Example sentences of "a [noun] [noun] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Talking of which , you 'll laugh when you hear I went a bit bonkers myself for a while . |
| 2 | In 1985 he had set up a consultancy firm which in the past year had advised the government on privatization . |
| 3 | Modulation to keys on the flat side is usually limited only to the subdominant , so that a chord progression something like the following is used : |
| 4 | In that case the defendant pleaded the defence of mistake , the mistake being that of a shop assistant who in a lapse of concentration put the wrong label on a piece of meat . |
| 5 | situation I 'd suspect will be addressed within that other part , I did mention in my presentation that there are a number of inter-related problems here , I can trace about four or five , all of which have a chain reaction one upon the other , unfortunately Brandon is up front so we 've got to tackle it from the other direction . |
| 6 | They really should give give you a magazine article itself about the Tay Bridge . |
| 7 | On Feb. 20 , 1990 , Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc. , a brokerage firm which in the 1980s had successfully dealt in junk bonds until its collapse following insider dealing and fraud cases [ see pp. 36582-83 ] , officially filed for bankruptcy . |
| 8 | ‘ He added : ‘ The conduct of a Government Minister which in no way affected the crisis was equally a matter of fact and public interest , ’ . |
| 9 | Such conservation work is , however , being hindered by the huge growth in tourism that has occurred since 1970 , and although there is in theory a master plan which in the mid-1970s allowed for a maximum of 12 000 visitors per year , de Groot states that since 1979 this number has been increasingly exceeded . |
| 10 | Health workers , ignoring government threats of dismissal , went on strike for higher pay , thereby complicating the fight against a cholera epidemic which by the end of April 1991 had claimed over 1,200 victims [ see p. 38002 ] . |
| 11 | The bit about odd jeans was totally accurate , by the way ; Cousin Josh made his fortune firstly by dealing in cars , then by risking all on a jeans company which at the time was tottering on the very hem of bankruptcy ; under Josh 's regime , their jeans were n't any better or any cheaper than anybody else 's , but he had the garments made in odd sizes ; waists of 29 , 31 , 33 inches , and so on , as opposed to the products from all other companies , domestic and foreign , which tended to favour the even numbers . |
| 12 | The tax consequences of a merger are considered generally in Chapter 10. ( d ) Notifications Though solicitors will need little enough encouragement to advertise such changes , the amalgamation or acquisition of a firm is the occasion of a material alteration which as a matter of professional conduct must be notified to the clients of all the firms involved . |
| 13 | Brasel ( 1976 ) , in a study of fatigue , replicates Gerver 's ( 1972 ) findings with spoken interpretation , that interpreter fatigue after very short periods of interpreting ( 30 minutes ) begins to introduce an error rate which after an hour is statistically significant and unacceptable . |
| 14 | In both cases it is open to others also to define the water as having something wrong with it : as one officer put it , having described an oil pollution which at the time was beyond his control : ‘ I prayed for rain and darkness ’ . |