Example sentences of "[prep] an [noun] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the course of a 24-hour drama the kidnapper , Orlando Ordoñez Betancourt , successfully demanded that they be flown with him to Honduras , where after an airport siege he was granted safe passage to Mexico . |
| 2 | After an eye test he was given the rank of petty officer engineer and directed to Victoria Station to take charge of 20 similar recruits . |
| 3 | Sometimes it is difficult to do more because of an instruction manual which is hard to understand . |
| 4 | Edit the RDBI configuration file and include the name of an ORACLE account which has been created solely for the use of the RDBI transfer program . |
| 5 | In the meantime , IBM will have come out with its OS/2 2.0 , the second version of an operating system it launched in 1987 after jointly developing it with Microsoft . |
| 6 | I am proud of an England shirt he gave me . ’ |
| 7 | Arising out of the struggles of individuals , pressure-group politics encourages the development of an elite leadership who then negotiate with those who hold power . |
| 8 | The development of an elite theory which dared to call itself such came about in the late nineteenth century as a reaction particularly against the radical egalitarian democratic ideals of Karl Marx and the Western European socialist movements . |
| 9 | In the event of an insurance company which is a party to the Agreement withdrawing therefrom or ceasing to transact business , it will under the terms of the Agreement , notify individual bank branches/organisations branches from whom they hold notices of interest where that insurance cover has been terminated . |
| 10 | High adventure drew from Dickson McCunn a latent heroism : Thomas Carlyle Craw had buried his sense and courage far more deeply but they are at least glimpsed at the end of an adventure story which interprets the concept of honour in terms of individual rather than of chivalric motives . |
| 11 | Room 89 is haunted , according to the security guard , by the ghost of an RAF batman who still brushes his master 's phantom uniform . |
| 12 | Here it ran between quiet green glades , the remnant of an oak wood which had been stripped to build ships for the navy and then , in a last plundering , to make charcoal for the insatiable furnaces and foundries down at Carron forge . |
| 13 | With my back against the stout trunk of an oak tree I crouched still , hoping that my green anorak was blending nicely with the surround , and trying to ignore the gnats which promptly and itchily invaded my scalp . |
| 14 | A huge ‘ inverted funnel ’ of painted , coarsely plastered brickwork lies on top of an oak beam which acts as a fascia spanning a very broad fireplace , also lined with white-painted brickwork ( Plate 12 ) . |
| 15 | The Whitney Museum is to take photography seriously : its director , David Ross , has announced the setting up of an acquisitions committee whose job will be to establish a coherent acquisitions policy , mainly by filling gaps in the present collections . |
| 16 | It should also mention that it requires the application of an acquisitions policy which balances the strategic needs of RBGE staff with the longer-term ‘ national heritage ’ aspects included in our statutory objectives . |
| 17 | His bride was called Anne Nickerson , the daughter of an Essex landowner whose reluctant consent to an army marriage had turned to whole-hearted approval when Peter d'Alembord had put up his captaincy for sale . |
| 18 | There was the case of an Essex player who smeared Vaseline from his eyebrows on to the ball and thus altered its flight . |
| 19 | Nearer to their hotel , Fred did an improvisation about the home life of an air hostess who was taken over in bed by her working phrases and asked her husband if he would care to recline and have a beverage . |
| 20 | There is also the possibility of an air blockade which would not only guard against sanctions busting but make the Serbian air force desist from its present bombing campaign . |
| 21 | SHELL is sending a top financial professional to Japan to take charge temporarily of treasury operations of an affiliate company which has lost huge amounts on currency speculation . |
| 22 | A series of strange events have happened in the building which can be traced to the ghost of an old railwayman , and more recently the spirit of an art student who unfortunately got hooked on hard drugs , which combined with drink killed him after he had attended the celebration party to launch the Horizon Recording Studio . |
| 23 | The parents of an art student who disappeared in the middle of his exams , have made an emotional plea for him to come home . |
| 24 | Mandy was peering through the binoculars with the intensity of an army scout who had just discovered the enemy , and with a defeated sigh Charity let her own gaze drift in the same direction . |
| 25 | L t Watts hopes to return to Bosnia where he experienced the most stimulating six months of an army career he embarked on at just 18years-old . |
| 26 | For any given product line , projects can be divided into a small number of stages forming the framework of an activity plan which can be expanded in as much detail as desired . |
| 27 | But the long-term solution to piracy will remain elusive , unless , in the words of an Atari engineer there is ‘ an improvement in public morals ’ . |
| 28 | ‘ 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 . |
| 29 | THE condition of an RIR soldier who lost both legs in a booby trap bomb blast in Lurgan is described as ‘ stable ’ . |
| 30 | Secondary information services typically index a document into terms of an indexing language which can be considered a semantic net . |