Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] [vb base] [prep] a " in BNC.
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1 | More realistic accounts of the budget constraint allow for a level of unearned income Y u and the presence of an overtime premium on the basic wage rate when the standard work week is exceeded . |
2 | Officials asked for money to help the Middlesbrough club survive after a series of fires at their Normanby Road ground . |
3 | Ditherers and mums-the-worders who 'd make even the fossilised Football Association Council look like a Brains Trust . |
4 | Logica Plc is letting the Callserver Unix-based speech and call processing activities developed at its Cambridge research lab go in a management buyout for £187,000 and up to £1.3m over the next five years . |
5 | Logica Plc is letting the Callserver Unix-based speech and call processing activities developed at its Cambridge research lab go in a management buyout for £187,000 and up to £1.3m over the next five years . |
6 | In the United States average stay for a patient aged 65 + decreased from 13 days in 1967 to 8.8 days in 1986 ( Eisdorfer et al . |
7 | Eighteenth-century Bristol was an environmental disaster area with problems of atmospheric pollution that would make present-day Mexico City seem like a health resort . |
8 | On top might be a porcelain book open at a bit of holy text , plus a photograph , or a porcelain cluster of pink and red roses with sharp frilled edges . |
9 | And for the youngsters , the Old Swan makes the old village hall seem like a hangover . |
10 | In this world of clean fast-running water , of inimitable oaks and meadows which made the Bayeux tapestry look like a traycloth , there was no place for somersaulted cars and carnage and broken bodies lying on the wet and bloody tarmac . |
11 | This centre for the war wounded , holding up to 600 patients at a time , makes an NHS ward look like a palatial five-star hotel . |
12 | Village school prepare for a new history lesson |
13 | Cleveland Outlook social activities group meet for a talk on Victim Support , the Settlement , Union Street , Middlesbrough , 8pm . |
14 | There is strong evidence that fraud and irregularity against the Community budget continue on a large scale and that controls within the system are not sufficiently effective throughout the Community . |
15 | Details of the tax deal emerge in a confidential letter from Peat Marwick Mitchell , BAe 's tax advisers , showing that the company could offset Rover 's losses for tax purposes for three years without fear of a challenge from tax officials . |
16 | The civilization flourished for more than a millennium until , about 1400 BC , the comparatively nearby volcanic island of Thera erupted in a fashion that makes the 1883 Krakatoa event look like a mere squib . |
17 | A trip to North London in the middle of the week is hardly an inviting prospect but the Cube Club at the Bull And Gate in Kentish Town on Tuesday , Wednesday and Thursday nights has made the nearby tube station seem like a home from home for the discerning music lover . |
18 | A trip to North London in the middle of the week is hardly an inviting prospect but the Cube Club at the Bull And Gate in Kentish Town on Tuesday , Wednesday and Thursday nights has made the nearby tube station seem like a home from home for the discerning music lover . |
19 | Only with the Conservative ministry of Sir Robert Peel from 1841 to 1846 did the great switch to a laissez-faire policy begin on a broader scale . |
20 | While Lady Chatterley outrages viewers on BBC1 , and Carlton Television invest in a major three-part drama called A Woman 's Guide to Adultery ( to be screened in the autumn ) Ray has pulled off a major scoop now . |
21 | Finally , Oxford City Council are launching a low alcohol week today to encourage people to drink less ; alcohol-free tasting sessions at a local community centre coincide with a new balanced alcohol strategy campaign . |
22 | An artist I met that evening at Dr Caskie 's suggested that I exchange my tourist food permit for a civil emergency ration card , and do my own marketing and cooking . |
23 | Yorkshire TV insist on a household name in return for their £30,000a-year sponsorship money . |
24 | A CHELMSFORD student spent a month in eastern Europe helping a former Iron Curtain country develop into a tourist 's mecca . |
25 | And this is one of the first , on the first day , he was astonished to see , an older male baboon intervene in a fight between two younger ones and stop it . |
26 | How can a sweat shirt come from a garden ? |
27 | How can a sweat shirt come from a garden ? |
28 | The parish records of St. Martin by Looe Church refer to a seventy foot whale ‘ … driven ashore , dead , near Millendreath ’ in 1718 . |
29 | Complex protocol demanded that Court dress conform to a set of governing principles . |
30 | In the Bellsdyke unit , the last four years have seen a successful and busy day hospital open in a former town centre house , a community health centre ( providing continuing care as well as acute and day hospital ) , warden supervised flats , supported housing projects and addiction outreach teams established . |