Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Director Interlocks Between the Banking Division of a Conglomerate and Other Non-financial Firms |
| 2 | Phoenix-like , it is reportedly trying to become something in the nature of a superconsortium leveraging its test suite expertise into an organisation that ports and develops test suites for the likes of Hewlett-Packard Co , DEC and the IBM/Apple Computer Inc PowerPC crowd , and probably does the branding and handles ISV recruitment . |
| 3 | Harpin does , incidentally , offer working definitions for sentence division in a text that has multiple coordination ( i.e. strings of clauses joined by and or and so or and then ) which is , of course , a highly typical feature of the writing of children in junior schools . |
| 4 | ‘ For engineers , the inspection panel just forward of the rear spar attachment provides an ideal inspection opportunity with a torch and mirror to check from the underside for cracks ’ . |
| 5 | We leave base camp on a day that is grey and oppressive , the air full of snow . |
| 6 | I walked out of the champagne tent in a dream or , rather , a nightmare and put two elderly customers , who were coming towards me and were obviously intent on a reviving glass or two , in peril as I blundered into them . |
| 7 | The ill-fated Stirling , Central plant closed by Wang Laboratories Inc and taken over three years ago by Compaq Computer Corp as a repair and service centre , is to close again with the work going to Erskine . |
| 8 | A minute or two later he drove up in a battered English saloon car with a bumper and two door handles missing . |
| 9 | Armed with this information , the genealogist should be able to track down the relevant baptism entry in a parish or nonconformist register in the years before civil registration began . |
| 10 | ‘ I had known The Wedding Present for a while and liked the music , ’ he says . |
| 11 | We are not daft , we know how we want to live , we only needed an opportunity like this to get our ideas and solutions on the drawing board in a way that enabled these people to understand that we have our own form of expertise . ’ |
| 12 | And the engineer — or scientist — an automaton , his imagination chained to a drawing board by a formula and a slide rule . |
| 13 | For cases where contracts for the sale or leasing of land are conditional on the issue of a practical completion certificate by an architect or similar construction professional , see 7.4.4 . |
| 14 | He stuffed his sax case under a table and ordered a pint at the bar , moving ever so casually towards two women sitting by themselves on high stools . |
| 15 | He saw Ratagan 's axe flash like a star and bury itself in a hairy snout , splintering black blood . |
| 16 | ‘ Oh , thank you ! ’ she said , but her smile withered at the sight of his expression and she trailed after him towards the car park without a word or a glance at the others . |
| 17 | Now I 'm finishing a college course as a book-keeper and ready at last to have a career . |
| 18 | I 'm going to send it away and y for twenty five points on the back twenty five points you get a silver badge for a beginner and then a gold |
| 19 | But most of them were just a a crisscross kind of a thing and then some would be have a round bit and then this little corn dolly this little n knob on the top . |
| 20 | He took in several exhibitions , seeing a large figure drawing of a girl and two children by Neuhys which he thought splendid , and the paintings of an artist new to him , Clara Montalba . |
| 21 | concrete stairs and , George nearly killed himself on them one morning , but er , and we tried everything to get out of there you know , no one would exchange a two bedroom maisonette for a house and of course I longed for a garden , but , and er George got a job in Hatfield and they offered this three bedroom house The Commission for The New Town , rent was cheaper than here , so we moved over there , but er , as I say we were only there two , three years and we came back again , we were over here , we used to come over here three times a week , when we lived there did n't we ? |
| 22 | Cheeky 10-year-old Kevin , of Holywell , took the engagement ring as a prank so he could show it off to his friends . |
| 23 | It involved an investment cartel in a commodity that always held its value , no matter what might happen in world affairs , no matter what the state of Third World debt , no matter who was at war with whom . |
| 24 | But then Ratagan handed him a battered silver flask with a wink and he spluttered over strong barley spirit , the last of the cold burnt out of him . |
| 25 | They saw the big armoured car shudder to a halt and the great black beast as it left the roof and plummeted towards them . |
| 26 | One day , she had seen a car screech to a stop and several men overpower a pedestrian and force him into their vehicle ; from a distance she had smelled the smoke of bonfires burning blacklisted books ; she had glimpsed the outline of a human body floating in the dark waters of the canal . |
| 27 | Why does guidance act as a punisher since a child may enjoy the contact it brings ? |
| 28 | We visited Kaprun last June and , with the snow on the Kitzsteinhorn glacier slushy by midday , we had a wonderful time in the afternoons following a picnic lunch in a meadow or dining on a terrace across the lake from Zell am See , 15 minutes away by Post Bus . |
| 29 | In fog there is an atmosphere first of temper and then of inertia , followed by improvization and a peculiarly relieved conviviality , like the illogical sense of reprieve that lies in having to eat a carefully planned picnic lunch inside a car because it is pouring with rain outside . |
| 30 | The Final Honour School involves a piece of independent research work for a dissertation and five other subjects . |