Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun] [noun] [unc] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What about the quarrelling Australian couple who plunged over a cliff in separate vans after a St Valentine 's day row and a chase through northern Sydney . |
| 2 | A substantial amount of a field officer 's time is spent in creating and preserving good relations with dischargers of all kinds , even in the absence of pollution problems . |
| 3 | I think yeah I was gon na say its a bit , if your a real Steve Martin fan and he 's done , everybody 's but if your not much of a Steve Martin 's fan then |
| 4 | A FORMER head of a council children 's home was jailed for four years yesterday for indecency against young boys in his care which he committed almost 15 years ago . |
| 5 | The agreement , the first to be concluded by commercial banks in advance of a creditor country 's conclusion of an IMF-approved economic package , was also the fifth under the international debt reduction initiative launched by the United States Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady in March 1989 [ see pp. 36541-42 ; see pp. 37243 ; 37313 for similar agreements with Mexico and Venezuela ] . |
| 6 | The banqueting room , which lay under one of the large domes , was in the form of a St. Andrew 's Cross . |
| 7 | The garden , enclosed with a clipped hedge , also in the form of a St. Andrew 's Cross , supplied ‘ an abundance of the choicest fruits of every species . ’ |
| 8 | The myth was probably sparked off by the existence of a St. Thomas ' Lane and Well in the town ( locations now unknown ) , the St. Thomas ' chapel in All Saints ' church , and the Hospital of St. Thomas and St. John ( now Lord Burghley 's Almshouses ) , which apparently had a chapel over the bridge . |
| 9 | On Sunday night , near an alley in the Wavertree district of Liverpool , for WPC 8158 Harrison , the joking stopped — cut short by the vicious flash of a burglary suspect 's knife . |
| 10 | This recommended the creation of a specialist children 's service to replace the existing provision , which was fragmented among various departments , including public assistance . |
| 11 | The regulations governing the provision of a guardian ad litem service and the procedure for appointment , case allocation , monitoring and review are considered in detail in Guidance and Regulations , vol 7 ( HMSO , 1991 ) . |
| 12 | The Heilbron Advisory Group confirmed these fears and maintained that ‘ disclosure of a rape victim 's name caused her great distress and also tended to discourage women from reporting alleged rape ’ . |
| 13 | However , the preservation of a rape survivor 's anonymity needs more than the exclusion of the name . |
| 14 | The sole purpose of a billy goat 's life is to sire offspring , and the more he fathers , the greater is his success in evolutionary terms . |
| 15 | For a fraction of a second Valence 's look darted in Lexandro 's direction . |
| 16 | She is redoing her A-levels in chemistry , physics and biology in the sixth form of a London girls ' school . |
| 17 | THE father of a two-year-old boy suffering from a rare genetic disorder must wait to learn whether he has won his High Court battle over the controversial closure of a London hospital 's bone marrow transplant unit . |
| 18 | Indeed , when Mt Rowland and Lonrho were themselves the subjects of a DTI inspectors ' report in 1976 , they had no such protection . |
| 19 | ‘ If your child dislikes taking medicines , trying making it ‘ fun ’ — for instance , make it part of a teddy bears ' tea party . |
| 20 | For a quarter of a century Britain 's housing received a marked Unwin-inspired imprint . |
| 21 | In the words of a lorry driver 's wife : |
| 22 | A central object of the new Institute was to train these specialists in the ‘ sanction office ’ , keep them up to date with legislation and accounting techniques and make credit managers as much a part of a trading company 's marketing operation as sales managers who already had their association . |
| 23 | The colour of railway trains , of a catering assistant 's uniform , and of the unshapely denims that Jenny used to wear out of office hours , in defiance of anything that suited her . |
| 24 | It is therefore wise to consider specifying in the Articles the extent of a nominee director 's duty and couple this with an acknowledgement in the subscription and shareholders ' agreement that the nominee has been appointed to represent the interests of a particular group of shareholders . |
| 25 | The year also saw the Society give oral evidence to the Royal Commission on Criminal Justice , and the Council issue a statement on proper access to video recordings of a child witness 's evidence . |
| 26 | The heart shape that is characteristic of a barn owl 's face was just beginning to show through . |
| 27 | Now his mouth was stretched in a mad parody of a cartoon character 's grin — lips wide , teeth clamped — as he fought against the terrible urge to breathe . |
| 28 | Members of a Cardiff ladies ' rowing club tried to pull her out of the mud , but found the current was too fast , and the bitch ( yes , she is called Eric ! ) , too heavy . |
| 29 | We slashed across the shank of the island , then we were over the anchorage and I had a glimpse of a sailing boat 's shadow black on the bed of the lagoon before our own winged shadow whipped across a gaggle of powerboats . |
| 30 | Mrs Pember Reeves described the diet of the family of a feather cleaner 's assistant , earning 25/ a week . |