Example sentences of "a [noun] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've got a ladies luncheon in Glasgow for four hundred and the organiser , Ruth the chair of Glasgow branch , is being helped by two ladies from the business community erm Linda from the BAFTA award and Tessa who has her own marketing company , so we 're hoping to sort of pull in a lot of people from that erm Judy the chair of Scottish council , is yet again holding her Charlotte Square ball erm , this was very , very successful two years ago , I think you know erm and we 're hoping for the same success erm , we are very lucky that the Royal Highland Show has chosen us to be er the charity this year for the gala preview of the show erm this is er for three hundred people , a champagne reception erm sponsored by the Bank of Scotland , so that you go and see the flowers before the show opens the next day . |
| 2 | After 1400 , it has been noted , lawyers in the Parlement of Paris consistently tried to show the respectability of their soldier-clients by underlining their service to the king and the public good : ‘ … a longuement servy le roy ’ ; ‘ … tient frontier contre les enemis ’ ; ‘ … il a esté grevé car lui estant en expedicion pour la chose publique ’ are phrases which , when used regularly , tell us something of the values of the society in which they are uttered , and of the soldier 's role in it . |
| 3 | For the strictly limited purpose of deciding whether Ward J. 's decision should be affirmed or reversed , it suffices to say that an appellate court should always be slow to reject a trial judge 's findings of fact , he having had the advantage of seeing and hearing the witnesses , and that it should be even slower to do so if any findings which it would be minded to substitute would lead to the same result . |
| 4 | A primrose petal 's edge |
| 5 | Members of a Cardiff ladies ' rowing club tried to pull her out of the mud , but found the current was too fast , and the bitch ( yes , she is called Eric ! ) , too heavy . |
| 6 | SHOCKED Colin Creasey saved a kitchen fitter 's severed thumb by keeping it in a pack of frozen peas . |
| 7 | According to the Purefoys ’ description of a kitchen maid 's work ( see above p . |
| 8 | Mind this manufacturing line is a great time saver and a money saver int it ? |
| 9 | We do have a money adviser erm specifically who works with erm tenants who are in rent arrears and who gives them advice on handling their financial problems . |
| 10 | Er I 'll try and take my time , I stammer a bit Dennis a you know . |
| 11 | On Sunday night , near an alley in the Wavertree district of Liverpool , for WPC 8158 Harrison , the joking stopped — cut short by the vicious flash of a burglary suspect 's knife . |
| 12 | This is PC World , and here this week 's ‘ special offer ’ is likely to be a Zenith Mastersport 386SX plus monitor — with a four-figure price tag . |
| 13 | Er , I 've also received minutes from the Epping Forest from Redbridge Group and they also have a lobbying workshop erm , that 's on the second of March , and they 're asking if anybody 's interested in that . |
| 14 | Minnesota Supercomputer Center Inc has bought an early model of ‘ the most advanced tape cartridge robotic system ever produced by Storage Technology Corp ’ , Louisville , Colorado for inclusion in an enhanced mass storage environment being developed by the centre : the newly-designed robotic mechanism , which is incorporated into StorageTek 's planned PowderHorn Automated Cartridge System , operates at more than twice the speed of previous models in automatically mounting and dismounting the tape cartridges ; the centre also plans to add a Cray Y-MP C90 system to its configuration . |
| 15 | Erm the shot gun is preferable in these cases , the fact that er they are used generally as a support weapon erm should we ent encounter any problems in the area that I was covering , this was thought to be the best weapon capable of doing that job . |
| 16 | If you have ever stood on a sheep farmer 's hillside , as I have done many times in the Western Highlands of Scotland , and listened to the sheep calling to ( communicating with ) each other , you will immediately notice how their intonations are all different , as indeed are their faces . |
| 17 | Gabriel was having difficulty training this young dog , which , although enthusiastic , still did not understand a sheep dog 's duties . |
| 18 | I tried to cheer him up with memories of the last time his ankle was hurting , when we slept in a sheep herder 's cave — lined with graffiti that was centuries old — on the way from Landmannalaugar to the coast near Vik . |
| 19 | The girl who marked a Moscow Games ' baptism by placing sixth in a final at the age of 14 is coming for a Tuesday night clinic in which she will demonstrate her famous shrug-of-the-shoulders technique on breaststroke . |
| 20 | Meanwhile his parents plan to start a Marc Jeffrey 's woodland trust in memory of their son and his interest in the environment . |
| 21 | Unlike the wasp , a honey bee 's sting is barbed in such a way that it can not retract once buried in its victim . |
| 22 | Well undoubtedly the first thing that happened in St Aldate 's , the most important thing , was after the battle of Edgefield , when the King rode in in state erm in victory he said , though the fact that the battle was indecisive , and it was described by a very royalist writer Anthony Wood , you may have heard of , is a university antiquarian erm very much on the university and royalist side . |
| 23 | DETECTIVES were yesterday investigating a blaze which caused hundreds of pounds of damage to a building firm 's storage base . |
| 24 | Well , I thought he should put erm er about ten thousand into a building society er type investment |
| 25 | Between 1932 and 1939 when the bank rate was 2 per cent , a building society 's advance was normally around 80 per cent of the value of the house spread over fifteen to twenty years at 4 to 6 per cent interest . |
| 26 | The guarantee is based on the lower of the initial purchase price or a building society 's valuation . |
| 27 | Together with essential information required for watching cricket the club is also sending : a leaflet on postcodes , an estate agent 's brochure , a building society 's promotion , some information about a firm of accountants , an application form for an upmarket credit card firm , an offer to buy a gas fire , an announcement from a cigarette manufacturer , a letter from another firm of accountants , and a list of paints . |
| 28 | And if you remember I said that , because of its concern for security , the state creates a capacity for violence in the world of states , its , its environment and since this is er erm a characteristic of all states , however large or small the resources , they all create this capacity , they all have a defence policy er there is a consequent competition and this competition , far from resolving the problem of security , in fact exacerbates it , it makes it worse , and so states find themselves competing at different levels er competing particularly in the creation of military capabilities and the consequence of this is a more or less sustained and permanent arms race which frequently er produces armed struggles and war . |
| 29 | I 'm not sure that erm a West Irelander 's worthy of one of these . |
| 30 | Nina Hamnett dressed up as a Paris Apache , in a pair of French workman 's trousers , a blue jersey , corduroy coat and cap borrowed from Modigliani and a toy butcher 's knife . |