Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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1 | buses be ordered to work a route Mitcham — Sutton — Belmont , covering the whole of the discarded tram route . |
2 | Here he was a punter , a champagne Charlie , dossing with the underclass . |
3 | Like the trio of drinkers he meets in a Co Waterford pub who call themselves the KGB — because their surnames are Kelly , Gallagher and Boland . |
4 | THE Attorney General is to review the three year sentence given to a killer who strangled and dismembered a Co Donegal woman . |
5 | THE Attorney General is to review the three year sentence given to a killer who strangled and dismembered a Co Donegal woman . |
6 | CLERGYMEN have been condemned for failing in their duty to help stamp out under-age and open-air drinking in a Co Tyrone town . |
7 | A Co Armagh shop was robbed of £25,000 worth of goods this week — days after a copy-cat-raid at the same shop failed . |
8 | Indeed , they might have stepped out of a mid-period Patrick White novel . |
9 | Culyer ( 1973 , p. 185 ) provides a useful illustration of a trial PPB system with respect to the allocation of expenditure in a police force , although he prefers to call this approach ‘ output budgeting ’ , a term used in the UK civil service ( see below ) . |
10 | ‘ He once did a trial Castlemaine ad — a group of Australians standing at a bar , all one-legged after crossing an alligator-infested river to get there . |
11 | Isaac had two sons , Moses ( born before 1200 ) and Samuel ( born before 1204 ) , and a sister Margalita , who was active on her own account in 1201 . |
12 | The social services tradition of top-down capital programming , which was not untypical at the time , was replaced by one in which most new services were — at minimum — strongly influenced by a bottom-up CMHT input ; an input characterized by detailed knowledge of people 's real needs , preferences and capacities . |
13 | On the subject of managing in a recession Kevin D'Silva sounds very much like Roger Myers . |
14 | Where it is required to find the inverse Laplace transform of a function G(s) which may be expressed as the ratio of two polynomials , the problem is readily solved if the function can be split into partial fractions . |
15 | Cos Brian told her that they were doing a census Sydenham . |
16 | No , want a bit Hayley ? |
17 | He used to have like , le it was a bit Luka |
18 | Speak up a bit Belinda ! |
19 | So they a bit Monty Pythonish swing |
20 | there were quite a bit Lyness , because I remember once the Hoy Head coming down from Stromness with a lot of party makers aboard it and cameras out and afore they knew where they were the admiralty men was there whipping the films out of the cameras . |
21 | No I I I just want to move it around a bit Vernon . |
22 | I 'll save you a bit Luce , I 'll save you a bit . |
23 | Can I have a bit Peter darling ? |
24 | Tell me in a bit Emma . |
25 | Turn that down a bit Kelly Ann |
26 | He read English at Cambridge — ‘ actually I spent most of the time reading opera ’ and went on to become one of the first crop of the Arts Council 's pioneering Arts Administration course , which was ‘ a bit Heath Robinsonish then , but still a wonderful grounding ’ . |
27 | Sounds a bit Shirley Valentine-ish , does n't it ? |
28 | He did sound a bit Mummerset from time to time . |
29 | Er I 'll try and take my time , I stammer a bit Dennis a you know . |
30 | HE 'S A BIT DODGY IS THAT DR . |