Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun sg] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because of the nature of personal involvement in education ( in a deaf school a teacher may be closely associated with the same child for a number of years ) the form of treatment used relates to the personality and experience of the educator . |
| 2 | In a retrospective analysis a latex agglutination test gave positive results in all mothers who delivered infants with group B streptococcal infections , and no neonatal deaths due to group B streptococcal infection occurred in the group testing negative . |
| 3 | Where a farmhouse or other building is regarded as being a private dwellinghouse a bank/organisation will only be required to notify its interest to an insurer where the sum insured exceeds the threshold . |
| 4 | They evolved rapidly and spread widely , and with a little experience a glance at an assemblage of graptolites on a shale surface can be used to determine the approximate age of deposition of the rock . |
| 5 | I mean there was a classic case a couple of years ago of a lady who was pushing a baby in a pram across a zebra crossing and as she was half way across out of the corner of her eye she saw a truck thundering towards her which was quite clearly was n't going to stop and that you know a sort of fairly anxious situation , and she froze . |
| 6 | So he did n't have a normal life a boy of his circumstances in those days . |
| 7 | But his main qualification for cleaning up Argentina 's economic mess is that he did the same job ( rather badly ) in a short-lived government a quarter of a century ago . |
| 8 | They include a bureau full of automated parts by Riesner , a painted secretaire a abattant by Rene Dubois ( est . |
| 9 | Now , reflects Neneh , ‘ Naima and I are really like partners — she trusted me to give her strength and security , and I gained a life in my life — that 's been a complete life-saver a lot of the time . |
| 10 | Treat yourself to a complete top-to-toe a week before the wedding . |
| 11 | In a technical text a reformulation may constrain the interpretation of the original for the purpose of ensuring a more accurate understanding of a particular concept and hence a greater understanding of the surrounding text . |
| 12 | rate you have to add at first , you can drink it while it 's fermenting , it 's quite a refreshing drink a bit tart to my taste but when it ferments out it becomes er a liquor called Arak which is their version of . |
| 13 | In a scaly hollow a crowd of naked Perks fled squealing from the echo of their bounding feet . |
| 14 | After a 13-hour debate a motion to reject the programme was defeated early on Oct. 10 by 171 votes to 159 with eight abstentions . |
| 15 | We 've got a reported-stolen list a mile long , but the media only cares about the sexy stuff . |
| 16 | and he was away April he would always have a half-made coffin a sort of standard sized one |
| 17 | A British estimate a year later , based largely on intelligence from American sources , concluded that North Korea would triumph in an encounter from which other countries were excluded . |
| 18 | So , again , was a Spanish force put to flight by a Cornish force a fraction of its size . |
| 19 | " And let it be said , " Harry went on , " now we 're talking straight , that Miss Jennifer here can forget all the Romish ideas she was fed on down at Roscarrock Hall and start eating Protestant pie , which she 'll find suits a Cornish stomach a sight better than all that hocus-pocus-nomminy-domminy rubbish they peddle down at Holy Joe 's . |
| 20 | It 's only open you know a half day a week . |
| 21 | You see they did n't do things then that they would have done today , you see , seven years and you see I at that time , well I used to used to have a day off and instead of having a half day a week we used to have full day a fortnight and so of course on my day off I came home to see what I can do to help , you see and er my mother died . |
| 22 | On the other hand a diary entry such as ‘ ring X ’ is effective and if the entry is some way in the future it may be necessary to amplify with a trigger of the form ‘ ring X re Y ’ and to have easily accessible some factual data such as the X telephone number and some data re Y. In a different context a car driver will develop a strategy to ensure that he does not run out of petrol , he may rely on a light which appears when the tank is nearly empty or he may calculate from his expected travelling that he need not concern himself about the issue until at least the next weekend , or he may programme himself to react to the fact that he is approaching a particular garage . |
| 23 | As the road leaves Clashnessie Bay , the hamlet of the same name is passed and after a further mile a side road turns off to the right and crosses the bare and windswept peninsula , the Ru Stoer , to a lighthouse where it ends at a parking place for cars . |
| 24 | Donald Trelford , editor of the Observer , was told much the same thing by Gaddafi in a further interview a month or so later . |
| 25 | ( Trudie being Miss Prescott , who had just , with her partner opened a residential home a couple of hundred yards away , and is a nurse . ) |
| 26 | It is to introduce as a theoretical solution a concept whose status has not been examined , and which , far from being a solution , is in reality a theoretical problem . |
| 27 | The licence-holder of premises to which the section applies must exhibit in a conspicuous place a notice stating that the section applies and the effect of its application ( subs . |
| 28 | He then surveyed for a French company a number of railway lines in Italy and Switzerland , before returning to England , where he worked on the Birmingham and Wolverhampton Railway and the Kennet and Avon and Stourbridge canals . |
| 29 | But then United broke to the other end and won a free kick a minute into injury time . |
| 30 | She had made a wrong choice a year ago , had put Steve and her career before the man she loved , but there had been more to it than that . |