Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He summarizes the kind of attitudes and assumptions towards religion which a majority of children when they arrive in school for the first time will be likely already to have assimilated . |
| 2 | The methods which a society employs to train its teachers reflect and comment upon the values with which that society is predominately concerned . |
| 3 | Of course there are many more methods which a manager can learn to use , depending on the type of job which he does . |
| 4 | I have also been writing an evening class programme which a colleague and I hope to get some funding towards from the local enterprise culture . |
| 5 | This exported oil or gas is not , as it is in the West , that part of production which is surplus to domestic requirements ; it is a quota which a decision has been taken to meet in order to fulfil a particular objective . |
| 6 | The bill also limited the amount of funds which a candidate could receive from PACs , reduced the flow of " soft money " ( unregulated contributions from party organizations to candidates ) , limited personal spending by wealthy candidates and closed other loopholes through which special interests could influence campaigns and the conduct of congressional business . |
| 7 | Woodruffe helped him drink some Scotch and put him in Rogers 's limousine which a mechanic had brought over . |
| 8 | Banging sounds emanating from the boiler may be caused by a build-up of scale , especially in hard water areas ( see under Corrosion ) or to air being drawn into the system — usually a design fault which a heating expert will have to trace for you . |
| 9 | Every bream water has at least one set of imaginary tram-lines which a shoal of bream — or the tram , to maintain the metaphor — follow religiously . |
| 10 | Many observers also underestimated the strength of disillusionment with Carter 's record : his administration appeared formless and accident-prone , and the President himself a man who know how to gain power but how to use it . |
| 11 | For each area of study which a centre is currently offering the centre is required to submit to HCIMA for forwarding to the centre 's moderator three copies of the following : |
| 12 | Besides the relationships which a child has with his extended family are those maintained with the spirit world and the living dead . |
| 13 | General Abakumov , by bitter irony himself a Jew , was shot on the orders of his rival , Lavrenti Beria , in 1951 . |
| 14 | Burgh councillors were particularly enthusiastic about the opportunities which a career in India might offer to their sons . |
| 15 | Accounts are also kept for shareholders , but American accounting laws allow studios to guess how well a film will do in each of its markets ( an invitation either to claim profits early or to put off losses ) ; for the tax man ( ditto ) ; and for various stars who have been promised shares of a film 's net profit — a figure which a studio wants to keep as low as possible . |
| 16 | Mr. Newman has argued that the earlier decisions involved the application of prior restraints and exercise of the discretion of the court , whereas the issue of a writ in libel is the first step in an action which a party has a right to take and consequently is outside the principles enunciated in those cases . |
| 17 | But in Athens it was only one of many roles which a citizen could expect to have to play in the public life of the polis . |
| 18 | In the circumstances , any aid which a politician could offer was a very material favour which would long be remembered by the friends of the individual in difficulties . |
| 19 | Any effective loft which a golfer may have enjoyed through using a flexible shaft can be restored by an adjustment of the clubface . |
| 20 | While MP for Pembroke boroughs from 1695 to 1702 ( he was to sit again , for Haverfordwest , 1718–22 ) , he was responsible for the introduction of several legislative measures to suppress ‘ vice and profaneness ’ , notably the Blasphemy Act of 1698 , aimed principally at anti-trinitarian heretics , and the ill-fated ‘ immorality ’ bill the following year , originally designed to tighten the laws against prostitution , but injudiciously extended to make adultery itself a misdemeanour , and for this reason rejected by Parliament as impracticable . |
| 21 | Is n't your ambition itself a sin ? |
| 22 | going charge eighty pound something a quarter , but that , that 's the line which Chris said I |
| 23 | But it was four pou it 's three pound something a pound Ann . |
| 24 | her last ones , about two pound something a bag |
| 25 | It 's four pound something a wheel there . |
| 26 | The distinction between manners and morals is exemplified by this film , and we can see no possibility of our offering it a certificate for public exhibition . |
| 27 | Explain in your own words what a liability is , and the differences between liabilities and owners ' equity . |
| 28 | Oh my gawd what a night you had ! |
| 29 | Bit of writing , bit of tennis , bit of reading ( to kill time ) , few beers in the evening before going to bed thinking what a waste my life is . |
| 30 | Ken what a dixie lid is ? |