Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] a [noun] [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His raw material consists of Stephen Fry playing Stephen Fry thinly disguised as a throw-back aristo who decides to share his recently inherited stately pile for a few days with his old friends from revue days . |
| 2 | On scrutinising the notes of the 80 patients not referred for a specialist opinion we concluded that a nephrological opinion might have helped management in 17 cases . |
| 3 | The church council may very well wish to contend that the acquisition and disposal of the new site is a non-trading transaction , and that any resultant surplus should be regarded as a capital gain which , if applied for charitable purposes , would be exempt from CGT . |
| 4 | This optimum is not 100 per cent debt financing as equity is regarded as a safety cushion which will absorb any losses which might be incurred during the ordinary course of trading and/or liquidation . |
| 5 | Although Fleetwood Mac were a rock band , and you 're regarded as a rock guitarist whatever else you do , you 've always made ‘ left turns ’ along the way … |
| 6 | Loyalist terrorists were last night blamed for a parcel bomb which exploded at Post Office headquarters in Belfast . |
| 7 | Corrosion in pipework has been blamed for a gas escape which triggered the operation cloudburst emergency plan in February . |
| 8 | Under the leadership of the party the working masses constructed the material base for socialism , replaced primitive private farming with collectivized agriculture , and carried through an industrialization programme which astonished and alarmed the bourgeois world . |
| 9 | Also called on member states to detain Iraqi-registered ships entering their ports in violation of sanctions , reminded states of their obligation to freeze Iraqi assets , stated that measures would be considered against a member state whose nationals were found breaking sanctions , and also condemned Iraq 's " grave breaches " of the fourth Geneva convention on the rules of war , a reference to its holding of foreign nationals as a " human shield " at key installations . |
| 10 | The cost of maintaining these additional versions is extremely small , being based on the spaces occupied within a filing cabinet which must be serviced and kept warm and dry . |
| 11 | A Greek-Cypriot soldier was killed and a Turkish-Cypriot soldier wounded in a shooting incident which took place on May 7 , 1989 , in the UN-controlled buffer zone in Nicosia . |
| 12 | Two ‘ products ’ were previewed in a UK briefing which embody this approach . |
| 13 | Oranges that are to be peeled and eaten should also be washed , because the fungicide is contained in a wax layer which comes off on the hands during peeling and then contaminates the fruit . |
| 14 | The glass ceramic that is used , contains a mixture of iron oxide and calcium silicate contained in a glass matrix which has a good tissue response . |
| 15 | A three-cylinder , marinised 26hp Isuzu diesel is contained in an engine box which forms part of the large galley peninsula . |
| 16 | Considered from a materialist perspective it has at least three damaging limitations : first it tends to construe sexuality in terms of an original pre-social plenitude , an initially unstructured natural energy ; second ( and consequently ) sexuality is conceived in certain of Freud 's central texts as a drive with hydraulic characteristics ; third , a phenomenon like homophobia , when it is not being blatantly disregarded , is explained too much in terms of the subjective , psychic repressions of its agents . |
| 17 | Only two of Ulster 's 32 clubs play their hockey on grass and Gavin realises that Portrush are caught in a time warp which could hinder the North West outfit 's progress . |
| 18 | The hon. Member for Clackmannan ( Mr. O'Neill ) , when presenting Labour 's nuclear policy in the House on 22 November , said : ’ Throughout the 1980s the Labour party was committed to a defence policy which , with regard to nuclear weapons , required the Labour Government to renounce ownership of Polaris and to abandon the Trident programme . ’ |
| 19 | Profit-sharing systems may need to be changed to reflect differences , though if a firm is committed to a practice area it should not penalise those lawyers who pursue it . |
| 20 | The site is located on a peat bog which needed to be compressed and filled before construction could begin . |
| 21 | Planning permission will be required if the height of the ridge is to be raised , or if a dormer window is added to a roof slope which fronts onto a highway , and roof alterations caused by loft conversions will certainly require approval under the Building Regulations . |
| 22 | They 're very central , no more than a five minute walk from the beach , although most people spend most of the day around the large pool , surrounded by a sun terrace which looks onto the pretty gardens . |
| 23 | Full protection within the terms of the Agreement is enjoyed by a bank/ organisation which has notified an interest in a property to a building society operating a block policy with insurers listed in Appendix A. |
| 24 | CHAMPIONS Leeds face an FA inquiry after being reported by a police officer who was shocked by their four-letter tirade . |
| 25 | This generally took place at Easter preceded by confession , often in public , in which the social duty of making restitution for sin was stressed ; it might be succeeded by a parish party which played out at its own level the eternal being of love celebrated in the Mass . |
| 26 | Before leaving school , he was interviewed by a careers officer who asked him : ‘ Do you want a job in a factory ? ’ |
| 27 | Eventually Neil was interviewed by a customs officer who , he says , ‘ Looked like Agent Cooper from Twin Peaks , but unlike him was as straight on the inside as he appeared on the outside . ’ |
| 28 | RADICAL changes in Government energy policy are being considered by a Cabinet committee which is fashioning the promised white paper on environmental issues . |
| 29 | They were addressed by a M. Corneloup who told them that some 103 priests had ‘ escaped from the land of slavery … and had entered the … |
| 30 | He sent a transcript of the testimony to Colombo , where it was perused by a secretariat official who might ask for more evidence before accepting or changing the local recommendation . |