Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun sg] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | TWO women were taken to hospital yesterday after a crash involving a bus and a car . |
| 2 | After a competition to create a centre-piece for the Universal Exhibition of 1889 , Eiffel 's design was selected in the face of intense opposition from Pierre-Emmanuel Tirard , then Prime Minister , Charles Garnier , architect of the Opera , the composer Gounod , writers Leconte de Lisle and Guy de Maupassant ( the last claimed to be so upset by it that he fled France ) , and more than 40 other national figures . |
| 3 | They wandered off to the north-east a bit but not badly enough to get really lost , and after a while made a correction to drift back to north . |
| 4 | She was 15 at the time of the wedding , and was to present him with seven children , among them the future Charles I. She also presented him with an embarrassing situation by deciding after a while to become a Roman Catholic . |
| 5 | STORE boss Roger Price was fuming after a paper printed a Christmas ad telling his customers : ‘ Stuff your kids . ’ |
| 6 | In 1990 — the period covered — only one climber was killed following a slip soloing a mixed climb . |
| 7 | They all seek declarations to the following effect : ( a ) that as a matter of law in the case of a prisoner serving a mandatory life sentence the Secretary of State is required to set a period for retribution and deterrence which does not exceed the tariff recommended by the judiciary ; ( b ) that the Secretary of State is required by law to tell the prisoner what period the judiciary have recommended , and the reasons for that recommendation , and also if he has departed from that recommendation to tell the prisoner his reason for doing so ; ( c ) that the prisoner is entitled to be given the opportunity to make representations to the Secretary of State before the tariff is set , and for this purpose to be told of any information upon which the Secretary of State will make his decision which is not in his , the prisoner 's , possession . |
| 8 | But the Secretary of State has clearly to consider other aspects of the early release of a prisoner serving a sentence of imprisonment . |
| 9 | If the process of learning to conquer the impulses to self-gratification seems too painful to be borne , the author reminds the sisters that ultimately a complaint will seem as misguided as that of a prisoner thrown a bag of money to buy his release who moans that the bag hit and bruised him . |
| 10 | Members working on behalf of a prisoner learn a lot about that country — its culture and political allegiance for example — knowledge that is no longer useful when the case is closed . |
| 11 | One possibility being envisaged is the creation of a document giving a detailed description of a sculpture which would accompany the work whenever it was sold . |
| 12 | But er where he was he was in the in the bottom of a grave digging a grave . |
| 13 | The lowest , most general , and most unambiguously useful level consists in the employment of a computer to perform a humdrum task in less time than would be possible for an unaided human : the search through a text for a quotation , the determination of a word frequency , the construction and analysis of a contingency table , the classification of iconic data . |
| 14 | The instruction set of a computer includes a range of instructions , from simple ones such as to load an accumulator from a specified store location , to complex ones such as the edit and search instructions described earlier . |
| 15 | The principal of a school had a teacher on his staff who was fond of brandy . |
| 16 | Now there is only one justification for fitting two engines in an aircraft — to provide safety in the event of a donkey becoming a passenger . |
| 17 | This will normally be wider and higher than the range associated with the valuation since the likelihood of a buyer seeking a subsequent price reduction during the negotiating process will need to be anticipated . |
| 18 | ‘ I sure have n't heard of a film starring a plumber before , ’ says Mario . |
| 19 | For example , as the boundary of a Woonerf marks a point at which the law changes , there must be a sign to say so . |
| 20 | The pentagonal base of a pyramid formed by five equilateral triangles can be set upon each face of a dodecahedron to form a polyhedron of 60 faces . |
| 21 | There is an oddity in the argument , which starts by insisting that we speak only of probability relative to evidence , and ends by talking of a proposition having a probability of 1 in its own right . |
| 22 | In May 1990 the Parish Council arranged a talk by Mrs Wendy Lee to consider the possibility of a survey to identify a need for low-cost housing . |
| 23 | As a matter of principle it is submitted that there should not be an absolute bar to adoption in the case of a marriage involving a transsexual . |
| 24 | Although the later words of section 63(2) provide that the expense incurred in , or in connection with , the provision of a benefit includes a proper proportion of any expense relating partly to the benefit and partly to other matters , I consider that the expenses incurred in provision of places for fee paying pupils were wholly incurred in order to provide those places . |
| 25 | This second point is illustrated by the decision in White v John Warwick & Co Ltd [ 1953 ] 1 WLR 1285 where a contract for the hire of a tricycle contained a clause which provided that " nothing in this agreement shall render the owners liable for any personal injuries to the riders of the machine hired " . |
| 26 | It was a picture of a girl wearing a frilly bonnet and long , frilly drawers that reached down below her dress to her ankles . |
| 27 | One classic example was of a girl getting a pound fine and losing three days ' remission for giving another girl a cigarette paper . |
| 28 | So , for example , natural justice was excluded in licensing decisions ( Nakkuda Ali v. Jayaratne ( P.C. , 1951 ) ) as a licence was a privilege and not a right , and in the case of a board exercising a disciplinary function ( ex p . |
| 29 | ( 2 ) and the refusal of a board to declare a licence final under subs . |
| 30 | A board can only refuse a provisional grant for the reasons specified in 5.17(2) , and there is a right of appeal against such a refusal to the sheriff in virtue of s.17(4) , and also against the refusal of a board to affirm a licence under subs . |