Example sentences of "a [noun] of a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sounds a bit of a balls-up . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ We had a bit of a knees-up last night . |
| 3 | He 's a bit of a ladies ' man , ’ he said , adding ‘ Nigella Lawson — she 's very tasty , nicer than in her picture . |
| 4 | ‘ He seems to have been a bit of a ladies ’ man — ’ |
| 5 | I 'm a bit of a clothes freak . |
| 6 | On a preliminary issue as to whether the High Court had jurisdiction to hear an application for judicial review of a decision of a visitors to the Inns of Court : — |
| 7 | By contrast requiring a case to be stated , just like the appeal by way of case stated from a decision of a magistrates ' court or the Crown Court described in chapter 7 , obliges the tribunal to set out its decision and the reasons for it together with a formulation of the questions to be considered by the High Court . |
| 8 | MR JUSTICE MILLETT said that the particular question was whether a decision of a commons commissioner that certain land was not registrable as common land because it formed part of a highway was capable of giving rise to an estoppel per rem judicatam so as to preclude the landowner from afterwards asserting , in proceedings unconnected with the register , that the land in question did not form part of a highway . |
| 9 | Voluntary work was no longer seen as either a stepping stone to bigger and better things or as a part of a women ‘ s mission , but rather as the exclusive province of married women . |
| 10 | Amendment thirty-one confirms that a chairman of a police authority will be elected by the authority itself , instead of being appointed by the Home Secretary As Noble Lord , Lord has already said . |
| 11 | Question 13 Subject to this , do you agree that grants from the compensation fund should continue to be made without limitation to individual private clients who have lost money as a result of a solicitors dishonesty ? |
| 12 | ‘ The seven children are in care as a result of a children 's panel decision . |
| 13 | And there has been an unexpected spin-off — because SNIA Fibre is a subsidiary of a chemicals group controlled by Fiat , cars have been available for UK Novaceta workers at discounted prices . |
| 14 | A vice-principal of a teachers ' university probably spoke on behalf of many party members in positions of responsibility when he said that some young comrades lacked the ‘ backbone of Marxism-Leninism ’ , especially those studying liberal arts subjects . |
| 15 | Even a picture of a police dog had been viciously stabbed . |
| 16 | At the crime prevention panel , I watched a video of a police chase through the centre of Middlesbrough , in which a 14-year-old drove a Vauxhall Astra at 90 miles per hour on the wrong side of the road , weaving in and out of oncoming traffic . |
| 17 | So I flipped some cattle from the farm of and right between Egilsay and Rousay just a short distance , oh maybe a quarter of a miles or thereby , and oh did the shipping perfectly well and and went home and by the time I got home the message had arrived back before me that the there were two old cattle among the younger ones that the fellow had put there just to feed up and the last we saw of them was going up over the island and that was okay we thought everything was okay . |
| 18 | Artist David Swinton specialises in paper sculpture and will be showing children how to make a mask of a triceratops . |
| 19 | ‘ Both WACC and IAMCR share a vision of a communications future grounded in democratic alternatives to the present structures , ’ Mr Thomas said . |
| 20 | A shot of a police station was used to accompany a voice-over commentary that " some CID men take bribes " ; for two and a half seconds , the officer could be identified in the film as he walked down the station steps . |
| 21 | It is sometimes a question whether a particular confession is the unaided work of an accused or is a fabrication of a police officer . |
| 22 | The Disciplinary Code in Schedule 1 to the Police ( Discipline ) Regulations 1985 contains an offence of ‘ improper disclosure of information ’ , which is committed where a member of a police force without proper authority communicates to any person , any information which he has in his possession as a member of a police force . |
| 23 | The Disciplinary Code in Schedule 1 to the Police ( Discipline ) Regulations 1985 contains an offence of ‘ improper disclosure of information ’ , which is committed where a member of a police force without proper authority communicates to any person , any information which he has in his possession as a member of a police force . |
| 24 | Improper disclosure of information , which offence is committed where a member of a police force ( a ) without proper authority communicates to any person , any information which he has in his possession as a member of a police force … |
| 25 | Improper disclosure of information , which offence is committed where a member of a police force ( a ) without proper authority communicates to any person , any information which he has in his possession as a member of a police force … |
| 26 | As a member of a police authority , I welcome the fact the Government has withdrawn its earlier ill-judged proposal , that authority Chairman should be appointed by Home Sec by the Home Secretary and that the size of authority should be standardised but the other main thrust of the Government 's proposal remains , namely the balance and composition of authorities and these points are of the gravest constitutional importance . |
| 27 | like a swarm of a hornets , a coiffure of fire . |
| 28 | We 've still got that tape for a couple of a weeks . |
| 29 | Oi 'm not one of your Flahsh 'Ahrrys , sir , Oi 'm a builder of a ninnins . ’ |
| 30 | Barclays ' support of the National Trust continues to include a secondment of a Donations Administration Manager based at the Trust 's head office and the annual 48-page full-colour booklet Information for Visitors with Disabilities , which the bank is sponsoring for the sixth year running in 1991 . |