Example sentences of "a [noun] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well that 's the best thing , cos I 'm on a case a couple of weeks and I rang your police on Friday night |
| 2 | somethin tae pit a bit a colour in her |
| 3 | the honourary member continues er are we being treated to a rerun of the speech made recently because I think it would be more appropriate if the honourable member discussed the orders tonight , otherwise there will be a bit a pruning from the chair . |
| 4 | Which involved going to evening classes and er then back to work and this involved nights regular , so it was a bit a bit of a dash , sleeping , evening class and then catching a bus which the first one , nine o'clock and to the colliery and starting . |
| 5 | Er , some of them are different words , for influencing on , a bit a bit of a mis-match here of mish-mash , rather of those different aspects . |
| 6 | A bit a bit of vim and vigour . |
| 7 | POLICE gave a driver a shower before B-testing him after he fell into a slurry pit while trying to flee at Uckfield , Sussex . |
| 8 | We know we are part of a great community and so we now stand Lord as we remember those people who have been a part a part of this particular community to give thanks for their life and to give thanks for them . |
| 9 | Like the other quasi-nominal forms of the verb , it has as a support a representation of person not yet differentiated ordinally , as we have just seen . |
| 10 | ‘ My view outlined in our company literature is that a lift is an integral part of the design and structure of a building a piece of kinetic architecture the result of creative dialogue . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ We 've taken a cottage a couple of miles from the slopes . ’ |
| 12 | She brought as a present a portrait of Mother Mary as she appeared to the children at Fatima , executed by someone of sentimental disposition , and a statue of the Virgin Mary , the mould fashioned by someone of a melancholy and austere frame of mind . |
| 13 | A favourite a couple of years ago was a letter issued from an American bank that had been issued three years previously . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ A smalltime crook who got caught in the crossfire when I was working on a story a couple of years ago . |
| 15 | The sample showed milk yields up from 18.6 litres a cow a day in April to 19.5 litres in May , with 75% of the milk coming from forage . |
| 16 | Most " events " are of a very short duration — in the case of a banquet a matter of a few hours — but some can last longer — in the case of certain sporting events , conferences or exhibitions several days , or even one or two weeks . |
| 17 | 138 ( 1 ) This section has effect where a lessor is proceeding by action in a county court to enforce against a lessee a right of re-entry or forfeiture in respect of any land for non-payment of rent . |
| 18 | The men had sent their families to the relative security of a schoolhouse a mile down the road . |
| 19 | Although the system illustrated receives its phase control signals from a microprocessor a number of less sophisticated alternatives are presented later in this Chapter . |
| 20 | A sheepcote a shelter for sheep . |
| 21 | Adopted by 125 votes to 10 ( the United States and other Western nations ) with 21 abstentions , Resolution 44/81 of Dec. 8 condemned the use of mercenaries to destabilize governments in Southern Africa , Central America and other developing states , or to fight against " national liberation movements … struggling for … self-determination " , judging such a practice a threat to world peace and security and at odds with international law . |
| 22 | She was told she 'd have to pay a £116 a week for it because she 's in a private nursing home . |
| 23 | We have never found it an imposition to provide , at the beginning of a term a sheet of paper for each lecture setting out prerequisite knowledge , the subject of the lecture and reference to textbook work which would probably not be treated except by a mention . |
| 24 | Er not a card a present for Ruth . |
| 25 | through a snow a couple of weeks ago |
| 26 | This strategy appeared to receive a boost a week after his conference , when Chancellor Adenauer came to Paris to sign the Franco-German treaty . |
| 27 | Some of the older clubs were narrowly evangelical , but Russell wanted to see religion used ‘ to comprehend all the impalpable influences which give a club a grip on its boys and tend to awaken their higher nature or further their spiritual development ’ . |
| 28 | There was as a result a shortage of marriageable young men among the lower Patels . |
| 29 | For instance , if the surveyor failed to carry out his inspection and to present his report within the agreed time and as a result a house at a bargain price was lost , then a claim could properly be made for compensation . |
| 30 | As a result a form of class and , most notably , racial job reservation grew up in railway employment . |