Example sentences of "[noun prp] is [verb] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before Hector is blinded by a lust for glory , he say to Troilus : |
| 2 | Neil is rootin' for a job |
| 3 | Taylor Walker is benefiting from a customer care programme that it believes will enable it to compete with its European counterparts . |
| 4 | In recent years members of the department have been engaged in research on anti-discrimination law , commissioned by the Standing Advisory Commission on Human Rights in Northern Ireland , and Professor Munro has acted as a consultant to the European Parliament , while Mr Walker is participating in a project on the Policing Implications of European Co-operation , funded by the E.S.R.C . |
| 5 | Mr Adams is caught between a rock and a hard place . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Hilton is writing for a nun for whom Lectio is apparently impossible , even though she was obviously able to read . |
| 9 | Kowalik is waiting for a telephone call from Ipswich and will come straight over if requested . |
| 10 | Pat is working as a midwife in an intensive care unit for premature babies . |
| 11 | Now the Rolls is languishing in a garage near his home at Waters End , Gainford . |
| 12 | A new superstore at Camberley is graced by a parade of 40 ft trees . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Within an hour , Bucharest is buried under a blanket of virgin snow . |
| 15 | Scientists fear Gaia is heading for a breakdown |
| 16 | Church ‘ C' is located in a run-down , vandalised , inner city area which is due for redevelopment . |
| 17 | Edward is coming for a drink . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Rex is sleeping like a babe . |
| 20 | Indonesia is regarded as a core area , with a key place in the Group 's business portfolio . |
| 21 | Spenser is thinking of a class of person within a distinctive social framework . |
| 22 | It is important to notice here that Freud is talking about a part of the ego as being built up from the social and cultural surroundings , but that the whole ego is not built up in this way . |
| 23 | RICHARD is sitting at a table , poring morosely over his cheque-book stubs . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Meanwhile Mr Burge is preparing for a struggle . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |