Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] a [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His arrogance , his pompous manner , and the way he trades on his friendship with Major has offended colleagues perhaps jealous of his natural talents as a Commons and Whitehall performer . |
| 2 | They are also planning to renew calls for a Monopolies and Mergers Commission investigation into the electricity generators , National Power , PowerGen and Nuclear Electric . |
| 3 | In other words , in the contrast between a humanities and a science and technological education , there was an underlying gulf in the conceptions of what a higher education stood for ; and it was Snow 's failure to recognize that that lay at the heart of Leavis ' attack on Snow 's association of the two cultures . ’ |
| 4 | Archaeologists have been recreating the bronze age cremation of a women and child — by burning a dead sheep . |
| 5 | Archaeologists have been recreating the bronze age cremation of a women and child — by burning a dead sheep . |
| 6 | Spreadeagled on the roof of the car in a scissors or St Andrew 's Cross position , he concentrated on holding on and not losing his balance as the train gathered speed under the shadow of the Westway and rocked past the desolate terraces of north Kensington . |
| 7 | Ask any player who has been unfortunate enough to fire a ball into the thick marram grass of a dune on a links and he 'll tell you there is only one way out — pick it up and start again . |
| 8 | The high degree of CEO involvement already noted is an integrating factor and another is the strong orientation of FRG industry to a standards and systems approach . |
| 9 | The outlook for patients after the diagnosis of cancer of the exocrine pancreas is uniformly poor and suggests the existence of a mechanism(s) that may have a role in promoting tumour growth . |
| 10 | Mr Symington was on the board of a savings and loan , as Mr Goddard 's advertisements allege , but he resigned in 1984 when the thrift was still in good shape . |
| 11 | 6 Draw sketches of an isosceles and an equilateral triangle of any size . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | At Nailsworth near Stroud , ramraiders crashed a car into the window of a newsagents and stole four hundred pounds worth of cigarettes . |
| 14 | There is another concept of membership — market membership of a futures and options market . |
| 15 | May I support what my hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham , Selly Oak ( Mr. Beaumont-Dark ) has just said in urging the Government to give serious consideration to the establishment of a Securities and Exchange Commission in Britain . |
| 16 | Edward said , turning his august profile with a politeness that Emily did n't believe necessarily to be lasting . |
| 17 | ‘ did cause wasteful employment of the police ’ This point means that the offender actually caused police time to be wasted in one of the three ways listed at point 4 , i.e. falsely reporting a possible offence , danger to a person(s) or property or that the reporter had material information . |
| 18 | Habash was placed briefly in custody while in a Paris hospital to be questioned by an investigating magistrate about an arms and explosive cache found near Paris in 1986 and about several bombings and hijackings . |
| 19 | Grand Met maintains it had to issue the leases after a Monopolies and Mergers Commission report which said the six big brewers could not own more than 2,000 pubs . |
| 20 | So I flipped some cattle from the farm of and right between Egilsay and Rousay just a short distance , oh maybe a quarter of a miles or thereby , and oh did the shipping perfectly well and and went home and by the time I got home the message had arrived back before me that the there were two old cattle among the younger ones that the fellow had put there just to feed up and the last we saw of them was going up over the island and that was okay we thought everything was okay . |
| 21 | This event also marked the formal opening of a sports and culture week for primary school pupils , as well as an annual town trade exhibition in which LASMO took part . |
| 22 | There are also some important questions here , which are very hard to resolve , about the way to link together professional autonomy in dealing with an individual relationship with a clients and a policy-based concern ( or ‘ public concern ’ ) about the way in which professionals allocate their services as a whole . |
| 23 | Ideally a software interface will exist to connect the cartographic , tabular and graphical output from a GIS and the report-generation capabilities of a high-quality word-processor , thus allowing the results provided by the GIS to be incorporated directly into a document . |
| 24 | ROCKER Axl Rose was yesterday found guilty of damaging property and assault at a Guns N' Roses concert which turned into a riot . |
| 25 | In retirement he showed new skills as the owner of a sweets and tobacco shop in Kirkby Lonsdale . |
| 26 | But he revealed that details of a users and carers group to monitor implementation of community care would be forthcoming next month . |
| 27 | Tony then joined men 's captain David Havelock in a doubles and the Bourne paid managed to beat the Parun/Knight pairing in a lively and hard-fought match . |
| 28 | Act 4 of 1984 contained detailed provisions of unfair competition and was re-enacted by statute 86 of 1990 prohibiting ‘ unfair conduct on the market ’ and setting up a virtual equivalent of a monopolies and mergers commission . |
| 29 | NO-one was hurt when terrorists launched a mortar bomb attack on a police and Army station at Crossmaglen , in South Armagh . |
| 30 | 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 . |