Example sentences of "a [noun] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , erm , thinking that er , one day , er , you might marry erm , a prince or princess , Freud says is an , is an illusion , in the sense that er , people do sometimes marry princ princes and princesses , it could happen , it 's not very likely to happen to any particular individual who might have that wish , but it could happen . |
| 2 | You 'll come back , and we 'll love one another forever , and live happily ever after , just like a prince and princess in a fairy tale . " |
| 3 | Heinrich and Martha walked through this world , which was fated to last only a few years before the spell was broken , like a prince and princess . |
| 4 | It is ideal for home furnishing applications — in the kitchen , for example , to attach a tea towel to a unit or tiled surface or , elsewhere in the home , for attaching fabric furnishings , such as a pelmet or valance , to a rigid base . |
| 5 | A pelmet or valance would also help to reduce height provided it is fixed as close as possible to the top of the architrave , thereby covering the top part of the glass . |
| 6 | Although tracks are now less unsightly , you may still feel they need to be covered with a pelmet or valance . |
| 7 | This could be discreetly boost ed by concealed uplights in corners , or by strip lights running round the room just below the ceiling and concealed by a pelmet or valance . |
| 8 | The strip is placed behind a pelmet or soffit of some kind — a piece of wood or moulding running all round under the cornice , if there is one , or ceiling angle if there is not — and you then achieve the lighting expert 's dream : light without a visible source . |
| 9 | The electronic information explosion knows no frontiers ; we may soon be enveloped in a world-encompassing atmosphere of information messages and ‘ noise ’ of a variety and density not known before , able to plug in to one or a multiplicity of channels and capture information of a wide diversity of nature and origin , much of it junk . |
| 10 | Furthermore , Attlee inherited a highly efficient Whitehall war machine , with a variety and quality of machine-minder unparalleled in the history of the British Civil Service ( though most of the gifted outsiders who had served as wartime temporaries would soon depart ) . |
| 11 | His essentially pre-ecclesiological manner was given a variety and solidity by the use of carefully copied detail , and some of his later churches of the 1840s , such as Armitage Bridge near Huddersfield ( 1847–8 ) , were based on a system of proportions derived from medieval Gothic buildings , a subject on which he published a paper in the Builder in 1847 . |
| 12 | You need long runs to build a base or foundation of aerobic strength . |
| 13 | Use it as a base and travel . |
| 14 | The heaving Hunslet certainly proved to be a nostalgic sight at the colliery , former home of Whiston 's sister loco Robert , and a base where steam-power reigned until 1978 — with a back-up steam loco surviving there until just six years ago . |
| 15 | The agreement contained a provision that currency values would eventually be dictated by the strength of the respective economies . |
| 16 | The tenant should resist a provision that interest should be deemed to be rent due to the landlord as this will have the effect of making available the remedy of distress as well as that of forfeiture without the necessity to serve a s 146 notice . |
| 17 | There 's a chart and Mum seems to there it is . |
| 18 | You can write your weight in a diary or on a chart or graph and see progress develop in the right direction over time . |
| 19 | There are very few careers in which you can use solely numerical ability , unless of course you become a statistician or school-teacher . |
| 20 | There is a pool and children 's pool , with bar ; a hairdressers and TV room . |
| 21 | Molla Mahmud Bey ( d. 978/1570–1 ) , for example , son of a defterdar and nephew of a Mufti , having taught to the 40-akce level , received the ( kasabat ) kadilik of Syrian Tripoli with 100 akce a day , and then became mutawalli ( mutevelli ) ( administrator ) of the evkaf of Selim I and of Suleyman . |
| 22 | A trial and adjustment session with your saw will be necessary to arrive at the setting of exactly 15° . |
| 23 | For all parts of the gybe proceed on a trial and error basis with different arcs of turn , different back foot placements and in particular changes in the timing . |
| 24 | However , the size of the database resulted in some confusion as to the best way to proceed with the enquiry , and the next few stages were undertaken on a trial and error basis . |
| 25 | Patience , coupled with a trial and error approach , is the only means of descending this pinnacled 100 metre ridge . |
| 26 | Thorndyke 's puzzle box forced animals to use a trial and error strategy in which they eventually had to happen on an answer through associations . |
| 27 | In practice , moreover , treatments for such patients tend to be chosen empirically and worked through on a trial and error basis , whatever might be thought to be the underlying pathophysiology . |
| 28 | The judge would be empowered to grant immediate bail to the defendant if the crimes were those of illegal possession of arms and criminal conspiracy , or to free him or her a year after the start of a trial if sentence had yet to be passed . |
| 29 | Although there was not one single reason why Harry might suddenly see her not as a sister or friend but as a woman he might fall in love with , deep down inside she still hoped that this unlikely miracle could occur . |
| 30 | It 's not as if I have a sister or brother to worry about . |