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

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1 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 . ’
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 She gave Dot a peck on the cheek .
9 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 .
10 Just like anybody else , they have understood science to be a process of investigation , and religion a matter of faith .
11 er which we stop for er we probably have a cup of tea a couple of times on the way down
12 Progressively reducing the twenty Mk 1 sets by half , and acquiring from regular service stock a fleet of Mk 1 first open coaches , Ward put in hand a programme of vehicle refurbishment involving re-upholstering , recarpeting and curtain replacement and the fitting of individual table lamps , with the aim of restoring a level of respectability to coaches which had seen better days .
13 Er not a card a present for Ruth .
14 Purchasers could give the new deal a push by insisting that providers implement it .
15 It includes communal workshops containing metal and woodworking equipment , and a training room with computer programmes to give the new-starter a grounding in marketing , book-keeping and business management .
16 In this experiment a team from Culham went to the Kurchatov Institute to measure the temperature with the new laser-scattering technique that I have already mentioned .
17 It therefore appears that in the first experiment a match between parts of the superficial representation of the passage was influencing the way that a deep anaphor , the pronoun they , was processed .
18 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 .
19 This strategy appeared to receive a boost a week after his conference , when Chancellor Adenauer came to Paris to sign the Franco-German treaty .
20 Because of this fluidity in royal land-holding a list of all the known royal estates from the whole Merovingian period would be misleading ; it would not allow for the pattern of acquisition and alienation .
21 Some schools organise ‘ bulk buy clubs ’ where a member with a van or large car buys in bulk a variety of goods from a discount warehouse — items such as nappy liners and toilet rolls seem to be quite common in these schemes .
22 The massive bulk a mountain of strength —
23 The amber-coloured fluid is ejected with great force a distance of between 8 and 10 feet .
24 Yet even the foreign secretary conceded that economic difficulties would in due course force a reappraisal of Britain 's military commitments within Nato .
25 So , again , was a Spanish force put to flight by a Cornish force a fraction of its size .
26 There are in this force a number of young men who have fixed hours of duty — 8.30 a.m. until 5.30 p.m. with every Sunday off .
27 As New South Wales was the only state without an ALP government , the Liberal-National coalition was widely expected to benefit from the current unpopularity of the Hawke government , an expectation apparently supported by opinion polls published during the campaign which gave the coalition a lead of up to 16 percentage points over Labor .
28 Here the skilled operator establishes in her own consciousness a network of alarm signals which go off when the train of thought starts chugging along in a dangerous direction .
29 I 've seen him outside of football a couple of times — but it just shows there are no friends in the game . ’
30 Please do n't think you 're doing your horse a favour in cold weather by shutting his top door , because you 're actually subjecting him to all sorts of health hazards .
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