Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun] [noun sg] [unc] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A substantial amount of a field officer 's time is spent in creating and preserving good relations with dischargers of all kinds , even in the absence of pollution problems . |
| 2 | The agreement , the first to be concluded by commercial banks in advance of a creditor country 's conclusion of an IMF-approved economic package , was also the fifth under the international debt reduction initiative launched by the United States Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady in March 1989 [ see pp. 36541-42 ; see pp. 37243 ; 37313 for similar agreements with Mexico and Venezuela ] . |
| 3 | On Sunday night , near an alley in the Wavertree district of Liverpool , for WPC 8158 Harrison , the joking stopped — cut short by the vicious flash of a burglary suspect 's knife . |
| 4 | The regulations governing the provision of a guardian ad litem service and the procedure for appointment , case allocation , monitoring and review are considered in detail in Guidance and Regulations , vol 7 ( HMSO , 1991 ) . |
| 5 | The Heilbron Advisory Group confirmed these fears and maintained that ‘ disclosure of a rape victim 's name caused her great distress and also tended to discourage women from reporting alleged rape ’ . |
| 6 | However , the preservation of a rape survivor 's anonymity needs more than the exclusion of the name . |
| 7 | The sole purpose of a billy goat 's life is to sire offspring , and the more he fathers , the greater is his success in evolutionary terms . |
| 8 | THE father of a two-year-old boy suffering from a rare genetic disorder must wait to learn whether he has won his High Court battle over the controversial closure of a London hospital 's bone marrow transplant unit . |
| 9 | In the words of a lorry driver 's wife : |
| 10 | A central object of the new Institute was to train these specialists in the ‘ sanction office ’ , keep them up to date with legislation and accounting techniques and make credit managers as much a part of a trading company 's marketing operation as sales managers who already had their association . |
| 11 | The colour of railway trains , of a catering assistant 's uniform , and of the unshapely denims that Jenny used to wear out of office hours , in defiance of anything that suited her . |
| 12 | It is therefore wise to consider specifying in the Articles the extent of a nominee director 's duty and couple this with an acknowledgement in the subscription and shareholders ' agreement that the nominee has been appointed to represent the interests of a particular group of shareholders . |
| 13 | The year also saw the Society give oral evidence to the Royal Commission on Criminal Justice , and the Council issue a statement on proper access to video recordings of a child witness 's evidence . |
| 14 | The heart shape that is characteristic of a barn owl 's face was just beginning to show through . |
| 15 | Now his mouth was stretched in a mad parody of a cartoon character 's grin — lips wide , teeth clamped — as he fought against the terrible urge to breathe . |
| 16 | We slashed across the shank of the island , then we were over the anchorage and I had a glimpse of a sailing boat 's shadow black on the bed of the lagoon before our own winged shadow whipped across a gaggle of powerboats . |
| 17 | Mrs Pember Reeves described the diet of the family of a feather cleaner 's assistant , earning 25/ a week . |
| 18 | Condition ( 1 ) is regarded as necessary because it is clearly not legitimate to conclude that all metals expand when heated on the basis of just one observation of a metal bar 's expansion , say , any more than it is legitimate to conclude that all Australians are drunkards on the basis of one observation of an intoxicated Australian . |
| 19 | The track itself is often obliterated and a large part of a rail man 's job is hacking ice and snow away from the points or the platforms between carriages . |
| 20 | As a result of the public statements made by Cathy Massiter , it became known that Mr Cox had been the subject of a Home Secretary 's warrant to intercept his telephone calls . |
| 21 | She spoke , Ruth thought , as if she were the mistress of a large establishment in London instead of a country vicar 's wife in a remote Yorkshire dale . |
| 22 | STEVEN Littlewood , 27 , of Bridgewater Avenue , Latchford , Warrington , was remanded in custody at Warrington magistrates court yesterday charged with the aggravated taking of a Ford Escort XR3i cabriolet , causing the death of 19-year-old Julian Osborne , of Dorchester Road , Hood Manor , Warrington , causing Osborne 's death by dangerous driving and driving without insurance . |
| 23 | He 's conscious that safety-critical items such as tyres and brakes must n't be skimped on , but he 's not overly concerned about sticking to the recommended 6000-mile service schedule ; so far the Sierra has on average been serviced every 13,500 miles and has never seen the inside of a Ford dealer 's workshop . |
| 24 | The Tivoli Management Environment Release 1.6 adds configuration and change management services to the software , and is claimed to simplify and automate the process of setting up , maintaining and changing large-scale client-server networks , a task that often takes up over half of a system manager 's time , according to the company . |
| 25 | According to the Purefoys ’ description of a kitchen maid 's work ( see above p . |
| 26 | He writes , for example , a fine satiric account of a Hollywood producer 's stag party where the guests are compelled to sit in a circle , bang drums and earnestly articulate their feelings about the groom . |
| 27 | Since fuel is a major part of a coal station 's running costs , the fact that prices were not rising nearly as fast as had been expected would have a fundamental impact on the future cost of coal-fired electricity . |
| 28 | She went on seeing Jim , his friend , his appalled good friend , just as before — perhaps even in his own bed , Albert realized , since the shift-work timing of a customs officer 's job made the logistics of adultery comically easy . |
| 29 | Perhaps I am being unnecessarily cynical but it seems that too much of a designer maker 's time is spent on public relations and maintaining the image and there is less willingness to share the things learned from technical and creative nightmares . |
| 30 | I said so to Tom and he said of course this girl is n't all that popular with the men — that 's an important part of a production assistant 's job — and he said ‘ she 'd give anything to be in your place — to be married and have a baby ’ . |