Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] a [noun pl] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Revenue would undoubtedly seek to drive through an earnings basis for the future . |
| 2 | In time , Jakki moved to London , Jim to America to work as an exhibitions organiser . |
| 3 | The one complication is that all Windows applications place the same sort of minimum demands on a machine and so if you want to work in a Windows environment you will have to add the extra requirements to machine fit to run Windows . |
| 4 | Mrs. Millings was pleased at being called " Miss " , and the excitement of being taken to work in a police car was another pleasing thought . |
| 5 | However , on a Dow-Stoker Returners programme she discovered that she had quite a strong numerical ability , and decided that she would like to work in an accounts department . |
| 6 | One sanitary inspector reported that ‘ far from being carried on in the poorer types of dwelling , outwork was taken to supplement their resources by many people whose names one would never expect to find on an outworkers list ’ . |
| 7 | I have yet to come across a police officer who is not interested in stamping out racism . ’ |
| 8 | The Old Bradwell School continued to function as an Infants School until the early 1950s . |
| 9 | As with the Faculty scholarships , overseas students will be expected to apply for an ORS award . |
| 10 | The caravan has a canopy , disabled access and has been painted to look like a police car from the back ! ’ |
| 11 | From the squad the team will then be selected to play in a four-nations tournament at Charleroi , Belgium , on May 1–3 . |
| 12 | It was built in 1829–30 , but already by 1844 had been relegated to use as a goods station as railway development speeded ahead . |
| 13 | The government was the first to do without an incomes policy , and the absence of ‘ norms ’ or ‘ targets ’ for incomes in nearly twenty years helped to take the issue of wages out of politics . |
| 14 | Why should teachers have to submit to an incomes policy when the bosses made a 22.7 per cent . |
| 15 | Perhaps you 'd like to reminisce and say was he one of the greatest players ever to put on a Spurs jersey . |
| 16 | It is possible to study for an honours degree in Italian , or for the variety of joint honours degrees set out at the beginning of the Arts section ( with another modern European language , for example , or with a number of other Arts subjects , or with Business Studies ) , and Italian may also be taken as a major or minor part of the MA(General) and the MA ( General Honours ) . |
| 17 | The bus driver had given chase , had managed to signal to a police car and the chase had gone on through Kirkintilloch and Milton of Campsie before Cook lost control in Birdston Road . |
| 18 | Later that evening both men were invited to sit on a Questions Panel . |
| 19 | Is it necessary for the defendant to prove that the plaintiff agreed to waive his legal rights in order for him to succeed in a volenti plea ? |
| 20 | Analysis solely to obtain numerical assessment of the texture of a deposit is unlikely to satisfy the sedimentologist but this information may be all that is required to demonstrate to a fisheries expert the potential value of a site for the introduction of an economically important species such as Nephrops ( Scampi ) . |
| 21 | It must be frustrating to arrive at a police station after a hectic drive , only to find that ‘ the processes of investigation ’ necessitated a quick confession from the client . |
| 22 | To stand a full chance of winning , contestants have to subscribe for a Readers Digest gardening book which can be paid for by Barclaycard . |
| 23 | It was the way of things , always easier to get into a police station to answer questions than to get out again . |
| 24 | These are allowed to rot in a biogas generator or digester . |
| 25 | To find the information , the pupil had to : define exactly what he wanted to know decide how far he was able to travel to get to a sports centre find out the opening hours , which sports he was interested in and the cost of using the facilities |
| 26 | Cuban-US relations had been inflamed on Jan. 31 , 1990 , when a US Coast Guard patrol boat , with the administration 's authorization , attacked and damaged a Cuban-chartered cargo ship , the Hermann , in the Gulf of Mexico , when its Cuban master had refused to stop for a drugs search . |
| 27 | The decision in Smith v Baker ( 1891 ) made it difficult for employers to rely on a volenti defence . |