Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sheriff Charles Palmer deferred sentence for six months for Gilmartin to make a donation of £100 . |
| 2 | Others are easy enough for beginners to have a go at . |
| 3 | In contrast to 1956 , when Khruschev 's call for reform in the East had soon led to a Soviet clampdown , Gorbachev 's desire for change included an acceptance of political pluralism . |
| 4 | The projects chosen for support consider a number of issues which include accountability and social and economic efficiency , public and third part accountability , sectional interests and the general interest , and evidence of the efficacy of concertation in macro-economic policy . |
| 5 | Er er Madam Speaker er non-wage costs never get into employees wage packets but do make it more expensive for employers to provide a job . |
| 6 | John Cleland , 40 , a garage proprietor and professional racing driver for Vauxhall bought a plot of land with his wife Stephanie , for £10,000 at Peebles , near Edinburgh four years ago . |
| 7 | The NJCC for Building published a Guidance Note on Collateral Warranties and a Procedure Note on Tendering for Building Works without Bills of Quantities . |
| 8 | SALVAGE specialists last night called off attempts to refloat a ship aground on an uninhabited island in the Pentland Firth — as pressure mounted for far tougher controls on vessels using the channel . |
| 9 | ( 2 ) Loss of status through inability to complete an apprenticeship ( Dunk v George Waller & Son Ltd [ 1970 ] 2 QB 163 ) . |
| 10 | Will the right hon. Gentleman arrange for the Secretary of State for Defence to make a statement about the way in which contractors are paid £10 an hour for security guards at some of our vital establishments when security guards in my constituency are being paid £1.80 an hour ? |
| 11 | The Secretary of State for Defence reopened a list as an exception to allow the Association to mark the fortieth anniversary of the accession of Her Majesty the Queen , our patron , to the throne . |
| 12 | Les Hipkiss , a sprightly 62-year-old from Birmingham , queued for hours to catch a glimpse of the diminutive star . |
| 13 | The Smoke Detectors Act 1991 has recently been added to the list of statutes which will make it compulsory for builders to fit a smoke detector ( or detectors ) in all new dwellings . |
| 14 | In training , Action for Cities identified a number of initiatives that were designed to improve access to and awareness of training services for those in the cities . |
| 15 | All that remains is for Zenith to make a stuff of this one as well . |
| 16 | Words such as aardvark use a number of nodes which are not shared with any other words . |
| 17 | Six years later , the band reformed as Hilt to make a record , the result being ‘ Ambulance ’ . |
| 18 | Six years later , the band reformed as Hilt to make a record , the result being ‘ Ambulance ’ . |
| 19 | And our competitors are still envious of our unique techniques — handed down for generations to last a lifetime . |
| 20 | WORSHIPPED by the Druids and used for generations to guarantee a Christmas kiss , mistletoe — long a traditional part of the festive season — is dying out . |
| 21 | AT&T 's hostile bid for NCR turned a lot friendlier when Ma Bell met the computer company 's asking price of $110 a share , though none of the $7.5 billion will be in cash . |
| 22 | Tait told her that some of the information about Mills involved a KGB agent , whom he called ‘ Nikolai ’ for lack of anything better . |
| 23 | In a diagram : Verbs such as try evoke a movement towards the beginning of the infinitive event but do not reach it , whereas verbs like manage take one all the way up to the point of actual realization . |
| 24 | The observation about knitting having a bias is well shown in the picture at the top right of page 28 in the manual . |
| 25 | Within a short time , his former employers ordered 100 tons of the new material , thus making it worthwhile for ICI to build a production plant . |
| 26 | For long before 1946 , it had been customary for Parliament to preserve an oversight of such central government delegated legislation by requiring that such legislation be laid before it in some form or another . |
| 27 | Sergei Yushenkov , a leading democrat in the Russian parliament , guesses that , for less than $10m , you could bribe enough deputies to resign , making it impossible for parliament to form a quorum and thus forcing a general election : a small price to pay for removing a big obstacle to reform . |
| 28 | John Howard , of 15 Hawkswood , Hurworth , has applied to Darlington borough council for permission to prune an oak tree . |
| 29 | A LOYALIST remand prisoner in Ulster has lost a court battle for permission to wear a poppy at a prison remembrance service on Sunday . |
| 30 | The agency has applied to the Scottish Office for permission to erect a barrier across the mouth of the dock which is used by local fishermen to unload their catches and berth their boats . |