Example sentences of "[noun] a [noun] " 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 | Dion a £1m smasher |
| 3 | I turned the wheel a fraction , waiting for her . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | One night Mr Gorman remembered that he had to visit the box to give Travis a message about the next week 's duty roster . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | If Costica Dobre was no Lech Walesa , nor was Ceauşescu a fool like Eduard Gierek . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Such people manifestly lack those human characteristics a society both produces in its members and relies on for its continued existence . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Cornford 's book on some of the greatest Greek drama had as its frontispiece a Punch and Judy show . |
| 14 | Remember that in Marks and Sparks a couple of months back they were selling borders off and I bought a beautiful aqua one . |
| 15 | Ca n't remember whether I owe Madge a letter or she owes me one . |
| 16 | Domesday shows that they provided Edward the Confessor with a revenue of £53 a year and the three works of the king — probably the maintenance of fortresses and bridges , and service in the army . |
| 17 | SOUTHERN Electricity has bought Thermal Transfer ( Holdings ) , an environmental control systems business with sales of more than £15m a year . |
| 18 | If this continued into this year , it would leave the Government with a £15m a month overspend . |
| 19 | Ministers want to reduce the subsidies paid to dentists for NHS patients because they are treating more people than expected , causing a £15m a month overspend . |
| 20 | The Government said dentists were treating more people than expected , causing a £15m a month overspend , but the profession argued if funding was cut they could no longer afford to do NHS work . |
| 21 | In this connection , one opposing clergyman sought the intervention of the courts via an order of mandamus addressed to the Lord Chamberlain that he should present to Her Majesty a petition to the effect that the granting of the Royal Assent to the latter Bill would be contrary to the Act of Settlement 1700 and to Her Majesty 's coronation oath , both of which , he argued , forbade Her from thus imperilling the maintenance of Protestantism . |
| 22 | Since the arrival of the very first ship , the Annika , this Belfast to Rotterdam service has grown from a weekly to a twice weekly sailing , offering importers and exporters a choice of shipping at the beginning or at the end of the week . |
| 23 | The M.T.A. by its constitution had a power to put on a stop list the name of a member or person who infringed its rule forbidding the sale of articles at other than the list prices relevant thereto unless such person should pay to the Association a fine within limits to be laid down by the Council of the Association . |
| 24 | In an effort to meet its 1991 inflation target , the government in October 1990 concluded with the UGT ( General Workers ' Union ) and the Employers ' Association a pact for the following year : average wage increases would be below 13.4 per cent ; the working week would be reduced from 48 to 44 hours ; the minimum monthly wage for industrial and farm workers would rise by 15 per cent , as would most pension and social security payments ; labour disputes were to be resolved through negotiation rather than industrial action . |
| 25 | We had fifteen minutes association a day — or sometimes just three times a week . |
| 26 | A group of unions has endorsed proposals put forward by the Involvements and Partnership Association a document towards industrial partnership was signed in September nineteen ninety two , by the General Secretaries of the A W E U , A U T , B I F U , the G M B , I M S F , N C U , U C W , and . |
| 27 | Her acceptance of this role has not only given enormous pleasure to the membership but it has conferred upon the Association a status in society and an endorsement which only the seal of Royal Patronage can do . |
| 28 | Four years later , when the Bishopric of Bath and Wells fell vacant , the King rejected all other suggestions and declared , ‘ Who shall have Bath and Wells but that little black fellow who would not give poor Nellie a lodging ? ’ |
| 29 | He took Kirsty again , and handed Shiona a key . |
| 30 | It ended by saying that Mrs Thatcher should apologise for trying to find Mr Clay a job and withdraw her request that he be given one . |