Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb base] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are members of the European parliament who s s support Strasbourg as a meeting place clearly , but the majority do not , the majority want to meet in a single city and in so doing the majority have accepted that there should be a new European parliament building in Brussels and that European parliament building now operates . |
| 2 | The work force want to return to a contract and yet do not want to return to a situation which takes away from their individual freedom and negotiating rights . |
| 3 | And if you want to know what that is wheezing , clanking and snorting in the background — a sound resembling a veteran totter emerging from a collection of Blue Peter cans — it 's Sir John Junor dressed up in armour and on white charger . |
| 4 | Two conferences of the Football Supporters ' Association have called for a re-think , but it seemed we were banging our heads against a brick wall . |
| 5 | The family of a remand prisoner found hanged in his cell have called for a public inquiry after an inquest reached a suicide verdict . |
| 6 | Henry , it transpires , is very much the protege of Jane whose negative experiences of residential living have combined with a complex of personal problems and have generated an anger that she has tempered to a cause . |
| 7 | The difficulties inherent in the ‘ rational ’ approach to public policy-making and administration have led to a renewed interest in ‘ incrementalism ’ in local authorities . |
| 8 | The environmental policies of the Reagan administration have resulted in a resurgence of the American environmental movement — the book explains why in graphic terms . |
| 9 | The club have opted for a left arm spinner Jamie Stewart from Western Australia as their pro . |
| 10 | Mitch Cook 's free-kick was hacked clear to Steve O'Shaughnessy on the edge of the box , where the Bradford old boy he was released by them as a youngster let fly with a powerful right-foot shot which Bradford keeper Paul Tomlinson allowed to slip under his body . |
| 11 | Lord Wilberforce has insisted that ‘ [ t ] here is no appeal on merits from management decisions to courts of law : nor will the courts of law assume to act as a kind of supervisory board over decisions within the powers of management honestly arrived at ’ . |
| 12 | Generally synspilus , maculicauda , hartwegi , and bifasciatum prefer to spawn on a horizontal surface , while guttulatum and fenestratum prefer a vertical surface , intermedium often uses both types of surface , while lentignosum and nicaraguense prefer spawning in a cave . |
| 13 | Hospital nurses opposing a plan to make them wear their own clothes for work have put off a decision to take action in protest . |
| 14 | It is for just such situations that the army plans and trains , and many years of trial and error have resulted in a hierarchy in which the number of subordinates at most levels is between 3 and 6 . |
| 15 | Some authors writing in this vein have spoken of a fundamental change in international politics resulting from the rise of these ‘ new forces in world politics ’ . |
| 16 | TANGMERE MILITARY AVIATION Museum have embarked on a project to salvage the dismantled and buried remains of a Hawker Hector in West Sussex . |
| 17 | FIFTY-FOUR parishioners from the Shrewsbury Cathedral Parish and diocese have returned from a memorable holiday/pilgrimage to Rome , Assisi and Palazzola . |
| 18 | Both of Ambrose 's ( 1986 ) mechanisms of capital accumulation have operated in a straightforward fashion . |
| 19 | The five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council have agreed on a peace plan that could end more than ten years of civil war in Cambodia . |
| 20 | David Newton , head of gilts trading at Barclays de Zoete Wedd , said : ‘ The longer-dated gilts in this sector have suffered as a result of the government 's higher-than-expected borrowing requirement . |
| 21 | Like their colleagues in further education , the 17,000 lecturers in the sector have voted for a marking and exam boycott . |
| 22 | Confronting the fact from the other side is Alex Macdonald , the Airdrie manager whose team seem bent on a place in the Guinness Book of Records with 100 bookings in a season . |
| 23 | These sufferers in early recovery continue to live in a group , receiving some counselling and giving each other support and feedback and often going together to meetings of the Anonymous Fellowships . |
| 24 | From the burbling , low key rock of Passing Place to the jangling keyboards of Visionary Days , the group avoid conforming to a set style . |
| 25 | In such quiet periods capacities of a primarily functional nature come to operate in a peculiarly unified and simultaneous way . |
| 26 | Staying on the other side of the Atlantic but turning to the Charles Dutoit/Philadelphia Orchestra coupling of Rachmaninov 's Third Symphony and Symphonic Dances , a Decca team have turned in a quite different acoustic balance . |
| 27 | In some cities a relative plethora of doctors and rapid urbanisation have led to a boom in private medical practice , which now provides a substantial amount of curative care for the inhabitants , including the poor ( p 673 ) . |
| 28 | Already television consultants , Judge Marketing have arranged for a special camera to be set up on board British Steel Challenge . |
| 29 | A bus firm 's had to cancel services because its drivers are too ill to work … and Swindon Town have called off a reserve match because they 're down to just 6 fit players . |
| 30 | Swindon Town have gone on a spending spree , in the hope of changing their fortunes in the premier league . |