Example sentences of "[det] [prep] a [unc] [no cls] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The United States presented this as a quid pro quo for the Soviet failure to establish a missile base in Cuba . |
| 2 | Bardot 's sensuality , too , was not that of a femme fatale but an enfant fatale . |
| 3 | AT the Congress of Vienna the pretensions of Spain were dismissed as those of a cour secondaire ; at the accession of Charles III , in 1759 , such an attitude would have been inconceivable and unrealistic . |
| 4 | A. J. Charig however , in the course of his detailed comparison of the main schools of systematics , sees natural order systematics as rather more of a bete noire than it deserves . |
| 5 | but it was , to me , it was more like a erm er , er a sponge erm like a pudding sponge . |
| 6 | The countries which qualify for assistance are those with a per capita GNP of less than US $ 791 ( valued at 1983 dollars ) . |
| 7 | Rivalry was a rivet piercing through their bones , uniting those in a danse macabre , a shifting pas de trois . |