Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] a " in BNC.

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1 The road overbridge at the start of the climb was built in 1990 to replace a narrow underbridge at Crawyetts a short distance further on which restricted lorry access to the town .
2 They 'd set his hand and cast it , and then after a second set of plates a week later they 'd broken off the cast and operated .
3 Despite gaining a simple majority of votes a bidder may still be unable to gain control of the supervisory board with its entrenched powers and consequently be prevented from controlling the management of the company .
4 Show your child or a small group of children a ‘ T ’ set out as shown .
5 In the departmental model as I 've already said and often we will typically be looking at a single sweep of requirements a single business function .
6 Secondly , a company 's articles could not require more than a 50% majority for the appointment or removal of directors , nor confer on holders of a particular class of shares an exclusive right to nominate directors .
7 There 's only a certain number of times a person can take spelling ‘ Aphrosyne Agathangelou ’ over the phone . ’
8 There 's only a certain number of places a prostitute can go and earn money , so all a pimp needs to do is drive round in his car until he sees you .
9 ICI stipulates that she must work a certain number of days a year to keep in touch .
10 Against these criticisms , the Royal Commission noted that it had heard from ‘ witnesses representing a wide range of interests a great many tributes to the integrity of the police ’ .
11 For the first time , a major interpretative musician has equipped himself with the necessary skills to mastermind his own visualization of the music he conducts , which allows him , in the process , to offer a new generation of music-lovers a sophisticated set of options for the study and appreciation of music in performance .
12 During the 01.00 and the 00.00 Rex gave a whole lot of things a whole lot of thought .
13 What an interesting study of farewells a railway station affords .
14 Even so , the margin for error is so huge that the upshot of the calculation remains valid : among the world 's population of E. coli , every possible mutation is occurring an enormous number of times a day .
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