Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] [subord] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The situation has been eased slightly for my parents since a community nurse has been visiting Jennifer , but I must admit I 'd rapidly been coming to the conclusion that something else would be needed very soon . |
| 2 | ‘ Until recently , ’ Carl said , ‘ there were no provisions for new ideas , so I kept them in my files until a need arose . |
| 3 | For managers , the nice thing about chapter 11 is that it protects the firm from its creditors until a rescue deal is sorted out ; and the firm can stop paying its interest charges . |
| 4 | Videopics keeps in touch with its franchisees once a business is up and running . |
| 5 | Section 123(1) of the Insolvency Act 1986 provides that a company is deemed unable to pay its debts if a creditor ( by assignment or otherwise ) to whom the company is indebted in a sum exceeding £750 then due has served on the company , by leaving it at the company 's registered office , a written demand ( in the prescribed form ) requiring the company to pay the sum so due and the company has for three weeks thereafter neglected to pay the sum or to secure or compound for it to the reasonable satisfaction of the creditor . |
| 6 | The children are in role as islanders who have decided to abandon their homes because a volcano is becoming active . |
| 7 | She watched the bitch pull the crotch of her knickers aside , and just managed to close her eyes before a gush of warm piss splashed over her face . |
| 8 | AT LEAST one person died and three others were fighting for their lives after a school canoeing trip went disastrously wrong yesterday . |
| 9 | BRITISH holidaymakers told yesterday how they fled for their lives when a killer flood surged through their campsite . |
| 10 | She looked so different in the blue dress ; still fat , but more like a schoolgirl might do , and she seemed as light on her feet as a dancer . |
| 11 | Poll tax payers could find an extra twenty five pounds on their bills after a council voted to defy Government spending limits . |
| 12 | The junction at Newton is to revert to double track , airline style black boxes are being installed in trains to pinpoint the cause of accidents , and a new electronic safeguard system which will literally stop trains in their tracks if a driver makes a mistake is being tested . |
| 13 | The junction at Newton is to revert to double track , airline style black boxes are being installed in trains to pinpoint the cause of accidents , and a new electronic safeguard system which will literally stop trains in their tracks if a driver makes a mistake is being tested . |
| 14 | For now he will continue to live in London , but more out of consideration for his daughter who is sitting her A-levels than a disinclination to move north . |
| 15 | But most families in Britain are familiar with using hospitals and demand in-patient care for their relatives when a crisis arises . |
| 16 | Press the ‘ up ’ arrow key to skip the presentation sequence where the players run on and off the pitch , or back to their positions when a goal is scored . |
| 17 | Users of 80486-based personal computers may be able to run Macintosh System 7.1 on their machines if a project under way at Apple Computer Inc comes to fruition . |
| 18 | Users of 80486-based personal computers may be able to run Macintosh System 7.1 on their machines if a project under way at Apple Computer Inc comes to fruition . |
| 19 | Many say they have had to turn down surgery , for instance , because they could not find alternative care for their dependants when a bed became available . |
| 20 | His whole system was to be tested to its limits when a war with France began in 1793 which lasted , with only brief intermission , for more than twenty years . |
| 21 | They measured Dot 's legs with wooden measuring sticks , and they prodded her ribs while a nurse stood by and held her hand . |
| 22 | The next day all this was swept from their minds when a letter arrived from Eileen , saying that she was to be married by special licence . |
| 23 | After a long session trying on clothes , she was walking out with her purchases when a man tapped her on the shoulder and asked her to go back into the shop . |
| 24 | My respected landladies , who are the double-distilled quintessence of considerateness and island hospitality , would think all good would leave their abodes if a dweller beneath their roof left fasting , so , in spite of all my entreaties to the contrary , a cup of tea was prepared to forestall my start ; and as I walked by the river-side and reached a road that skirts a number of very massive peat-stacks , and displays on the landward side an interminable host of peat-pits , the geniality of the sunshine was felt , and I would gladly have slackened my pace were it not that by so doing my good friends at Gress ( some eight miles from Stornoway , where I was due at eight o'clock , if I remember rightly ) , might have waited breakfast for me . |
| 25 | Scores of disabled workers are to lose their jobs after a council decided to stop subsidising their workshops . |
| 26 | There were few things more calculated to endear a prince to his subjects than a display of stern retribution on unjust officials . |
| 27 | He 'd sold his own car for cash in Carlisle , and he had more important uses for his funds than a guest-house bed . |
| 28 | He may longer sting like a bee but Ali 's still as light on his feet as a butterfly … and the memories are going strong . |
| 29 | Omar Arteh Ghaleb , who had been Prime Minister of Somalia 's interim government since February , resigned on Aug. 20 ; Radio Mogadishu reported , however , that President Mahdi , who had been sworn in himself on Aug. 18 [ see p. 38323 ] , had asked him to continue with his responsibilities until a successor was appointed . |
| 30 | There has n't been much personal satisfaction for Neil Fairbrother during a Lancashire campaign bedevilled by injuries and under-achievement , but what more efficacious balm for his troubles than a century in the Roses match at Headingley . |