Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] a [noun pl] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shire difficulty became sheer impossibility after a months long battle to deselect David Abrahams , the previous candidate . |
| 2 | Police were questioning a 30-year-old man in connection with the murder of Elizabeth Page-Alucard , 41 , the counsellor who was found dead on Saturday at a drugs advisory centre in Worcester . |
| 3 | Hanger has also threatened to kill his parents who live in Bath , and they 're now under guard at a police safe house . |
| 4 | Tickling a parson 's nose as a lies asleep ; |
| 5 | He was an East Ender , near as possible a Cockney , and , with his mother , shopped the markets of Walthamstow and Leytonstone insisting that chips with this and chips with that was a triumphant diet for a sports crazy kid . |
| 6 | He was an East Ender , near as possible a Cockney , and , with his mother , shopped the markets of Walthamstow and Leytonstone insisting that chips with this and chips with that was a triumphant diet for a sports crazy kid . |
| 7 | So if you only have a 360k floppy drive and need to copy a file from a friends hard disk that is over 360k ( even after compression ) then this is the program for you . |
| 8 | Therefore the dojo is treated with great reverence and respect , whether it is a room within a sports complex or simply a disused garage . |
| 9 | There should be room in a 15″ wide tank . |
| 10 | The development of a GIS capable of storing and manipulating the volumes of data required for a global research programme is still some way off , but smaller GIS have been used to attempt to provide at least a beginning . |
| 11 | Erm , I 'd just like to ask Sir Leonard whether the nature of the issues that are dealt with by environmental organisations , erm , indeed arguments such as pays etc. erm , introduces a difference in the nature of the relationship between the private sector and environmental N G Os , particularly when the issues that we promote , such as su the sustainable use of the world resources and the reduction of environmental degradation can have a direct impact on a companies bottom line . |
| 12 | Alas , for Fergie and Johnny , enjoying a break together again after those fun days in Thailand , Bali , Indonesia and Argentina , the world was watching courtesy of a photographers all-powerful lens . |
| 13 | UNDERCOVER cops did not have to go far to check on a suspected brothel — it was next door to a police social club . |
| 14 | A HUSBAND and wife were convicted yesterday of running a brothel next door to a police social club . |
| 15 | Segmentation Market segmentation means the analysis of a definitions particular total demand in terms of its constituent parts , so that sets of buyers can be determined . |
| 16 | A diskless model with a 17″ monochrome screen lists at £4,900 ( $4,995 ) £5,300 with 426Mb disk — or £6,500 with a 16″ colour screen and 426Mb disk . |
| 17 | A diskless model with a 17″ monochrome screen lists at £4,900 — $5,000 — £5,300 with 426Mb disk — or £6,500 with a 16″ colour screen and 426Mb disk . |
| 18 | Big softy or not , it seemed a little foolish to even consider a 1.25″ female with a 6″ male , so I decided to wait until she was rather larger . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The launch of the project at a sports fair in Southlands focussed on demonstrations , displays and competitions . |
| 21 | However , this could halve the workforce and on one farm in Wales a young couple with a 10-months old child had a workload of 923 s.m.d. which demanded very full participation by the wife . |
| 22 | Scores of existing officers will be released for active duty by the creation of a police civil service . |
| 23 | The victim of a moments carelessless by an angler . |
| 24 | You hitchhiking in my rucksack all the way up here without me knowing and then doing a perfect impression of a police loud hailer . ’ |
| 25 | They will soon share a 6′ × 2′ × 2′ tank with a 10″ Black Shark , 12″ plec , 7″ Pangasius , and two Reed Fish . |
| 26 | All would be different , they believe , if the majority of decent and honest Catholics could escape the grip of fear , and they define the role of community relations police in West Belfast as attempting , in a small way , to loosen the Catholic community from the stranglehold of the paramilitaries , as the commentary on a police promotional video stated : ‘ The effort of trying to win the people 's minds and hearts away from terrorism is personified in the Community Relations Branch , whose members regularly attend meetings involving civilian bodies , public representatives , and discuss problems such as vandalism . ’ |
| 27 | Though he would not be drawn on the details , Smith 's presentation was sprinkled liberally with references to a Windows bulletin-board application that will appear next year . |
| 28 | It will be divided from the gravel and undergravel filter by a 3″ tall strip of glass across the tank . |