Example sentences of "[unc] [noun sg] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Outside the town is an inviting introduction to pousadas — the hillside Pousada de São Tiago , an art deco villa with a pool and views of Moorish ramparts . |
| 2 | Face has been caught in the act using his master 's house a house as a brothel and er |
| 3 | I think that its , its choice that 's something we have n't sort of looked at tonight , I think its the important er factor in a fact that we 've got an audience here with a large representative er percentage of er access to a car and certainly erm I working in the transport field in West Central Scotland , er that is not the case , in Glasgow where the car ownership is something in the order of seventy per cent of the population do not have access to a car or do not have access in a household , we , you are then talking , you have to look very , very seriously at what public transport must provide in order to meet just day , day to day activities and I think that this choice aspect is something that is absolutely vital as the lady in front says . |
| 4 | I think that its , its choice that 's something we have n't sort of looked at tonight , I think its the important er factor in a fact that we 've got an audience here with a large representative er percentage of er access to a car and certainly erm I working in the transport field in West Central Scotland , er that is not the case , in Glasgow where the car ownership is something in the order of seventy per cent of the population do not have access to a car or do not have access in a household , we , you are then talking , you have to look very , very seriously at what public transport must provide in order to meet just day , day to day activities and I think that this choice aspect is something that is absolutely vital as the lady in front says . |
| 5 | The World Bank 's funding of a highway that cut through central and west Brazil with " devastating " results was also cited . |
| 6 | An attitude is a mental state of readiness , organised through experience , exerting an influence upon an individual 's response to an object and the situations with which it is related . |
| 7 | A DIVORCED wife cut off her former husband 's manhood with a razor and forced him to hold it up in front of her mocking friends , police said in Dacca , Bangladesh . |
| 8 | Boats sail regularly from Lendal Bridge to Bishopthorpe Palace , home to the Archbishop of York , and from King 's Staith for a City and Country Cruise . |
| 9 | Screen Industries Officer for Lothian Region and Edinburgh District Councils , puts forward Edinburgh 's case as a film and TV location . |
| 10 | Irrespective of the outcome of reform , the Council 's response document ‘ Making the Right Choice ’ put forward Lothian 's case in a way that has been widely commended . |
| 11 | Locke 's description of a person as ‘ a thinking , intelligent being ’ does not mean that the continuity of self-consciousness which constitutes personal identity is the continuity of some immaterial substance , a soul , mind , or spirit , which is self-conscious , for he is clearly unhappy with a Cartesian view of this sort . |
| 12 | This comes out in Charles Rookyard 's description of an incident when he was leading his stallion , Sudbourne Benedict , around some of the farms in the Helmingham district : |
| 13 | IBM Corp has been muttering about migrating to RISC technology for the AS/400 processor for a year or so now , and the company is now talking openly about it , saying that the AS/400 will move to a RISC , but not until several criteria are met . |
| 14 | It also announced that Richard Shaw , a non-executive director , will become chairman and chief executive following Michael Murray 's resignation as a director and chief executive in December . |
| 15 | ( He had always used a lady 's bike as a teenager because he thought the middle bar on a man 's one might do him a mischief if he cocked his leg over it carelessly . ) |
| 16 | The kitchen clock read six thirty , plenty of time to walk home to his mother 's cottage for a wash and a bit of breakfast . |
| 17 | The first is that in making a prohibited steps order prohibiting the parents from having any contact with each other the justices erred in law as contact between adults is not a step which could be taken by a parent in meeting a parent 's responsibility for a child and thus falls outside the terms of section 8(1) of the Children Act 1989 , by which a prohibited steps order means an order that no step which could be taken by a parent in meeting his parental responsibility for a child and which is of a kind specified in the order shall be taken by any person without the consent of the court . |
| 18 | He recognised his ex-pupil 's handwriting on a letter and thereby identified the highwayman — even though Turpin had only been his pupil for three quarters of a year . |
| 19 | Sometimes she eased the weight that lay on Scarlet 's heart for an hour or two , but the relief never lasted . |
| 20 | He peered across the tavern , watching a group of men busy baiting a relic-seller who claimed he had Aaron 's beard in a sack and was prepared to sell it to them for a few coins . |
| 21 | One day the woodwork teacher had a heart attack right in front of our eyes as one of the lads put another kid 's prick in a vice and started to turn the handle . |
| 22 | When hon. Members table an amendment to a Bill , it can concentrate the Minister 's mind on a clause or section and occasionally hon. Members can be persuaded to force amendments on the Government . |
| 23 | President Scalfaro on July 30 described Scotti 's action as a sign that " factional interests " had been allowed to take priority , coming as it did at a time of national crisis . |
| 24 | At the precinct a stolid desk sergeant ran all Tabitha 's ID through a reader and took it away . |
| 25 | Mr Davey 's imperative as a publisher that so upset Mr Hitchin and his fellow booksellers was that ‘ my prime concern is that the school buys my books , and the only person the publisher can rely upon to actively sell his books to the school is himself ’ . |
| 26 | Raymond Williams 's assessment of Stephen Duck 's collapse as a poet once he entered polite society has already been commented upon . |
| 27 | Certain chiefs and other prominent members of small language groups felt they were disadvantaged : the ZBS 's recognition of a language and its use on the radio gave that language and tribe a status superior to certain other languages and tribes . |
| 28 | And how could she go to her only daughter 's wedding in an outfit that somebody in that church would surely recognize ? |
| 29 | Lieutenant Tenwolde confirmed sodium cyanide was found in a bag between the front seats of Spiro 's car alongside a cup and two water bottles . |
| 30 | Reserve scrum half Bill Freeman had opened Harrogate 's reply with a penalty and he went on to score another penalty and convert Pearson 's try . |