Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [prep] a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I want to be remembered for my skill as a stills photographer . |
| 2 | May I , through your august columns , apologise to all those climbers who have tried to locate MOT-While-U-Wait-Garage Crag , Selside , Cumbria , credited as my discovery in a Lakes Report . |
| 3 | General hospital units were being developed within the catchment area of the hospital and its function as an admissions unit would eventually be superseded . |
| 4 | Flavia Ormond is making her debut as a drawings dealer with an exhibition of Italian Old Master drawings c.1550–1800 at Douwes Fine Art Limited , from 1 to15 July . |
| 5 | At high rates of interest , people may feel it worthwhile to put some of their income in a savings account on pay day and draw it out again as they need it later in the month . |
| 6 | STARS & STRIPES became Stars & Gripes yesterday , as her crew made no attempt to conceal their disgust at an umpires ' decision which cost them their race against Bill Koch 's Kanza . |
| 7 | Nor should the issues and problems examined here be allowed to overshadow the fact that 15,000 people in the UK are experiencing great satisfaction , involvement and a sense of achievement within their communities through their work in a Citizens Advice Bureau . |
| 8 | An orientation towards the pressures in the CAB today makes the reiteration of the opening words important : that problems must not be allowed to overshadow the fact that 15,000 people in the UK are experiencing satisfaction , involvement and a sense of achievement within their communities through their work in a Citizens Advice Bureau . |
| 9 | E&Y paid $400m to the Resolution Trust Corporation and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation at the end of last year , as full and final settlement of any outstanding claims relating to its work as a savings and loan auditor ( see ACCOUNTANCY , January , p 15 ) . |
| 10 | The group said it had continued to expand its stake in a pharmaceuticals market estimated to have increased by 11 to 12 per cent in 1992 . |
| 11 | She was hardworking and industrious , and in her work as a contracts officer enjoyed the challenge of getting value for money when it came to servicing the needs of the company 's departments . |
| 12 | Her father 's order book was better filled than it had been for years , her mother 's health seemed good , Eileen was happy in her work as a pools clerk , and Tony and Helen were happily planning their wedding . |
| 13 | Finally , local trading standards officials in Oxfordshire are urging parents to be on their guard against a children 's chemistry set containing a potentially lethal substance . |
| 14 | She took off her gloves to blow her nose at an awards ceremony in Scotland , and flashed the sparkler to the 60 guests . |
| 15 | They were drawings remarkable for their delicacy in an Arts Council exhibition devoted to the output of the Euston Road School . |
| 16 | You 'd think I was proposing to give away her share to a cats ’ home . |
| 17 | Secrets went on to lend its name to a women 's fiction weekly , and for Mills and Boon it laid the basis for a house style . |
| 18 | As with the Kabbaras in Rome , Jafaar 's involvement in Polar Cap for the DEA masked a deeper CIA interest in hiding its role as an arms supplier to Iraq . |
| 19 | Helen received her prize at an awards ceremony at London Zoo from John Precious of Intervet . |
| 20 | Since the introduction of the Financial Services Act in 1988 it has been compulsory for financial advisers and salesmen to base their advice upon a clients ' current ability to pay future as well as present requirements . |
| 21 | Rugby has long prided itself on its image as a players ' game and any ‘ play to entertain ’ push could only accelerate the drift towards professionalism . |
| 22 | A COUPLE were ordered to remove their caravan from a travellers permanent encampment at St Christopher 's Park , Newry , at the local Magistrate 's Court yesterday . |
| 23 | Bingham says they 're ones for the future but how can we gauge their potential on a substitutes ' bench . |
| 24 | And I know a lot of things too with the girls who came to us , we tried to erm give them er a sense of their worth as a women and not to constantly be oppressed and to accept erm what their boyfriends did or said , and so on . |
| 25 | The next thing they knew they were on their way to a Children 's Home run by nuns about twenty miles away : " It was nice and clean , I had a bath and went to bed . |
| 26 | In some cases , good hazard data exist but have simply not yet found their way into a GIS . |
| 27 | Her mother disowned her and she was sent , as was the custom then , to live out her pregnancy in a girls ' hostel near Cambridge , doing housework for her keep . |
| 28 | There is one aspect to Home Alone 2 which calls into question its appeal as a children 's movie . |
| 29 | A Scottish lord told King James that Andrewes ‘ did play with his text as a jackanapes does , who takes up a thing and tosses and plays with it and then takes up another and plays with it . |
| 30 | He was RTS television reporter of the year in 1977 , when the award was first introduced , for his coverage of a mercenaries ' trial in Angola . |