyone but a philosopher . |