Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [adv] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Men such as Syd obviously took a great deal of pride in their work — woe betide a fireman or fitter who did not do a good job ! |
| 2 | The Saintly Salver golf trophy remains at Dyce for another year after XEU convincingly beat a combined XTC/XTP team in testing conditions at Cruden Bay , in Aberdeenshire . |
| 3 | Provision of a range of safety equipment for Marathon and new Solas standard life jackets for Chevron also made a significant contribution to the company 's business . |
| 4 | The Bank of England now has a statutory right to information about a bank at any time . |
| 5 | THE BANK of England yesterday spent a reported $1bn after the pound came under sustained attack once it became clear that an increase in West German interest rates today is almost certain . |
| 6 | Mrs Lewington of Wokingham also described a middle-aged man in a blue suit . |
| 7 | The case that is usually made out for retention is that the House of Lords nevertheless discharges a valuable constitutional function especially in the processing of uncontroversial Bills and the revision of Bills passed , perhaps with undue haste and lack of consideration , by the House of Commons . |
| 8 | THE House of Lords yesterday blocked a legal loophole which cleared boxing promoter Frank Warren of a drink-driving charge . |
| 9 | The monastery of Konigsfelden today houses a psychiatric clinic . |
| 10 | The Port of Leith again played a major role in the war effort with Henry Robb Ltd . |
| 11 | During the 1980s , the government of London again became a major matter of political controversy . |
| 12 | ALAST-MINUTE call for courage by the Archbishop of Canterbury yesterday pushed a tense and hesitant General Synod into a vote that clears the way for ordination of women priests . |
| 13 | I understand that the hon. Member for Dagenham also refused a similar offer from my right hon. Friend the Member for Henley ( Mr. Heseltine ) . |
| 14 | This was no idle fear , for Palestine already had a potent effect on popular opinion throughout the Arab world . |
| 15 | The closest match of the first round was between Essex Wanderers and Vauxhall Golds with Vauxhall finally clinching a 36-35 victory . |
| 16 | The gunners will face either Odens of Denmark , or Slovenians Publicum , with Aberdeen also meeting a preliminary round winner . |
| 17 | Digestion with PstI alone gave a single band of 10.4 kb with the ble probe , which also hybridised with the tubulin specific probe ( probe 1 , Fig. 1B ) . |
| 18 | It was the 30th contest between the two great champions , with Becker now boasting a staggering 20–10 lead . |
| 19 | And over the 13 elections since 1945 , when polling began with Gallup correctly predicting a Labour victory , the average error per party was 1.4 per cent . |
| 20 | The take-over was explained away as the result of a technical mix-up , with Keith supposedly recording a two-hour special which was accidentally broadcast live . |
| 21 | A US army team flew into Kenya yesterday to organise a massive food airlift to save neighbouring Somalia 's starving millions . |
| 22 | But for the moment that remained to be seen , for the jet-setter was about to leave for Australia again to make a three-part film assessing his country on its bicentennial . |
| 23 | Magistrates courts in Hull already use a private firm to process prisoners . |
| 24 | Clemens Winkler in Germany simultaneously developed a similar process , but acknowledged the independence of Messel 's work . |
| 25 | These culminated on 23 – 24 September , when the pro-Vichy forces in Dakar vigorously resisted a Free French landing , and de Gaulle and his forces were compelled to withdraw . |
| 26 | The southern movement of wheat in Texas also involved a significant climatic difference of a 12 per cent decrease in mean annual precipitation , a 1.6 °C higher mean annual temperature and a 10-day increase in the length of the frost-free season . |
| 27 | The Georgian military command in Sukhumi yesterday said a Russian Su-25 had attacked the city on Saturday . |
| 28 | Soviet assets in Luanda now include a floating dry-dock , a communications station and access for BEAR D aircraft which patrol the South Atlantic sealanes . |
| 29 | Headhunting in Britain apparently received a great boost from the deregulation of the stock market , the so-called Big Bang of October 1986 , within which the movement of teams of executives between merchant banks and other City businesses received especially extensive media publicity . |
| 30 | This act certainly constituted a legal precondition to the proclamation of Finland 's neutrality , but it coincided with a period in the mid and late 1950s when for various reasons the notion of neutrality in Europe suddenly gained a positive image among Soviet leaders . |