Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cleveland and Yorkshire North MEP David Bowe has told campaigners that the EC could grant money for a feasibility study if the line whose future is threatened by British Steel 's decision to transfer Redmire quarry limestone from rail to roads from September was part of a regional transport plan … |
| 2 | A second Expeditionary Force was despatched across the Channel to France , but it WAS forced to return to Britain almost immediately because the French government asked Germany for an armistice , on 17th . |
| 3 | The research will examine the adoption of new technology within a local labour market using Sheffield as a case study . |
| 4 | Recognizing the influence of these figures , advertisers who wish to promote products in a youth market or to discourage drug abuse will summon up images of the alternative culture . |
| 5 | Goalkeeper Frazer Digby said he was given £1,000 as a loyalty payment , and a £50-a-game clean-sheet award when he did n't let in any goals . |
| 6 | Adrian Hadley , Salford 's £120,000 winger , has joined Widnes in a swap deal for Great Britain under-21 forward Jason Critchley and utility man Steve Wynne . |
| 7 | And indeed , Tarpy and McIntosh ( 1977 ) , using a procedure likely to be more sensitive ( involving , among other things , a weaker US and prolonged testing ) , were able to demonstrate substantial latent inhibition in rats given exposure to a variety of flavours before conditioning . |
| 8 | He has decided that the reason Iago proffers for his villainy ( especially the absurd idea that both Casio and Othello have slept with his wife ) are genuine , if deranged convictions , rather than the dispassionately improvised rationalisations of a mind that can not even account to itself for its limitless evil . |
| 9 | For example , the son who is chosen by his family to go and earn money in a town and city may achieve a certain status in the joint family — he has been chosen , after all , for his abilities and strength of mind — but he has to suffer months , even years , of separation from his wife and loss of all contact with those who love him . |
| 10 | This is how the professionals make money in a bear market , you know . |
| 11 | so you got mollycoddle in a way , have n't you , so you know you say |
| 12 | And the County Council 's consistently said to the West Yorkshire authorities , you must make provision for a range of sites in suitable locations to help draw er development that would othe otherwise come to North Yorkshire . |
| 13 | The law does make provision for a person on a child-abuse register to know and to challenge that decision but the information does not have to come through the school record . |
| 14 | Even when meaningful financial rates of return were calculated , and proved to be low , but just in excess of the cost of borrowing , decisions were taken to implement projects as a result of pressure for action . |
| 15 | On May 4th , before a meeting of the Council of the Americas , he said that the only way he could build support for a system of open trade was to apply the laws that Congress had put in place , and to hold America 's partners to agreements they have made . |
| 16 | ‘ Suits me , ’ agreed Lefevre with a grin . |
| 17 | Their father , John Wordsworth , a law-agent in Cockermouth , sent Dorothy to be brought up in Halifax by a relative , and before long had enrolled William in a boarding-school at Hawkshead . |
| 18 | The interpretation became part of a person 's experience . |
| 19 | A Steamship Owners ' Mutual Protection and Indemnity Association had been formed as early as 1874 which later became part of a North of England Protecting and Indemnity Association , and as early as 1878 shipowners of the north-east were complaining of the " tyrannical " attempts of a " dictatorial body of unionists " ' to impose demands on the industry , establishing in 1885 a Central Association of Shipowners of Sunderland , Glasgow and Newcastle to put their views to the Royal Commission of 1886 on Chamberlain 's proposed Shipping Bill . |
| 20 | Education became part of an act of political will . |
| 21 | It was to have formed part of a site with Yorkshire-based Morrisons supermarket storage centre and general industrial area . |
| 22 | The main advantage of using acrylic like a watercolour is that once it is applied , it dries to be water-resistant . |
| 23 | It simply turns icons into a menu list . |
| 24 | Since the Russian Revolution did not spread to the West , Communists became prisoners of a state with pretensions to a universal mission , and their identification with the foreign policy needs of the Soviet Union represented little advance over the subordination of an older generation of radicals to the interests of the City of London . |
| 25 | SINEAD O'CONNOR has received support from a group which tore up photos of the Pope outside New York 's St Patrick 's Cathedral . |
| 26 | ‘ Which one ? ’ countered Nessie with a smile . |
| 27 | Chairman I will endeavour to arrange discussions as a matter of extreme urgency and report back to January ninety three meeting of this Committee hopefully with problems resolved . |
| 28 | It is hardly likely that a local authority would grant permission for a development against which it had served an enforcement notice , but it could , of course , attach conditions ; and for the owner there is the usual right of appeal . |
| 29 | When he had left the University of California , Santa Barbara , he had taught literature at a school in Battle Creek , Michigan . |
| 30 | On a bend of the Colorado river we made camp for a month . |