Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] a [det] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All caution ( H & S ) was thrown to the wind as a few sample experiments will show : how to make coal gas ; a safe gas explosion ; how to make a banger ; how to explode a little picric acid . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 200 acres of a former ironstone workings , now afforested . |
| 4 | The essentially one-day match contract for Chris Cowdrey is seen as rather ‘ something or nothing ’ in the words of a few Sophia punters . |
| 5 | And the speech was indeed a frank catalogue of the state of the personal computer business today : revenues down 14% , Apple Computer Inc , IBM and DEC contemplating low margins and sinking market share , the astronomical cost of developing a new package , the failure of PCs to penetrate much beyond word processing and spreadsheets , the monopoly lock of a few software houses on the marketplace and engineering 's inability to develop an intuitive box , all conspiring to dissuade any sensible PC guy from putting any more money into research and development . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | They emerged from the entrance of a former iron mine in the Forest of Dean , exhausted . |
| 8 | 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 ] . |
| 9 | Murray , from Musselburgh , has returned to Tucson where she is staying at the University of Arizona with a former Musselburgh Grammar PE teacher , Meg Ritchie , the head strength coach there . |
| 10 | And it says much that you could make a racer out of the RS road car with a few hours notice . |
| 11 | She sipped her brandy for a moment , then touched her lips with a little salt water … |
| 12 | We 're using the arts to integrate Disabled people and , hopefully , at the end of it , we 'll be able to put Disability arts in a little glass case and say ‘ there it is , we do n't need it anymore ’ , because we 're completely integrated into the community ’ . |
| 13 | And that 's Nick Harris talking to Ken Vasey up at the Manor ground and we hope to return to the Manor in a few moments time and see who else Nick has got to talk to us . |
| 14 | ‘ The pictures are standard practice in a few health surveys , ’ said Miss Snowdon . |
| 15 | Deerpark Securities ' scheme to build a supermarket , doctor 's surgery and parking for 310 cars on a former school cricket field off Quaker Lane Queens Road , Richmond , aroused fierce debate in the town and surrounding villages . |
| 16 | It is recognised however , that a change in teaching methods to a more enquiry mode of teaching has implications for both resources and In-Service training in Catholic Schools . |
| 17 | A recent pronouncement by a former Education Minister serves to remind us of the kind of thinking we must guard against . |
| 18 | The SEALs were described to this reviewer by a former USSF officer as the toughest special forces in Vietnam , and this does not mean that they were braggarts . |
| 19 | So reveals a piece by a former Kinnock press aide in yesterday 's Times . |
| 20 | It added that control of inflation was necessary , but it was important that ‘ a reduction of a few percentage points in the headline inflation rate should not be achieved at a disproportionate cost in terms of income creation and employment ’ . |
| 21 | A mistrial was declared on Aug. 26 in the trial of a former CIA deputy director of covert operations , Clair George . |
| 22 | The over zealous activities of a few PR advisers who succumb to this should not be allowed to damn the profession as a whole , he said . |
| 23 | Yet Northern Ireland is like Italian politics used to be : dominated by its partyocracy and political blocs , shifts of a few percentage points represent an earthquake . |
| 24 | In the course of a few years Hider had managed to undo a thousand-year-long German expansion eastwards . |
| 25 | As we bopped up and down over Hampshire in the world 's quietest helicopter , the McDonnell-Douglas 520 , we were told the story of a former Luftwaffe pilot , now aged 65 , who still ferries little propeller craft across the pond from America to England . |
| 26 | President Bill Clinton has been offered the University 's top honour as a former Rhodes Scholar . |
| 27 | As far as the eye could see was desert and the only break in the horizon was the pitiful silhouette of a few mud shelters . |
| 28 | Another foresees a more conservative role for the middle class , expressing itself in active opposition to socialism as a process of increasing public ownership or control of industry and expanding welfare services , and in a reassertion of the desirability of a more laissez-faire type of economy . |
| 29 | A curious problem is set by the discovery of a few jade axes in England recently . |
| 30 | I am nothing but a stomach of cheap tin , empty but for the clanking of a few tin cans which have been squashed by a gargantuan hand and thrown together . |