Example sentences of "[verb] [noun pl] [prep] a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For many programmers , this is their first taste of trying to sell houses in a buyers ' market , of static wages and of finding that demand for their skills no longer outstrips supply . |
| 2 | A report , published yesterday by Alan Bishop , chief inspector of prisons for Scotland , says members of a prisoners ' alcohol abuse group have given talks at secondary schools and have attended meetings of parent-teacher associations and community education committees . |
| 3 | The Labour Party unveiled plans for a women 's ministry , which would have a seat in the cabinet . |
| 4 | ( 5 ) A licence under this Part of this Act may , in a case where it is proposed to construct or convert premises for a seamen 's canteen , be a provisional licence to be made final after the proposal has been carried out ; and Part II of the said Schedule 2 shall have effect as respects such licences . |
| 5 | Farmer Jack Gibson submitted plans for a visitors ' centre , caravan site , holiday cottages , log cabins and homes for sale at Hall Hill Farm , near Lanchester , which attracted 20,000 visitors to open days last year . |
| 6 | Well I mean you ca n't have rules without a police force , can you , and since there 's no poets ' union from which you could be expelled , clearly whether there are any rules depends entirely on the poets themselves and their readers , and everybody knows that until about the end of the nineteenth century almost all poetry was written in regular metre and regular patterns and , except for blank verse , in regular rhyme , and that this is no longer so and now you would either be deliberately old fashioned or you would have some special purpose , I think , if you wrote your poems in traditional rhyming schemes . |
| 7 | Trying to keep marines in a 30″ tank |
| 8 | She hated the way boys looked at you , as if they were giving marks at a cattle show . |
| 9 | Bulgaria unilaterally suspended repayment of debt principal to commercial bank creditors on March 29 , 1990 , and early in April requested negotiations on a repayments moratorium and new lines of credit while reforms were enacted . |
| 10 | It is clear from the Act that ‘ proceedings before a judicial authority ’ can be taken to include proceedings before a children 's hearing : a children 's hearing is a ‘ tribunal , body or person holding power ’ under statute ‘ to determine any question affecting the rights , privileges , obligations or liabilities of any person , or to receive evidence affecting or determining any such question ’ . |
| 11 | Spence , 57 , of South Shields , Tyneside , contacted a hospital saying she wanted to raise funds for a children 's unit . |
| 12 | Nadia has already seen a good deal of Scotland , and also went on a school trip to France and Belgium when pupils of St Mary 's accompanied members of a pensioners ' lunch club to find out about the European Community and the European Parliament . |
| 13 | They are also planning to renew calls for a Monopolies and Mergers Commission investigation into the electricity generators , National Power , PowerGen and Nuclear Electric . |
| 14 | Around five thousand converged on the Commons to lobby their MPs and the Labour leader sought to step up the pressure on wavering conservatives at a pensioners ' rally . |
| 15 | CARE workers at a children 's home were unaware that a 15-year-old girl in their charge was going out to work as a prostitute . |