Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] a [noun] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | These words sum up her intention and feelings , expressing the result of two years of preparation for a show that came to mean so much for the many artists participating in the event . |
| 2 | Earnings per share fell from 11.9p to 4.2p.The company took a £200,000 exceptional charge for bad debts on a contract for a firm that went into receivership in November . |
| 3 | Ltd. v Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha [ 1962 ] , in which it was held that a term implied in a hire contract for a ship that it must be seaworthy was such an innominate term . |
| 4 | The Prime Minister , John Major , offered support during a visit that ended yesterday but said British troops would continue only their ground operation . |
| 5 | ‘ If you 've some crazy notion in that muddled excuse for a brain that I 've got designs on your person , allow me to disabuse you of it right now , ’ he told her bluntly , bringing hot , but thankfully invisible , colour to her cheeks . |
| 6 | I would be grateful of you would sign the attached copy of this letter and return it to me with the payment and contract as an indication that you agree to these restrictions . |
| 7 | I just go to bed at night and hope for a miracle that I 'll get up in the morning |
| 8 | The Iraqi missile attacks have provoked a wave of rare sympathy for a country that has been cast as the regional baddy . |
| 9 | ‘ What seems now a cloud no bigger than a man 's hand could turn out to be yet another inflationary and political storm for a government that could do without either . ’ |
| 10 | Howard looks round the room , half-believing for a moment that the game he and Phil used to play might be coming to life after all . |
| 11 | All of us are aware of the problems of someone who was living alone and struggling to maintain a large house , but I am genuinely surprised at Conservative Members ' enthusiasm for a benefit that is clearly not targeted . |
| 12 | In the final quarter of the year , it surged and closed at its high of 330p , 24.5% up on the 30th September level ; this was more than twice what the FT 100 Share Index achieved and reflected investor enthusiasm for a group that is seen as a prime beneficiary of any pick up in advertising , has bags of room to take on new business ( 25% unutilised capacity on its magazine presses ) and is cash rich . |
| 13 | Critics have sniped that the dividing line between the political and the profit motive has never been too sharply defined on Hamnett 's agenda , a feeling provoked by such off-the-cuff comments as her enthusiasm for an idea that will ‘ make me rich and wo n't hurt animals ’ . |
| 14 | If he does he will have cross-party support for a measure that the Tories said they were keen to implement . ’ |
| 15 | At the September Trades Union Congress , Frank Cousins came out strongly in favour of unilateralism , winning support for a resolution that rejected ‘ any defence policy based on the threat of the use of strategic nuclear weapons ’ . |
| 16 | There is scant support for a project that , if it goes ahead , can not fail to leave its mark on a remarkable stretch of untamed countryside . |
| 17 | But if he recommends support for an idea that does not work , he will hear all about it . ’ |
| 18 | THE SO-CALLED disease-of-the-month club is currently mustering legislative support for an objective that it almost reached in the last session of congress : creation of a separate headquarters for arthritis research at the National Institutes of Health ( NIH ) . |
| 19 | Of course as a plane that could happily take half a dozen buses on board , it 's going to be something of a new experience . |
| 20 | He petitioned the visitor of the university for a declaration that such purported dismissal was contrary to section 34 so as to be ultra vires the university 's powers and accordingly invalid . |
| 21 | I 've just talked about what happens when a branch member wants to appeal but this is a branch as a whole that 's made a decision at a meeting that it does n't agree with something that 's happened . |
| 22 | There is little point in making light of the enormity of the task ahead , but this should not discourage those teachers with the vision and determination to continue the fight for a structure that encourages integration . |
| 23 | The Eastern Daily Press together with the Eastern Arts Board also gave money for a competition that hoped to find new art critics . |
| 24 | However , I agree that it 's unreasonable to expect people to pay good money for a forecast that is no longer relevant and we shall look at ways of eliminating this problem . |
| 25 | Sales in the product 's first year of deliveries amounted to only $1m , a drop in the bucket for a firm that 's been through two rounds of venture capital totalling $7.5m provided by Aspen Partners , Menlo Ventures and Matrix . |
| 26 | Walsh — whose ‘ bad boy ’ reputation began five years ago when he received a record nine-match ban after an incident that left Shrewsbury 's David Geddis with a broken jaw — returns today for the visit of Brentford . |
| 27 | BRITISH Rail will be rapped today for not doing an immediate drug test on a train driver after a crash that killed two and injured 500 . |
| 28 | KIM BAILEY and jockey Anthony Tory yesterday ‘ mutually agreed ’ to part after a partnership that had lasted nearly five years . |
| 29 | In the proceedings relating to the action for a declaration that the United Kingdom has failed to fulfil its obligations under the E.E.C . |
| 30 | They brought an action for a declaration that the product was not so liable and while the action was awaiting trial they paid the sum claimed . |