Example sentences of "[noun prp] [is] [vb pp] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before Hector is blinded by a lust for glory , he say to Troilus : |
| 2 | Mr Adams is caught between a rock and a hard place . |
| 3 | The parkland at the back of the Villa Reale is separated by a fence from the Boschetti di Via Marina , the little wood of the Via Marina , an elegant tree-lined street designed by Piermarini but now thoroughly ruined by the car park of ACI , the Italian Automobile Club . |
| 4 | These results confirm that there is regional variation of nutrient utilisation throughout the colon , but they do not support the hypothesis that UC is caused by a deficiency of butyrate metabolism . |
| 5 | A new superstore at Camberley is graced by a parade of 40 ft trees . |
| 6 | ‘ Linda 's detained for a while . |
| 7 | Saint-Jean-de-Luz is built along a bay which makes an unusually regular , shallow curve , from a headland to the north , where the lighthouse is , to the harbour entrance to the south , facing the small , equally bright and characteristically Basque town of Ciboure , which has some really good old houses overlooking the harbour it shares with Saint lean , and where the composer Ravel was born . |
| 8 | Within an hour , Bucharest is buried under a blanket of virgin snow . |
| 9 | Church ‘ C' is located in a run-down , vandalised , inner city area which is due for redevelopment . |
| 10 | Above , Kylie is pictured in a West German park . |
| 11 | The work of SPSG is monitored through a Programme Advisory Committee which also advises ESRC on the funding of research in science studies and science policy . |
| 12 | Indonesia is regarded as a core area , with a key place in the Group 's business portfolio . |
| 13 | This feature-length operetta , later retitled Babes In Toyland , has Stan and Ollie as two bumbling helpers of Santa who save the day when Toyland is invaded by a bogeyman . |
| 14 | On the Thursday nearest November 5 the Carnival comes to town when Guy Fawkes is celebrated in a riot of colour and music as more than 80 huge illuminated floats process through the town . |
| 15 | The work done within OUP on producing a new , up-to-date , and continually updatable version of the OED is controlled by a Project Team , managed by E.S.C . |
| 16 | Simon is portrayed as a Christ figure here , willing to give himself for other 's sins . |
| 17 | Everybody from taxi drivers to government ministers listens to foreign radios three or four times a day and every threatening sound from Washington is seen as a sign of a new attack . |
| 18 | We do not disagree that the financial health of the NHS requires attention , but it is also true that the NHS is caught in a gridlock of unevaluated and inefficient practice in which most major policy decisions are still left to individual clinicians ; this situation requires urgent attention . |
| 19 | Apart from tool handles and spectacle frames , Dexel is used for a variety of end products , including hair ornaments , pens and livestock ID ear tags . |
| 20 | The approach in England is typified by a statement of Lord Diplock : |
| 21 | If the experience of the National Bus Company , which was privatised in England is taken as a model , we can be sure that privatised subsidiary companies will not index-link future pension rights for their employees in the way that TOPS has done for Scottish Transport Group employees . |
| 22 | If the experience of the National Bus Company , which was privatised in England is taken as a model , we can be sure that privatised subsidiary companies will not index-link future pension rights for their employees in the way that TOPS has done for Scottish Transport Group employees . |
| 23 | Beverley 's saddled with a fitness plan |
| 24 | Scotland is governed like a province , Northern Ireland is a colony and the Government has eroded such traditional civil liberties , such as habeas corpus , peaceful assembly , the freedom of information and expression , trade-union membership , freedom of movement and freedom of local government . |
| 25 | Australian captain Woodfull is hit by a ball form Larwood in the Adelaide Test : a violent eruption of booing and shouting by spectators was triggered |
| 26 | First , Athens is surrounded by a barrier of mountains , her first line of defence : working clockwise from Eleusis in the west , Mts Aigaleos , Parnes , Pentelikon and Hymettos run round the city , imagined at the centre of the dial ( the best place to get an impression of this is from near the Philopappos Monument on the Hill of the Muses ) . |
| 27 | The CNG is dispensed to a vehicle through a hose and filling stops automatically when a preset pressure is reached . |
| 28 | DG-X is motivated by a feeling that European society must be protected from ‘ American cultural imperialism ’ and ‘ Japanese technological domination ’ . |
| 29 | The ‘ Pied Piper ’ side of Dominic is seen in a verse called Without Finance : As I saunter unabashed , Best foot forward , Hair slicked back , Am I not just the sort of chap That fortune often favours ? |
| 30 | Dominic is employed as a PA and he 's very , very good . |