Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 Parliament prescribed an oath of allegiance which denied that the Pope had any authority to release Roman Catholics from their allegiance to the King . |
| 2 | Zurachina smoothed a finger down one cheek . |
| 3 | When it fell to his lot to cut her free from the coils of the hydra , had his poignant fixation received a body-blow — or a boost ? |
| 4 | The Secretary of State for Defence reopened a list as an exception to allow the Association to mark the fortieth anniversary of the accession of Her Majesty the Queen , our patron , to the throne . |
| 5 | It was alleged that the retailer committed an offence under section 1 by selling bars of chocolate bearing the misleading label ‘ Extra value ’ and that this was due to the act or default of the defendants , the manufacturers . |
| 6 | Cos her Mum won a lot of money . |
| 7 | For example , last year alone , the University earned a total of four point nine million pounds from research grants and contracts , a figure which has risen despite the recession . |
| 8 | Patterson consulted a notepad on his desk . |
| 9 | In all six companies the corporate planning department formulated a list of environmental issues which were considered to be of key importance to the company as a whole . |
| 10 | These were regarded as relatively minor , and the sentences reflected this ; only exceptional violence justified a sentence of more than 18 months imprisonment . |
| 11 | Tolstoy attaches great importance to the change of wording in the signal of 23 May , referring to a " verbal directive " , as if this implied that on 13 May Macmillan had not just " advised " but had in effect given an order , which he was in no position to do . |
| 12 | Finally , the Admiralty formulated a scheme of its own , the " Sunhill Scheme " , launched in June 1916 . |
| 13 | Another entrepreneur establishing a sack-making factory with limited protection , may find a relative of the president given a licence to import freely the same product . |
| 14 | ‘ it would appear that the vital matter for determination is whether at the time that the infant plaintiff avers that she suffered the damnum , i.e. at the date of her birth , had the defendant committed a breach of any and what duty to the infant plaintiff causing such damnum ? |
| 15 | ‘ Having emphasised these three points , it would appear that the vital matter for determination is whether at the time that the infant plaintiff avers that she suffered the damnum , i.e. at the date of her birth , had the defendant committed a breach of any and what duty to the infant plaintiff causing such damnum ? |
| 16 | The Government Actuary 's Department prepared a document in 1980 which sets out a suggested basis for making the calculation and this was supplemented ten years later by recommendations from a committee of industrial tribunal chairmen . |
| 17 | In competition with these commercial outlets , the Moose Jaw Amateur Radio Association operated a station , with the call letters 1OAB , from a third floor back room . |
| 18 | erm and phoned up and sort of semi made an appointment , not exactly |
| 19 | The defendants ' reply incorporated a disclaimer , namely that the report was ‘ without responsibility on the part of this bank or its officials ’ . |
| 20 | Practitioners were asked to provide details of practice size and whether or not their practice operated an asthma clinic , owned a portable nebuliser , had a register of asthma patients , operated a practice or local protocol for asthma care , or employed a practice nurse with special knowledge of asthma . |
| 21 | A period of conditioning on the Verdun battlefield manufactured a callousness towards one 's own wounded , and an apathetic , morbid acceptance of mutilation that seem to us — in our comfy isolation — almost bestial . |
| 22 | by the by the er s the sa sales the marketing executive and the golf club agreed a number . |
| 23 | Still was n't enough goals though even if Poland had beaten Holland , England still would n't have qualified because they needed , because er the opposition got a goal , they need to be , they had to win by seven clear goals so that meant they had to win eight one , not seven one , you see . |
| 24 | HAS THE CHEF GOT A PIG 'S HEAD ? |
| 25 | I organized that at Conway Hall now , in most reference books my agent 's name is listed , and my agent got a call saying the minute I began to read from that book I would die . |
| 26 | In the President 's budget proposal for 1993 , while the President requested an $11.1 million increase to $189 million for the National Endowment for the Humanities , his NEA request remained unchanged at $175.9 million . |
| 27 | The eruption of the volcano buried a town , Akrotiri , which is thought to have had a population originally of about 30,000 . |
| 28 | The Economist that bastion of left wing thinking commissioned an actuary to estimate the likely number of vacancies during a parliament ten point seven three sorry to be precise about this colleagues Tory MPs can be expected to die over a full five year term , I 'm sorry for being morbid . |
| 29 | Atrium A large hall , lit by an opening in the centre of the roof called a compluvium . |
| 30 | By fitting a unique valve called an ECO Lock into the sump , we can prevent undissolved detergent being pumped out of the wastepipe . |