Example sentences of "[verb] and a [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After Hillary 's death a Richard Hillary Trust was instituted and a Hillary archive was accumulated at Trinity College , Oxford . |
| 2 | Monopoly power would not increase , but price would fall and a welfare gain would ensue . |
| 3 | It was a masterpiece of international cinema which brought Korda all the financial backing he could need and a dream deal with United Artists that led eventually to a partnership in the American company . |
| 4 | Dust extraction plant had been installed and a vacuum cleaning system became operational . |
| 5 | It is on a much smaller scale than those held just after the Second World War when animals and livestock were included and a show ring was erected for the horse and pony events . |
| 6 | The situation eased , at least temporarily , when the Lithuanian declaration of independence was suspended by parliamentary vote on 29 June , allowing the blockade to be lifted and a negotiation process to begin . |
| 7 | One of the highlights is a sketch book containing prints taken in the 1840s of people , ships , rigging and a street scene , which is estimated to sell for £20–30,000 ( $35–55,000 ) . |
| 8 | All accidents , however small , must be reported and an accident report form completed . |
| 9 | Martin Brundle put the Brabham-Yamaha into 12th place on the grid — despite not having the benefit of special fuel for qualifying and a rev limit of 12,000rpm as opposed to the 13,000rpm-plus enjoyed by other V12 users . |
| 10 | The JOB relation will have to be modified and a SALES relation formed . |
| 11 | A long-running legal wrangle ensued with Gasco assets ultimately being frozen and a court undertaking secured from St Piran not to reduce its UK assets below £7m , sufficient to cover the SIB claim . |
| 12 | About thirty in each suite to differ and a master key and as I say there was five suites and they had to make a key that 'd open everyone of the fifty-five . |
| 13 | Two hundred people were evacuated and a swimming pool cleared as firemen fought the blaze for three hours . |
| 14 | If cholesterol is raised , a cholesterol-lowering diet is recommended and a diet sheet offered . |
| 15 | The pavement beside Alen Glen 's was smashed and a Corporation junction box that had stood outside Jackson 's Dog House in Dundas Street lay up a close . |
| 16 | Meanwhile , the kitchen was being gutted and an architect friend drew up an entirely new conception for the space , involving limed Spanish oak , wrought-iron brackets ( many bought at David de Spenceley 's antiques salvage warehouse in Fulham ) and 300-watt pinpoints of light hidden in the ceiling . |
| 17 | In a study of consumer preferences for brands of tea , a random sample of telephone numbers is selected and a telephone enquiry made as to the brand in current use at each address . |
| 18 | The Fairies Hill Lock Cut and a colliery basin emerge together on the right midway between the railway viaduct and another around the following bend , to be followed soon after by a further bridge for a dismantled railway , such was the proliferation of lines in this area . |
| 19 | Tonight expected to be dry with mist and fog patches forming and a ground frost in many places , the minimum temperature is down to one degree Celsius , thirty four Fahrenheit . |
| 20 | On these occasions the river hardly moved and a stick float virtually stands still , especially when an upstream wind combines with the low , slow water . |
| 21 | The circle of steel expanded and a Repo Man approached . |
| 22 | In 1834 Playne and Smith were working the mill and in that year , with sometimes inconsistent water supplies and the need to improve efficiency , the engine house was built and a beam engine installed . |
| 23 | That diary , for instance , seven months out of date , the lipstick she no longer wore , several letters waiting to be answered and a charity appeal leaflet … and , ah , yes , there it was . |
| 24 | Where two continents collide neither experiences significant subduction but some crustal thickening occurs and a mountain belt is formed . |
| 25 | Agriculture was briefly disrupted and a manufacturing recession , exacerbated by a drop in military orders after the Crimean War , a severe financial crisis in 1858 , and a fall in cotton imports during the American Civil War , was only overcome in the mid 1860s . |
| 26 | A desk study to establish a basic structural and stratigraphic framework for the UK sector of the Rockall continental margin has been made and a work programme including the acquisition of data has been designed . |
| 27 | It would therefore be very easy for the deadline to pass without the tax payment being made and an interest charge would therefore start to accumulate . |
| 28 | During the early years of the organization 's existence , these problems were foreseen and a discussion paper which proposed a simple computer based manpower information system was written in 1971 . |
| 29 | The big black car stopped and a police officer opened the back door . |
| 30 | By November it has usually been decided where the money is to go and a presentation evening is arranged . |