Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] a [noun] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 'll have difficulty trying to get hold of a bike or a canoe in the Tatras . |
| 2 | Certainly when the population was declining , one would expect that tenants might be hard to find and that concessions to them might be necessary , either in the form of a rent reduction or a cut in the entry fine , or in an extension of the period of the lease . |
| 3 | Has he any evidence of a decrease in church-going , an increase in marital break-up or an increase in the number of complaints to industrial tribunals by women who are asked to work on Sunday against their will ? |
| 4 | Olshan brilliantly captures a life in an incident : a broken marriage in a frayed bedspread , a grief or an infidelity in the domestic smells which waft through the book . |
| 5 | Secondly , consider the effect of an autonomous increase in the real money supply ( this could be caused by an increase in the nominal money stock or a fall in the general price level ) . |
| 6 | Sometimes in the latter case it seems that the assimilation is rather different from the word-boundary examples ; for example , if in a syllable-final consonant cluster a nasal consonant precedes a plosive or a fricative in the same morpheme , the place of articulation of the nasal is always determined by the place of articulation of the other consonant ; thus : ‘ bump ’ ; ‘ tenth ’ ; ‘ hunt ’ ; ‘ bank ’ . |
| 7 | It was the custom , in those days , on leaving a command or a ship in the Royal Navy , to receive a hand-written report known as a ‘ flimsy ’ . |
| 8 | It could mean a final saleable item in the marketing department or a sub-assembly in the production department . |
| 9 | It does n't matter whether this is a hole in a piece of fabric or a hole in the ground . |
| 10 | well we always had entertained friends but we 'd never been in a position to put them up so that erm most of our friendly visits were from people who did n't live very far from us , it meant that families , nieces , nephews etcetera were difficult to accommodate because they had to sleep on a couch or a settee in the living room with all its diff difficulties , especially when it meant in the morning for breakfast you had to get them up and dressed before you could start thinking about breakfast , and I think that those sort of things are things that er people ought to take into consideration when thinking about new housing . |
| 11 | " Auntie Eve " could always be relied on to take an interest in their studies , or come up with something exciting such as a picnic or a day in the bush when they were home from boarding school . |
| 12 | However , if the carrier or an employee in the course of his employment act as accomplices in a fraud , they are liable . |
| 13 | The effect of jurisdictional error of law is said to be to render the affected decision void or a nullity in the sense that the decision is treated as never having had any legal effect . |
| 14 | It was no doubt with this in mind that an editorial in the Chronicle explained how the provision of vocational guidance had grown gradually and represented the interaction of official and voluntary organizations , the intricacies of which were not appreciated by the Board of Trade . |
| 15 | The best that can be said of his success on that occasion is that it postponed the period of uncertainty that a split in the party would bring . |
| 16 | Also Book Cards , a cross between a card and a book in the same price range as a card |
| 17 | The session agreed for the government to " apply some necessary measures to ensure an increase in the revenue and a reduction in the expenditure " . |
| 18 | This trip included a newly qualified doctor , who was given the trip as a birthday present , a curator from the V & A , a City solicitor , a pianist and a colonel in the UDR . |
| 19 | Siemens AG held its annual meeting in Munich yesterday , and according to Reuter said it expects to cut the losses at its computer and semiconductor divisions this year , although it was still not satisfied with the results of the two divisions : chairman Heinrich von Pierer told the meeting that the combined losses of Siemens Nixdorf and the semiconductor division last fiscal was over $625m , casting doubt on whether cost-cutting programmes already announced would suffice ; at Siemens Nixdorf , there is now a stronger focus on products with a bright future and a reduction in the amount of work done in-house . |
| 20 | Well she 's already put a hole in the exhaust and a dent in the front |
| 21 | Meciar , 49 , had been a member of Public Against Violence and a minister in the Slovak government after the collapse of the Communist regime ( and before his own increasing identification with Slovak nationalist causes ) , and had become Slovak Prime Minister after the June 1990 elections , but was dismissed in April 1991 following allegations that he had abused his access to secret police files [ see pp. 38161 ; 38830-31 ] . |
| 22 | The context of this book is the increase in the official reports of rape and other crimes of sexual violence and an increase in the newspaper reporting of such crimes . |
| 23 | He had been fifteen years her senior when they met at the church door but he had been slimmer then , fleet as a greyhound , a veritable Hector on the battlefield and a Paris in the bedchamber . |
| 24 | By permission of the Queen and with the consent of the Cauldon Potteries Ltd. , Sir George Hayter Chubb had painted metal replicas of the house made , with a lock and key and a slit in the roof to be used as children 's money boxes . |
| 25 | Fairfax was a farmer , a hunter and a figure in the colony 's legislature . |
| 26 | When the Stock Market crashed in October 1987 , many economists thought that it would be followed by an end to the property boom and a downturn in the ‘ real ’ economy . |
| 27 | So far as we can tell , the men-folk ruled in every sphere ; but it may be that the further one got from the world of high feudalism the less of a slave the woman became ; it is certainly true , in a rather different way , that the Norman Conquest brought both a more complete feudalism and a fall in the status of women . |
| 28 | The barn was full of roosting chickens , fluffed up against the cold , and there was an old cart horse and a cow in the stables ; a fat , gentle-eyed Hereford . |
| 29 | There was a faint lurch and a change in the pattern of the lights on the Thing 's surface . |
| 30 | It might come as a surprise to find that the Kalkadoons would use two different words in these circumstances — a kili in fabric but a ndia in the ground . |