Example sentences of "a [noun] [noun] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a cooking ingredient an apple is a versatile as an egg . |
| 2 | Well , that 's almost one , one and a bit miles an hour that is . |
| 3 | A. a spiracle B. an antenna C. a proboscis D. a leg E. a cuticle . |
| 4 | What I have just said shows in fact how very unlike a midget top an electron actually is . |
| 5 | Gentlemen who were early baronets of Scotland were authorised to charge their arms with a canton ( or escutcheon ) carrying the arms of the province of Nova Scotia — argent on a saltire azure an escutcheon of the Royal Amis of Scotland . |
| 6 | For example in thinking about the consequences of a change taxes an economist would point to the relationship between price and quantity sold . |
| 7 | ‘ Oh , they put up a fight when we jumped ‘ em , but the one with the radio head butted a baseball bat an ’ called a time-out . |
| 8 | On a village green an Aboriginal gentleman demonstrates the use of the boomerang — assisted by a retriever dog . |
| 9 | Both books display Minton 's effervescent gaiety , but , even before his illustrations became overlaid with a period nostalgia an undertow of sadness could be discerned beneath their cheerful manner . |
| 10 | In the context of a business sale an employee will be redundant if his dismissal was wholly or mainly attributable either to the change in location of the business or to the fact that fewer employees are now required for the business . |
| 11 | You may make a product reference an unapproved product package . |
| 12 | ‘ We could do with a night-club and a massage parlour an , all , , said the Viking , full of enthusiasm . |
| 13 | On a third occasion , Alexander II was returning from the front during the Russo-Turkish War and recognized on a station platform an officer who had deserted from the army . |
| 14 | Canadian Haemophilia Society ( CHS ) president David Page dismisses it as ‘ abysmally insufficient ’ and calls Cote 's plan to introduce a means test an affront . |
| 15 | But is n't a soccer player an enter-tainer ? |
| 16 | If there was a widespread desire to alter the degree of influence exercised by Parliament and to make the life of a backbench MP an attractive prospect in its own right for public-spirited men and if this could only be done by the acceptance of some new countervailing powers , this would be no harder for successive governments than , for example , accepting the limitations involved in joining the Common Market . |
| 17 | For the Spectrum owner who is either using or considering the purchase of a Microdrive system an interface unit may be unnecessary as the Microdrive interface itself is supplied with a serial interface which can be used to drive a printer . |
| 18 | Over 1.5 million people visit the Tate annually and could be expected to find a Tate magazine an attractive purchase . |
| 19 | What we do is provide them all er all of them with er a training course an awareness which does include on some with some companies two days out in the field . |
| 20 | Be aware of the possible need for privacy , for example , in a hospital ward an intimate conversation with close relatives should not be overheard . |
| 21 | He suggests , for example , that instead of making a care order an interim care order should have been made with a view to reviewing the progress of rehabilitation in six or nine months time . |
| 22 | Both finite and infinite multiplicative groups give rise to so-called group algebras via attempts to " represent " the group elements by matrices , and in studying a Lie group an investigation of the associated Lie algebra is invaluable . |
| 23 | Cases of the latter type , where the adjective is used only to aid identification and does not actually apply to the entity of the phrase , closely resemble the great bulk of noun + noun phrases in their structural value , examples such as : ( 11 ) army manoeuvres the piano factory a sea monster an angle bracket However , even among noun + noun phrases , certain specimens occur which are clearly analogous to the former type ; as in : ( 12 ) a doctor journalist ( or doctor-journalist ) Chancellor Kohl a bed-settee These would permit an affirmative answer to our diagnostic test , although normally it is necessary to allow a little leeway in the shape of an added determiner to allow for this requirement of English : ( 13 ) Maurice is a journalist and he is also a doctor 2.3 It would be useful to have names for the two types of adjectival use , and there are fortunately two terms available which fall in the right semantic area and which have not been pre-empted for any other widely accepted technical linguistic purpose . |
| 24 | On Nov. 25 , 1991 , the United Left ( IU ) opposition grouping had lodged in a Madrid court an accusation against Renfe concerning fraudulent dealings . |
| 25 | Even if high prices are not charged , an innovation may give an investment bank an advantage in gaining mandates , which may enable losses to be converted into " normal " profits . |
| 26 | we are at the moment er going through er an experiment compost an experimental site where this is going on er near Hertford and erm we are obviously interested to see how that goes before that may , or may not , be extended and the second thing is that there has been a green cone experiment going on in conjunction with Welwyn Hatfield District whereby erm householders |
| 27 | According to an Interfax report an Azerbaijani attempt to cut the Lachin corridor [ see p. 39109 ] was repulsed on Oct. 4 . |
| 28 | Leighton ( 1986 ) argues that although there is no obligation to offer an agency worker an assignment , once the agency has done so , and the offer has been accepted , an employment relationship exists for the duration of that assignment . |
| 29 | July 1749 , Hogarth acquired the Copyhold of a red brick villa , of the Queen Anne style , with a garden of about a quarter of an acre containing an old mulberry tree , not far from Chiswick House , and it became known as Hogarth House , and the lane by which it was approached became known as Hogarth Lane — now part of the Great West Road Extension ( A4 ) into central London . |
| 30 | 2.1 Non-competition/canvassing clauses It is common to find in an employment contract an express clause which restricts competition/canvassing by an employee both during and after employment . |