Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] [pron] [vb -s] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | SuperCalc 5.5 represents an important move towards a graphical user interface and this is very good news for every SuperCalc user who likes using a mouse — or who is prepared to try out a mouse for the extra shortcuts that make SuperCalc 5.5 easier to use than its predecessors . |
| 2 | Although our patient is only 6 months post-transplantation he has had a remarkably trouble free postoperative course , and immunosuppression with FK506 has probably contributed to this good early result . |
| 3 | Rod said : ‘ Anybody with a normal car licence who has driven a van before would do . |
| 4 | Similarly with the other likely locations , I know we 're g not going into that , but virtually all of them will e inevitably feed onto the trunk network which does fulfil a dual function around York . |
| 5 | A POST-MORTEM examination may help explain the shooting tragedy that killed the son of late Kung Fu star Bruce Lee on a U.S. movie set which has suffered a spate of accidents . |
| 6 | This defence is capable of applying to the car dealer who has sold a car with a ‘ clocked ’ odometer . |
| 7 | For over 120 years , the House of Commons has had a Public Accounts Committee which has established a reputation as an impartial watchdog over government spending . |
| 8 | ‘ War starts at midnight ’ screams the bald-headed general when his steam bath is interrupted by a plucky Home Guard soldier who has launched a premature start to a military exercise . |
| 9 | A sound lawyer who has found a seat in chambers on the common law side can expect at least some work . |
| 10 | Alongside the challenges of the Social Charter and the Community Charge he has to keep a firm grip on the Government 's sponsored schemes . |
| 11 | The Luton-based company blamed the increase on the effects of the sterling devaluation which has had a ‘ significantly adverse impact on overall costs . ’ |
| 12 | The initmate scenes she interrogates purport to represent the normal and the everyday but in the selection process she has constructed a cogent version of her ‘ family ’ , aimed at a particular art audience . |
| 13 | WARWICK Wilson is a 36-year-old Alness farmer who has suffered a loss of sensation in his hands and feet . |
| 14 | The Supreme Court in Ireland is considering whether to overturn a High Court ruling which has prevented a fourteen-year-old rape victim from having an abortion . |
| 15 | There is evidence that anorexia nervosa itself has developed a positive connotation and that eating disorder symptoms are viewed as neither unusual nor abnormal by the general public . |
| 16 | The new , corner site is not far from the original shop on the Fulham Road , a catchment area which has provided a growing customer base for independent booksellers Andrew and Harriet Currie . |
| 17 | It is a hill climbing process which attempts to find a compact encoding of a language which is not too dissimilar from its training set . |
| 18 | He is not some hack student politician who has commandeered a pressure group and turned it into a vehicle for self-advertisement , his eyes trained all the while on a safe Tory seat . |
| 19 | Old-style publishing was based around retail sheet-music sales , but current publishing is a banking operation which involves taking a risk on an artist . |
| 20 | A full licence holder who has passed a test for an additional vehicle category may have that category added to his/her entitlement but a new licence will have to be issued . |
| 21 | It is almost as though the word job itself has acquired a life and purpose of its own over which we have lost control . |
| 22 | It is a small commercial music festival which helps to support a large free family entertainment programme . |
| 23 | Young musicians have been auditioning for a music academy which plans to become a new centre of excellence for the arts . |
| 24 | POLICE last night repeated their appeal for witnesses to a town centre attack which has left a young man fighting for his life . |
| 25 | Anne had been born and brought up in Bellerby in North Yorkshire , a member of the Metcalfe family which has played a large part in keeping this tradition alive . |
| 26 | The new wood models are more refined and there 's also a 12-string model which has got a monstrous range . ’ |
| 27 | Star Trek he 's got a pair of them . |
| 28 | The site of the present Transport Offices is here occupied by an old Marton Box car which has collected a cable-drum from the railway siding of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway at Rigby Road . |
| 29 | One of its most important activities is a Leadership Training Programme which aims to train a total of 700 animators . |
| 30 | Oh aye , she 's er , she 's done a , she 's done a course and hearing aid she 's done a course and a |