Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [noun] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , he was selected to carry up the bill of settlement to the Lords , and in 1702 piloted through Parliament a measure to attaint the pretender . |
| 2 | No they just seemed to know how to go about things a hell of a lot better than we did . |
| 3 | Nobody who read the Bible could legitimately doubt that miracles had once occurred ; the question whether they still did so became for doubters a test of their faith . |
| 4 | SEEING FOR MILES A story of love , devotion and miracles |
| 5 | The number plates sell for £80 a time , compared to a normal price of under £10 . |
| 6 | Squire Mackworth was similarly likely to possess more than this one estate , and sure enough land worth £5 a year is found in Normanton . |
| 7 | He wore his thinning hair short , and his collars long , preferring for dress a clash of tweeds and a striped shirt ; always a tie ; invariably a waistcoat . |
| 8 | ‘ Ca n't say I 'd like to go through lifewith a name like that . |
| 9 | The 10 pack goes for $310 a copy and the 25 for $278 . |
| 10 | The only knight there , Sir Henry Clinord of Carieton , was assessed at a wretched £8 in moveables , although his income was given as £80 a year . |
| 11 | Voluntary arrangements under the terms of Part VIII of the Insolvency Act 1986 provide for individuals a procedure akin to that which administration provides for companies . |
| 12 | Alchemists had expressed chemical reactions and recipes in symbolic form , employing for example a sign used by astrologers for the gloomy planet Saturn to express its associated metal , lead . |
| 13 | If we were to take a formal view of the entailments of such a declarative sentence ( like that , for example , expressed in Smith & Wilson , 1979 : 150f. ) , we would be obliged to accept as entailments a set of sentences which would include the following : |
| 14 | Obviously , if one particular question is compulsory and has for example a weighting of 1½ then you must allocate 50 per cent more time to this question than to the others . |
| 15 | Well that that depends on on how we define self containment , because erm self containment has for example a transport implication . |
| 16 | Blackbird Leys Leisure Centre alone counts for £600,000 a year . |
| 17 | Pablo Neruda , the unofficial Poet Laureate of Chile , and holder of the Stalin Prize , had pulled out , and departed for Cambridge a day earlier . |
| 18 | July 31 : Beagle D.5/180 Husky G-AVOD crashed after picking-up a banner at Crosland Moor airfield , Huddersfield , Yorks . |
| 19 | It looks as though there lies behind D a chronicle which received additions in Christ Church Canterbury , and at least one of those additions , on Æthelnoth 's journey to Rome , was possibly present in a version which reached St Augustine 's , where it was copied in a slightly modified form into the predecessor of E. St Augustine 's may also have received the 1023 entry in D , but abbreviated it to the single sentence which E now contains . |
| 20 | But a mild winter and plenty of rain means that this year the flowers have come into bloom a month early . |
| 21 | Firemen spent 24 hours keeping under control a fire in a barn which contained 80 tonnes of straw . |
| 22 | It might also cause the price of oil to soar above $50 a barrel and stay there for some months . |
| 23 | I regarded with distaste a group of sleek young yuppies in city suits , guffawing . |
| 24 | But the anticlerical spirit was turned against the archbishop and the traditional , worldly , married clergy of Milan , not against the church as such , and won in time a measure of support from the reformed papacy . |
| 25 | Following Iraq 's invasion of Kuwait on Aug. 2 , the price of oil rose from $16.18 a barrel ( July price ) to an average of $26.50 in the first 24 days of August , and reached a high of just over $41 in October . |
| 26 | By the end of the war Winnicott had left the actual practice of physical paediatrics behind , his outpatient clinic at Paddington Green becoming in effect a department of child psychiatry based on psychodynamic theory and on his particular way of using it . |
| 27 | He may have been prepared to accept from Anselm a call for restraint which he would have taken from no one else . |
| 28 | The reading and writing of whole numbers was looked at by asking pupils to write in numerals a number presented in words . |
| 29 | The other concern in the City Council 's evidence on H One er is this issue of distribution , I note Mr Davis 's comments about the difficulties of subdividing the Greater York allocation between different districts , and I I do acknowledge the difficulty in relation to Harrogate , and particularly Hambledon which obviously has a very small proportion of Greater York , on the other hand both Ryedale and Selby do contain a substantial proportion of the Greater York population , er based on my calculations of their er proportion of the population of Greater York which admittedly is a somewhat crude way of of doing estimates , but in the absence of of any other projections that was really the only way to do it , my estimate is that the er compared with the nine seven target of County Council would take in the could potentially be seen to be taking a share of four thousand two hundred in Ryedale and seventeen hundred for Selby , if you base it on their existing population distribution on er part outside the city , now I 'm not saying necessarily that 's how the way you would do it , but I I think it 's an indication that the scale of development in those two districts is quite significant in Greater York , our concern is that the policy as it currently stands does not give any real guidance as to the way in which distribution of development outside the city , but in Greater York , erm can be er should be di divided up , and I think the problem really occurs from the introduction of the new settlement into H One , erm I do n't want to stray into the H Two debate Chair , but I think it 's the fact that H One does include a figure for the new settlement , that the new settlement is not located within any particular district , but that all the district totals do include in effect a figure which is undetermined at this stage , that that would be absorbed by the new settlement , as I understand the policy at the moment , and I think that really does introduce a problem , erm because clearly all of the emerging districts wide local plans could be in conformity with the structure plan and not include the new settlement , I think it 's er interesting to note that the the D O E's recently published a good practice guide , on development plans , did particularly highlight the situation in Greater York , as a problem , as a shortcoming of the existing plan , and if I can just quote it , it does say this , on page forty three , it would seem appropriate for broad locations of new development to be established by means of an alteration to the structure plan . |
| 30 | The position is different where the employer advances to a plaintiff who is incapacitated from work a sum equivalent to his usual earnings upon the understanding that such sum should be repaid to the employer in the event of the plaintiff successfully suing the author of his injuries . |