Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , McCallen will not know until after a stewards meeting tomorrow morning whether or not he will be on the front row of the grid . |
| 2 | One of the drawbacks with other wools is that they will not ‘ spring ’ back into shape after a nights sleep . |
| 3 | Within days of the report 's appearance , the Labour Party — after a two-years study that inevitably consulted many of the same people as the prince 's working party — announced a very similar plan , calling them Newton Institutes . |
| 4 | I mean he 's such a good son in law to me , he really is , I mean he , he , he 'll help Pete with any thing , especially when they lived here , he 'll help Peter with any thing and erm , he 's very , very good to Deb , he get 's in after a days work , he does the shopping and housework , look 's after the cats which he does n't particularly like |
| 5 | You think you 're exhausted after a days work imagine if you 've been doing that all day long , shouting |
| 6 | LEADING UDA figures in West Belfast have gone into hiding following a police swoop on the organisation 's headquarters on the Shankill Road . |
| 7 | They found a long platform and the remains of a goods shed . |
| 8 | Heavy freight 2-8-0- No. 2857 , on loan from the Severn Valley Railway , hauled hourly services between Toddington and Gretton starting at 11am while 50 year old Bagnall 0–6–0 No. 2566 ‘ Byfield No. 2 ’ could be seen at the head of a goods train shunting from the yard to the bay siding at Toddington . |
| 9 | But I can do what I want , so perhaps it is possible to use one or two frames of a timpani shot to realize a particular moment in the music . |
| 10 | The major proponents of a rules based approach in the UK have been Crew and Rowley ( 1970 , 1971 ) . |
| 11 | Representing as they have done the interests of a high-seas trading nation ( Britain still exports more per head of population than does Japan ) , British post-war leaders of all political persuasions , from Nye Bevan to Margaret Thatcher , have largely based their economic policies on the need to expand trade . |
| 12 | Equally , once proceedings are under way , the solicitor must be guided by the all important principle that the litigation is not an exercise on its own but is part of a claims handling system . |
| 13 | Earlier yesterday medics said Spiro , who was found in a remote Indian reservation , died of a drugs overdose . |
| 14 | On Sept 25 , 1989 , a Swiss inquest found that Barschel , who had been found dead in a Geneva hotel room in October 1987 shortly after he had been forced to resign as Minister President of Schleswig-Holstein , had died of a drugs overdose and that there was no evidence to suggest that he had been murdered . |
| 15 | It 's been revealed that a prostitute who was found murdered was responsible for an eight year old boy dying of a drugs overdose . |
| 16 | STUTTGART manager Christoph Daum , the man who blundered in using four foreign players against Leeds United , is at the centre of a drugs storm in Germany . |
| 17 | He had been caught lying about inside knowledge of a dirty-tricks campaign against his own party . |
| 18 | This is despite the recommendation of a complaints review panel that his needs would best be met at Milton Heights , a Home Farm Trust home which charges £9,000 a year . |
| 19 | The head of department , for example , depicted the library project as something which had to be seen as a specific development in the context of a GRIDS exercise in which the broad range of curricular provision came under consideration . |
| 20 | Instead of a windfall-profits tax , which cost them £375m in 1981 , the banks merely have to suffer the pin-prick of a delay in claiming tax-relief on those same provisions which hit their profits . |
| 21 | Derived from the Content Addressable File System ( CAFS ) hardware database search engine , the accelerator consists of a CAFS board , an interface which decides whether the accelerator should be activated , a device driver and a relational database management system accelerator to control the searches . |
| 22 | No monastic or holy order within the Christian tradition demands greater dedication and discipline , and the basic requirements of a satyāgrahi correspond to the vows of poverty , chastity and obedience , that are expected of certain Christian orders of monks and priests . |
| 23 | Representatives of foreign , defence and border guard ministries of CIS member states met in Tashkent ( Uzbekistan ) on July 16 to discuss the establishment of a CIS peacekeeping force . |
| 24 | A stock index represents the market 's estimate of the present value of the subsequent cash flows expected from the constituent companies , while the current price of a futures contract on an index for delivery at time T represents the market 's estimate of the present value at time T of the subsequent cash flows . |
| 25 | In the absence of transactions costs for trading futures and assuming no risk aversion or preference , the current price of a futures contract for delivery at time T in a competitive market will equal today 's expectation of the spot price at time T , that is , F t = E ( S T ) . |
| 26 | B. Black obtains the result that E ( F t +l ; - F t ) = [ E ( R M ) - r ] β i , where β i = cov[ ( F t +l ; - F t ) , R M ] , while Duffie obtains E ( F T - F t ) = [ E ( E T ) - , where = Cov ( E T F T ) /Var ( E T ) , E T is aggregate terminal wealth and F t M is the price at time t of a futures contract on aggregate terminal wealth . |
| 27 | Samuelson ( 1965 ) has argued that , as the delivery date of a futures contract approaches , the volatility of its price will increase , that is , volatility is a negative function of the time to deliver ( or maturity ) . |
| 28 | The Gallery makes good use of mock-ups : a convincing re-creation of a Futures Market trading floor where big-time foodstuff deals are struck ( all braces , bravado and baked beans ) , or an authentic 1926 Lyons Corner House ( graced with a sweetly smiling ‘ Nippy ’ ) . |
| 29 | Elizabeth Young ( Independent on Sunday ) was rather kinder and , at the same time , less affected by the need to outwit the dictionary : ‘ The novel has all the vigour and bravado of a fireworks display . |
| 30 | The prescription of a conflicts rule , though more readily agreed than a substantive rule , is very much the second best solution . |