Example sentences of "['s] [noun] [noun] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last week NATO 's defence ministers called for a halt to cuts in defence spending , lest they undermine the cohesion of the alliance . |
| 2 | Bob Bardsley of Denton and captain Alan Squires from Oldham won to edge Lancashire back in front in the middle of the order but there were heavy defeats for Martin Wild , Gary Boardman and Steve Ainscough which clinched the match for Durham , before Worsley 's Dan Harding closed with a win for Lancashire . |
| 3 | The ITV 's Chart Show dispenses with a presenter entirely . |
| 4 | GROOM Chris White 's mum Cara laid on a huge spread through the catering firm she runs . |
| 5 | The Garden 's computer facilities consist of a mixture of stand-alone and networked PCs . |
| 6 | Hence , an operation in this task 's search space consists of a pair of play operations . |
| 7 | The Dorset Youth Orchestra 's coaching sessions culminated in a joint Prom with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra last month . |
| 8 | The department 's postgraduate students come from a wide range of academic backgrounds and from many different countries . |
| 9 | Also , my machine 's QVision card sits in a slow 8MHz ISA expansion slot , which restrains it considerably . |
| 10 | Thirty years later , I can still recall particular images — Alan Breck 's silver button set on a wooden cross and placed as a sign in the window of a but and ben ; redcoats prodding the heather with their bayonets while Breck and David Balfour sweltered out the day on the top of a huge granite boulder ; Breck lowering his belt so that Balfour could scramble up ; a chieftain 's hide-out somehow built using the trees . |
| 11 | At this point , the weapon 's guidance system switches into a preprogrammed routine in which it selects data about the particular target that it is aiming for . |
| 12 | TV 's Ken Barlow climbed on a huge chair to chat to 7ft 3ins Rob Bruintjes ( left ) and Britain 's tallest man , 7ft 6ins Chris Greener . |
| 13 | The one thing that everyone knows about quantum theory is that it contains Heisenberg 's uncertainty principle acting as a limit upon our powers of exact knowledge . |
| 14 | AWI 's Movie Editor allows for a background to be scrolled automatically , at the rate you specify ( assuming you have the processor power to cope with the speed you have set ) . |
| 15 | In Shklovsky 's view , Sterne 's Tristram Shandy consists of a series of violations of literary conventions which draw our attention to the forms of fiction ; in so doing it transforms formal questions into content . |
| 16 | Buller 's Hill House came as a surprise . |
| 17 | I can see Doug 's fishing line bent like a hurricane palm . |
| 18 | So controversial has some of the advertising become that not long ago , a commercial for New England 's Ice Cream based on a spoof scene from the film When Harry Met Sally was thought too blatant for normal TV viewing . |
| 19 | Nicholson Baker 's telephone sex comes in a massive edition in Vox ( Penguin ) ; and there is Keith Waterhouse 's Unsweet Charity ( Sceptre ) . |
| 20 | The College Librarian 's desperate plea in last year 's Annual Report for help with the College 's Law Library led to a number of generous donations from individual Somervillians . |
| 21 | Anthony Saxton 's management training began with a major international cosmetics company , and he became Managing Director of an advertising agency before joining John Stork in 1978 , where he ran the UK division . |
| 22 | He also claimed his party would ‘ kick-start ’ the Mike Potter , who stood for the SDP in the 1989 Richmond by-election , said he would n't be standing in the forthcoming general Labour 's Tony Blair , Tory Michael Fallon and Lib Dem 's Alan Beith clashed in a live TV debate over the NHS . |
| 23 | Panton-Lewis and Forbes handed in 74s , with Stewart one stroke behind , as Japan 's Fusako Nagata led with a four-under-par round of 68 . |
| 24 | The chronic conversion of Warren Beatty 's turkey film wins by a landslide . |
| 25 | THE Danish people 's Yes , on second thoughts , to Europe 's Maastricht treaty comes as a qualified relief . |
| 26 | In Kisling 's portrait Cocteau appears as a small , sensitive , dreaming figure , almost lost in the large room , with its chairs and table , open window , blue sky and a cat . |
| 27 | Bob Willis 's Test career came to a sad end at Headingley in 1984 , as Michael Holding hit him for five sixes . |
| 28 | Christopher 's potter friend lived in a farmhouse and the nearest village was called Bourg de Visa . |
| 29 | If Karen 's shopping chores sound like a nightmare , her job has its perks . |
| 30 | Nonetheless , this astonishing aviator 's medal group sold for a world record of £120,000 . |