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

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1 He had a semi-hard-on the whole time he was bathing her , and without warning she grabbed him by it , and led him to the bath .
2 It has been held that if a solicitor preparing a will omits a provision the testator intended , it counts as a ‘ clerical error ’ , and that the will can therefore be rectified by the court under the Administration of Justice Act 1982 ( p 100 ) .
3 And he took the side of Vice President Al Gore against other cabinet members in committing the United States to lowering by 2000 its emission of greenhouse gases to 1990 levels , a provision the Bush administration had kept out of the global climate treaty signed at Rio .
4 Design a chart the parents can fill in for a period of one week .
5 The pilot stationed the Lynx in a controlled hover above a dell a hundred yards away from the target .
6 On a technicality the bu , the treasurer can still control it .
7 Once on a hilltop the trees broke , and we looked back and saw a vast red light on the horizon .
8 People would have been going , ‘ Are you a sister a cousin , or what ? ' ’
9 The bill included as a disbursement the sum of £500 plus VAT payable by Marshalls to Coleman & Co .
10 A cradle a ladle a pot supply your own adjective or a pen .
11 But is n't the middle of a recession a bad time to try and sell a business ?
12 In the teeth of a recession the reworked Labour Party and the reworked Mr Kinnock are level-pegging with the Tories .
13 The clocks are very expensive — some costing more than ten thousand pounds , but even in the depths of a recession the firm thought it had enough work to keep it ticking over .
14 The choices are unlimited , but here are some of the characteristic elements which help to give a kitchen a particular atmosphere .
15 A kitchen the same size , off which there are small rooms , rather like chapels off a cathedral .
16 Is a function a psychological process or is it a neural process ?
17 Rather than having to type in the name of a program or press certain letters or numbers to select a function the user simply ‘ points ’ to what is required and presses a button .
18 The pilots used to say it 's a pilots ' plane — when you flew a Hurricane the pilot flew the plane , but when you flew a Spitfire , it flew itself .
19 In such a case no property passes to the buyer , section 19 .
20 In such a case a careful examination of the handbrake should be made bearing this offence in mind .
21 Now in the popular dailies there is , on average , a case a week .
22 In such a case a complete reconsideration of the case , including the taking of evidence and the finding of facts , would be a waste of time and money ; so the court can remit the case and direct the authority to reconsider the facts in the light of the law as it has been held to be .
23 In such a case a coroner has a mandatory obligation to hold an inquest .
24 In such a case a customer who took from the shelves would clearly be usurping the right of the owner .
25 Well that 's the best thing , cos I 'm on a case a couple of weeks and I rang your police on Friday night
26 See there was a case a little while ago were n't there , about farmer ploughed up a p footpath you used to get on a stile to walk across the field .
27 In such a case a seller will give a separate receipt , on completion of the sale , in such words as these : re …
28 In such a case an adult might be held liable either for breach of his contract to use proper care or for a wrong independent of the contract ; an infant has been held not to be liable at all .
29 In such a case an exclusion clause could , if appropriately worded ( and subject to the provisions of the Unfair Contract Terms Act ) , provide the manufacturer with a good defence against a claim by the purchaser in negligence .
30 In such a case the court has power to stop the prosecution in its tracks .
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