Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] [verb] a [noun prp] " in BNC.

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31 25 April : a night raid destroyed a Maryland ( AR705 ) and a Magister at Luqa .
32 ‘ National police forces will soon be quite unable to cope as a freshly unified and borderless European consumer paradise becomes a Disneyland for criminals , ’ said Zachert .
33 The University Opera Club performs notable pieces outside the standard repertory and the Savoy Opera Club presents a Gilbert and Sullivan opera each year .
34 For instance , a letter to me from the Highways Department mentions a Forrest Road — Lothian St. cycletrack , which it says has had preliminary approval from the Transportation Committee and was ‘ shortly to be forwarded to the Department 's design and construction staff for detailing the works ’ .
35 The sub-schema DDL and the DML are extensions to the Cobol language , but even the schema DDL has a Cobol ‘ flavour ’ , though it is supposed to be language-independent .
36 The video sensing is done by a robust and high-definition solid-state imaging device called a CCD .
37 A $1,000 single-user version allows a Unix workstation to become a NetWare client for file and print services .
38 A common modern technique is similar to guitar finger style using a CC-G-C or a similar fifth and octave tuning which gives greater versatility without re-tuning and can be further extended by the introduction of an extra fret between the 6th and 7th .
39 Simonds notes that ‘ Nearly opposite to St Pancras Church stood a Toll-Bar , and to prevent horsemen avoiding payment , some posts were erected on the footpath , between which we had to pass .
40 Gionesca wore a bedsheet and a necklace of rabbit-bones , and led four pall-bearers carrying a plastic carton containing a Marlboro butt .
41 A new control panel provides a Mac-like configuration tool for Tenon 's Unix , which can be used to schedule work between Macintosh and Unix processors , reconfigure the network and network servers and set the number of available buffers for Unix data caching .
42 In 1941 , Pan American began a Brazil-West Africa-Cairo service with British permission , intended mainly as a supply route for Allied forces , and necessitating the construction by Pan American of appropriate airports in British and French colonial territory , A new company , Pan American Air Ferries , was created to operate the service , which connected with Pan American 's existing network in Latin America .
43 Function generator using a PLL produces square and sine or triangular waves from 20Hz to 18MHz .
44 A Beech G-17S was hammered down for $ 195,000 , and Bob Pond purchased a Denny Lynch-owned Douglas A-26 Invader for $ 135,000 .
45 Britain has been taking part in a limited relief programme using a Hercules from RAF Lyneham to fly supplies from Zagreb to Sarajevo , Bosnia 's capital .
46 Then keeper Peter Turtle stopped a John Smyth pile-driver , but made a quick recovery to grab the ball as it was trickling over the line .
47 The one Oxford person celebrating a Cambridge win .
48 Her legs brought her to a halt in front of a glass case containing a Leeds dinner-service .
49 RISC Management also claims Microsoft Corp has a Sparc version of NT running .
50 The archaeology students from Newcastle University brought a JCB earthmover to Clarks Yard , off High Row , to make a preliminary search for medieval artefacts .
51 Cervical lymph node biopsy showed a non-Hodgkin 's lymphoma of follicular type .
52 After wartime service in the US Army Intelligence Corps , Walton used his savings and a bank loan to buy a Ben Franklin variety store in Newport , Arkansas .
53 A SWINDON publican has been forced by the Walt Disney Corporation to abandon a Mickey Mouse theme for his public house , named Cartoons , because of copyright enfringement .
54 A police spokesman said a Vauxhall Nova driven by Mrs Cowley had been travelling east , while the Mercedes articulated truck driven by John Thompson of Hartlepool was travelling west .
55 Maybe Auckland air fares are n't really so expensive ; for flying training a New Zealand summer beats a UK winter , hands down !
56 A Turkish print worker alleged a Harley Street doctor paid £2,500 for him to donate a kidney to a patient he believed was a fellow countryman .
57 Here , I discovered the Met Office boasted a Waaf sergeant , a corporal , and seven LACWs like myself .
58 On his desk , a portable phone and an A4 Filofax ; to his right a hi-fi system resembling a Richard Rogers building ; to his left , a waste disposal unit … for demo tapes .
59 Dancing was popular ; the film crew covered a YWCA dance , a band dance and folk dancing .
60 Above the obvious guitar input sits a MIDI Learn switch ; this only functions with the MIDI option fitted and allows effect and sound parameter settings to be saved .
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