Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] a [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pool midfielder David McCreery is fit after precautionary X-rays for a chest infection and could return to the side . |
| 2 | The Forum has tried to collect views through a biennial request to individual organisations and associations to bring forward suggested areas for research but this did not prove fruitful . |
| 3 | now at the end of the day , whatever your own views about a contingency fund are , bearing in mind that it 's service , not management charged , if the residence do n't agree can you simply dictate to them that they 've got to have a contingency fund ? |
| 4 | This compression of definitions is achieved by a process involving the ’ filtering ’ of definitions through a filter set chosen to represent the core vocabulary of a domain ( in this case , that of banking ) . |
| 5 | Praps leeds should scout the old raves for a pill popper and nobble the opposition similarly ? |
| 6 | The major reasons for a care order are that the children have themselves committed an offence , they are in need of care , protection and control , or they or another child of the same family have been victims of an offence or are in the same household as a person convicted of a serious offence such as manslaughter , cruelty or suchlike . |
| 7 | This is now starting to burn oil and I am thinking of changing the engine to a diesel , The reasons for a diesel engine would be greater fuel economy and cheaper fuel as well as greater torque . |
| 8 | JAH WOBBLE 'S INVADERS OF THE HEART , GARY CLAIL and rapper BLADE are confirmed as headliners for a World AIDS Day Benefit at Portsmouth 's Pyramids Centre on December 1 . |
| 9 | The financial accounts for a building company would not give any indication of the profit or loss on any individual project but only the financial position of the company as a whole . |
| 10 | The result was that the Statement of Accounts for a Health Authority became a Foreword , Statement of Income and Expenditure , Statement of Working Balances , Source and Application of Funds and the Notes . |
| 11 | Seventeen people died when a Wellington bomber crashed into houses during a training exercise |
| 12 | Seventeen people died when a Wellington bomber crashed into houses during a training exercise |
| 13 | Stockton 's mayor , Coun Stephen Smailes , disclosed this week he is complaining to broadcasting chiefs that the pick of the programmes during a BBC promotion in Cleveland next week will come from Middlesbrough . |
| 14 | BSB is also believed to be talking to Ford in the UK about providing communications with its dealers and to the Financial Times about a business service for large companies . |
| 15 | The children , of course , use their fingers as a counting aid . |
| 16 | Doubt acts as a sparring partner both to truth and error . |
| 17 | A single volume , tone and five-way selector operate all the usual switching and adjusting functions , but the EGs have an additional control in the tone pot ; pulling it out acts as a coil tap for the humbuckers . |
| 18 | Blaze is designed as a screen saver but best acts as a security key . |
| 19 | The other acts as a pickup coil producing a voltage proportional to the rate of change of magnetic flux linking it . |
| 20 | RuDp acts as a carbon dioxide acceptor and fixes the carbon dioxide . |
| 21 | Design and the community : alternative energy technologies as a case study |
| 22 | The five independent cyclosporin molecules are clearly identifiable , providing an unambiguous picture of the detailed interactions between a peptide drug and its receptor . |
| 23 | This was common to much of England but the local feature was the use of flints as a building material rather than the freestone carved out of quarries elsewhere . |
| 24 | Likewise , the fact that surveys and valuations of land or land services are permissible activities for a building society but not , as such , matters of complaint within Part II to Schedule 12 , does not mean that the provision of a basic valuation by an employed valuer in relation to the grant of a further advance must be excluded from the administration of granting or refusing advances . |
| 25 | He was happiest at the field meetings of natural history societies and the subsequent festivities , where he could give free rein to his talents as a ballad singer and after-dinner speaker . |
| 26 | He used his varied talents as a soil improver , a collector and grower of newly available exotic trees and shrubs , and an impresario of entertaining devices , ranging from a water-wheel pump to a grotto , a hermitage , and rare sculptures and follies , ingeniously placed to create a series of agreeable surprises on a tour revealing successive aspects of nature presented in terms of art . |
| 27 | It was a severe test for him , for it is a widely held view that his talents as a party manager are not matched by his capabilities as a potential Prime Minister . |
| 28 | Four teams deploy in pairs for a VCP task . |
| 29 | Priority for training : when an investor opens a franchise , he is given the opportunity to acquire specialist skills through a training course covering all aspects of the business from personnel management to administration and from procurement to marketing . |
| 30 | THE Government has ruled out any major changes in its controversial plans for a pollution agency for Scotland . |