Example sentences of "a [det] [unc] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Performance-wise , I suppose the best Bill ever managed was on a sunny spring weekday in the early 80s , when he 'd already passed his 60th birthday and I coaxed him up a few 5c slab routes at about E3 on Froggatt : Long John 's Slab , Great Slab , Armageddon . |
| 2 | anything , there 's nothing in there which does , just a few er telephone lines er , going across the skyline there but they 're very faint , you can hardly see them , you 've got ta look very closely to see them . |
| 3 | This number included a few NF.4 night fighters , while the TT.4 was a target towing conversion fitted with a winch beneath the centre-section . |
| 4 | Normally , New Scientist heralds the beginning of April with a few jeux d'esprit , but this year it was subdued , predicting only that the world would come to an end on 5 April , a prophecy based on meat consumption figures , though it was hard to make up the mind about an item called ‘ What the woodlouse can teach us about marriage ’ . |
| 5 | In the LE of black speakers we find examples like : we like to win , but if we lose , we know seh we tried , all of us tried a all whi%e jury found out seh 'e was guilty |
| 6 | Edward , in bed one day with a clever country girl rebelling deliciously against the perceived repressions of her class , learned between kisses that Sir Joseph Ball — a former MI5 man who now led the Conservative Party 's organizational machine — had used his old position to tap Churchill 's phone for Chamberlain and monitor his associates . |
| 7 | Its worst loss of nerve was over a Channel 4 programme MI5 's Official Secrets in which Cathy Massiter , a former MI5 case officer responsible for surveillance of the peace movement , alleged that her investigations into CND had been passed on to government ministers for party-political use . |
| 8 | Duncan Campbell and other journalists have been able to reveal intimate details of the workings of the system , as has Cathy Massiter , a former MI5 employee who ‘ went public ’ in a Channel 4 television programme . |
| 9 | The absurdity of the " Spycatcher " ban was the result of a dogged insistence on viewing the memoirs of a former MI5 employee as the " property " of government , and conducting the litigation as if he had stolen the office furniture . |
| 10 | Partners in the project , which is due to open in September , include Joel Kissin , formerly general manager of Bibendum and Hilaire , and David Burke , a former sous chef at Bibendum . |
| 11 | In the second Arthur Abbott , a former NAS&FU branch secretary at Greenock , was found guilty at Durham Assizes of libelling Wilson in a pamphlet which he had published and was given a prison sentence . |
| 12 | Life in the intelligence services , by a former M16 officer . |
| 13 | He stressed that there are few serious collections of Indian miniatures in private hands in Britain ; notable among these are the artist Howard Hodgkin 's , and the collection built up by the late William Archer , also a former V&A Keeper , who carried out much of the early research in this field in the 1950s . |
| 14 | Arresting a former MI6 man with high-up connections . |