Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb base] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | His political goals were quite contrasting — Weber had no objection to seeing his native Germany develop as a capitalist state overseen by a parliament . |
| 2 | Swindon say as a player he is worth a million pounds , and they should be compensated accordingly . |
| 3 | Defining the relative fluctuations in mass density as where is the mean mass density of the Universe , we can relate the variance , , of mass-density fluctuations on a scale R to the power spectrum by Rayleigh 's theorem where is the Fourier transform of a window function on a scale R . |
| 4 | The council 's plan to replace their Saturday shift with a standby system has infuriated the men whose bosses have just been given a big pay rise . |
| 5 | Up until now there had n't been a peep out of the former Jam bassist which I 'd attributed to one of three things — shyness , boredom or a reluctance to interrupt his new boss who , it has to be said , makes Ian Paisley seem like a Trappist Monk when he gets into his stride . |
| 6 | BRIAN Clough 's Nottingham Forest and Steve Coppell 's Crystal Palace meet in a bottom-of-the-table clash at Selhurst Park today that would have been unthinkable at the start of the season . |
| 7 | THE smallest crowd of the season at McDiarmid Park last night saw St Johnstone recover from a backs-to-the-wall first half to take two vital points from Falkirk . |
| 8 | They agree that the States beckon for a second time but Melanie says : ‘ It 's very difficult because America 's so segregated , and it 's horrifying to see how much prejudice there is , really . |
| 9 | Ashton enlarged this choreographic gem in The Tales of Beatrix Potter when Pigling Bland and the Black Berkshire indulge in a delicate pas de deux , both sur les pointes . |
| 10 | Sometimes I encircle a Brussels sprout with a ring of radish , or link adjoining plants in a diamond with a line of lettuce seedlings . |
| 11 | Knossos , Mallia and Zakro belong to a second type of Minoan town : one where the settlement surrounds and is dominated by an important temple . |
| 12 | Wendy and Mark Stafford live in a large , detached home in Kent . |
| 13 | Scotch if you 've got it — or are you waving the emerald flag for the benefit of certain up-and:coming Irish politicians of the lineage of the closest thing we in the States have to a royal family ? ’ |
| 14 | Middlesbrough hope for a good crowd despite it being the third home game of the week . |
| 15 | In the 1972 Bernardo Bertolucci film , Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider as Paul and Jeanne embark on a series of erotic encounters in an apartment , agreeing never to reveal their names to each other , in order to keep their relationship anonymous and exclusively physical . |
| 16 | If Shearson hope for a passive investor , it is not in Perelman 's make up , ’ says Perrin Long , a securities analyst at Lipper Analytical . |
| 17 | And just over the moors in a northerly direction is Birkdale where the counties of Yorkshire , Durham and Westmorland meet by a perpetually angry stream called Maize Beck and the hills soar to a deep-frozen two thousand feet . |
| 18 | Hazel Syme ( Assistant Manager , Network Operations ) using the Cashline Machine at a Safeways store in Edinburgh . |
| 19 | Like a gentler shadow of the Cheviot borderline separating much of England and Scotland , the ranges of the Lammermuir , Moorfoot and Pentland Hills link into a parallel barrier closer to the Firth of Forth . |
| 20 | Conceived by the director of ARIEL and LENINGRAD COWBOYS with the ambition of ‘ making Robert Bresson seem like a director of action pictures ’ , THE MATCH FACTORY GIRL unfolds in a style that is characteristically laconic and terse . |
| 21 | The winners of our Vernons Live Like a Pools Winner contest in September will all be getting the chance to sample the high life . |
| 22 | The Wheelers live in a modest terraced house on the edge of the village … no one ever guessed it would become millionaires row . |
| 23 | In July work on a second dormitory will be completed , and in September the dining and kitchen areas will be renovated . |
| 24 | For the first time C&P has been seen to be green through a prominent presence on the ICI stand at a ‘ green ’ exhibition at Olympia , London . |
| 25 | The attempt by the power behind his throne , Warwick — now duke of Northumberland — to secure the succession for his strongly Protestant daughter-in-law Lady Jane Grey was a dismal failure ; and England was now ruled by the Catholic Mary Tudor , then in her late thirties , married to Philip of Spain , and therefore potentially capable of establishing a Catholic dynasty which would make Henry VIII , Somerset and Northumberland look like a temporary aberration . |
| 26 | Graham Lambert and Martyn Walsh linger for a chat with the fans , and one girl wearing a home-made Cows shirt runs of wailing ‘ He likes my cow ! |
| 27 | How would old Carlo react to a kick on the ankle , her teeth in his wrist . |
| 28 | The selectors today put off deciding Britain 's representative in the European Cup contest on June 26–27 until after Smith and Grant meet in a ‘ jump off ’ at the international meeting in Belfast this weekend . |
| 29 | Vega , in Lyra , is skirting the northern horizon , and any slight mist will hide it ; it is worth noting that Vega , Polaris and Capella lie in a fairly straight line , so that when Capella is high up Vega is low down , and vice versa . |
| 30 | Coventry draw on a touch of genius |