Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [art] [det] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The likely outcome is the offer of a three-year contract for the former England skipper and his no.2 Terry McDermott . |
| 2 | John Cunningham in ‘ The Guardian ’ , referring to coverage of the mortar bomb attack on Whitehall wrote : ‘ Whitehall 's scariest 60 minutes proved to be one of radio 's finest hours , effortlessly making the case for an all news channel ’ . |
| 3 | The 15,000 crowd at Limerick 's famed Thomond Park for the All Ireland League key match between Shannon and Garryowen was it own testimony to the grip the competition has gained on the Irish game . |
| 4 | The Essex Gliding Club 's plans for the former bomber station at Ridgewell near Clare , due to be discussed by Braintree planner on March 29 , have aroused unprecedented opposition among residents . |
| 5 | Unless this provision is satisfied , any yearly interest paid by a company must be paid subject to deduction of basic rate income tax , and Target will need to comply with paras 2 to 4 of Sch 16 to the Taxes Act 1988 and account to the Revenue for the tax it is liable to withhold ; the lender will suffer the cash-flow disadvantage of receiving interest payments with tax withheld at source ( although it would be entitled to offset the withholding tax suffered against its corporation tax liability for the same accounting period under s7(2) TA 1988 ) . |
| 6 | LAWYERS for Mike Tyson demanded a new trial for the former heavyweight champion yesterday , arguing that the jury which convicted him of rape was not allowed to consider whether his accuser had confused him as to whether she was a willing sex partner . |
| 7 | THE CHESTER International Hotel is set to become part of Queens Moat Houses after the former Business Expansion Scheme company agreed to accept an offer valuing it at £9½m . |
| 8 | In a biography about the former England captain about to be published , the rift which existed between the pair for the final 15 months of Lineker 's international career is at last revealed . |
| 9 | The code of practice for the former District Audit Service referred to four additional responsibilities . |
| 10 | on conditions of carriage for the same day operation but , not in that league at all . |
| 11 | Quiet , steady and composed , Gavin was an ideal partner for skipper Jim Cannon at the heart of the Palace defence and , if the early '80s were a time when our back four was often under a lot of pressure , Gavin played his part in Palace 's revival at the end of the decade although , in spite of skippering our successful 1988–89 side for a few matches mid-season , he incurred yet another injury and was prevented from playing in all but the final three games . |
| 12 | This occurs where general offers are made by two or more separate offerors for the same target company . |
| 13 | A January 1991 co-operation agreement signed by the government and former contra leaders , which among other things was to guarantee the personal security of former contras , was jeopardized by the murder of the former contra commander Col. Enrique Bermúdez in February [ see p. 38000 ] . |
| 14 | To mark Glasgow 's year as the European City of Culture , The Royal Mail is printing a set of stamps , one of which depicts the facade of the former Templeton Carpet Factory . |
| 15 | With a tiny shrug she started working shampoo into his hair , but fear of the same thing happening again made her fingers a little more tentative than usual . |
| 16 | We rounded Cape Andrea and anchored in Marciana Marina harbour below the same mountain village on the north side of the island . |
| 17 | Despite attempts at mediation by the FSLN leader and former President Daniel Ortega Saavedra , and by the Venezuelan President Carlos Andrés Pérez , six people were reportedly killed and over 100 injured as gangs of armed supporters of the former FSLN government clashed with armed right-wing vigilantes ( among whom were former members of the contras ) during days of fighting in the capital , Managua . |
| 18 | Particularly feared are supporters of the former Stasi football team FC Berlin ( previously BFC Dynamo ) . |
| 19 | In small businesses like a grocery shop , a newsagent or a small restaurant most of the workers recruited are invariably speakers of the same community language , and where it is not a homogeneous linguistic group , there is a common language , a linguafranca which is not English but Hindi-Urdu ( among the South Asians ) . |
| 20 | If you can not find the book on the length of shelf containing books of the same class number , then it is probably out on loan . |
| 21 | More spectacular has been the recent observation of twin images of the same quasar source seen through a gravitational lens made up of galactic material nearer to the Earth . |
| 22 | In Andhra Pradesh , the autocratic rule of the former film star , Mr N.T. Rama Rao , has led to a steady haemorrhage of defectors from his Telugu Desam party to the Congress . |
| 23 | The network also brings together separate groups of people working on different aspects of the same software project . |
| 24 | A quick spin of his ‘ Sweet Freedom — The Best Of ’ compilation album of a few years back is proof enough that he has had many hits in his home patch without making similar in-roads here . |
| 25 | Boyz N The Hood has more of a connection because it is dealing with kids of the same age group , although Juice deals with an entirely different set of issues . ’ |
| 26 | They emerged from the entrance of a former iron mine in the Forest of Dean , exhausted . |
| 27 | ANN Brough , Maureen Coulton and Shirley Taylor , who previously worked together in the systems and control department of the former Trusthouse Forte Hotels , have formed a partnership offering accounts and control support services to the hotel industry . |
| 28 | Thus he deplored the action of the former Archbishop Sancroft in consecrating two new bishops , whose names were approved by the exiled James II , in order to maintain the Apostolic Succession among the non-jurors . |
| 29 | Among the most violent incidents during 1990-91 were the July 1990 killing of Ian Gow [ see p. 37623 ] ; the September shooting of a former Gibraltar Governor [ see p. 37720 ] ; the October IRA " human bomb " attacks [ see p. 37784 ] ; the November rocket attack on the home of a Belfast High Court judge [ see p. 37869 ] ; the February 1991 IRA mortar attack on Downing Street and attacks on mainland railway stations [ see pp. 38019-20 ] ; and the March 1991 Craigavon killings [ see p. 38112 ] . |
| 30 | A straddle position is a simultaneous long and short position in different months of the same futures contract , e.g. long one June ST3 contract and short one September ST3 contract . |