Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] a [noun pl] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Arcade , expected to include an applications builder , object editor and browser and SQL links to the Big Four databases , will share the stage with Asterix 3.0 , the latest version of the company 's integrated office automation suite , currently out on beta test at a number of customer sites .
2 Arcade , expected to include an applications builder , object editor and browser and SQL links to the big four databases , will share the stage with Asterix 3.0 , the latest version of the company 's integrated office automation suite , currently out on beta test at a number of customer sites .
3 Mr Mowatt agreed to write an Operations check-list , outlining routine procedures , and how to carry them out , and listing actions needed in the event of problems occurring .
4 A court 's heard how a gang of armed robbers tried to kill a police inspector by opening fire with shotguns during a high-speed chase .
5 I tried to start a blues band , but it just did not work .
6 They lived a long way away , but they decided to take a weeks holiday in Cornwall and decided to see Daryl in the middle of it .
7 In her early days , looking for something that would make her consultancy just that little bit different , she chose to have an all-women agency .
8 I managed to get a police car to rush me through security to the shopping precinct .
9 I came back to London before the actual signing of the agreement because I had to attend an Arts Council meeting .
10 Upon reaching Tarbes as forecast , the cloud base was around 600 to 800 feet and we had to fly an ILS approach .
11 Held , dismissing the appeals , ( 1 ) that , on its true construction , section 6(3) ( a ) of the Act of 1980 had to be given a literal meaning ; that where a school was over-subscribed compliance with the preference of all the applicants would necessarily prejudice efficient education , and in such circumstances the school had to have an admissions policy , which would inevitably result in defeating the preference of some applicants , whatever criteria were adopted ; and that , accordingly , since the school was over-subscribed , there was no duty on the governors to give effect to the applicants ' preferences ( post , pp. 100H — 101B , 106H , 107G–H , 108A , G–H ) .
12 Erm well in the early days we had to take a kiddies bible school
13 Mr Macfadyen put it to him that at the meeting with Mackie the next day he had not advised him that Shanks & McEwan intended to issue a profits warning .
14 The Labour movement supported the Bolsheviks in their struggle and when the freighter Jolly George berthed in the London Docks the dockers refused to load a munitions cargo that was destined for Poland .
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