Example sentences of "a [noun] [conj] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On this occasion , Richard Baxter was again released on a technicality because his ‘ offence ’ was committed in the city , and only a city judge had the authority to sign the warrant . |
| 2 | Yet between the recognition of a dispute which may end in a trial and its actual arrival before the judge lies a lengthy period of negotiation before or during the operation of the formal pre-trial procedure . |
| 3 | He had to support a sister and her children — the only relatives we know of — and his whole career was blighted by impecuniosity . |
| 4 | But Larry saw nothing except the tap dripping in the bathroom and the rug missing from the doorway and the absence of a cat-flap and his own image , his own image everywhere . |
| 5 | A kitchen and its contents were damaged by smoke . |
| 6 | In the early years about 50% of aircrew going through the course were National Servicemen who would only serve some three months or so on a squadron before their commitment was ended . |
| 7 | I 'd stay a bit till your Dad comes home if it was n't for keeping Nelly company . |
| 8 | Turn this up a bit cos my missus |
| 9 | mm , mm , were , were talking about what happens when people who have fallen in love get together and decide to stay together for a bit and its been suggested that marriage can put some strains on er what started off as a very heady mutual experience , if your lucky , let me ask you this , do you think marriage destroys love ? , button one for yes and button two for no , does marriage destroy love ? , as you understand it mm a few are not sure but thirty people have said yes , who said yes |
| 10 | My parents are going to France at Christmas and erm I do n't wan na go with them really and nor does Digby so he , Digby 's gon na come and stay just for a bit and my house it has to be empty and Foxy 's coming round to stay . |
| 11 | Give us more wool a bit and me needles |
| 12 | She got herself a job in Reading college , she got somebody to take her down there and a place to get an English A Level , and Mary said it 's a thing with her she wants to get this English A Level cos her father had one and she feels that is she could get and English A Level it would impress him , he , she spends her life trying to impress her father who does n't really takes much notice of her , . |
| 13 | Courses leading to qualifications up to and including A level or its equivalent are generally referred to as non-advanced further education ( NAFE ) ; qualifications above A-level standard as advanced further education ( AFE ) . |
| 14 | Vacancies were normally filled by the commissioners ' presentation by the end of the century , but that presentation could be a formality and their autonomy restricted to the rejection of manifestly unqualified candidates . |
| 15 | They conceived it in the form of a puma and its heart was the ceremonial site which was now the Plaza de Armas . |
| 16 | Alan Parker comes up with a winner when his cast of unknowns forms a working-class band that lights the torch of opportunity in Dublin 's mean streets . |
| 17 | In A Heritage and its History ( 1959 , Julia , the mistress of the house , acknowledges its traditional sanctities : ‘ It is the one house I know where the present has not ousted the past . |
| 18 | A MUM and her three children have moved into a cardboard box to demand ‘ decent accommodation ’ from the Housing Executive . |
| 19 | ‘ I do n't suppose there 's a hope that my jacket and boots were still in the car ? ’ |
| 20 | Buddie had beaten her with a stick until her mouth bled and she could barely stand . |
| 21 | ‘ It means of course , ’ she went on in the same level tone , ‘ that you will not be free to make a decision until your uncle dies . |
| 22 | In the conduct of fiscal policy the government has to receive Parliamentary approval before proposed changes in taxation or public expenditure can be made effective , and obviously the planning of a Budget and its acceptance by Parliament is a time-consuming process . |
| 23 | The drafting of satisfactory consultancy provisions is not without difficulty : it is not always easy to predict an individual 's suitability for a consultancy until his normal retirement date is near , and younger partners may press for some overriding veto . |
| 24 | The connection that is asserted to hold between a condition-set and its effect , when the effect has a probability of 1 , is akin only to the insufficient one allowed by the Humean accounts , in terms of constant conjunction . |
| 25 | Blake 's researches showed that there are some thirty or so basic messages which are used by the domestic horse , and there are another seventeen phrases that are used occasionally or in special situations , for example , those messages between a mare and her foal , or a stallion and a mare . |
| 26 | Consequently he was obliged to persuade a driver and his regular fireman to agree to give up their mid day finish to work the extra special . |
| 27 | — acting for a driver and his/her passengers in connection with a road accident . |
| 28 | Bosses Richard Bryan , Colin Stone and Brian Nathan could n't afford to give their 141 workers a rise after their tool hire firm made a £291,000 pre-tax loss . |
| 29 | Other mechanisms must have played a part and their inclusion could alter the best-fit climate sensitivities significantly and lead to improved values for the explained variance . |
| 30 | We are right in distinguishing between a sentence and its sense . |