Example sentences of "[art] [adj] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only the A E U have the courage to stand up against big brother , the T U C , warning against denying the unemployed a glimmer of hope . |
| 2 | It 's just the actual A lick of paint here and there basically and |
| 3 | In particular , concern about the long-run decline in the birth-rate and the recognition that this was the major reason for the growing proportion of old people in the population ( Thane forthcoming ) coincided with a post-war labour shortage , making the elderly a focus of interest in a wider range of policy-making and otherwise influential circles . |
| 4 | Nothing of the old building remained and the long extension to the bar , dignified by the name Banqueting Hall , provided for the undiscriminating a venue for weddings and local functions and on other nights served a predictable menu of prawns or soup , steak or chicken , and fruit salad with ice-cream . |
| 5 | ‘ You 're very welcome — have n't the Irish and the Welsh a lot in common , when all 's said and done ? ’ |
| 6 | Well obviously if if you the normal rule of thumb , as I 'm led to believe , is that if you buy a used a vehicle from a used car dealer , you 're given three months , three thousand miles , in which you can you can take complaints back . |
| 7 | Somebody once said that if angelism , sharing the gospel was one beggar telling another beggar about bread , where it could be found and undoubtedly when he was saying that he was thinking of that story that account that we had read to us earlier from the second book of kings , chapter seven , and I 'd like us to er turn back to us for a few moments this morning and perhaps draw some lessons for ourselves Sometimes as Christians its very easier for us to say what sins are , and we can see other people 's failings , you do n't have to be a Christian to do that of course , plenty of other people can do that , they see the failings of other people , they see the wrong doing they do , they see their wickedness their , their waywardness , whatever words we want to use to describe it , and we say well that is sin , perhaps for most of us this morning we could make er a list a , a , a tabulate a table of sins and we might say well they are worse sins and there are lesser sins and I would I suppose by and large there would be a fairly reasonable consensus of opinion regarding what was sins and what were not sins . |
| 8 | ‘ It was at a photo-shoot a couple of days before a charity gig at the National Stadium in Dublin , ’ he says . |
| 9 | Goldstein in the United States , a strong advocate of the patient 's right to self-determination , argues that a person involuntarily incarcerated in a mental hospital , for example , is in no different a position from a free person , except that incarceration affects volition , not the patient 's capacity to make a choice . |
| 10 | For a hired a studio for three hours . |
| 11 | ‘ Forgot a lot o' things , did old Blackberry ! ’ observed Forest , addressing Richard as if he were of a sudden a force to be reckoned with . |
| 12 | It 's probably simpler not to , not to worry about that that 's just a quick a bit of a short cut way of doing it . |
| 13 | Well that 's probably a good a way of managing it as anything really . |
| 14 | ‘ They 've got a good a squad of players as any in the division . ’ |
| 15 | Did a good a trade in restaurant . |
| 16 | Had that proposal been acted on , McKusick , CSRG senior programmer and past president of Usenix , would have found himself in another conflict of interests since he is believed to be a secret a director of BSDI . |
| 17 | So here I publish a picture of him ten years ago when he was Junior Minister he is enjoying a marvellous a party at London 's Intercontinental Hotel . |
| 18 | The defeat of the motions brought to a close a crisis within the ruling coalition provoked by the ultra-orthodox Shas faction 's threat to leave the government in protest over statements issued by Shulamit Aloni , the Minister for Education . |
| 19 | However , in some LEAs , schools are being encouraged to form ‘ clusters ’ to combine their efforts and resources to meet a wide a range of special educational needs . |
| 20 | Without Eales , the Aussies are not a potent a force in the lineout . |
| 21 | It may be thought unwise to present a young a artist in repertoire as familiar and well-recorded as this , but one only needs to listen to the first minute of track one , the F major Sonata , to realise that Haefliger is in complete command and has something unique to offer , namely youthful energy , dash and charisma . |
| 22 | This move would cost a huge a mount of money , he warns . |
| 23 | They are about an interesting a bunch of people that you could ever hope to meet . |
| 24 | The idea of the ‘ self ’ — what gives an individual a sense of personal identity , and how others recognize this self — has been at the heart of a philosophical debate since David Hume claimed to repudiate the existence of the ‘ self ’ as a separate entity in the eighteenth century ( Hume , 1739 ) . |
| 25 | First , the Freedom of Information Acts give an individual a right to information possessed by the government about him or her and the government may have to justify non-disclosure in court . |
| 26 | Bet it does n't mean that at all , bet it 's something terrible , like calling an Indian a son of a pig . |