Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun sg] [prep] a [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stephen Sedley was continuing his opening speech on the second day of a damages action against British Nuclear Fuels at the High Court in London . |
| 2 | Admission to the fourth year of an honours course depends on performance in previous ( usually third year ) courses . |
| 3 | In Scotland , for example , the Master of Arts ( M A ) degree is normally the first degree in an Arts faculty , with Bachelor of Science ( B Sc ) being awarded in Science faculties ) . |
| 4 | ‘ He used to say that the first obligation as a sports writer was not to be in the least boring ; that you had to try and retain the excitement of the event in your writing — without taking liberties with the truth or manufacturing drama . ’ |
| 5 | Anchor 's first application for a drinks licence was refused in December . |
| 6 | Most of the Alresford reservoir — which began life in the 12th century as a fisheries pond for the Bishop du Lucy — is now owned by the Alresford House Estate Trust , one of whose trustees is the prospective Conservative candidate for Stoke-on-Trent South , Peter Maxwell . |
| 7 | They made a direct appeal to Mr Clarke as he was paying his first visit to a police station since taking over at the Home Office . |
| 8 | QPR v Chelsea This is likely to be Peter Reid 's last appearance in a Rangers shirt , with Loftus Road seemingly resigned to the midfielder 's becoming Howard Kendall 's player-coach at Manchester City . |
| 9 | It would probably be Gascoigne 's last appearence as a Spurs player before his proposed £5.5 million transfer to Lazio , subject to a medical on his damaged knee ligaments . |
| 10 | The poll is being held to replace Sinn Fein 's Hugh Brady who resigned his seat last month after a drugs conviction . |
| 11 | Several thousand gun-carrying Afrikaner farmers gathered to listen to Mr Viljoen last week in a sports stadium in Potchefstroom ; they called for war if militant blacks did not stop killing white farmers . |
| 12 | Prime Mist Prime Minister Major spoke last year at a nurses awards dinner organised by Bupa he said there was now much more scope for private health firms . |
| 13 | Mr Campbell was inspired to set up the fair by the publication last year of an Arts Council pamphlet which gave names and addresses of those producing books in Britain at the present and his fair is concentrating on British work . |
| 14 | Police were not informed and the matter only came to light last year during a police investigation into the running of children 's homes in North Wales . |