Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] [prep] a [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The money side of a clergy family is terribly difficult . |
| 2 | Michael Thomas Bartley , and his girlfriend Julie Saint , both of Newton Aycliffe , are jointly charged with having a pump action shotgun and a Wingmaster shotgun without a firearms certificate . |
| 3 | In 1949 he married Marjorie , daughter of Edgar Currie , formerly a warehouse foreman for a removals firm , but incapacitated during World War I. There were no children . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ( 7 ) The members of a licensing board for an islands area or licensing division of an islands area shall be elected at a meeting of the council of the islands area to be held on a date between May 16 , 1977 and June 30 , 1977 to be determined by the council , and , in the case of subsequent elections of those members : ( a ) except in so far as paragraph ( b ) below otherwise provides , at the first meeting of the council held after each subsequent ordinary election of the council ; and ( b ) where a determination under subsection ( 3 ) above is made ( whether or not at such meeting of the council as is mentioned in paragraph ( a ) above ) , either : ( i ) at the meeting at which the determination is made ; or ( ii ) at the first meeting of the council held after such meeting as is mentioned in sub-paragraph ( i ) above . |
| 6 | If you are earning more money and you hav n't got enough points , they could move you from a specialist department to a police station . |
| 7 | Familiar with army ways , Curran served in the Indian Army in India , Cyprus , and Italy from 1941 to 1945 before completing his degree in history in 1946 with a first class in part ii and joining the British Broadcasting Corporation as a talks producer in 1947 . |
| 8 | In the flat desert land of a cattle station in Northwestern Australia , close to a place called Gogo by the aborigines , rises a line of strange steep-sided rocky bluffs , 300 metres high . |
| 9 | Finally I added this custom icon to an Articles palette containing others useful for such documents . |
| 10 | Middlesbrough Council and some local residents groups are supporting the Anchor application for a drinks licence . |
| 11 | At 17 , Nova has dance and drama training at an arts education school . |
| 12 | The use of limit pricing can lead to considerable differences between the settlement price of a futures contract and the underlying equilibrium price . |
| 13 | A MIDDLESBROUGH child has died from head injuries after a metal fence-panel at a sports centre crashed down on him . |
| 14 | It 's not long before an ex who in reality was a size-12 middle manager who played badminton and cooked a moderately engaging moussaka has become Super Ex — the international top model and cordon bleu squash champion with a masters degree in astrophysics . |
| 15 | The new unit is also available for aquarium use as a bacteria killer . |
| 16 | HIGH SOCIETY GOES TO THE RACES : Her Majesty the Queen and Prince Philip , top , arrive by horse-drawn carriage at the Ascot racecourse where high fashion , right , makes an annual , eye-catching appearance alongside the more traditional millinery of Judith Mellor , wife of Tory MP David , above , two top-hatted gents and the not-quite-so-traditional smog mask headgear of a police officer , below right Pictures : MARTIN KEENE and ADAM BUTLER |
| 17 | Since the issue price can be fixed so that it is virtually impossible for the rights price to become negative , companies which pay underwriting commission on a rights issue are making an expensive ex gratia payment . |
| 18 | Richard , 32 , deputy manager of a sports centre , returned home to Leeds , while Alison rented an apartment near the hospital . |
| 19 | Richard , 32 , deputy manager of a sports centre , returned home to Leeds . |
| 20 | A BURGLAR who left his snarling rottweiler behind when he fled from the law launched a midnight raid on a police station and nicked it back . |
| 21 | At the moment I have to knit the clothes by hand as I can not find a machine knitting pattern for a 12″ doll ( it is not a teenage doll ) anywhere . |
| 22 | Pop this in a 2U flight case with an effects unit , and you 're ready to take off in some considerable style … |
| 23 | That barrier , a common external tariff , was integral to the Treaty of Rome , which wanted to go beyond a free trade area to a customs union , which the Six believed was a far more effective way of developing the potential of their internal market , the logic of which would ultimately oblige them to adopt common policies and harmonise their regulations . |
| 24 | A senior official of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees surveyed chaotic scenes at an emergency processing centre in a sports hall in the northern town of Tuzla , where about 2,000 people are sleeping on blankets on the floor , and appealed for immediate international help . |
| 25 | We start with a common game theory model of an arms race . |
| 26 | He is a chartered engineer and has served with the Royal Air Force as an aerosystems engineering officer . |
| 27 | Meanwhile the I R A have admitted a serious of attacks on so-called soft targets in Britain , including yesterday 's shooting of an army sergeant outside a careers office in north London . |
| 28 | Fifty firemen were called to deal with the fire in a storage section of a plastics factory . |
| 29 | England 's Jeremy Guscott takes centre stage at an awards ceremony at Thornbury RFC , held for the Bristol club 's thriving junior section . |
| 30 | The purchase of a call option on a futures contract gives the owner the right to acquire a long position in the futures contract at a set price ( the exercise or striking price ) during ( or at the end of ) a specified time period . |