Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] an [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Revenue would undoubtedly seek to drive through an earnings basis for the future . |
| 2 | The Kurdish leaders reportedly asked for an arms supply route to be opened through Turkey to assist the Kurdish insurrection in northern Iraq . |
| 3 | But Rovers are still fifth in the Premier League , eight points behind Norwich , and have reached the Coca-Cola Cup quarter-finals — ideally placed for an honours drive in the second half of the season . |
| 4 | In time , Jakki moved to London , Jim to America to work as an exhibitions organiser . |
| 5 | Controversial clash with the RSC begins over Wesker 's play , The Journalists , which is cancelled after an actors ' rebellion . |
| 6 | A function definition is terminated by a statement which starts with an equals ( = ) sign . |
| 7 | However , on a Dow-Stoker Returners programme she discovered that she had quite a strong numerical ability , and decided that she would like to work in an accounts department . |
| 8 | The Test and County Cricket Board hand-out rose in an Ashes summer from £338,000 to a new high of £473,000 ; and Lancashire 's successful season on the field , fourth in the championship and winners of the Refuge Assurance League , almost doubled match income . |
| 9 | Lettuce trapped in an algae scraper will feed vegetarian fish . |
| 10 | The abortion counselling clause was included in an appropriations bill for labour , health and human services . |
| 11 | One sanitary inspector reported that ‘ far from being carried on in the poorer types of dwelling , outwork was taken to supplement their resources by many people whose names one would never expect to find on an outworkers list ’ . |
| 12 | The Canadian Parliament from 1980 on has discussed and voted on an estimates figure ( an ‘ envelope ’ ) that includes both tax expenditures and traditional spending authorisation . |
| 13 | We can legitimately think of an ants nest as a civilization : its members carry out highly specific or even very generalized tasks in pursuit of the common good . |
| 14 | It is believed that the tongue plays an important part in acting as an antennae for vibrations , or that the snake is hypersensitive to earth vibrations . |
| 15 | POLICE are looking for an antiques dealer who mysteriously vanished from his Barnard Castle home last month . |
| 16 | Although highly inventive and productive , this questionnaire can provide only explicit responses , rather than insight into actual practices , and , through processing , has created a normative characterization of the diverse social fractions involved , which are seen as an exemplars of a larger , statistically-based model of class . |
| 17 | And despite all his brave words , even he could not be prepared against an disasters . |
| 18 | It twisted into an origami boat and sailed off towards a sewer inlet . |
| 19 | It may now be turned into an arts centre |
| 20 | ‘ And why is a duke 's brother living in an alms house while his wife runs an art gallery in another ? ’ |
| 21 | and th you know they came from an arts background fine you know |
| 22 | The Council … believes strongly that a first degree course in Educational Studies lasting three years may be designed to lead to an Honours award … the concept of a three-year degree course in Educational Studies , leading to an Honours or an unclassified degree , will be acceptable provided it combines an adequate period of practical experience in the classroom with a requisite minimum of academic studies . |
| 23 | Registry staff must be able to process information without introducing delays , whether it is receiving data from a student and subsequently providing an updated record for that student or taking a request from a lecturer for a list and providing it at short notice or processing an offer made by an admissions tutor so that the candidate hears from PCAS as quickly as possible . |
| 24 | The garden became like an ants ' nest as snaking rows of people clambered up our hillside . |
| 25 | He used a TPX 7 wood for added height to stop the ball dead on the green , placed behind an out-of-bounds fence . |
| 26 | The Safeworld report noted that " unless arms transfers to the Middle East [ are reduced and controlled ] , the hopes for the peace process … may disappear beneath an arms race that perpetuates instability , conflict and bloodshed in the Middle East " . |
| 27 | A total of 480 points is usually needed for an honours degree . |
| 28 | The Old Bradwell School continued to function as an Infants School until the early 1950s . |
| 29 | As with the Faculty scholarships , overseas students will be expected to apply for an ORS award . |
| 30 | In the mid-19705 , in Great Britain , the polytechnics of Liverpool and Newcastle.upon-Tyne are offering a three.year degree course in librarianship which can be transformed into an honours degree by a fourth-year course in education , leading to dual qualification ; Leeds Polytechnic plans to follow suit , and already offers three.year. trained teachers the chance to turn their qualification into a bachelor 's degree by intensive part-time study of librarianship . |