Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun sg] a " 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 | or sorry it sends a signal to the adrenal glands which sit on the top of the kidneys yeah , and pumps adrenalin into the blood which again is something that makes you ready and that 's what all these things about about a dry throat a wonky voice a shaking limbs is all about a very primitive instinct of fight or flight . |
| 4 | A special chart can be drawn by the parents showing the days of the week and every night the child has a dry bed a special sticker is awarded the next morning for the child to stick on the chart . |
| 5 | Yes the best if there was a dry time a dry stack , they kept that very best but for the calf beds , both for the bothy and the house . |
| 6 | or sorry it sends a signal to the adrenal glands which sit on the top of the kidneys yeah , and pumps adrenalin into the blood which again is something that makes you ready and that 's what all these things about about a dry throat a wonky voice a shaking limbs is all about a very primitive instinct of fight or flight . |
| 7 | What you need to do is to be able to provide a private sector a certain level of certainty , that the concession will be er granted long enough so that one can recover both your costs an=and certainly be able to make a profit and so er to the extent that the franchises that are being considered are short natured , seven years , er that becomes rather disadvantageous and unattractive er concessions of twenty and thirty and forty years , and and really thirty thirty to forty year period er do make it in fact make it very attractive for private sector involvement . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I , I think Chairman that as , as we come out of the recession an and th that the overall erm level er quantity of development taking place increases , then we are almost bound to see perhaps more affordable housing erm in absolute terms , although I do n't see any opportunity of there being a a major hiccup in proportional terms , so I , I , like you , I think I remain er pessimistic er regarding the , the , the overview , although we might see er a turning up of the er of the graph having been bumping along the bottom for a little time a little while . |
| 11 | Now nice abbreviation for thought patterns is thop T H O P when we talk about thought patterns or thops a method of gathering ideas a meth a method of getting things down on paper so we do n't lose them but not in a linear way in a spatial way a right brain activity . |
| 12 | This is a second series , using as a conversational resource a different set of modules ; these modules are designed to obtain information which can be used to plot out speakers ' interpersonal network relationships both within and outside the neighbourhood . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Eleven to twelve , so you 're really sort of moderate preference , it 's not a , it 's not a strong preference a moderate preference and then the pragmatist again that 's quite high very strong preference is seventeen to twenty and again John edge of that . |
| 15 | So he did n't have a normal life a boy of his circumstances in those days . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In northern Scandinavia there is only a narrow band a few kilometres wide along the northeastern coast of Kola Peninsula . |
| 18 | Well Erm I have n't got a a definite way a a sort of little trick for remembering that erm but the big thing to remember is s before you just put it in no matter how sure you are stop and think now am I differentiating or integrating ? |
| 19 | But a pauper burial was the final degradation of a miserable life , a respectable funeral a means of demonstrating self-respect to the end and hence of immense psychological importance . |
| 20 | Since this is similar in shape to a cubic curve a cubic model has been popular with some authors . |
| 21 | So I 'd like to reflect that against what the government has done since our unique November conference they have cut the Health and Safety Executive 's budget for nineteen ninety three ninety four by five percent , that 's a total of thirteen million pounds the Department of Employment have already admitted this will lead to less inspections and less prosecutions they have introduced a market tex market testing exercise into the H S E in other words they 're saying what parts of the Health and Safety Executive can be privatized into , no doubt , their friends in industry they have made sure that Health that the Health and Safety Commission will work slower in the future by making the chair which is currently a full-time post a part-time post from September this year . |
| 22 | They include a bureau full of automated parts by Riesner , a painted secretaire a abattant by Rene Dubois ( est . |
| 23 | By placing strict controls upon rural development these policies have also brought about a planned scarcity of housing which , in the face of increasing demand , has made a rural house a desirable good with a premium price . |
| 24 | It is clearly valid and consistent to the extent that a sparse picture matrix always gives a low bit count and a well-filled matrix a high count . |
| 25 | He knew , because in a town the size of Plumford everybody knew these things , that Hubert Molland had been given a combined parish a few miles outside Plumford , and that the Mollands were now living in Champney Crucis ; he knew that Kate had left school and was now doing something at the technical college ; and , more importantly , he had heard from Joe that she was going out with the local MP 's youngest son , whose name was Julian and who drove a Triumph Spitfire . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Treat yourself to a complete top-to-toe a week before the wedding . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | In a scaly hollow a crowd of naked Perks fled squealing from the echo of their bounding feet . |