Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [det] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almond oil ( 90p for 50ml from Boots ) is ideal , or you can make an even richer concoction by adding a teaspoon of warmed clear honey to a tablespoon each of almond , sesame and olive oils and half a tablespoon of glycerine . |
| 2 | Poldauf even refers to the " evaluative prehistory " of a verb such as smile as being that which makes the use of the infinitive possible ( 1972 : 88 ) . |
| 3 | A verb such as question denotes a kind of event that our knowledge of the world tells us is typically prompted by something about the questioner ( usually their wanting to find something out ) . |
| 4 | Some workers suggest that the entire sediment sample should be oven dried at 110°C and weighed to 0·1% before being immersed in water containing a dispersant such as sodium hexametaphosphate . |
| 5 | Can this properly be said to be the case with a play such as Doctor Faustus ? |
| 6 | Meal : This has been mixed with a carrier such as wheatfeed and is easy to mix . |
| 7 | It is less easy to see , for instance , how the meaning of a loss such as bereavement could be so readily reinterpreted , or whether such attempts do much to reduce the risk of depression . |
| 8 | It may be that in revitalising or developing a talent such as painting , sculpture , macrame , embroidery , carpentry or toy-making you can actually start to earn a living out if it , particularly if what 's on offer has an original slant . |
| 9 | A wind such as East Anglia only knows , cruel , ‘ lazy ’ ( too lazy to go round you , going through you instead ) , a wind which made the old ladies in the town say : ‘ Oi 've got me thermals on ’ . |
| 10 | Since most Right-Ons would have been happy with a national version of a publication such as City Limits or Spare Rib , which specialized in redefining the world 's priorities as their own , the comparison with the Guardian was daring . |
| 11 | It 's a question more of assessment . |
| 12 | They visited Flower Vogue where Janice Bayer , who chose the winning cards with the help of her assistant Bo Pullen , is ready to prepare their prizes , a bouquet each for Mothering Sunday . |
| 13 | Lacquer , usually with colouring agents in it , was used to decorate pots , dishes , various other sorts of containers and toilet articles such as mirrors , all usually made of wood or a textile such as hemp . |
| 14 | A trapdoor in 2e leads upwards to chamber 2f ; however , the wooden ladder set into the wall below it is obviously rotten and useless , so a skill such as Scale Sheer Surfaces or a Flight spell is necessary to reach the trapdoor . |
| 15 | I think that men tend to rely more on a crutch such as alcohol I do n't if it relieves |
| 16 | Debbie uses three ideas common to the science students : one , that science degrees are more useful in enabling students to gain jobs ; two , that a degree is a process of ‘ gaining knowledge ’ which can be applied ; three , that the knowledge gained in a degree such as history can be applied only in limited ways and therefore a limited number of jobs is open to the history graduate . |
| 17 | This is especially true if you are playing a sport such as squash , where an extremely high level of stamina is needed right from the very beginning . |
| 18 | If it 's stamina and feeling ‘ fitter ’ that you want then probably a sport such as badminton , squash or tennis will do the trick . |
| 19 | To be considered ‘ disabled ’ for this purpose you will normally need to be receiving a benefit such as Attendance Allowance , Mobility Allowance , Invalidity Benefit or be registered blind . |
| 20 | In other words it chooses to move up the Phillips curve from point A to a point such as point B which corresponds to its new perception of the ‘ optimal ’ unemployment inflation pair . |
| 21 | The Lucas supply function predicts that the economy will move along to a point such as point B at which both prices and output are higher than at A : prices rise to and output rises to y t . |
| 22 | The inadequacy of structural responses to a crisis such as decentralization and matrix management stimulated the slow emergence of what Waterman et al. ( 1981 ) term ‘ a new consensus ’ in organization studies . |
| 23 | Poverty , he defined as ‘ having no surplus ’ , i.e. having the bare essentials much of the time , but nothing to spare to provide for a crisis such as unemployment , sickness or death in the family . |
| 24 | This helps to tone down the bodily reactions to mental stress , and can therefore moderate a symptom such as diarrhoea , even though the primary cause of that diarrhoea is a reaction to food . |
| 25 | Where a complication such as perforation was suspected , urgent chest x ray and oesophagogram using a water soluble contrast medium were done . |
| 26 | From the Marxist point of view , a process such as secularisation takes a more secondary role in relation to features more closely associated with the functioning of a capitalist economy , and particularly changes in the class structure . |
| 27 | Another means of enhancing the qualities of base metals and alloys , at least in regards to surface appearance , is to bond together different metals in a process such as plating . |
| 28 | It can be argued that ‘ normalizing ’ the marked English structure is not a good strategy in this instance and that a slightly different but similarly marked Arabic structure ( using a particle such as inna ) would have preserved the prominence given by the writer to the first part of the statement ( Mr Rowland wants ) and still sounded natural in Arabic : |
| 29 | In addition , a Special Study is offered each year on a theme such as Intelligence and National Security in 20th-century Britain ; Science , State and Society ; or Ethnic Conflict . |
| 30 | Often focus on a theme such as transport , or trade and communication may well provide the link to the wider context that is needed . |