Example sentences of "a [noun] [noun] [prep] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm Nick has obviously talked about the er , the phasing of the estate erm , just to point out that the reason for it , perhaps seeming a bit of long drawn out er affair , it 's , it 's a , a minimum time as far as erm , all the people who have been negotiating feel it 's achievable in if we are to make sure that the estate does n't remain a building site as as a as a total entity fo , at any time , so this site here will not commence until this site is completed so that there will be some er , rest bite for the bungalow residents and of course , somewhere to park their cars in the in the interim . |
| 2 | Mark Twain was so impressed he included a description in his work The Innocents Abroad : ‘ I watched the Silver Swan which had a living grace about his movements and a living intelligence in his eyes — watched him swimming about as comfortably and unconcernedly as if he had been born in a morass instead of a jewellers ' shop — watched him seize a silver fish from under the water and hold up his head and go through all the customary and elaborate motions of swallowing it ’ . |
| 3 | Will you make a wedding breakfast for for the officers there were two officers and Sam and Emma and our Annie and Jack . |
| 4 | Well Lindsey she 's to go to a disco night in in a fortnight 's time all her friends she says are going . |
| 5 | It was known at first as a subway , a name thought of as an American term for an underground system , but later on was named the City and South London Railway and became the first tube railway in the world . |
| 6 | A standing bit on on a be big concrete base . |
| 7 | Tacoma 's own programme had to survive a court challenge at around the same time . |
| 8 | A World War I study found that those with a clean rent book would borrow a lump sum of about a pound from which between 1/6d and 5/ would be deducted in interest ; the very poor might borrow one or two shillings on which they paid a penny in the shilling weekly interest . |
| 9 | Australia are calling it a warm-up game for before the World Cup but I just hope they feel a little heat from my boys . |
| 10 | are not based on some economic theory but on things I and millions like me were brought up with : an honest day 's work for an honest day 's pay ; live within your means ; put a nest egg by for a rainy day ; pay your bills on time ; support the police . |
| 11 | Back in Armstrong , I dug out a road atlas from under the driver 's seat and turned to the page covering south-east London and north Kent . |
| 12 | I hope it will be a birthday year in in every way , er but it 's not just a good excuse to have a party there is very serious intent behind this birthday . |
| 13 | The high speed video camera facing the golfer filmed the shot at 200 frames per second and a shutter speed of of a second . |
| 14 | Appoint a systems manager from among the secretaries as a central point of contact between the firm and the supplier . |
| 15 | Some schools go as far as appointing a press officer from amongst the staff or the governors . |
| 16 | Erm there is publication that , these are be asked for be sent a copy to every mem member with it 's er in a way a milestone initiative in in the middle of work . |
| 17 | Plumbing it in on most sprayers involves running a supply pipe from between the pressure relief valve and tank return line . |
| 18 | The alternative version has the same two properties together making up a property complex that is applied to the immediately adjacent subject of the sentence ; moreover in both cases the complex as a whole is assigned syntactically to the subject E ; the sole difference is in the matter of which property is taken as " senior " to the other within the bounds of the complex , as in ( 63 ) , and in such a case this will produce an infinitesimal semantic difference : ( 63 ) However this sort of syntactic trading is only possible where the language contains suitable lexical items ; it must have an adverb and verb with the appropriate meanings ; thus , in the absence of an adverb equivalent to after a change and a verb meaning to be orange , for instance , English can not offer such an alternative for ( 64 ) : ( 64 ) in spring , their skin turns orange 5.8 The range of verbs which can occur with postverbal adjectives is in fact quite wide . |
| 19 | And then these overall evaluations change too , so you have a long evolutionary process here , you see , the working out of human evaluations , and while you wo n't get you wo n't get total agreement that the you will erm some sort of co-ordination and the particularly I argue that while there 's an area sort of in the middle , as it were , where you can get away with all sorts of things , you see , there are cliffs . |