Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] a [noun prp] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The committee proposals for a Cornwall and West Plymouth European parliamentary constituency provoked an enormous response opposing the link with Plymouth er as it has done on each occasion that the constituency 's been reviewed . |
| 2 | As a position line(s) for a GS or position check . |
| 3 | AN RAF man told a court yesterday how he had fallen asleep at the wheel of a Land-Rover before his friend died in a head-on crash with a lorry on the A1 . |
| 4 | The hair was black , cropped short , the mouth looked like a casket holding mighty documents , and the eyes — the eyes were blue like electric shock-waves and held Lee as the eyes of an O'Toole or Cooper hold the audience when in close-up , like magnets , obliterating backdrops , Chinese plains , crazy broads , plots , accompanying scores , Orson Welles , everything . |
| 5 | A ZANLA terrorist had risen out of the bushes with a Kalashnikov while Mike had been involved in an ambush on the Limpopo river which had been set up by the Selous Scouts , the counterinsurgency tracking teams of the Rhodesian army . |
| 6 | Commander Whitehead , a jovial , dashing , red-bearded figure with a Homburg and a briefcase , cheerfully splashing tonic water about on convivial occasions , looked too good to be true . |
| 7 | The Bank customarily announces the issue of new stock on a Friday and dealings usually start in the secondary market on the following Thursday . |
| 8 | ( I bet Fay reads Gay Community News in Marks Brothers on a Saturday and his ambition is to review records for Cosmopolitan ) . |
| 9 | and he said he 'd , he 'd let me know before Christmas if he can get me back on a Wednesday , but I 'm still taken on a Wednesday but my friend takes me in the car on a Wednesday but er I like to go in the ambulance you see really so er |
| 10 | Erm again i er the old story , we ca n't get speakers on a Monday and better luck in last year this year , sorry er I was able to get Danny but there again he came very expensive erm but we brought , we had to bring him from Lancaster so er , you ca n't expect him to come for nothing . |
| 11 | I was so disappointed to find out that , because I work for the company , I could not send off for three free tea towels and a £1 gift voucher being offered as part of a Hovis and JS combined promotion . |
| 12 | This book forms part of a Thames & Hudson series , Masters of Art . |
| 13 | Providers will be able to offer these HN Units as part of an HNC or HND course , as free standing units or grouped together in a way that will meet a particular local or individual need . |
| 14 | The noise of a Thompson when fired is unmistakable and its large .45 calibre bullet is easy to identify after a shooting . |
| 15 | Brokers need to satisfy the Authority in a similar fashion except that their issued capital may not be less than 5 million forints in case of a Kft and 10 million forints in the case of a joint-stock company . |
| 16 | That would be the normal price bracket for a Dior or Chanel creation — but now the supermodels have gone from catwalk to catalogue . |
| 17 | Antwerp offers both the Renaissance architecture of a Bruges or a Ghent and the café culture of a Paris or a Barcelona . |
| 18 | One Carmelite warrior had found , in southern Bohemia , a small icon of a Madonna and had taken it with him into the battle . |
| 19 | In 1814 he told of the arrival at the Swan Inn of a Mr. and Mrs. Nanny who had travelled 245 miles from Wales to London to get advice from Mr. Astley Cooper and other eminent surgeons there . |
| 20 | He told me that the telephonist at the police station had received a telephone call from a man saying that an escaped prisoner , a Lawrence er was to be found at er the home of a David and that the er Lawrence was in possession of a hand gun . |
| 21 | In most cases the processing power required is that of an AT type machine with a Hercules or EGA graphics card so until Amstrad come out with the next generation machine this aspect of desktop publishing will have to wait . |
| 22 | If you own a proprietary machine with a non standard ISA motherboard or a machine with an EISA or MCA bus then RapidCad is almost certainly the best performance upgrade you can buy without incurring the expense of a full processor upgrade . |
| 23 | Middlesbrough defeated Newcastle B team 13–11 at home in a Northumberland and Durham League water polo fixture . |
| 24 | It 's best to finish work on a Friday because you ca n't get pension for any day of retirement that comes before your first payday . |
| 25 | It is also illegal in Norway for a bakery to bake bread on a Saturday or Sunday . |
| 26 | I got out of Bullwood Hall on a Tuesday and I was picked up on the Thursday , two days later , for robbery . |
| 27 | The margin method calculates the difference between the return on an FRN and that on an equivalent money market security . |
| 28 | The second one 's called the 555 , which looks a bit like a Rickenbacker but with three little Firebird pickups and this wide , flat , Gibson-feeling sort of neck . |
| 29 | Why do erm what 's the difference between a Skoda and an Essex girl ? |
| 30 | From there , he transferred to the SE Forties commissioning team , preparing operating procedures and manuals , then on to Egypt as senior commissioning engineer for an LPG and gas re-injection plant , before moving to Sullom Voe terminal in 1988 . |