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 .
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