Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb base] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the young man they can thank for keeping their championship hopes alive is Dunbarton 's Myles Greenfield , who was the only PGL skip to finish with an up . |
| 2 | Domestic problems do n't arise when the Rayners want to go to a game — the whole family go along for the ride . |
| 3 | In Bharatpur , the competition between Rajiv Gandhi 's ruling Congress ( I ) party and the assorted forces of the anti-Congress opposition is so finely poised , and the pool of royal admirers so deep , that three prominent relatives of Maharajah Brijendra Singh have slipped into a democratic version of an old autocratic vice : the royal family feud . |
| 4 | There , a combination of poor housing and education , high crime rates , much of it drug-related , large-scale immigration and associated racial tensions , an exodus of jobs and the more well-off to the suburbs , high youth unemployment and welfare dependency and the break-up of traditional family structures have served to create what some commentators in the United States have described as an ‘ urban underclass ’ . |
| 5 | The Bank along with Jimmy Hill Have shaken on a deal , With common aims and much good will It 's virtually sealed . |
| 6 | For five years , the Nethercotts have proceeded with a cabinetmaker 's meticulousness . |
| 7 | Mary and Reggie said , " Do sit down and join us , " but just as the six had repelled Mary and Reggie , so now did Mary and Reggie seem surrounded by an invisible current : Keep off . |
| 8 | Lord and Lady Harrowby have moved into a wing to make the state rooms available for conferences and functions . |
| 9 | Over the years a niggling rivalry has been much in evidence between the two clubs , although Whaddon have progressed to a much higher standard of football . |
| 10 | She added : ‘ We have discovered today that Safeway have put in an amended access plan which Durham county council is likely to accept . |
| 11 | The free-kick from Cruz that beat Italy was one , and the run and cross from Jorginho which led to Careca heading the winner in Rotterdam another , but in these games Brazil have impressed as a team without making you want to leap out of your seat as Pele once did . |
| 12 | The space agencies of the United States , Russia , Europe , Japan , China and Brazil have agreed to a joint programme which will use both existing and new satellites to monitor changes in the global environment . |
| 13 | He went on to say : ‘ Student numbers in Scotland have increased by a remarkable 25 per cent since 1983 to nearly 110,000 and we fully expect by the end of the century that more than 40 per cent of young Scots will enter higher education . |
| 14 | Er , the European project goes on and for many of the newer generations in this place , it 's not longer an article of faith er but a part of the political landscape that has to be dealt with on merit and it 's all the more ludicrous therefore Mr Deputy Speaker , that the Conservatives ' internal divisions over Maastricht have led to a situation where candidates for the ever more important European elections are only now being selected in certain seats , just fourteen weeks before the election . |
| 15 | There was a time in the Swinging Sixties when the Richmond Meet looked like an anachronism — an out-dated throwback to more genteel times that had long since passed . |
| 16 | HCIMA and CGLi have entered into a partnership to become an awarding body offering NVQs for the hospitality and catering industry . |
| 17 | Developers Foinavon have slapped in a £5m bid for first-class cricket ground Acklam Park in Middlesbrough . |
| 18 | The charges against Mr Perez have come at an inconvenient moment , not only for him but also for Venezuela . |
| 19 | At Mount Stewart in County Down Lady Londonderry let rip with an amazing ensemble of whimsical statues but they avoid seeming a jumble by the purposeful way in which they are related to the whole garden design . |
| 20 | Leeds 0 Ipswich 0 ; Ipswich get praised for a resolute defence . |
| 21 | Watson and Stadler have risen from a moribund state recently but it becomes Fred Couples 's lot to hold back the invasion . |
| 22 | Canada , Scandinavia , the Soviet Union , Japan and China have agreed on a pact for joint environmental protection and scientific research in the Arctic . |
| 23 | Hartlepool have recovered after a dismal run and want points to boost play-off hopes . |
| 24 | Four minutes later Lindsay McVicker let fly at a cross from Catherine Howard but the ball flew past the upright . |
| 25 | Politicians in Delhi keep talking of a political solution . |
| 26 | Federal and state governments in Australia have embarked on a series of national initiatives which show a firm commitment to tackling social inequalities in health . |
| 27 | Greenpeace have applied for a judicial review of the NRA 's system of controlling pollution — based on " consents " by which companies are allowed to pollute up to specific limits . |
| 28 | With power levels such as these on tap , the B-1R contains the obligatory limiter , and Ampeg have opted for a suitably compact , high-tech ‘ optocoupler limiter ’ system which uses an interrupted light beam to even out peaks in the signal . |
| 29 | It is noteworthy that movements in Europe seem to coincide with a break within the Pennsylvanian System in North America , even though there are no traces or orogenic episodes in that continent . |
| 30 | Existing mental health services in Britain have developed within a largely white , Westernized culture with its own characteristic notions of health and disease . |