Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] a [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Terrorists often used an athletic stopwatch as a timing device . |
| 2 | She remembered with sadness all the neighbourly contacts they had had in the past — Lowell 's anxiety when Edward had gone missing on his new bike during a November fog and his tireless search until he was found — his ham-fisted efforts to assist her in Ben 's absence when the washing-machine had flooded the kitchen — his quiet piano-playing , when his hands were still capable , at the end of a noisy party when all the guests had gone home . |
| 3 | We can now turn right to the other end of the book , where there should be another paste-down and free endpaper , though in earlier books the latter will often be missing , having been appropriated by some seventeenth or eighteenth century housewife as a shopping list or for copying a cooking recipe . |
| 4 | Remembering that I am not defining housewife as a woman dancing attendance on a healthy but indolent male but as a person looking after babies and others who need looking after , what do feminists think the housewife should live on ? |
| 5 | They live in Langford Village , two miles from Bicester in Oxfordshire Barbara works as a clerk for a removal company , Joelle is a care assisstant at a home for the disabled , while Bobby is still at school . |
| 6 | Enya as a composer drifts alone in uncharted ether . |
| 7 | He puts forward the radical solution that the range be given almost total protection as a wilderness area or area of land where the hand of man is less evident . |
| 8 | Like copyright , this right is automatic and does not depend on registration but , unlike registered designs , there is no requirement for the design to have eye-appeal , although if it does , it is not barred from protection as a design right . |
| 9 | On the basis of its fauna , the area in question might qualify for protection as a nature reserve , if not for designation as a site of special scientific interest . |
| 10 | Now of course during the nineteen eighties the protection of agricultural land for its own sake er lost weight as an issue and the relevant structure plan policies er lost effective weight and were seen to do so but Government policy was quite explicit in the nineteen eighty seven circular , I think it was num number sixteen , was that although agricultural land protection as a farming resource was diminished as an issue , the protection of the countryside for its own sake was not . |
| 11 | As such , tax diversion was not entitled to protection as a manifestation nf a philosophical belief in practice in the way that other acts , more intimately linked to the belief ( for example , acts of worship ) would be . |
| 12 | Mr McFadyen said : ‘ We 've already been pledged financial support by several organisations if we can get part of the old school building as a community centre . ’ |
| 13 | As part of Richard MacCormac 's drive to develop the building as an architecture centre , the exhibition programme at 66 Portland Place expanded considerably . |
| 14 | In GEC 's Patent , the employer had obtained patent protection for a cockpit display unit which had been invented by an employee for use in military aircraft . |
| 15 | In the United Kingdom , the question of copyright protection for an instruction set was considered in Microsense Systems Ltd. v Control Systems Technology Ltd. ( 1991 ) . |
| 16 | ‘ Carrie gave Mike a watch as a Christmas present . |
| 17 | MY HUSBAND bought me a watch as a birthday present , but it kept losing time and I returned it after the holidays . |
| 18 | A six thousand pound grant for a proggie mat |
| 19 | He will know that my Department gave a grant for a feasibility study into large-scale CHP in Leicester , but the scheme did not proceed . |
| 20 | A HOME Office grant for a youth work project has signalled a period of intense activity for Middlesbrough 's Safer Cities programme . |
| 21 | He also claimed that staff aides to the then Vice-President Bush had intervened with HUD in 1985 in order to win a $500,000 grant for a Kansas City developer , Hector Barreto , a longtime supporter of Bush . |
| 22 | The second item is the loss of grant for an archaeology assistant three thousand eight hundred pounds , this is one of these things where we 've had English Heritage at our grant and has tapered to fade out . |
| 23 | Jan. 9 Peace plan proposed by Italian government , but immediately rejected by USC , providing for Siyad Barre to remain head of state while relinquishing most of his powers to a government of national unity in preparation for a peace conference and UN-supervised elections . |
| 24 | I have noticed that when older people put out chairs in preparation for a church meeting they will tend to place them in straight rows and arrange them further back from the speaker . |
| 25 | A Swordfish was despatched to shadow while seven others were readied and armed ( six with torpedoes , one with bombs ) in preparation for a night strike . |
| 26 | It was devoted to the discussion of quality assurance , preparation of documentation , preparation for a validation event and the setting up of a college quality assurance mechanism . |
| 27 | Officers from Love and Co. were due to pick up goods belonging to Jim Sneddon and his wife in preparation for a warrant sale following the couple 's refusal to pay the tax . |
| 28 | Inspection of a copy of the syllabus for Salters ' A-level chemistry ( obtainable from the Oxford and Cambridge Examinations Board ) will demonstrate how appropriate the course is as preparation for a chemistry degree . |
| 29 | He took me through the stages a beginner would complete in preparation for a skiing holiday . |
| 30 | Oberon will use the additional funding for beta testing and completion of product development and to expand its domestic and international distribution networks and consulting and technical support programmes in preparation for a product launch in the autumn . |