Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | tae a hairst o winter paets ta cut an cure : |
| 2 | Sandstones with compositions which plot in this area are therefore much more susceptible to diagenetic change than those with compositions nearer a quartzose sandstone ( Fig. 5.42 ) ; they thus have a much higher diagenetic potential . |
| 3 | As I said before , we can stop over the ovver side o' the water fer a celebration drink . |
| 4 | They scotched 'is little caper an' what was left was too small fer a cartage business so 'e pulled out . |
| 5 | This copper said the Tunnel Mob 's bin done fer a ware'ouse job in Wappin'. 'E told me they was still lookin' fer two more blokes who was involved but they do n't know who they was . ’ |
| 6 | Modular fuel tanks ( you literally switch tanks by landing , disposing of the empty one and clipping a full one on ) give the CIRV a five-hour maximum endurance and a range up to 250 miles , or fifty miles unrefuelled , cruising at 30–50 mph after a take-off run which can be as short at two metres . |
| 7 | After a video presentation at the Visitor Centre , we cross Culloden Moor , seeing points of interest including the Graves of the Clans and the Well of the Dead on the way . |
| 8 | After a telephone call to the senior medical officer in charge of part time training schemes at the Department of Health , who agreed that my application would be allowed , I successfully jumped all the hurdles . |
| 9 | DOWNING Street security officers today mounted an investigation after a telephone call by John Major inside Number 10 was overheard by a BBC journalist . |
| 10 | Two elaborate dummy bombs were discovered on Wednesday morning after a telephone call to police . |
| 11 | Police search officers found the plastic explosive on the first floor of the shop after a telephone warning . |
| 12 | The huge device which wrecked the town 's courthouse and surrounding buildings early today , exploded just 19 minutes after a telephone warning , as police were evacuating residents from the area . |
| 13 | Police were still clearing the area when the bomb exploded five minutes after a telephone warning . |
| 14 | Countries making commitments in August to the multinational force , apart from the USA and those European and Arab countries as described above , included ( i ) Canada , a NATO member country , which announced on Aug. 10 that it would send two destroyers and a supply ship , to arrive by September ; ( ii ) Australia , whose Prime Minister Bob Hawke announced after a telephone conversation with Bush on Aug. 10 that two frigates and a supply ship would be sent ( a decision endorsed by the Cabinet on Aug. 14 ) ; ( iii ) Pakistan , which had some 90,000 nationals working in Kuwait , and whose President Ghulam Ishaq Khan said on Aug. 13 that it would send troops to protect the Moslem holy places , with a first contingent to leave on Aug. 17 and a total commitment expected to number 5,000-8,000 ; and ( iv ) Bangladesh , which on Aug. 15 announced a commitment in principle to send troops to Saudi Arabia numbering some 5,000 in all . |
| 15 | Follow-up action can even be taken on a client 's behalf after a telephone consultation . |
| 16 | When the credit card company confirms payment after a telephone booking . |
| 17 | The difference in longitude is ( p and so the separation after a distance s is where R is the radius of the sphere . |
| 18 | Tokyo : The yen 's continued fall after a discount rate rise led to the year 's second biggest drop in the Nikkei average , which plunged 444.73 to 34,795.34 . |
| 19 | High street retailer Argos dipped 7p to 277p after a Panmure downgrading . |
| 20 | Rivals got a stay order from the courts , though after a backroom deal in mid-March the government got its way . |
| 21 | He has only a one-year contract and there have been differences with chairman Bob Murray , including the failure to sign Everton 's Ray Atteveld , the loss of Paul Bracewell after a contract dispute and a boardroom veto on selling £750,000 Gordon Armstrong to Southampton . |
| 22 | He has only a one-year contract and there have been differences with chairman Bob Murray , including the failure to sign Everton 's Ray Atteveld , the loss of Paul Bracewell after a contract dispute and a boardroom veto on selling £750,000 Gordon Armstrong to Southampton . |
| 23 | Higgs determined to return to Cleveland : Nicholas Timmins talks to the doctor facing an uncertain future after a child sex abuse controversy |
| 24 | After a bit Father dinosaur said kindly , ‘ Never mind . |
| 25 | St Giles 's cathedral nearby is more properly known as the High Kirk , having been formally designated a cathedral for only a brief period during the reign of Charles I. It was here that Charles attempted to impose a High Anglican liturgy , virtually a Mass , upon a Presbyterian society which responded with brawls in the church and outside , still remembered as the Jenny Geddes Riots after a vegetable seller from the market who was reported to have thrown her stool at the Dean 's head . |
| 26 | At about this time met his first wife , Mary , an infant teacher at Bradford-on-Avon , who died tragically three years ago after a brain haemorrhage . |
| 27 | A penalty goal by Smith after a lineout barge and a goal nicely dropped by Matthews from the short side of the scrum , briefly gave Gloucester the lead . |
| 28 | Flanked by his wife , Jeanne , and Mayor David Dinkins of New York , he said he had kept his illness secret since 1988 to protect his family 's privacy but had been forced to come forward after a press inquiry . |
| 29 | There was some criticism among Burmans about the appointment of a missionary as DPR , but after a press conference or two and visits to key people , the criticism died down , and in a public lunch given by the Chinese to welcome their new Consul-General , I was asked to speak . |
| 30 | On Jan. 24 a spokesman for the Islamic Tahrir ( Liberation ) party , Atta Abu Rushtah , was arrested by security forces after a press conference in which he had called for suicide attacks to be launched on Western and allied interests throughout the world in retaliation for attacks on Iraq . |