Example sentences of "a [unc] [noun sg] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't know she had a dog , I thought it was a kit cat she had . |
| 2 | On June 9 Mount Pinatubo , a 1,460-metre volcano which had lain dormant for 600 years , began to erupt . |
| 3 | TXII , a RJ2.2.5 derivative which recovered ability to express MHC class II genes upon transfection with mouse genomic DNA ( 22 ) , was grown in the same conditions and the growth rate was measured for comparison : the doubling time of this transfectant was similar to that exhibited by Raji ( 24 hrs ) . |
| 4 | Alex Brown & Sons financial analyst Mark Stahlman , who coined the phrase network computing , has charged IBM with leaning on The Harvard Business Review hard enough to make it pull a 10,000-word article he wrote for the January issue on ‘ Why IBM Failed . ’ |
| 5 | All of his six feet six foot three of smouldering sexuality he 's probably the best looking man you have ever seen with a bo body he looks every inch the top model he once was . |
| 6 | That 's a er map I acquired off the Water Board |
| 7 | And I mean we , quite obviously , we get them involved with er school trips , as a matter of fact , I 've just organised a er thing I 've got here at the moment organised a er trip must be a good one must n't it ! |
| 8 | and then gradually they would give you a wee bit say maybe the legs or something to do a er polish you know show you how to start you know , how to rubber and how to fold your the cotton wool . |
| 9 | And that 's gon na be a a bit of a er challenge I think . |
| 10 | Well see wha wha down there was a couple there in their leather jackets look , looked a cli couple you know , the boy and girl couple of yobbos ! |
| 11 | Once again , an initially English impulse of research has proposed and substantially validated an a cappella approach which seems to offer one kind of solution to this problem , but while the evidence for such an approach now seems to be strong it is important to clarify what has taken place , at least as far as the secular polyphonic song repertories of the Middle Ages are concerned . |
| 12 | ’ That is true , and throughout the years of the a cappella renaissance there has been an undercurrent of critical dissatisfaction , stirred into existence by critics wary of complacency . |
| 13 | It also puts money into the Yorkshire and Humberside Development Association which is wholly involved and has been for the last two years in trying to get large scale erm strategic inward investment into the county , and erm it is a erm awkwardness I think that it 's best to be open about that the planning policy of the county is out of tune with the day factor activities of the economic development side of the of the county council . |
| 14 | But he tempered the apprehensiveness with a shrug-of-the-shoulders-and-oh-what-the-hell attitude which told me that in his view the experience , and not the heroics of the impression he might create , was what mattered , was what he would enjoy , was what he had come for . |
| 15 | In recent years some brewers have started to use a cask breather , a simple demand valve connected to a cask and a CO2 cylinder which maintains the gas pressure inside the cask as the beer is drawn off . |
| 16 | We next localised all of the DNase I-hypersensitive sites within a 6.5kb EcoR I fragment containing the human NF-L gene and 2.3kb of 5' flanking region . |
| 17 | In the past where fee disputes have arisen following an M&A engagement we have always been able to establish our position to the lawyers ' satisfaction as a result of a clear and comprehensive engagement letter agreed to in writing by the client . |
| 18 | All these contradictions represent opportunities for curriculum managers , who are themselves products of an ancien régime which laid greater stress on the teacher as professional leader and entrepreneur than in most other countries . |
| 19 | Mr Andrews cited the example of an A&E nurse who had done suturing for many years . |
| 20 | Nothing much came of this until he was summoned to an interview at the Foreign Office with Kenneth Cohen , an MI6 officer he had known in Hamburg . |