Example sentences of "a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Make sure that you do not get a link-wire in the wrong place so that it short circuits a secondary winding . |
| 2 | However , rather than realising a £17m loss , Tootal 's figures show a £3.4m profit , with most of the difference written off earlier through the balance sheet . |
| 3 | When the writer provides two different endings to his novel ( why two ? why not a hundred. ? ) , does the reader seriously imagine he is being ‘ offered a choice ’ and that the work is reflecting life 's variable outcomes ? |
| 4 | There is no need to turn off the water supply when rewashering a Supatap . |
| 5 | Happily her supervisor has guided more than one student through topics about Michelangelo , and has a route map prepared , including introductory and background books , but also passages from longer scholarly works . |
| 6 | Because such religious orders are themselves controlled from Rome , Roman discipline is conveyed via a route other than by the bishops . |
| 7 | Personal memories : of the larger knots of passengers at reopened Templecombe than at most other stations between Exeter and Salisbury , a route far busier and better served than ten years ago ; but of travelling from Southampton to Newton Abbot via Westbury having dinner with a traveller from London to Crewkerne , the common Westbury-Taunton section way north of both passengers ' direct line being attractive because of the faster pace of HSTs . |
| 8 | There is also a route from Newcastle through Carlisle to Stranraer and/or Glasgow via Kilmarnock , which results from the combination of previously separate services . |
| 9 | Honours were n't even and though time was getting on , I needed to climb a route . |
| 10 | Groups can monopolise a route for hours like this , or , worse still , drop someone on your head while you 're trying to lead it ! |
| 11 | Yet the highest of them all , Elbrus , has a route that would be accessible to many a mountaineer with only one of two alpine seasons behind him ; a route that demands no real technical expertise , but an ability to adapt to altitude , and a fair degree of stamina . |
| 12 | Yet the highest of them all , Elbrus , has a route that would be accessible to many a mountaineer with only one of two alpine seasons behind him ; a route that demands no real technical expertise , but an ability to adapt to altitude , and a fair degree of stamina . |
| 13 | A route must be led , on sight , without clipping the bolt , to make an ethical statement . |
| 14 | Anyone capable of sight-leading a route protected by bolts without clipping them has the right to remove them ( a regular bolt hole closed by a rock dust/epoxy mix is virtually undetectable , and no meaningful harm will have been done to the crag environment ) . |
| 15 | If you wrote up a route between September 1990 and April 1991 it would be helpful if you repeated the description in the new book . |
| 16 | After all , if you 're a superstar , it 's no good admitting that you found a route given three grades easier than your latest creation anything but a path ! |
| 17 | Micro-routes in the Duddon are no match , after all , for a route on any of the limestone crags in Yorkshire or Derbyshire . |
| 18 | The Isle of Man Coastal Path or Raad ny Foillan ( Way of the Gull ) is a route that does n't get half the publicity it deserves . |
| 19 | We skirted the artificial Llys y-fran reservoir and chose a route back on the tiny lanes which connect the farms . |
| 20 | It was a route she chose originally because she did not have enough capital to expand at the rate business demanded . |
| 21 | We ride a long way and in late afternoon ( sun time rather than clock time , which has long ceased to be important to us ) we stop for coffee so that Odd-Knut can work out a route . |
| 22 | ‘ That was the FRG from Soltau — they 've cleared most of the tasks from last night , less a Chieftain power pack change that 's in hand and one badly bogged tank — they 're having to find a route in for a second armoured recovery vehicle , and , of course , the last Challenger pack change — how are the lads doing on those packs that came in this morning ? ’ |
| 23 | On arrival I have a chat with the Duty Sergeant , who hands me a map with a route or ‘ beat ’ on it . |
| 24 | ‘ Yes , ’ The driver flourished a street plan , with a route marked in red . |
| 25 | Instead , the demonstrators marched along a route agreed with the authorities to the Olympic Stadium , across the north of the city . |
| 26 | It is not a continuous road but a route , and a lot of it is the wide , slow Irrawaddy River . |
| 27 | That meant I was travelling a route that stretched from Darwin in northern Australia to Invercargill in southern New Zealand . |
| 28 | Madonna has often talked of her Ten Year Plan , a route to megastardom designed to keep her in the manner to which she has quickly become accustomed for years to come too . |
| 29 | As a route into Europe the Danube valley has been a funnel for migrating peoples since before history . |
| 30 | It could signal the need for food when the rivers overflowed their banks , or for volunteers when snow-drifts were piling up and people were needed to come out and reinforce the banks and dig a route through the snow . |