Example sentences of "[verb] a [noun pl] [unc] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | McColl is the first Scot to have won a boys ' winter series title . |
| 2 | Another happy collaboration between the Sports Council 's Greater London and South East Region Movement and Dance Liaison Group and the Westminster City Council resulted in a superb participatory weekend of movement and dance held at the Seymour Leisure Centre , 24–25 October , at which the Medau Society provided a Teachers ' Workshop and a Recreational Class , both taught by Margaret Charlwood . |
| 3 | He once tried to found a citizens ' police under the ‘ Fifth Estate ’ to monitor the doings of the FBI and the Central Intelligence Agency . |
| 4 | By 1701 Myddlewood had attracted a squatters ' colony of fourteen cottages that formed a distinct , new settlement between Myddle village and the hamlet of Marton . |
| 5 | He refused to accept a travellers ' site at Loch Laggan as a fixed address for Frost , a first offender , who offered to pay at £10 per fortnight . |
| 6 | ( I ) " licence " does not include a seamen 's canteen licence ( see 5.139(1) ) , nor a refreshment licence or an entertainment licence ( see subs . |
| 7 | However , the only individual who appears to have a plan that will appeal to the developing world is Dr. Mustapha Tolba , head of the United Nations Enviroment Plan who proposed a users ' tax paid by the consumers of ozone depleting chemicals , to be collected by governments and used by developing countries both to modernise their production systems and to compensate the multi-nationals for the transfer of their most advanced energy effective technology . |
| 8 | In fact , pursuant to r 6.80 , no resolutions can be taken at the meeting of creditors other than : ( i ) a resolution to appoint a named insolvency practitioner to be trustee or two or more insolvency practitioners as joint trustees ; ( ii ) a resolution to establish a creditors ' committee ; ( iii ) ( unless a creditors ' committee has been established ) a resolution specifying the terms of the trustee 's remuneration or to defer consideration of that matter ; ( iv ) if two or more trustees are appointed , a resolution specifying whether acts are to be done by both or all of them , or by only one ; ( v ) a resolution adjourning the meeting for not more than three weeks ; and ( vi ) any other resolutions which the chairman thinks it right to allow for special reasons . |
| 9 | The folk of these towns and villages took their convicted witches , stood them in pitch-filled barrels and set them afire : in Forres stands a witches ' stone , site of such burnings — in thunder , lightning , or in rain ? |
| 10 | So it was with some surprise a few years ago that our attention was drawn from the dull French film noir onscreen to the back of the cinema , where a couple were resolving a lovers ' squabble . |
| 11 | At a meeting tomorrow , councillors will discuss a governors ' resolution that future payments be made only for work completed satisfactorily . |
| 12 | The women 's singles championship went to Joan Blackett who beat Gwen Wharton 21–13 while John Hanmer beat Les Appleby 21–13 to secure a men 's singles championship final place in a breathtaking match dominated by drawing to the jack end after end . |
| 13 | The housekeeper 's room even contains a servants ' library with books in three categories : ‘ One of books of divinity and morality : Another for housewifry ; A third of history , true adventures , voyages and innocent amusement ’ — the last , one notes , does not seem to include the novel . |
| 14 | The discretion of the licensing board to refuse to grant a seamen 's canteen licence is limited by this section . |
| 15 | Kinane , aged 30 , rode the Irish filly The Caretaker to win Europe 's most valuable prize for two-year-olds , the Cartier Million , in Dublin on Saturday , but almost as soon as he had passed the post to complete his lucrative double on Carroll House , who is trained by Michael Jarvis at Newmarket , the klaxon sounded ominously to indicate a stewards ' inquiry . |
| 16 | With all the confidence of youth , he had handbills printed that T. Sparks would be opening a Gentlemen 's Hairdressing Saloon at Number so and so North Street . |
| 17 | He contributed time and money generously to Warrington : he was mayor in 1882 , alderman in 1885 , and freeman in 1891 ; he built a working-men 's mission , and supported schools , the library , the infirmary , and other institutions . |
| 18 | If a body approved by the Secretary of State have provided or propose to provide a seamen 's canteen the need for which has been certified by him after consultation with the Merchant Navy Welfare Board , the licensing board within whose jurisdiction the said canteen is or will be situated may grant a licence under this Part of this Act authorising the person who is the manager of the canteen to sell alcoholic liquor in the canteen . |
| 19 | In a very different vein , Sellafield nuclear plant has a visitors ' centre , which is surprisingly popular with tourists . |
| 20 | And that 's why I think it 's very important that erm the City Council , for example , has a Women 's Committee and Ann , obviously , will be able to talk much more about that than I can . |
| 21 | How , I mean , is it just each village that has a Women 's Institute ? |
| 22 | Oxford University also has a womens ' basketball team . |
| 23 | They will have to find the right balance between rule by unwieldy committee and by a chosen few ( or fewer , as at Clifford Chance , which has a partners ' council but where power , in practice , largely rests with the managing partner ) . |
| 24 | To answer the understandable need to touch and be involved with animals , the park has a Children 's Farmyard . |
| 25 | The pool ( open from 1 April ) has a children 's section and bar . |
| 26 | And they dismissed an inspectors ' report which doubted standards were being maintained . |
| 27 | Like every other lively class the Topper has an owners ' association which organizes rallies , open meetings , national and international championships . |
| 28 | The interim report to 30 June 1992 of Eurotunnel , the Anglo French group responsible for constructing and running the Channel Tunnel , contains an auditors ' attestation in accordance with French reporting regulations . |
| 29 | Nigel Profitt , 21 , of Erdington , Birmingham , and three other City supporters , were told by John Pryce , chairing a magistrates ' court hearing yesterday : ‘ You are nothing more than looters . |
| 30 | Top ticket price at Washington 's Uptown Theatre was £6,500 , the lowest £150 , while about 300 inner-city youngsters went free as proceeds boosted a children 's charity . |