Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [noun sg] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rest of the men aged between eighteen and forty-five who were liable for militia duty comprised a merchant , 2 book keepers , 4 blacksmiths , 3 shoemakers , 3 tailors , 2 chandlers , and a cooper , a joiner , a carpenter , a roper , a gardener and a preacher . |
| 2 | The hon. Gentleman knows that the Chancellor of the Exchequer has just announced that our plans for defence expenditure involve a cut of 6 per cent . |
| 3 | Loughborough University of Technology Library was eventually awarded a grant of £23,600 for three years to provide facilities for the British Library Information Officer for User Education to operate a clearinghouse for user education in the UK . |
| 4 | Pen Computing will soon be a familiar term in the PC market place allowing PC users to use ‘ natural ’ and intuitive pen movements for PC input using a graphics tablet or , in some cases , directly on the screen . |
| 5 | Controlling and adhering to announced targets for money supply became a test of the government 's will . |
| 6 | They were mounted on large mainframe computers for batch processing using a variety of packages and high level languages of which SPSS and Fortran dominated the social science world from which historians learnt so much . |
| 7 | HOLLYWOOD legend Audrey Hepburn was recovering last night after emergency surgery to remove a tumour from her colon . |
| 8 | Further modifications for desert travel included a water condenser , a sun compass and a large extra fuel tank . |
| 9 | Part of the system of plea bargaining involves a discount for an early plea of guilty , if prosecution costs and time are saved . |
| 10 | Add to this the price of rinse aid ( between £1.29 and £3.50 for 500 ml ) and salt ( about £1.40 for 3 kg of supermarket own brand ) , and a litre of washing-up liquid seems a bargain . |
| 11 | If you favoured sweating it out , you sat around on tiered benches and chatted with your friends until you started dissolving into steam , and then got yourself scraped down by a slave with a sort of sickle thing called a strigil , and massaged , and oiled and perfumed , or if you were a real fanatic you probably went straight from the hot room to take a cold plunge , like sauna addicts rolling in the snow . |
| 12 | It takes some time for a breach of contract claim to reach a trial . |
| 13 | Intervening between these two levels of representation are three others , so the whole process of sentence construction involves a sequence of five different levels of representation . |
| 14 | Henry had lost count of the number of times Beamish began a sentence with the words ‘ I notice … ’ or ‘ I observe … ’ |
| 15 | Using a 110mm diameter piece of plastic tubing as a former , a pair of coils wound with 24 turns/coil of 0.2mm wire give a coil constant of 3.95 gauss/ampere . |
| 16 | Although the mechanism of calcium entry remains a matter for debate , what is not in doubt is that elevated levels of InsP 3 , perhaps acting together with InsP 4 , can maintain a constant influx of calcium . |
| 17 | Accordingly the process of curriculum development involved a team of ‘ experts ’ at the ‘ centre ’ providing the knowledge base for an innovation , then producing an appropriate content and strategy , and finally communicating it effectively to potential users at the periphery . |
| 18 | This ingenious arrangement has two advantages : it scents the house with an acrid , invigorating smell of frying cloth recalling a tailor shop in the Bronx , and it permits me to tend two kerosene burners , a Franklin stove , and a fireplace . |
| 19 | The business of export credit deserves a book of its own and many good ones are available . |
| 20 | A Tutankhamen window display in the window of Grayshott Bookshop caused a stir in the village . |
| 21 | There can , however , be significant psychological effects of cocaine use causing a psychosis with acute mental instability and there can be marked psychological effects of acute withdrawal . |
| 22 | We will encourage efforts to improve the co-ordination and promote the growth of local volunteer support , building on the success of Neighbourhood Watch to develop a network of voluntary help in local communities . |
| 23 | It was held , that the directors of R Co owed a duty to their shareholders which included the duty to be honest and not to mislead . |
| 24 | Could it be that the bureaucrats of primate research saw a way to parlay an admission of poor husbandry into a public relations campaign for the primate centres ? |
| 25 | Could it be that the bureaucrats of primate research saw a way to parley an admission of poor husbandry into a public campaign for the primate centres ? |
| 26 | Mr Heseltine , its chief architect , was one of the first to dump it , especially when he fought the proposal of Consortium Development to build a town whose name was as instant an invention as its community would have been : Stone Bassett , like Consortium 's Tillingham Hall before it , was turned down by Mr Ridley , who was not the permissive planning minister he was often thought to be . |
| 27 | Executive Business Club [ EBC ] broadcasts one hour of management training programming a week , 50 weeks a year , via BBC Select , the subscription television service . |
| 28 | Whether the witless yobs breaking into the centre and attempting to destroy a little bit of village life understand a word is of course extremely doubtful . |
| 29 | Several features of O. abyssicola and O. granulifera distinguish them from most species of Ophiacantha : the high often indented disk , the arm spines of O. granulifera forming a fan on most proximal arm segments , large conspicuous disk plates and the very wide ventral arm plates are all reminiscent of the Ophioplinthacinae . |
| 30 | This delay was based on our serum curves after single doses and on the studies of scintigraphic images of tablet disintegration showing a correlation with serum blood levels of 5-ASA . |