Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] a [noun sg] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This story involves a youth hostel in the town of Ramsey in the Isle of Man whose narrow-gauge railway has brought pleasure and fascination to many people either as holiday makers or railway enthusiasts since the 1870s . |
| 2 | Soon , he was co producing a soap opera with my mother called Chicago Suite . |
| 3 | In Germany employers gain area 2 from the employment of migrant workers , while in the UK employers lose an amount equivalent to the areas 3 + 4 . |
| 4 | While Montaine endured a typing school above the dry-cleaners in Reine les Falaises , Jean-Claude worked on the attic to make it habitable . |
| 5 | Despite the lack of international judicial uniformity on several important issues , the Hague Rules made a signal contribution to international trade . |
| 6 | North Yorkshire County Council is being urged to restore its funding to support a bus service to Murton near York , the home of the Yorkshire Museum of Farming . |
| 7 | If British Rail builds a railway line in South Wales by employing construction workers who would otherwise have been unemployed , the cost includes the wages of construction workers , but these do not represent a social cost if they would not otherwise have produced any goods . |
| 8 | For those who wish to buy their cars , Motability offers a finance scheme under which both new or used cars can be purchased in exchange for part of the mobility allowance . |
| 9 | You do n't have to be regular cyclist to enjoy a cycling holiday in Holland as the safe , segregated cycle lanes have special traffic lights and signposts for cyclists making it a relaxing and enjoyable pastime for people of all ages ; families , couples , or groups of friends . |
| 10 | Tonight 's winner has until mid-December to agree a purse offer with Lewis , who won the right to fight for the title with his second-round knockout of Razor Ruddock . |
| 11 | the plaintiff Board sought a Mareva injunction against a Swiss and an English company associated with it . |
| 12 | An anniversary meeting in Manchester on 1 August 1854 showed willingness to attend a unity conference in London in November although it was under the aegis of the BFASS . |
| 13 | ‘ Teaching offers an escape route for the more fortunate members of the working classes . ’ |
| 14 | The 1987 general election produced a record number of women MPs ( 41 or 6.3 per cent of all MPs ) . |
| 15 | You should make it a condition of payment that the gang supplies a Polaroid photograph of your father holding the mornings paper on the day the drop is made . |
| 16 | Tranmere made a lightning start with Aldridge firing wide in the first 60 seconds . |
| 17 | The professional correspondent became a stock figure in farces and films . |
| 18 | A breakdown of the latest figures shows that the consumer electronics division made an operating loss of $31.1m , similar to its shortfall of $33.4m in the same period last year . |
| 19 | This enabled Lane to sustain a print run of around 75,000 when Penguin New Writing proved an outstanding success . |
| 20 | In 1560 Henry Knyvet became a gentleman pensioner to Queen Elizabeth I. This connection , and the links he sustained with prominent men in Wiltshire , helped to ensure his position among the office-holding gentry , despite enmities fostered by land disputes persisting throughout the 1560s and 1570s . |
| 21 | Tesco 's exciting range of low alcohol and alcohol-free products offers an adult alternative to soft drinks . |
| 22 | Having agreed to our participation in the formation of school/industry partnership ( both school management and Governors were enthusiastic ) , we proceeded with central support to plan a launch conference for May 1988 . |
| 23 | Either way , the contract represents a repeat performance for Wimpey International returning to construct an extension to the original plant built by the company in 1979 . |
| 24 | After the band split up , Tex became a railway clerk for British Rail at Garston freight depot . |
| 25 | Hosting the Organization of African Unity became a prestige project in itself , as several countries ( including Ghana and Gabon ) built massive facilities to host the annual meeting , or as in the case of Togo , to attract the OAU 's permanent secretariat away from Addis Ababa . |
| 26 | He married Betsy Adcock , the daughter of a Whittington shopkeeper , and their young William became an apprentice shoemaker in 1796 . |
| 27 | Loughborough provided a scoring winger for both sides — Dawson for England and Anderson in reply . |
| 28 | Every bike has a serial number near the crank shaft . |
| 29 | The building has a swimming pool in the basement — ideal for a victory splash . |
| 30 | The first arose from the government 's decision to impose a standstill grant for that year — in effect a reduction in the District 's planned programme in the 1952–53 session at a time when much patient work to gain support from trade union branches and members had succeeded particularly in Norwich and Northamptonshire . |