Example sentences of "[noun] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He offers to Samavia a loyalty as warm as Marco 's but deriving partly from hero-worship as he comes to find in Lorestan a father-figure . |
| 2 | In modern cosmology a preferred frame emerges naturally ( the comoving frame ) for universes whose behaviour is consistent with GR . |
| 3 | Dion a £1m smasher |
| 4 | I found I could force the steering wheel a quarter of a turn and flex all sorts of things , like the casting for the gearbox mounting . ’ |
| 5 | I turned the wheel a fraction , waiting for her . |
| 6 | The slide out inner door panel and Valorclean liners fitted as standard take the hard work out of keeping your main oven clean , and if you need to move it you 'll find the adjustable rear wheels and lever operated front wheel a great help . |
| 7 | Forcing herself to keep her actions smooth and steady , she tightened the sail again and turned the wheel a few degrees the other way . |
| 8 | Balanced lightly on the balls of her feet , Polly turned the wheel a few degrees as Seawitch heeled over . |
| 9 | He seemed to be deeply immersed in thought and was driving mechanically , his skill at the wheel a product of experience and finely honed reflexes , not of intense concentration . |
| 10 | Rotate the cutter once around the pipe and tighten the wheel a little more . |
| 11 | One night Mr Gorman remembered that he had to visit the box to give Travis a message about the next week 's duty roster . |
| 12 | All she 'd done was to try and help Travis a little at a very bad time in his life , and just look at the aggravation she was getting for her trouble ! |
| 13 | Like Chatterton , Peter Ackroyd is , in the words of his novel about Chatterton a ‘ great Parodist ’ , a ‘ great Plagiarist ’ . |
| 14 | He failed to find a seat at the next general election , but came in for the family borough a few weeks later , and acted as teller against his patron 's impeachment . |
| 15 | This gave the borough a corporate personality at law , with the right to sue and be sued , and also empowered it to exclude the shire officials and be directly responsible to the central government . |
| 16 | The same report also notes the Park East council ward , which includes part of the estate , is the most deprived in the borough a calculation which takes into account factors such as car ownership . |
| 17 | Once that happens council officers would then be able to look at specific ways of reducing the risk of accidents in Darlington and help make the borough a safer place . |
| 18 | If Costica Dobre was no Lech Walesa , nor was Ceauşescu a fool like Eduard Gierek . |
| 19 | This will give the Cheshires a good deal more protection and pack a much more powerful punch should they be attacked again . |
| 20 | She married a chap called Parkes a few years back but he went off and left her . |
| 21 | But the tendency was reversed in the 1986 elections which gave CCOO a clear majority of the votes ( see table 5.4 ) . |
| 22 | Building on the example of many Labour councils which have developed imaginative arts initiatives , we will make the arts a statutory responsibility for local authorities . |
| 23 | In addition , a planned Committee of the Regions would give the NW a further strong voice in the EC an alternative from the UK Government which in itself might be no bad thing for the NW , and Merseyside in particular . |
| 24 | I Jordan de Blossevilla give in free alms to God and St Pancras and the monks … for the welfare of my soul and of my ancestors and successors a portion of my land in Bevenden lying by my well on the south side containing 4 perches in length and 2 in breadth ; to hold in tree alms , with a tree way of going in and out with the easement of drawing water in any well . |
| 25 | Towards the end of the 11th century Gundulph , Bishop of Rochester , looking for a site to build for himself and his successors a manor house , chose a spot close by the river at Halling . |
| 26 | Such people manifestly lack those human characteristics a society both produces in its members and relies on for its continued existence . |
| 27 | Johnson had told Mrs Thrale a little of the four-hundred-year history of Raasay ( or ‘ Raarsa ’ as he calls it ) — and then he divulged that Bonnie Prince Charlie ‘ was hidden in his distress two nights at Raarsa , and the king 's troops burnt the whole country , and killed some of the Cattle ’ . |
| 28 | It was a brilliant tactical move which killed seven birds with one stone , gave The Smiths four pages in Melody Maker and gave the fanzines a slice of national exposure . |
| 29 | In practice conciliation officers tend to view the achievement of a settlement as their principal function , with the actual remedy a secondary consideration . |
| 30 | First , is the procedure that the buyer has to go through to claim the remedy a proper one from an administrative point of view , or is it designed to make it difficult or impossible in practice for the buyer to invoke the clause ? |