Example sentences of "[verb] an [noun sg] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | They argued that when a party had won an election on a given programme , it showed that the public wanted these measures to be passed . |
| 2 | Sir Thomas Sopwith — who had won an award as an engineer , in 1910 , for flying from Kent to Belgium — formed his company , ‘ Sopworth Aviation ’ and built aircraft used extensively during the war , such as the Sopworth Camel . |
| 3 | The first time a UK manufacturer has won an award for an ICN product . |
| 4 | Environmental issues has won an award in a competition sponsored by The Guardian newspaper . |
| 5 | No teacher or school has ever won an argument with a parent . |
| 6 | A Cambridge café owner has won an appeal against a £13,500 fine imposed last month under Food Hygiene Regulations , after the judge accepted that she did not have the money to pay it . |
| 7 | Can I buy an overdrive for a Range Rover ( there 's so many discount offers in the mag ) or get a used one and make the linkage myself ? |
| 8 | And you know how willing the commons will be to grant an aid for a foreign queen ! |
| 9 | At least Gooch has been told he does not need an operation on a troublesome knee and will be fully fit for the start of the season . |
| 10 | For this , it continued , I would need an inserter like a little spatula . |
| 11 | The 31-year-old needs an operation on a calf injury which dogged him in the weeks before Saturday 's FA Cup final defeat by Liverpool . |
| 12 | The 31-year-old needs an operation on a calf injury which dogged him in the weeks before Saturday 's FA Cup final defeat by Liverpool . |
| 13 | On his return home in the late 1950s he did a stint as a tea planter in Assam , before becoming an executive with a private firm in Bombay . |
| 14 | Travel — Holidays On The Move : On an old boat to Luxor Tom Pocock cruises down the Nile and finds himself becoming an Egyptologist in a matter of days |
| 15 | A council covers an area with a population ranging from 200 to 600 people and is elected for a six-month or one-year period of office . |
| 16 | He drew an analogy with an army : the nucleus of the fertilized egg contained the whole army and as the egg cleaved , so different brigades , like the muscle brigade , or the cartilage brigade , would be distributed to different cells . |
| 17 | Sadly resigned to the change from three divisions to two , Dr. Leadbetter drew an analogy to a three-legged stool and pondered on the future stability of his establishment . |
| 18 | It is obvious that we should have talks but I am not willing to be told that the talks can only take place at one location and I am not willing to accept an invitation to a slanging match . |
| 19 | When Kemalpasazade presented himself to Hacihasanzade and requested that he be appointed to the Taslik ( Ali Bey ) medrese in Edirne which was then vacant , Hacihasanzade urged him to give up the thought of receiving a medrese and to accept an appointment to a kadilik instead . |
| 20 | Parliament itself could substitute an act for an earlier one . |
| 21 | After all , one could hardly describe an appointment with a can of paint and a roller as ‘ pressing ’ . |
| 22 | Laser beams consist of photons which , though small by atomic standards , have a cumulative inertial effect , Dr Carl Wieman of the University of Colorado , who heads one research group , says that cooling an atom with a laser beam is like trying to slow down movement of a heavy object by bombarding it with ping-pong balls . |
| 23 | The form also incorporates an application for an interim order . |
| 24 | Payment should include an element for a nominated number of attendances per month on-site , with additional visits paid on an agreed daily/hourly rate plus costs . |
| 25 | Martin Shipton 's interesting article Keeping the green light burning ( Echo April 1 ) quoted the views of Labour , Conservative and Liberal Democrat spokes-people on the environment but did not include an interview with a Green Party representative . |
| 26 | The major restriction had , of course , been the war , following which I entered an apprenticeship as a baker . |
| 27 | As you will know , because we were one of the finalists last year , we ca n't get into the finals of Britain in Bloom this year , nor can we win an award as a ‘ first time entry ’ in the Best Kept Village competition . |
| 28 | also relied on the reluctance of Viscount Simonds expressed in In re ‘ Wonderland , ’ Cleethorpes [ 1965 ] A.C. 58 , 70–71 , to construe an ambiguity in a statute in a manner which derogated from common law rights . |
| 29 | But this principle does not constrain the courts to invent an ambiguity or to construe an ambiguity in a way which does not make good sense . |
| 30 | Please send an s.a.e. with a cheque made out to York Early Music Festivals Ltd. to YEMF . |