Example sentences of "[noun prp] [conj] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Drivers want to be able to put the same smart card in a holder ( or a different card in the same holder ) whether driving in the Netherlands or on a French autoroute , ’ says Ian Catling , a member of an EC group which is ensuring that electronic Babel is avoided on the roads . |
| 2 | I do n't think it 's against the constitution that er it would be a bit unusual to find him involved in handling money to be involved in he went to Majorca or Tenerife or in a bid to see each other it 's a possibility . |
| 3 | The interim government , a coalition of conservative parties , was bound more by common hostility to Bhutto than by a consensus on policy . |
| 4 | Mr Mellish disclosed that investigations after the incidents at Gateshead gas depot just before midnight on Tuesday and at a disused Esso oil terminal at North Shields late last night involved explosives . |
| 5 | The problem was Ron Dennis and in a way , this clash between the two men is a microcosm of life in FI and deserves a brief aside . |
| 6 | NATO decided to go ahead with the cruise missiles before the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and against a background of Soviet-American agreement in the Salt 11 talks on strategic weapons . |
| 7 | Voting was also held for all State Assembly seats in Haryana and West Bengal and for a number of State Assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh . |
| 8 | The sisters and their assailants , who went to McDonalds and for a walk through the city together , had also exchanged addresses . |
| 9 | Although China is a member of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species ( CITES ) , rhino is being smuggled into the country from Yemen , Hong Kong , Macao and Taiwan and to a lesser degree from Singapore and Thailand . |
| 10 | They were linked by blood to Charles II , the Dukes of Marlborough , Devonshire and Abercorn and through a quirk of history to seven American presidents , including Franklin D. Roosevelt , and to the actor Humphrey Bogart and , it is said , the gangster Al Capone . |
| 11 | With reference to starting points , Wyre is the name of a Borough Council covering a large area of the North Fylde but there is no town or village of Wyre and as a starting point ‘ Wyre ’ does not make sense . |
| 12 | I would be employed also by the WEA and as a Trade Union lecturer ( which , as far as I know , I still am ) . |
| 13 | It had provided that the deal could be varied in writing only and had to be signed by Mr Gillespie and by a director of the purchasing company acting with the authorisation of its board . |
| 14 | A large part of its small area is taken up by the grounds of The Crystal Palace and by a residential school . |
| 15 | My Sophie , for example — if she were in Darcy 's Utopia and in a couple of years were to become a teenage primigravida , which is perfectly on the cards — I reckon the neighbours would know better than Lou or me if she was fit to be a mother or not . |
| 16 | I shall come into Béarn from the Soule by way of Tardets and through a small , thoroughly bucolic bit of country known as the Barétous . |
| 17 | Feisal , for instance , was not welcomed by the French in Syria and as a result was installed king of another emergent country — Iraq . |
| 18 | But it was only somewhere about thirty degrees Celsius and after a few days I had become accustomed to the change in temperature . |
| 19 | The other branch runs south-eastwards through New Guinea and the New Hebrides and through a scatter of small Melanesian islands , before making an abrupt dog 's leg northwards to the Samoan islands to join the Tonga-Kermadec chain which extends southwards again into New Zealand . |
| 20 | The Man reached Woil and with a slow but sure movement put the coat he had been carrying over Woil 's back and head and quickly put his arms around him . |
| 21 | The Netherlands views itself not only as a trader and distributor of LPG but as a major user . |
| 22 | It may be questioned whether such elaborate surveillance ( engaged in not only by the KGB but to a greater or lesser extent by other security organizations ) is really necessary or produces results commensurate with the time , energy and expense involved in the operations . |
| 23 | In recent weeks , I have had the opportunity of discussing the matter not only in the United States but with a number of colleagues in the European Community . |
| 24 | Roland 's stag night was planned the same Saturday but after a week the best man realized that he was going to be skiing then ! oops . |
| 25 | There were about twenty of us , all told ; mostly McHoans but with a smattering of civilians . |
| 26 | Liverpool 's Rob Jones expects to be fit after failing to re-appear in the second half of the 1–0 defeat against Aston Villa because of a calf injury . |
| 27 | The AC Milan player , who has not played since last May 's European Cup triumph over Steaua Bucharest because of a knee injury , is involved in a contract dispute with the club . |
| 28 | The on-loan Millwall keeper comes into the reckoning at Southend on Saturday because of a fitness doubt over Welsh international Tony Norman . |
| 29 | Relentlessly , he reeled off the winners until that memorable afternoon at Navan when by a remarkable coincidence , another Ulster horse , Novello Allegro gave him his place in history . |
| 30 | None of this included identification with a national entity ; indeed , ‘ a French knight , like a French priest , had more in common with a knight or a priest from Italy or Germany than with a French peasant ’ . |