Example sentences of "a [noun] [vb pp] [prep] a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Back in 1990 England had lost to West Germany at football in a match decided by a penalties . |
| 2 | On the other hand they could see little merit in a policy based upon a rules approach , since rules are inevitably arbitrary and lacking in any underlying economic logic . |
| 3 | Guests have use of a dining room , a comfortable lounge with a colour television and open fire , a long clematis-clad verandah , a colourful garden , a barn converted into a games room and artist 's studio . |
| 4 | If she was an innocent abroad , her parents considered that a life cocooned in an all-girls school was hardly adequate preparation for the bright lights of the big city . |
| 5 | A MAN injured in a police shoot-out was last night in hospital with chest wounds while police pieced together the tangled events of a night of violence that also left one man dead and three policemen injured . |
| 6 | The trial of two people accused of the murder of a man described as a police informer has been halted on the orders of the judge . |
| 7 | Two local union members , and a district union official employed by the union , threatened BOAC that labour would be withdrawn if R were not removed within three days as required by a resolution passed at a members ’ meeting . |
| 8 | in the event that a purchaser is persuaded to purchase a property based on a surveyors valuation , the level of damages will be based on the correct market value allowing for the true condition of the property , and not the cost of repairs which need to be carried out . |
| 9 | Branson was wired to a tape-recorder connected to a police vehicle outside . |
| 10 | Margaret Spencer reported on a discussion held at a Schools Council Language for Learning Project Conference in 1981 , when teachers were asked the question " Why do we ask children to read to us ? " |
| 11 | That earlier timing was also indicated in a document found during a Police Complaints Authority inquiry . |
| 12 | So if you are owed money by a company involved in a members ' voluntary liquidation the chances that you will get all you are owed are good . |
| 13 | Pringle , who wore a green sweatshirt , was visibly scarred on the left of his mouth where he was hit by a bullet fired by a police marksman . |