Example sentences of "a [noun] [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hofmann realized that he had discovered a new and versatile chemical reaction which could provide a route to a wide range of new compounds . |
| 2 | Education can be a route to a narrow range of professions , but for most the prospects are poor . |
| 3 | It is a specific and unconditional agreement to make a payment of a fixed amount on an agreed date . |
| 4 | er , yes my Lord , there 's the prior point that we er , we would submit as indicated in the skeleton of the eleventh of November that on its true construction , erm the central fund byelaw , article ten in particular er gives rise to a payment of a specified sum , ascertain sum , payable forthwith on demand , it 's rather like the example your Lordship gave of the Barclaycard or the cheque , if my learned friend is right |
| 5 | Again in Johnston v Chamberlain ( 1933 ) 17 TC 706 , the taxpayer sought to argue that a payment from a discretionary trust could not give rise to income tax liability on the beneficiary as it was " only when the trustees choose to exercise their discretion by making the payment that the sum gets to the children at all " . |
| 6 | As I say , we 're now , we shall now be working on the er , on a financial strategy , so that we 've got more detailed costings er , available to us , erm , but I think members will be interested to know that erm , within the next few months there will , we shall be taking part , er , as part of a wider national exercise , in an exercise undertaken by the District Audit Commission , on Children 's Services , so that we , I think we shall be in good stead , to have this as a base as a working document for that erm , Audit Commission exercise . |
| 7 | The second way in which the discussion of Russia is significant for the relation of Marxism and anthropology is that Marx 's interest in traditional peasant communities became less theoretical and more practical , as he considered the possibility of the Russian peasant commune becoming a base for a future revolution . |
| 8 | Further U-Boat attacks and the discovery of a German plot to use Mexico as a base for a possible attack on the USA , brought armed intervention in the war on the Allied side in April 1917 . |
| 9 | Use Campbell 's Condensed Cream of Tomato soup to give richness to chilli or curry sauce , or as a base for a quick pizza topping , for instance with some herbs , mushrooms , peppers and salami . |
| 10 | If you own a microwave oven , jacket potatoes take very little time to cook yet form a base for a tasty meal ( add tuna , beans , sweetcorn , cottage cheese or whatever low-fat filling takes your fancy ) . |
| 11 | Although we can see elements of a critical function ( especially in Leavis ) , the dominant approach of these writers is founded on a base of a certain set of social ideas which it is the duty of higher education to guard and transmit . |
| 12 | In British Railways Board v Pickin [ 1974 ] AC 765 , the plaintiff had sought to challenge the validity of a provision of a private Act of Parliament on the ground that its promoter had fraudulently withheld certain information from the relevant House of Commons committee , thus securing its passage . |
| 13 | A knowledge of the working of a solicitor 's office , particularly er o of those departments handling non-contentious business , can not be automatically imputed to the judge or to council and he may as well make it is not uncommon for an expert witness to give evidence of what he would have done in a particular situation after consideration and er I resign on that because in my submission er the issues in this case are clearly issues of mixed fact and law and my Lord it is seen from the report handed up that there is particularly in relation to the erm financial aspect of the case , reference to a provision within a professional conduct of solicitors guide as to what the nature of the er duties of the solicitor in the situation is . |
| 14 | And as the influence of peer activity is increased -this influence itself may well be biologically determined — there will be a tendency for the ethnographic curve to change from a unimodal to a multimodal form . |
| 15 | Except that she became with child , and Robert — her husband , you must know , who was a brute with a terrible temper ! — refused to acknowledge it as his own . |
| 16 | This will be particularly the case where the disability only prevents the individual pursuing a vocation in a specialised job or profession involving extraordinary skill , prowess or talent . |
| 17 | Only then did she fully realise that if she had been five minutes later the watchers keeping a lookout for a stray boy might , tomorrow , have been hauling ashore the sodden body of Gus Hambro . |
| 18 | Experiment 2 — A Trial over a Long Period |
| 19 | [ For earlier Libyan proposals concerning a trial in a neutral country see p. 38839 . ] |
| 20 | Once in place , Hitachi recommends a trial in a safe area to ensure everything is properly assembled . |
| 21 | A sister with a part-time job looks more available to care for a parent than a brother who works full-time . |
| 22 | The water for washing had to be Pumped up from a well in the scullery every morning for half an hour before breakfast and the drinking water fetched daily in a bucket from a communal tap in the tiny village street . |
| 23 | For one school of modern historians this programme ( to which it attributes transcendent importance in the development of Carlism ) represents a reversion to a traditional monarchy ruling with the historic Cortes and subject to God and the law , a via media between imported liberalism and the equally foreign ministerial despotism of the eighteenth century , a truly Spanish solution of the political problem of modern Spain . ’ |
| 24 | This may either be because of ‘ backsliding ’ — a reversion to a previous state of interlanguage — or it may be that the increased transferability of knowledge , which must to some degree involve analysis , calls for the recurrent dismantling and reassembling of linguistic forms which the learner may have internalized as complete formulaic units . |
| 25 | Adorned with orange blossom , Santa Margherita Ligure is a resort with a colourful marina , enchanting harbour , piazzas and waterfront walkways . |
| 26 | Oak has been given a rich honey-toned stain for a kitchen with a cosy farmhouse feel . |
| 27 | The halls are traditional in nature : students have study bedrooms and eat in the main dining-hall , or , if on a self-catering basis , share a kitchen with a small group of other students . |
| 28 | They came to a kitchen with a spacious drawing room beyond at the front of the house . |
| 29 | They have one room and a kitchen in a large house , and share bathroom facilities . |
| 30 | The exception — the apparently insatiable appetite for green reading matter — is itself a function of a hyped boom in eco-discourse which already shows signs of peaking . |