Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 Parliament prescribed an oath of allegiance which denied that the Pope had any authority to release Roman Catholics from their allegiance to the King . |
| 2 | Zurachina smoothed a finger down one cheek . |
| 3 | When it fell to his lot to cut her free from the coils of the hydra , had his poignant fixation received a body-blow — or a boost ? |
| 4 | The directors of the firm kindly gave B U permission to borrow a Tacker for the exhibition and after Le Leicester branch arranged a temporary replacement , Taffy began working , cleaning up the machine to showroom condition . |
| 5 | Also earlier this year the University formed a Managing Directors Club . |
| 6 | We have , of course , in addition undertaken a considerable change |
| 7 | The Secretary of State for Defence reopened a list as an exception to allow the Association to mark the fortieth anniversary of the accession of Her Majesty the Queen , our patron , to the throne . |
| 8 | It was alleged that the retailer committed an offence under section 1 by selling bars of chocolate bearing the misleading label ‘ Extra value ’ and that this was due to the act or default of the defendants , the manufacturers . |
| 9 | Cos her Mum won a lot of money . |
| 10 | For example , last year alone , the University earned a total of four point nine million pounds from research grants and contracts , a figure which has risen despite the recession . |
| 11 | Net profits were were $595m , which compares with net profit from operations of $556m in the 1991 first quarter , when the company of course reported a big loss because of the change in the method it used to account for employee benefits . |
| 12 | Recognising the problems associated with calcium deficiency facing women particularly , English Grains Healthcare formulated a dietary supplement called Calcia to ensure your calcium intake keeps pace with your body 's needs . |
| 13 | The supreme court also confirmed a 20-year prison term given a third defendant , accomplice Yasuhiro Uegaki . |
| 14 | To catch a frisky horse or a young colt in a field the horseman placed a little of the mixture of oil of origanum , oil of rosemary , oil of cinnamon , and oil of fennel about his person . |
| 15 | Patterson consulted a notepad on his desk . |
| 16 | In all six companies the corporate planning department formulated a list of environmental issues which were considered to be of key importance to the company as a whole . |
| 17 | These were regarded as relatively minor , and the sentences reflected this ; only exceptional violence justified a sentence of more than 18 months imprisonment . |
| 18 | Tolstoy attaches great importance to the change of wording in the signal of 23 May , referring to a " verbal directive " , as if this implied that on 13 May Macmillan had not just " advised " but had in effect given an order , which he was in no position to do . |
| 19 | John Alderson made a case for the reintroduction of community policing in 1982 ( Alderson 1982 , also see 1979 ) , but its advantages were recognized much earlier when the House of Commons Select Committee on Race Relations examined relations between the police and ethnic minorities in 1972 , and in 1976 a report from the National Police College placed a central emphasis upon it ( Pope 1976 ) . |
| 20 | But I 've just briefly looked at the education and training part of the General Secretary report and it says here , National College rammed a hundred and twenty four courses over a thirty week period attracting approximately seventeen hundred G M B representatives , a wide range of residential courses . |
| 21 | He could see Prussian soldiers running away in the undergrowth and he felt the fierce exultation of a cavalryman given a helpless enemy to slaughter , but he did not see the batter of guns concealed in the deep shadows at the edge of the wood , nor the Prussian artillery officer who shouted , ‘ Fire ! ’ |
| 22 | Devraux placed a restraining hand on the American 's shoulder . |
| 23 | Finally , the Admiralty formulated a scheme of its own , the " Sunhill Scheme " , launched in June 1916 . |
| 24 | Another entrepreneur establishing a sack-making factory with limited protection , may find a relative of the president given a licence to import freely the same product . |
| 25 | He went into self-imposed exile in the mountains of Japan for nearly two years and during this period of isolation formulated a new karate system based on actual combat effectiveness . |
| 26 | Nizan occupied a privileged position in Sartre 's life both intellectually and emotionally . |
| 27 | There are some unavoidable costs er on that account , particularly on the engine programme where delays to the aircraft programme which result in extra costs on the engine side , are the customer 's liability , erm but the main increase in cost is actually in the equipment area and results I think , from the fact that the equipment prices turned out to be higher than was originally estimated at the start of the programme and also the fact that U K industry won a higher work share on equipment that we had originally been entitled to and budgeted for and lastly the point you mentioned that Germany has withdrawn from some parts of the requirement and that made certain equipments non-common and we have had to take a larger share of the costs of those equipments than originally planned . |
| 28 | Erm , but the main increase in cost is actually in the equipment area and results I think from the fact that the equipment prices turned out to be higher than was originally estimated at the start of the programme and also the fact that U K industry won a higher work share on equipment than we had originally been entitled to and budgeted for and lastly the point you mentioned that Germany has withdrawn from some parts of the requirement and that made certain equipments non common and we have had to take a larger share of the cost of those equipments than originally planned . |
| 29 | On the currency front , the pound enjoyed a strong flourish , gaining 1.4 cents against the dollar to 1 dollar point 9195 and pushing .87 of a pfennigs firmer to 2 deutschmarks point 9704 . |
| 30 | ‘ it would appear that the vital matter for determination is whether at the time that the infant plaintiff avers that she suffered the damnum , i.e. at the date of her birth , had the defendant committed a breach of any and what duty to the infant plaintiff causing such damnum ? |