Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In those circumstances , a magistrate can sentence someone to a maximum of three months in prison . |
| 2 | Euphorbia " Robbiae " , with dark green foliage rosettes for winter use and lime green flower spikes in Spring which on an orangey tint late , is another essential . |
| 3 | For at about the same time I was approached by the secretary of Edinburgh 's New Club which as a member of Brooks 's Club in London I was entitled to use on a reciprocal basis , and which I did use for lunch perhaps a dozen times a year . |
| 4 | I 've got two of them , the other one 's er cut himself on a bottle this morning , he 's been in the vE T all day , he 's just had |
| 5 | It involves bringing the piece itself before a Committee of State experts ; they declare its value and charge 100% Custom fees . |
| 6 | It may take innumerable forms , such as scratching the panel of a coach , removing a tyre from a car , or the car itself from a garage , or , in the case of animals , beating or killing them . |
| 7 | Yeah , quite a high one so they have a big dam to give a good head water , a good height of water , and that water comes Drops down through quite a quite a height , and then they have a turbine sort of force it into a turbine with a turbine and it really spins that turbine th that 's joined top the alternator and makes the electricity . |
| 8 | And he only d id it for a reaction . |
| 9 | Good interpreters can aid communication but professionals must be trained to use interpreters properly or , ideally , should have fluency themselves in an individual 's native language . |
| 10 | One by one Europe 's heroes began to climb off the floor and mount a furious offensive which for a time at least threatened to overpower their rivals . |
| 11 | With regard to a description not by reference , the Keeper , in order to make ‘ public and patent to his hienes lieges ’ ( 1617 Act , c 16 ) , is entitled to be provided with a common law description which at a minimum should be the postal address of the property ( eg , ‘ subjects 3 High Street , Ayr ’ ) or , in the case of flatted property , the identification of the particular house ( eg , ‘ the north house on the first flat above the street flat 3 High Street , Ayr ’ ) — and whether or not the Keeper really likes such minimum descriptions he has no option but to accept them ! |
| 12 | scanning thro them like a scholar . |
| 13 | These provided work which for a time helped to stop young people leaving the Highlands . |
| 14 | Whether the West 's prerogatives are real , and whether or not they are exercised , the resolution of the territorial controversy has removed the one bone of contention which for a time made the Warsaw Pact a community of shared anxiety . |
| 15 | See Martin Sheen drunkenly method act himself into a heart attack , watch made Marlon improvise pure nonsense out of thin air and discover the real-life Dennis Hopper to be more manic than his character . |
| 16 | Anyway , we pulled ourselves together and pretended to be pleased to see him , and then he drove us back to London like a maniac , keeping up a stream of gibberish which after a while I stopped listening to . |
| 17 | This process involved the addition of doses of lime and soda ash which after a time led to precipitation of the hardness salts . |
| 18 | If you would like to know more about it — and you have checked that your employer would be prepared to allow SCOTVEC to second you for a maximum of 15 days per year — contact Andrew Burt on . |
| 19 | But when we come to the interpersonal function , we not only have to account for the literary work itself as a discourse between author and reader , but we have to reckon with the phenomenon of " embedded discourse " : the occurrence of discourse within discourse , as when the author reports dialogue between fictional characters . |
| 20 | Menninger regarded work itself as an expression of aggression . |
| 21 | THE departure of their vocalist Fish might have caused Marillion something of a mid-life crisis . |
| 22 | Having learned more about the missionaries and their work we as a fellowship will be more informed in order to pray for real people and real situations . |
| 23 | Committed to Pray Having learned more about the missionaries and their work we as a fellowship should better informed in order to pray for real people and real situations . |
| 24 | Committed to Act We as a church support BMS financially . |
| 25 | But in the same split second something like an iron band clamped round his waist , squeezing the breath from him and bringing him to a dead stop . |
| 26 | There is no question whatsoever of a whitewash . ’ |
| 27 | We 'll blackball him for a start |
| 28 | That 's what Keith 's talking about , when he sails his aeroplane he onto a boat |
| 29 | He was firing deliberately a bit wide , I thought , to scare rather than to hit me , for at that sort of range anyone with a rifle — unless he were truly an appalling shot — could scarcely miss . |
| 30 | I was a little bit of a skinhead myself for a while . |