Example sentences of "[det] [conj] a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The key recommendation is that a workforce should be recruited and trained to bring five million energy-inefficient homes to current building standards at a cost of £2–3,000 each or a total of £40–45 billion . |
| 2 | Sometimes just one person like that or a couple of people ? |
| 3 | For most people imitation of appearance , or topographic realism , is what art is , that or a sentimentalisation of that . |
| 4 | That or a jug of cold water full in the face . |
| 5 | I 'm certainly not going to er w to say let's give you a trial of this or a trial of that , until we know what 's happened with your chest , so |
| 6 | There are other difficulties in making an order in such a case as this where a number of defendants have been equally involved in committing a crime , for the purpose of which a vehicle belonging to one of them has been used . |
| 7 | Suppose I 'll have to put them both with a five can always buy her a plant or some or a box of chocolate 's , oh sorry Melvin brought you these , forgot you were on a diet |
| 8 | One suggestion which spoke volumes , was for the erection of close-mesh wire fencing along the boundary hedges to stop balls going out of bounds , and another that a selection of books be provided in the clubhouse so that ‘ on the wet days there would be some occupation ’ . |
| 9 | Differences do not , as we have seen with Fig. 8.4 , necessarily mean conflict , but they can easily lead to this if a spirit of possessiveness is also present ( as discussed in Chapter 3 , p. 34 ) . |
| 10 | Take a pinch of this and a pinch of that , stir well under a slow heat , and see what happens . |
| 11 | I used to go and fetch the , the butter from do n't bring margarine my father used to say we put better stuff on our machines so er I used to go to for my father kept foul , I used to fetch a peck of , bushel of this and a bushel of , you know all the various things that , bran and stuff for the foul yes , yes and I believe a lady , she has , she 's only recently died and but she kept it for a long long while Elsie her name was . |
| 12 | In this and a variety of other tasks , Wannemacher and Ryan were able to distinguish ‘ incorrect ’ from ‘ opposite ’ responses . |
| 13 | ‘ A bit of this and a bit of that . |
| 14 | Bit of this and a bit of that . |
| 15 | It was run then by Henry Thomas , who owned this and a number of other local mills . |
| 16 | However , not all plants do this and a number of trees which normally produce straight , stress-carrying boughs can be grafted so as to behave like weeping willows . |
| 17 | These differences are related to the wider patterns of drug use in society at large in which females are proportionately less likely to engage in recreational drug use then males , as this and a number of earlier studies show ( for example , Belle and Goldman 1980 ) . |
| 18 | But intellectually , on this and a number of different fronts , town planning was on the frontiers of change . |
| 19 | However , the Sports Council for Wales is taking what can only be described as a very aggressive approach to this and a number of other sensitive recreation/environment issues at present . |
| 20 | Yeah this geezer who 's doing this cos a lot of his songs are like , it 's like vocal , like the vocal version to these sort of like stuff about Jamaica throw away your guns and sort of |
| 21 | A dose of 20 per cent less than the LD 50 will kill few and a dose of 20 per cent more will kill over 90 per cent ’ . |
| 22 | Ellis and Shepherd ( 1974 ) first drew attention to this but a number of experiments by Young and his colleagues have failed to show any influence of age of acquisition of words on dichotic listening ( Young and Ellis , 1980 ) or tachistoscopic hemifield asymmetry ( Ellis and Young , 1977 ; Young and Bion , 1980b ) even when it is the age at which words are first read rather than heard that is under investigation ( Young , Bion and Ellis , 1982 ) . |
| 23 | One of the things that can emerge is a great deal of mutual help , so that there is not just one group of people giving out to another but a group of people reaching out to one another . |
| 24 | Not all the the MPs are voting for this because a lot of people ca n't have work , let alone have a pay increase . |
| 25 | In those words the Neath guru encapsulated the debate that has raged and lurched from one side to another while a succession of coaches have sought in vain to establish a definitive Welsh style , during the years of consistent defeat since the 1988 Triple Crown . |
| 26 | I think it 's necessary to stress this since a number of representations have referred specifically to the constraints which the locational strategy embodied in policy I five on the ability to deliver the proposed structure plan on employment land allocation . |
| 27 | It has also raised some practical difficulties in making a transfer of assets from one party to another when a portion of those assets consists of a pension which is not payable for many years to come . |
| 28 | Early that century the market for water-clocks was such that a guild of clockmakers is known to have existed in Cologne who by 1220 occupied a special street , the Urlogengasse , or Clockmakers Street . |
| 29 | The ‘ development risks ’ defence is available where the defendant shows ‘ that the state of scientific and technical knowledge at the relevant time was not such that a producer of products of the same description as the product in question might be expected to have discovered the defect if it had existed in his products while they were under his control . ’ |
| 30 | ( c ) Where the defendant can show that : " the state of scientific and technical knowledge at the relevant time was not such that a producer of products of the same description as the product in question might be expected to have discovered the defect if it had existed in his products while they were under his control " ( s. 4(1) ( e ) ) . |