Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] a [noun] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have noticed that when older people put out chairs in preparation for a church meeting they will tend to place them in straight rows and arrange them further back from the speaker . |
| 2 | The Markov methods represent the bottom-up approach , and they model English text as a Markov process which allows transition probabilities to be assigned to various letter combinations or n-grams . |
| 3 | Petsos received a 10-month suspended sentence for corruptly facilitating planning permission for a press complex which Koskotas had built near Athens . |
| 4 | My hon. Friends and I feel justified in asking for a special debate to call attention to the ridiculous fact that , at Humberstone , which is part of the EDDR route , a mile of new road costing £1.5 million has stood finished and unopened for over a year , while the county and city councils argue about a proposed route by the side of the clinic on Scraptoft lane through a recreation area which happens to be owned by the city council . |
| 5 | What is your best excuse for a motorway policeman who has just caught you speeding ? |
| 6 | IN a shock move Wirral Council is being urged to abandon plans for a flagship site which offers the area 's best hope of attracting new industrial investment . |
| 7 | BOTCHED plans for a rail bridge which did not have enough room for trains to pass beneath cost the taxpayer nearly £1m , it was revealed yesterday . |
| 8 | a wages payment for a notice period which you are not required to work . |
| 9 | the Deputy Head ( Curriculum ) worked with the Head of Additional Studies Faculty to produce a framework for a study-skills course which would link with the work of all other departments ; |
| 10 | Top civil servants have pledged their support for a guest house which is facing closure . |
| 11 | They seemed determined to undermine this , and use NME as a platform rom which to begin the wind up towards the approaching ‘ Meat Is Murder ’ campaign . |
| 12 | But it is doubtful if this argument will lead to any exceptions being made in an orchestrated campaign which could hit projects such as the proposals for a power plant which British Gas said yesterday it had negotiated with Bahrain . |
| 13 | Nigerian-born John Salako came up through the Palace 's Junior ranks as a pacy winger who could also score goals but , since The Eagles ' last return to the 1st Division , John has shown himself' capable of fulfilling other roles , by performing splendidly at left-back in the latter stages of the 1989–90 season , notably in the FA Cup semi-final against Liverpool and in the Wembley Finals . |
| 14 | Some authors have reported high sensitivity and specificity values for an ELISA test which , like Biolab Malakit , detects antibodies against partially purified urease antigen . |
| 15 | Though he has a good deal of contact with senior officials ( and in the northern agency spends most of his time at headquarters ) he has a strong loyalty to the field officers in his area , retaining from his own earlier experience as a field officer what he feels to be a sympathetic understanding of practical problems . |
| 16 | Where the landlord is able to choose how to divide ownership and responsibility for a party structure it is suggested that the structure be divided between adjoining owners and that each owner have an easement of support over the other 's half . |
| 17 | Delegates , this resolution is about uniting all of the unions in the public sector , after all we did it in nineteen seventy nine and as we all know that was against our Labour government , with one aim , to reject this government 's pay policy and to combine and fight for a pay increase which we 'll endeavour to counter the savage attacks which are being made against public service workers . |
| 18 | If he could earn some money for a railway ticket he would go straight off to Amsterdam and ‘ fathom ’ the deafening silence which was tormenting him . |
| 19 | One day Mary asked her father for money for a pop concert which she had already booked up with a friend without consulting him . |
| 20 | And there were fears too that even if the armchair fans fork out the £250 for a satellite dish they may then have to pay extra to enjoy the privilege of watching the best games live . |
| 21 | Feeling hampered , Stephen managed to plow on with a story about a Yale graduate who was in prison for fighting the Vietnam draft . |
| 22 | BBC2 controller Alan Yentob said : ‘ It 's a fascinating story about a family business which led to the formation of the commercial network . ’ |
| 23 | A story about a R.A.F. Flight-Sergeant who noticed that a recruit was still wearing his hat in church . |
| 24 | Violence erupted hours after a UN convoy which braved fighting to deliver supplies to Gorazde returned safely to the capital . |
| 25 | referred to by Lavinia Spenlow as a girlhood suitor who never declared his love . |
| 26 | This new identity will enable us to offer project and construction management services to clients through a consultancy business which can be seen as separate from the Group 's Contracting arm . |
| 27 | David as a child peoples his neighbourhood with its scenes and characters , including Gamaliel Pickle , Peregrine 's father , Commodore Trunnion , and Tom Pipes ; its story is the first of those he recounts to Steerforth at Salem House , DC 4 , 7 . |
| 28 | However in South Armagh the security forces are understood to be facing a blank wall in their search for an IRA sniper who has killed three members of the security forces and for the IRA 's mortar team . |
| 29 | When an offeror successfully completes a takeover bid for a target company it acquires control of the target with all its assets and liabilities , whether disclosed or undisclosed . |
| 30 | Thatcham is funded by the insurance industry as a specialist operation which researches and measures how long all repair jobs should take , something of which most consumers will be unaware . |