Example sentences of "a [noun sg] in [noun] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm gon na elaborate on all these a bit in syntax a lot as we proceed . |
| 2 | Brenda has started a practice in homeopathy an alternative medical system growing in popularity . |
| 3 | Sinqe , who holds his country 's national record of 2hr 8min 4sec , was due to run his first marathon outside the republic in the NutraSweet-sponsored event on 18 April but London organisers were left fuming when they discovered he had run a marathon in Japan a fortnight ago in defiance of his contract which stipulated that he should not run a competitive marathon within 90 days of the big race . |
| 4 | In fact I sat next to her at a lunch in Abingdon a few years ago , and erm this image one got of her of not being a listener is totally untrue erm every time she turned to me it was to listen to what I had to say . |
| 5 | Mind you , I was in a pub in Manchester a few months ago when Eric Le Prat walked in , but that 's a different story … |
| 6 | Mind you , I was in a pub in Manchester a few months ago when Eric Le Prat walked in , but that 's a different story … |
| 7 | Using the stock concept , at a point in time an investment project is profitable if the present value of net operating benefits the stream of future operating profits discounted at the interest rate at which firms must borrow funds — exceeds the initial purchase price of the new capital good . |
| 8 | At a meeting in July a working party was appointed , with Sir John Lockwood as chairman . |
| 9 | Where this is a factor in comparisons an apportionment should be added to true costs equivalent to the cost of ancillary products necessary to dose the unit quantity of the chemical involved . |
| 10 | Each defendant must submit to counsel a week in advance a couple of hundred words summarising his life , and this enables counsel to prepare their questions . |
| 11 | End of mime , at which point , the wail of a woman in torment an OPHELIA appears , wailing , closely followed by HAMLET in a hysterical state , shouting at her , circling her , both midstage . ) |
| 12 | Gemma , 11 , was found alone at a flat in Hammersmith a fortnight after her mother left for a month 's holiday with a male friend on the Costa del Sol . |
| 13 | With a book in mind a close friend has begun collecting previously unpublished photographs , mostly borrowed from private albums . |
| 14 | Jon is twenty-five and lives in a bus in Stoke-Ash a village near Wetheringsett . |
| 15 | Let me just read you a verse in Psalm a hundred and seven . |
| 16 | In total contrast to this ancient village is the long stretch of beach , nightlife , bars and bodegas , all of which add up to make a holiday in Mojacar a most memorable and enjoyable one . |
| 17 | This second charge came because Ramsey had written an article in the Bishoprick which criticized the evangelistic work of Billy Graham , who led a mission in England a few months before . |
| 18 | For me personally there was an epilogue to the story which came about when we bought a house in Edinburgh a year or two later . |
| 19 | one day a Boy had a imvertashun to go to a party in Sawth a Merica on the way a crocodil sad Hello Boy do you wont to come Friends yes sad the Boy do you want to come to a Party with my yes sad the crocodil comon then ill calle you Croc do you like that name yes i do What is your name my name is dafydd you can koll my dafy Comon then When they came to the partty a nother boy said helo crocodile and the crocodile said my name is croc okay said the boy croc come and eat okay Boy So he did . |
| 20 | A reversible process would be one in which changes in X cause an increase in Y and a reversal in X produces a decline in Y. An example of this would be the move toward a more punitive style of management in a factory ( X ) which increased absenteeism ( Y ) which declined when a move is made to a more indulgent management style . |
| 21 | These distinguished prints are divided into eight parts , ranging through The Poor in Paris , Manet and Spain , Paris Spectacle , Olympia , Portraits , War and Commune ( referring to the FrancoPrussian war of 1871–2 ) , Japonisme ( the theme of an exhibition in Sunderland a year or two ago ) and La Parisienne . |
| 22 | He talked about the bad publicity for the Russians flowing from an incident in London a few years before , when the Bulgarian secret service murdered a political exile in London . |