Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [verb] a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Very often a simple committee decision resolving to serve a Repairs Notice , or even resolving to consider serving a Repairs Notice , is enough to prompt the owner to sell . |
| 2 | THE Official Receiver of UK Land 's £60 million Northampton Business Park has called a creditors ' meeting . |
| 3 | The University has established a Museums Committee to permit more formal discussion of common problems amongst its museums and is about to launch a review of the Ashmolean . |
| 4 | For instance , one exercise involves reading a children 's book aloud but singing every verb . |
| 5 | A COMPANY owned by the Ministry of Defence helped build a weapons facility in Iraq which could be used to support Exocet missiles , the Scott arms-to-Iraq inquiry heard yesterday . |
| 6 | Where the purchaser has commissioned an accountants ' report , it is normal practice to request that the vendor warrants the accuracy of the report . |
| 7 | In West Germany , every residential facility has to have a residents ' committee by law — this may not work in every case , but it speaks of a different attitude to the residents themselves . |
| 8 | But safety officers say that 's a small price to pay to save a childs life . |
| 9 | The World Bank also approved in May 1989 a dollars 95,000,000 loan to help finance a dollars 183,000,000 education and training scheme . |
| 10 | Next a policeman puppet arrived carrying a gallows . |
| 11 | This is considered to be the minimum needed to allow a GIS to function in a mixed data environment . |
| 12 | His father longed to have a sports star as a son , but Kasmin was too small . |
| 13 | One day a trunk-load of winter woollens turned up , a gift from Johannesburg where a news item in the local paper had inspired a ladies ' circle to start knitting . |
| 14 | Mr Sugar was not at the house yesterday but it is believed his wife , Ann , was at home as a woman had driven a sports car into the grounds earlier , which bore the registration 1 AS . |
| 15 | The great community spirit has enabled a children 's play park to be established close by the village hall , and more recently a sports field which has a beautiful pavilion and caters for football , cricket , tennis , bowls , and a floodlit area for football training and five-a-side tournaments throughout the winter . |
| 16 | After further meetings it was reported on July 20 that the Liberian government had accepted an ECOWAS peace proposal , providing for ( i ) a ceasefire ; ( ii ) the deployment of a regional peacekeeping force ; and ( iii ) the immediate formation of a government of national unity . |
| 17 | McColl is the first Scot to have won a boys ' winter series title . |
| 18 | It has joined forces with DeskStation Technology Inc and OPTi Inc to create the R4000PC RISCNT chip set and combine it with the OPTi 486EISAWB chip set to create a Windows NT desktop personal computer . |
| 19 | The discretion of the licensing board to refuse to grant a seamen 's canteen licence is limited by this section . |
| 20 | At the same time , the Sacramento , California-based company has announced a Windows version of its core Accell/SQL application development and 4GL toolset . |
| 21 | Insignia declines to comment on whether it has licensed Windows source code , though one Insignia insider said the company has had a Windows license for two years . |
| 22 | Held , dismissing the appeals , ( 1 ) that , on its true construction , section 6(3) ( a ) of the Act of 1980 had to be given a literal meaning ; that where a school was over-subscribed compliance with the preference of all the applicants would necessarily prejudice efficient education , and in such circumstances the school had to have an admissions policy , which would inevitably result in defeating the preference of some applicants , whatever criteria were adopted ; and that , accordingly , since the school was over-subscribed , there was no duty on the governors to give effect to the applicants ' preferences ( post , pp. 100H — 101B , 106H , 107G–H , 108A , G–H ) . |
| 23 | RUGBY LEAGUE : An unnamed player has failed a drugs test . |
| 24 | The Palace has launched a friends association with the aim of raising funds for its ongoing restoration programme . |
| 25 | As self-regulation is proving somewhat less than satisfactory , is it not time to consider establishing a Securities and Exchange Commission — an SEC — as exists in America ? |
| 26 | Neither myself or anyone of my party having received an hours illness since our arriving though constantly exposed night and day to the bush in all kinds of weather . |