Example sentences of "[noun] a [noun sg] with " in BNC.
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1 | When Mrs Hollidaye had finished her praying and they were leaving the church , she stopped at the back and showed Dot a book with writing in it . |
2 | Daily maintenance consists merely of giving the walls and floor of the pond a once-over with a soft-bristled broom , to keep down blanketweed : suspended matter is then whisked away to both filters , and what they miss is picked up by the skimmer . |
3 | She ought to be playing ten chukkas a day with really good players , and she ought to get miles away from you so she ca n't kick the shit out of you . ’ |
4 | His nephew Edgar gave Ely a cross with a gold front containing three golden images and precious stones , the rest being of silver gilt ; the silver base was in three parts with gilt embellishment . |
5 | It had been hoped to make six trips a day with each helicopter carrying six stretchers and four other wounded civilians . |
6 | Well last Friday a man with a white wig , Lord Justice McCowan used five even more devastating words to sum up life in The Sun : ‘ Sensational , inaccurate and misleading coverage . ’ |
7 | Within fifty years of the fall of Karak Eight Peaks the Dwarfs have lost all of their major holds south of Karaz a Karak with the exception of Karak Azul , which is under constant siege . |
8 | It 's not expensive — stick to the free services and dial off-peak and you 'd be hard pushed to run up more than £20 a quarter with a couple of weekly calls . |
9 | Concern has been expressed over the bid which , if successful , would make the UK travel industry a duopoly with Airtours and Thomson as the market leaders . |
10 | In the United States a spirit with 50% alcohol by volume is termed 100 proof . |
11 | When we watch a TV police thriller , we match it against a schema which contains certain characters , playing particular roles in certain sequences of events , m a plot with certain episodes and a particular outcome . |
12 | Poindexter kept in his study a poster with the words ‘ Blessed are the Peacemakers ’ though possibly it had been put there by his minister-wife ; North was a member of an officers ' prayer group that prayed regularly for peace , particularly in the Gulf . |
13 | The lower rate of SSP is to increase from £45.30 to £46.95 a week with the lower earnings threshold ( below which SSP is not payable ) increasing from £54 to £56 a week . |
14 | Although it is obviously accurate to call an incipient spin a stall with a wing-drop , I think that this is trying to avoid the issue , which is that it is really the beginning of a spin and at least a potential spin . |
15 | In newer areas one would expect main roads to form boundaries , yet residential areas in the past were often arranged around the town centre along major roads , so that in older areas a distributor with shops on either side may even form the centre of a residential district . |
16 | For the purpose of this test a contrast with zero is valid . |
17 | The Magic Kingdom , with spires and turreted castle at its heart , now shares as many as 150,000 visitors a day with the Epcot Centre ( seven futuristic theme pavilions and an 11-nation world showcase , built around a massive silver geosphere ) and the Disney MGM Studio theme park . |
18 | There may be a small charge for storage , for instance £10 a year with the Halifax 's Deedsafe scheme , but you are normally excused payment if you agree to buy your house buildings insurance through them . |
19 | It makes sense to have some form of legal expenses insurance , and by far the cheapest way to do this is through the ‘ add on ’ offered for as little as £10 a year with home contents insurance . |
20 | The gene that causes the taillessness also distorts the rest of the spine , giving the cat a backbone with fewer and shorter vertebrae . |
21 | Most will need two injections of intermediate-acting insulin a day with some short-acting to cover breakfast , a mid-morning snack and lunch . |
22 | There is great concern that in a hospital such as Stobhill a patient with heart warning signs can receive angiography examinations within a week , but in places such as Ayrshire and Argyllshire physicians have to keep patients waiting longer on medication . |
23 | Give weak nails a boost with a specially formulated strengthener like Nail Magic . |
24 | The Bill provides a scheme to recreate in Scotland a Parliament with all the dignity and style to which the Scottish people are entitled . |
25 | If the targeted 10 000 is achieved , France will have 400 000 more youngsters a year with computer skills . |
26 | The company has been making about 300,000 16Ms a month and NEC said that figure will easily climb higher than 2m chips a month with added production from the California factory and a new facility under construction in Japan . |
27 | As Desmond Haynes and Philip Simmons added 99 at better than a run a minute with a volley of boundaries , he must have wondered what he had let himself in for . |
28 | Within this perspective , the need to develop in every child a facility with skills of study , library use and information handling was clearly significant , as was some ideal of a fully integrated , centralised resources centre which would provide a hub for the wide range of activities comprising the curriculum . |
29 | Price is $800 a head with some discounts available . |
30 | Well I , I look on this all with a I do n't think , I do n't think we regret East Devon a step with every everything you come to . |