Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First year pruning will take each stem of a bush rose down to no more than 3–4 inches ( 8–10cm ) , cutting where possible to suitable outward-pointing buds . |
| 2 | By a notice of appeal dated 12 December 1990 the plaintiffs appealed on the grounds , inter alia , ( 1 ) that the judge erred in law in holding that the first defendant was entitled to add to any security , all the costs charges and expenses , however unreasonable they were ; ( 2 ) the judge failed to follow the decision in In re Adelphi Hotel ( Brighton ) Ltd. [ 1953 ] 1 W.L.R. 955 ; ( 3 ) the judge erred in law in construing the charging covenants of the legal mortgage which were all in similar terms that all costs charges and expenses howsoever incurred by the first defendant or any receiver under or in relation to the mortgage or such indebtedness or liabilities on a full indemnity basis as allowing the first defendant to charge as it pleased however unreasonable such a charge might be ; and ( 4 ) the judge erred in law in not construing that provision as a provision providing for taxation or computation on an indemnity basis of the first defendant 's costs , charges and expenses . |
| 3 | Movements for industrial democracy have been similarly discouraged , and even socialist governments , whether reformist or revolutionary , have shown little enthusiasm for a devolution of their powers which would permit a greater involvement of ordinary people in the direction of their everyday economic activities . |
| 4 | ‘ I suppose when you spend all that money on a girl you do n't want to spend the evening wheezing into your hankie , do you ? |
| 5 | Well then if you 're just paying that money into a building society and you 're paying , obviously you ca n't write out as many cheques as what you would normally d do in a bank and have a standing order so therefore it 's got ta be paid by cash . |
| 6 | ‘ The plan is to use that money as a launching pad for further funds that could eventually result in major building work , ’ he said . |
| 7 | You know , I think erm rather than they paying all that money for a caravan . |
| 8 | Join the highest point of each strip with a chalk line to form a curve . |
| 9 | The real difficulty for insurers is that settlement of a claim for provisional damages is significantly more difficult than for an ordinary action . |
| 10 | Raoult 's law is a useful starting point and defines an ideal solution as one in which the activity of each component in a mixture a i is equal to its mole fraction x i . |
| 11 | whether they 're correctly or incorrectly go through it , each each bit at a time , show me how you 're checking it . |
| 12 | each bit at a time . |
| 13 | A m A man named Harold from , and while I was in that hospital with that bit of a gas shell , he er he g fellow came and told me there , to Boulogne that he was dead , killed . |
| 14 | She did n't say why , but went on : " Seeing you two with that bit of a tree 's made me feel like celebrating . |
| 15 | if you see what I mean , right I 'll re-draw all that bit in a minute this is all gon na be sort of black . |
| 16 | Without any disrespect to them , we appreciate that Howard Wilkinson is n't the sort of a manager to make that decision without a lot of thought . |
| 17 | The assessment of whether an odour problem amounts to a statutory nuisance within s.92 of the Public Health Act 1936 is a most difficult decision and then to justify that decision before a court equally so . |
| 18 | ‘ They must be free to drive their companies forward , but exercise that freedom within a framework of effective accountability , ’ the Committee stressed in its final report . |
| 19 | This second point suggests that the interpretation of the two utterances is bound together in the sense that they are each part of a text which is , as a whole , consistent with the principle of relevance . |
| 20 | A crystal grows , to be sure , but each part of a crystal is simply a repetition of every other part ; the same monotonous pattern of atoms , repeated over and over . |
| 21 | Not only do you have to complete lines of blocks , without leaving gaps but if you can make the numbers , which are displayed on each part of a block , add up to the target figure you get a bonus and a bomb . |
| 22 | A new report claims that twelve people die each hour as a result of smoking , at a cost to hospitals of four hundred and thirty-seven million pounds . |
| 23 | There was very little night-life except a fellow coming home on his bike . |
| 24 | She had hesitated but he could n't take that hesitation as a refusal . |
| 25 | How could he forget the intense little man in that crypt of a dining room ? |
| 26 | They should put that fight into a computer 'cos I do n't think there will be a fight to compete with what that would have been . ’ |
| 27 | I had bought them for very little money from a woman who looked needy . |
| 28 | And when I woke up , although it was still dark outside , I wrapped up some spare clothes in a parcel , and put a little money in a purse . |
| 29 | That brute of a father , certainly . |
| 30 | ‘ You want to take that brute for a walk ? ’ |