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

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1 The left suffered further defeats including the rejection of its attempt to make the reduction of unemployment a greater priority than the control of inflation .
2 This was followed swiftly by the news that Alain Lequeux , the rider of the runner-up , Behera , had lodged an objection against the winner for interference a furlong and a half from the finish of an exceptionally rough race .
3 I 'm not clear about the , the sentence in case a repeat costing 's copy of the quotation given to the client must be signed by an authorised researcher .
4 Gene Nocon introduced me to the technique of pre-flash a few years ago and it altered the way I approach printing .
5 Gene Nocon introduced me to the technique of pre-flash a few years ago and it altered the way I approach printing .
6 Right , the reason that er an officer would still stay er with an eleven year old child , a three year old child , or t to get to the realms of fantasy a ninety year old person is that person can still be at risk not necessarily from the police officers , but from anybody else in that building and therefore they 've got to remain er in that room until such time as I 'm satisfied that everything is clear .
7 I 'm certain that those of us who heard Mike Save The Children 's overseas director on the Today programme or our field director in Angola on the evening television news yesterday , can have hold nothing but pride , what they had to say of Save The Children 's work in that country , a country described as the heart of darkness a country with the world 's worse infant mortality rate .
8 Alkalinity , though tolerated rather better than acidity , increases the toxicity of ammonia and reduces the availability to fish of essential mineral elements such as iron and copper ( in the case of iron a deficiency could produce anaemia ) .
9 Calling the most important political movement since the rise of Socialism a load of eco-freaks does n't give you any credit and just gets me annoyed .
10 As with the rise in counterurbanization a decade earlier , however , a number of specific reasons can be suggested .
11 He got into the most terrible row with one of the other fellows during the election for master a couple of years ago .
12 When being assessed for the Certificate of Eligibility a student must provide the following documents :
13 This is just one more sign that the courts may be balancing the scales of justice a little more fairly than has been the case over the past decade or so .
14 During the hours of darkness a lone torpedo-bomber attempted a daring attack on the battleship ‘ Queen Elizabeth ’ , which was sailing with Force ‘ H ’ but was destined as reinforcement for the Mediterranean Fleet .
15 After visualisation of the stricture at cholangiography a guide wire was inserted across the stricture followed by an endoscopic transpapillary endoprosthesis ( 10 Fr ( French gauge ) , Meadox Surgimed ) .
16 In the presence of actinomycin a clear footprint is evident around the central GpC with enhanced DNase I cleavage on both sides within the A n and T n tracts as previously reported [ 23 ] .
17 For example : PRINT FROM EMP INC NAME , SEX , SALARY FOR GRADE LT 3 SORT ON /SALARY/ SUM SALARY TITLE " HIGHER SALARY BANDS " A list of other options exists to allow the user to subsection a report , specify page lengths , perform calculations and so on .
18 The contractual right of the defendants to retain out of the moneys in hand a sum in respect of costs disallowed on the standard basis taxation is in issue .
19 It looked to the children more like the kind of grin a tiger might give before it pounced on its prey .
20 Do they understand the significance of a certain uniform for instance , or the kind of case a character is carrying ?
21 The kind of smile a snake makes before it unhinges its jaws and swallows an egg .
22 ‘ Precisely , ’ he said , giving her the kind of look a great thespian might give an impish soubrette who had just delivered his punchline .
23 In keeping with this thesis , Lodge is prepared to see no difference between the kind of choice a writer makes in deciding to call a character dark or fair , and the choice between synonyms such as dark and swarthy .
24 Hardly the kind of man a wife dreams about , she told herself .
25 In ‘ Barchester Towers ’ though it is actually Dr. Proudie who takes the position wanted by Dr. Grantly , he is made out to be a rather insignificant and weak person whereas Mrs. Proudie is seen at once to be strong and authoritative , too much so , and Trollope makes of her the kind of character a reader loves to hate .
26 It was , she reflected , exactly the kind of place a high-flier like Luke would choose .
27 If the object reflecting the echoes were not a static tree but a moving insect , the Doppler consequences would be more complicated , but the bat could still calculate the velocity of relative motion between itself and its target , obviously just the kind of information a sophisticated guided missile like a hunting bat needs .
28 The kind of son a man could be proud of .
29 With Tracey apparently intent on limiting his own involvement , she longed to talk things over with someone who might offer more active help ; at the same time , she felt an almost superstitious reluctance to go through the story again in the kind of detail a confidante would need .
30 His appearance compelled the kind of attention a mouse gives a snake : in his late thirties , he looked shrivelled and ageless , anxious and ill .
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