Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] a [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jagger and Carla were introduced by ex-boyfriend rocker Eric Clapton at a Stones concert in America . |
| 2 | Apart from the political objections many Latin American governments would have to the purchase of Soviet armaments , the traditional predominance of the United States as supplier of military hardware to the region , along with the increasing strength of Brazil as an arms exporter ( $1 billion worth in 1981 ) , are highly significant obstacles to the expansion of Soviet arms sales to Latin America . |
| 3 | Regional programming sees the return of dumped ITV soccer pundits Ian St John and Jimmy Greaves on a sports debate programme . |
| 4 | Americans , with no colonial history in the Middle East , tend to see the war against Mr Hussein as a police action against an international thug . |
| 5 | Donald joined Sekers as a wages clerk in 1952 . |
| 6 | Shares in Bennett & Fountain will hit a fresh low for this year on Monday after an out-of-hours announcement last night that ‘ the group has made a significant pre-tax loss for the year to 30 June ’ , due to difficulties in the retail division . |
| 7 | In addition , even if it does not have a UK office , a non-UK firm nonetheless needs to be authorised for investment business carried on from a non-UK office with customers or counterparties in the UK on a services basis unless the FSA 's overseas person exemption applies ; this indeed also applies to UK firms ( see page 43 below ) . |
| 8 | Barnes slammed 65 with the bat and then captured 4–32 with his medium pace bowling to steer Caernarfonshire to a 54-runs victory over Anglesey at Bethesda . |
| 9 | A win over British No. 17 , Katie Ricket in a ratings tournament at Alfreton in May , confirmed her rapid progress . |
| 10 | In November 1991 , Bull set up Integris as a systems integration subsidiary in Billerica , Massachusetts , and half of Integris 's 120-strong staff works on ImageWorks . |
| 11 | I treasure a torn and spotted letter , valueless from the autograph point of view , dating from the late eighteenth century and endorsed on the back ‘ This Letter was found by Lord Lewisham in a Haberdashers Shop . ’ |
| 12 | So a male companion and I drove up to the starting point in Glen Lyon , a few miles east of Bridge of Balgie where a bridge crosses the River Lyon to a cattle farm . |
| 13 | Local and general elections set for Sept. 29 [ see p. 38350 ] were put back to mid-October following heated parliamentary debate during August on an elections bill . |
| 14 | For reasons yet to be explained , the ‘ contract ’ affidavit concerning Mrs Mandela , given by Dlamini to a police lieutenant , was not presented at the trial . |
| 15 | The man who stood aside , unsmiling , for them to enter , although not in uniform , was immediately recognisable to Dalgliesh as a police officer . |
| 16 | The field-worker was a captive audience to whom members of the force could display their competence when riding around Easton in a police vehicle , and conversations were punctuated by policemen pointing out significant sites and personnel . |
| 17 | The Bath fly-half partners Wales scrum-half Robert Jones in a Barbarians line-up bristling with talent , but edged with steel . |
| 18 | Erm , er , erm , people could extend her times if she did it like she used to do before , because what she used to do is to say she would have a a day in Manchester in a months time |
| 19 | The story about a whole bloodstained cupboard being removed from Belmodes to a police laboratory went the rounds with the speed of light , being especially well received at Teddy Touch 's outfit , marketing street clothes known as Touchline . |
| 20 | ‘ To paint Darlington as a jobs blackspot is not just factually wrong , it is also very damaging to the work the council and I are doing to attract new investment . ’ |
| 21 | We were soon alongside the small vessel as she pitched uncomfortably in the short Channel seas at about six knots , and we requested her in our usual polite manner to divert into Folkestone for a customs examination . |
| 22 | Though Coleman found out nothing more about him from Franks/Schafer and his friends , he would remember his conversations with them later when , after the Lockerbie disaster , it emerged that US intelligence agencies had intercepted a series of telephone calls to the Iranian Embassy in Beirut from an arms dealer and presumed double agent by the name of David Lovejoy ( Loo Choy ? ) advising the chargé d'affaires of the movements of the American intelligence team who died on Flight 103 . |
| 23 | Protesting her innocence , she was taken in a police van from Heathrow to a police station , near the flat where Gemma was found alone after Ms Gibson left for the Costa del Sol with a male friend . |
| 24 | A German captain , interviewed off Larak Island by a Times correspondent , acknowledged the risks involved but went on to point out that ‘ the money is good and the contract is only six months ’ . |
| 25 | ESSEX police have become the first force in the country to run a Mazda as a police car . |
| 26 | Security chiefs claimed that this was the most damaging blow yet struck against the cartel , which had already lost two prominent figures , José Gonzalo Rodríguez Gacha ( shot dead by police on Dec. 15 , 1989 — see p. 37119 ) and its military leader John Jairo Arias Tascón , who was shot dead in June during a police operation . |
| 27 | The weakness of TANU as a communications channel was well known . |
| 28 | The 23-year-old who lives at Sychdyn , near Mold , graduated this year from the University College of North Wales with an honours degree in geological oceanography . |
| 29 | There are pictures that catch Shaw in a sports car , in his celebrated shed , in a folk dance with a Fabian , and in the nude . |
| 30 | FIVE of the province 's finest young football prospects will be recognised by Coco-Cola at an awards ceremony on before tonight 's the World Cup match between Northern Ireland and Latvia at Windsor Park . |