Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] [prep] a [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paul A. Bilzerian , 38 , chairman of Singer Co. and a stock speculator , was on Sept. 27 , 1989 , fined $1,500,000 and sentenced to four years in prison — the longest prison sentence given for a Wall Street criminal . |
| 2 | ( 2 ) An appeal under this section shall be lodged with the sheriff clerk within 14 days from the date of the decision appealed against or in a case where reasons for a decision have been given under section 18(2) of this Act , within 14 days from the date of receipt of those reasons , which shall be presumed to have been received on the day after the date on which they were posted , except that in the case of reasons posted on a Friday or Saturday , they shall be presumed to have been received on the Monday next following . |
| 3 | Quote ‘ Chelsea looked like a village vicar caught in a New York revolving door ’ ! ! ! |
| 4 | This means being able to take images received from a Macintosh and save them in a format known as PCX which programs such as CorelDRAW can import . |
| 5 | They 're coming in on a starship disguised as a Boeing 747 so that the locals wo n't suspect until it 's too late , but when they land at London Heathrow their baggage gets lost ; all their heavy weaponry ends up in Miami and gets mixed up with the luggage of some psychiatrists attending an international symposium on anal-fixation after death , and : Freudians take over the world with the captured high-tech . |
| 6 | Another first was the first Scholarship won by a Stockport Grammar School girl , Marie Calnan , to St. Peter 's College , Oxford , in 1984 . |
| 7 | John Dunsheath , a 20year-old food packer , had been seen trying the door handles of cars parked outside a Renault dealers in Weld Road , Southport . |
| 8 | John Dunsheath , a 20-year-old food packer , had been seen trying the door handles of cars parked outside a Renault dealers in Weld Road , Southport . |
| 9 | Of his early paintings little is known , as he destroyed most of them between 1941 and 1944 , although as early as 1934 a crucifixion exhibited in a Curzon Street basement was singled out for praise by the critic Herbert Read . |
| 10 | Today he wore a tiepin shaped like a St Bridget 's cross , of badly tarnished grey metal . |
| 11 | Derek Mountfield and Kevin Gage were horribly out of touch ; the scalpel tongues went for Chris Price in that peculiarly cutting way reserved for baldies playing badly ; and the introduction of Ormondroyd , the forward built like a Handsworth tower block , brought cruelly sarcastic cheers . |
| 12 | But they 'll have one man with the nerve needed for a D-day showdown . |
| 13 | The Vauxhall wire wheel based on a Rudge-Whitworth patent . |
| 14 | The Liverpool Stipendiary Magistrate dismissed summonses brought against a Liverpool Constable for selling tickets in an unauthorised lottery … the Constable had got into financial difficulties owing to a serious illness of his wife and the ill-health of his two children . |
| 15 | When reading books illustrated by a Maurice Sendak or a Charles Keeping , children are brought into contact with the visual ideas of artists — ideas of those who would extend their ability to see works of art ( and the world about them ) with increasingly-experienced eyes . |
| 16 | Five Darlington schools are sending five children each to Haughton School for six weekly sessions run under a Lord 's Taverners scheme called Cricket For You in 92 . |
| 17 | A photograph taken from a BBC video clearly shows the young paceman doctoring the ball during the fifth Test match at the Oval . |
| 18 | The situation deteriorated on Dec. 21 when Myanman border guards fired on a Bangladesh Rifles camp near Ukhia Upazila on the Myanma-Bangladesh border , killing one soldier and wounding seven others . |
| 19 | Alexandra Smith , Amber Mills , Samantha Butcher and Joanne Baillie of the 4th Shanklin Pack enjoy a cup of tea poured by a Tetley tea man at a giant tea party to mark 1991 as Year of the Maze . |
| 20 | Apparently he was quite charming , but as the basis of his charm seemed to rest upon the un-startling stratagem of addressing every female he encountered by the fullest possible version of her name ( so that every Julie became a Juliana , every Dot extended to a Dorothea , all Marys became Mariana , Sues Susanna , etc . |
| 21 | The concentration obtained with a BM strip in the accident and emergency department was 17 mmol/l , but the laboratory measurement was 82 mmol/l . |
| 22 | While both the BSP and the UDF had called for calm , the UDF had refused to sign a BSP-inspired non-violence declaration ( which many opposition parties rejected as a BSP propaganda ploy ) , issuing instead on May 27 its own non-violence declaration , which included the rejection of violence , government overthrow by force and racial discrimination . |
| 23 | The teenage witness described to a Londonderry coroner how Gary McClay ( 13 ) was crushed when the posts collapsed near their Ballymagroarty homes . |
| 24 | On the question of a Syrian troop withdrawal , Syrian Vice-President Abdel Halim Khaddam said in an interview published in a Beirut newspaper on July 15 " We shall still be here [ in September ] and beyond … we shall stay " , arguing that the process of constitutional reform in Lebanon was not yet complete . |
| 25 | Olympia & York missed a $62m annual interest payment late last month on an $800m Eurobond secured by a New York office block . |
| 26 | The nearest he gets to his usual form is during a discussion about the Mondays ' donation to the Hard Rock Café , coming to the grinning conclusion he should send ‘ a bong made from a Boddingtons beer tin , a packet of Rizla , some tinfoil , an empty skag packet and the sheet me and Bez slept on when we shared a flat together . |
| 27 | For example , work executed will be measured on a Tuesday or Wednesday and the resultant payment made on a Thursday or Friday ; that is to say , two days in arrears . |
| 28 | The photographs also indicated that the original had two trains ( going and striking ) and indeed there were some interesting notes prepared by a Dr Byrom who was an enthusiastic amateur clock repairer , and who overhauled the clock in 1970 , but these were couched in very general terms . |
| 29 | This includes a module with T9000 , 8Mb Dynamic RAM and T805 processor connected to a Sparc workstation . |
| 30 | This includes a module with T9000 , 8Mb memory and T805 processor connected to a Sparc workstation . |