Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [noun prp] [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only five months after Ebbo and a handful of episcopal colleagues in the church of St-Medard at Soissons had ritually deprived Louis of weapons and insignia , he was restored to power . |
| 2 | This is a very brief overview of some of the aspects of Homoeopathy and a view of the world which may help to shed a little light on what is happening with a person 's health . |
| 3 | At one time there were six schools in Kilham and a lunatic asylum . |
| 4 | He came into the hospital with six cases of Guinness and a shepherd 's crook . |
| 5 | He demanded top cabinet posts for UNITA and a form of ‘ decentralisation ’ that would assure its dominance in the provinces . |
| 6 | He did n't boil it , for fear the bleach might evaporate ; after the mixture was warm he added twenty bottles of Yugoslav Riesling , two bottles of Guinness and a pound and a half of oranges cut into segments . |
| 7 | Within a single ontological cluster C one can use all the elements of S to distinguish subclasses of C. When a training set TS is a subset of C , and all the tests made on instances use only functions and predicates from S , then the invented clusters are called simple . |
| 8 | Witnesses said the bus , carrying 49 Britons on a day trip from Cyprus , was driving through an underpass on the main road leading to the Pyramids of Giza when a man dropped the bomb from a bridge above . |
| 9 | Between them they brought together in a hotel in Windsor the chairmen of sixty major companies in Britain and a crowd of bright , articulate members of the black community . |
| 10 | The panic buying forced the Moscow city council on May 28 to announce a temporary ban on the sale of food and consumer goods in city shops to anyone unable to produce a Moscow residence permit ( such restrictions had already been operating for many weeks in Leningrad and a number of other cities ) . |
| 11 | By 1960 the company had a factory for 10 000 workers in Leeds and a chain of shops nationwide . |
| 12 | Besides the four bridges at Newcastle and a tunnel under the river near Tynemouth , there is a new fast railway system from Tynemouth to Newcastle to carry the commuters . |
| 13 | Lower-deck language infiltrated the upper-lip middle classes at Ruhleben and a diarist had to remind himself , against his ultimate repatriation , ‘ Do n't stick your spoon in your button-hole and go to the kitchen with your plate at a restaurant with a lady ’ . |
| 14 | When the New FADS get some go-go dancers , some Elton John glasses for Andy and a cod-piece for Dolan , they will be a glorious live event indeed . |
| 15 | They include : a late nineteenth-century Italian Travertine marble fountain with sea horses , putti and masks estimated at £150,000–250,000 ( $260–435,000 ) ; a stone jetty with landing stage ; a terrace decorated with bronze dolphin masks , limestone urns and bronze landing rings estimated at £50,000–100,000 ( $87–174,000 ) ; four Italian white marble seats circa 1870 estimated at £20–40,000 ( $34–70,000 ) ; two pairs of Italian white marble herm figures of Pan and a Bacchante circa 1870 , estimate £15–20,000 ( $26–34,000 ) . |
| 16 | There is also a permanent delegation for Andorran affairs in the Co-principality , headed respectively by the prefect of the Départment of Pyrenées-Orientales in France and a vicar-general from the Urgel diocese in Spain . |
| 17 | The 144 which were in progress included 18 high-rented flats at Deanfield and a redevelopment scheme of 50 houses . |
| 18 | By selling paintings by Derain and a study by Kisling , Hanka raised the train fare for Zbo 's return journey to Paris . |
| 19 | As well as the tower , the agency is offering a Hansel and Gretel cottage deep in the woods in Northamptonshire and a temple in Wales . |
| 20 | The Sports Illustrated issue after the World Cup final , however , did include stories on a disabled powerlifter , off-track betting parlours in France and a youth chess club in Harlem . |
| 21 | I would rather have been down at the villa making figgy hedgehogs for Tony but a promise is a promise . |
| 22 | On Sept. 12 the Managing Director of the IMF , Michel Camdessus , refused to comment on suggestions in Paris that a report on the Soviet economy commissioned by G-7 nations during the July Houston summit [ see p. 37629 ] would form the basis of a Western decision to advance loans to the Soviet Union . |
| 23 | According to human rights activists in Morocco and a report in El País of March 8 the family in fact remained under house arrest in Rabat . |
| 24 | He reached the hotel unscathed , although the burns on his jacket showed where he had beaten out the phosphorous splashes with his leather gloves , and as he followed Peter Young there were , as he later described , ‘ different sounds , from the various calibres of arms , artillery exchanges between Kenya and a coast defence battery somewhere down the fjord , anti-aircraft fire from the ships against attacking Messerschmitts , the demolitions , and the crackling roar of flames ’ . |
| 25 | There are 18 elected members of the shadow Cabinet , 14 of whom have been members of CND and a number of whom still are . |
| 26 | Dec. 9 passed relatively peacefully , although one Palestinian was shot dead by the security forces in Gaza and a soldier died in a bomb explosion in Bethlehem . |
| 27 | Flights from Gatwick and a week 's half-board shared accommodation cost from £264 to £500 for hotels . |
| 28 | Although relations with China had improved at a less dramatic pace , in 1990 a South Korean team had participated in the Asian Games in Beijing and a trade agreement between the two countries had been signed [ see p. 38623 ] . |
| 29 | ‘ As a direct result of that failure in policy-making we have had radioactive leaks at Sellafield and a loss of public confidence in that plant and in nuclear power generally , ’ he wrote . |
| 30 | Subsequent allegations by the Italian Communist Party ( PCI ) suggested links between Gladio and a wave of extreme right-wing attacks which killed 143 people between 1969 and 1984 , including the Bologna railway station bombing in 1980 [ see p. 30522 ] . |