Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun] [noun sg] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He was banned for seven weeks after a spear tackle and handed an eight-week suspension for biting . |
| 5 | But two minutes into injury time their defence got into a tangle after a Logrones throw and let the ball run through to Agustin Abadia , who thumped in his second goal of the day to level the scores . |
| 6 | Leading marksman Brett Angell will be missing until February after a thigh operation and full-backs Dean Austin and Peter Butler have been sold . |
| 7 | Leading marksman Brett Angell will be missing until February after a thigh operation and full-backs Dean Austin and Peter Butler have been sold . |
| 8 | The Titfords ' immediate neighbours boasted domestic servants : two of them to look after a boot manufacturer and his wife at no. 15 , and just the one to attend to the needs of a photographer and his stepdaughter who were living on the other side . |
| 9 | The low-lying helmet streamer , lower right , was formed after a prominence eruption and coronal mass ejection . |
| 10 | I 'm quite concerned that my four year old daughter is after a Sindy doll and wondering whether perhaps Sindy dolls should n't be produced in erm such diverse figures as real life ? |
| 11 | And to prevent the game being faced with another can of worms , the system of picking out illegal or violent play must be done through proper channels — not after a TV judge and jury have sat . |
| 12 | Lastly the English school : Two of our number have died : Cathleen O'Connor ( Mrs Epstein ) and Margaret Partington who , after a period teaching and another working as copywriter with Kodak in Harrow while tending her ailing parents , worked for many years on the Encyclopedia Britannica , becoming Classification Editor for Literature and Music . |
| 13 | It seems that it is not clarification of definition , tell that to the woman who looked for two , thirteen years after a stroke husband and they had to wait for his death , that you did n't sell him a dread disease policy because there is not clarification of definition . |
| 14 | Le Ponant , named after a trade wind and a small group of islands off Brittany , is 88 metres of sheer grace and beauty , its three huge sailing masts making it a breathtaking sight . |
| 15 | Clearly , if you are required to take medications , the instructions ‘ first thing in the morning ’ or ‘ with meals ’ will involve some irregularity after a time-zone transition and change of routine have taken place . |
| 16 | Bright beer is certainly preferable to a fully-fledged keg but it still lacks the rounded flavour of a cask beer and is served too gassy and too cold . |
| 17 | If Mr Kinnock found himself head of a minority government and decided to ‘ soldier on ’ he might find that Sir Richard Attenborough , that grand old trouper in ‘ Luvvies for Labour ’ , could turn out to be an embarrassment . |
| 18 | Field work will take the form of a literature review and visits will be made to the sites at three monthly intervals to reflect the institutions at different stages of development . |
| 19 | First , a study of the general background by way of a literature review and conference on the decline of the British economy since 1870 . |
| 20 | Born in New York City in 1944 , Anne , the daughter of a schoolteacher mother and a father who was an assistant librarian in the business section at Columbia University , was raised in Chappaqua , NY , where she attended the Horace Greeley School . |
| 21 | But one thing I was determined to do was to get hold of a Supersight putter and see what its secret was . |
| 22 | Giving up smoking reduces the risk of a heart attack and is particularly important for those who have other risk factors such as high blood pressure , raised blood cholesterol levels , are overweight or diabetic . |
| 23 | Kim , 29 , died of a heart attack and yesterday her ex-husband Peter explained that there was no warning that she was ill . |
| 24 | A man of seventy-five dies of a heart condition and inside four days his son is shot dead . |
| 25 | Until we increase it by surgery for disease of aorta , renal failure , therapy for blindness , replacement of a heart valve and organ transplant . |
| 26 | Sequoia Systems Inc is joining the rush to fit out Unix systems with all the aids and facilities that mainframe users take for granted , and reckons that it is one up on its competitors with software that continuously monitors all the functions of a computer system and immediately notifies operators of problems in operations or applications — even if it did have to go out-of-house to get it . |
| 27 | It may be possible to read a listing of a computer program and perhaps make some sense of it but , certainly to many of us who have to use computer programs , they take on a quasi-mystical nature as they are , after all , intangible . |
| 28 | The addition of a management controller and monitoring facility allows the individual design activities to be integrated into a total design process . |
| 29 | We had the possibility both of a management buy-out and of interest from outside the company . |
| 30 | Peter Thompson now explained that he wanted to go beyond the concept of a management buy-out and to involve all the staff who wanted to buy shares . |