Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [prep] a [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A CLASSIC Rolls-Royce limousine which had been in the same Scottish family for 60 years made £21,275 at a Sotheby 's weekend car sale at the Royal Air Force museum , Hendon , North London . |
| 2 | The interpretation became part of a person 's experience . |
| 3 | ‘ I do not like to see fear in a woman 's eyes , especially a woman who places so much value in equality . |
| 4 | THE shipping minister , Lord Caithness , yesterday dismissed calls for a sheriff 's inquiry into the Braer oilspill in spite of a petition signed by more than a third of Shetland 's adults being handed over in London . |
| 5 | Scruffy thief : Police are hunting a scruffy thief who snatched £60 from a newsagent 's till in Bebington Road , Tranmere . |
| 6 | It can lead people to linking arms at Blackpool and , depending on whether it 's the Labour Party Conference or the annual darts team binge singing The Red Flag or the Okie Cokie but it can also lead to a group of skins bunging bricks through a Pakistani 's shop window . |
| 7 | Occasionally , he managed to obtain temporary work : once checking stock in a publisher 's warehouse — hardly the sort of job for an ex-officer and far below his not inconsiderable intelligence — and on another occasion , because of his clerical and administrative experiences in the War Office , helping to sort out the vast archive of a deceased general . |
| 8 | Given that individual autonomy comprises a fundamental tenet for liberalism , legal enforcement of contracts demands a careful justification , for legal sanctions inevitably place fetters upon a person 's freedom of action . |
| 9 | exams/tests are acceptable — if they provide evidence of a candidate 's achievement which is appropriate for the outcome(s) being assessed , |
| 10 | If a buyer has access to a seller 's cost structure then he is in a powerful position to negotiate a cheaper price , or at least avoid paying too high a price . |
| 11 | The latter , stripped of their powers to assume parental rights or to demand notice of a child 's removal from ‘ accommodation ’ , must work on the basis of negotiation and voluntary agreement . |
| 12 | There are three main ways of providing this extra flexibility : wider exchange-rate bands ( the existing system allows currencies to fluctuate by plus or minus 2.25% around its central rate ) ; bands with ‘ soft buffers ’ , which would allow members to let a currency move outside its band under certain circumstances ; and frequent , possibly automatic , realignments of the central rates , to take account of differences in rates of inflation ( ie , bands that provide stability in a currency 's real exchange rate , rather than its nominal exchange rate ) . |
| 13 | Francis initially wants Wegerle on a month 's loan but if he is successful it could lead to his third £1million move . |
| 14 | It says erm the law still allows to squirt weedkiller in a baby 's eyes , inject it with poison , grow cancers on its back , burn its skin off , expose it to radiation and eventually kill it , in unreliable experiments . |
| 15 | No. 141 made a number of recommendations with respect to covenants in leases which place restrictions upon a tenant 's ability to assign or sublet . |
| 16 | Police rang them as they headed north after a friend 's wedding in the Home Counties . |
| 17 | ‘ Funny thing , that , ’ mused Jackie after a moment 's pause . |
| 18 | We went through a narrow passage into a smaller yard and Harry entered a box and got hold of a horse 's head collar . |
| 19 | The noxious substance contained in the two anal glands , one on either side of the animal 's rectum , is called butyl mercaptan and it plays havoc with a predator 's face . |
| 20 | For many programmers , this is their first taste of trying to sell houses in a buyers ' market , of static wages and of finding that demand for their skills no longer outstrips supply . |
| 21 | What this operation can do is to cause havoc with a women 's sexuality , often provoking the very opposite to what was intended . |
| 22 | Their doubt is hardening into unbelief ; merely to talk of God is to waste words , to pour water on a duck 's back and watch it run off . |
| 23 | If the thing was so valuable , then the secrecy and the size of the fee were understandable And if how the Emissary lived was any indication of life at the top on Fraxilly , presumably the God-King did like to own things worth a planet 's ransom . |
| 24 | Last week , when Cantona sat watching in the stands at Arsenal , Hughes secured victory with a poacher 's goal — something of a rarity in his scoring repertoire . |
| 25 | Difficulty may also be experienced in obtaining reliable accounting information and thus in establishing control over a company 's activities . |
| 26 | A report , published yesterday by Alan Bishop , chief inspector of prisons for Scotland , says members of a prisoners ' alcohol abuse group have given talks at secondary schools and have attended meetings of parent-teacher associations and community education committees . |
| 27 | In the 1980s such asset-liability reviews are assisted by computerised accountancy systems which can present information on a bank 's total exposure by country or customer on a daily basis . |
| 28 | Whether or not this assumption is well founded turns on the rationality of stock markets and their ability to absorb and evaluate information about a company 's prospects . |
| 29 | It so happened that on one of these Sundays my CO strolled by at the same time , and the AOC asked him why he had not seen Mahaddie for a pilot 's course . |
| 30 | GOOD drawing ability used to be considered important at school , not only as a skill that might give expression to a child 's aesthetic and artistic inclinations , but also one that would be useful in practical ways — in recording flora and fauna in nature study , for example . |