Example sentences of "[to-vb] a [noun pl] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sewell tried in 1841 to establish a cattle infirmary at Thomas Flight 's famous dairy ( formerly Laycock 's ) in Islington , housing some 600 or 700 cows ( there were thousands of cows in London until the railways facilitated milk supplies from the country ) . |
| 2 | LABOUR ‘ deadbeats ’ must carry the can for failing to secure a jobs bonanza in Darlington , it was claimed last night . |
| 3 | My Lord the er case moves on there over the page now to the twenty fourth of September and on that day Mr was notified erm by his bank on the telephone that head office had approved the finance proposal in principal and as a result of that Mr then telephone Peter , the defendant , told him that the financing for this deal had been approved in principal and Mr asked Mr to provide a bankers draft of some seven and a half thousand pounds in order to enable exchange to take place as a matter of urgency . |
| 4 | George Dempster , the member of parliament for Dundee burghs , whose election at St. Andrews would ‘ certainly turn on a single vote unless I am able to provide a Councillors son in a Kirk ’ , urged nothing more than political consequences when pressing for the settlement of the St. Andrews clergyman , and many presentations were indeed political bribes . |
| 5 | British Telecommunications Plc has won its biggest network contract yet , a multi-million pound five-year deal to provide a communications network to the Eurocontrol European air traffic control co-ordination body . |
| 6 | It is however appreciated that it can be difficult to obtain a Police report in some foreign countries . |
| 7 | Rushing belatedly to launch a Windows edition of 1-2-3 , the firm released a faulty version of the program and the firm has seen its share of the lucrative spreadsheet business slip to 48% . |
| 8 | Arianespace has won a contract to launch a communications satellite for Eutelsat : the contract , Arianespace 's sixth this year , will take its order book to 37 birds worth $3,000m ; Eutelsat II F5 will go up an Ariane 4 rocket from the Kourou Space Centre in French Guiana at the end of 1993 or early next year . |
| 9 | On Jan. 20 , 1990 , Xinhua announced that the China Great Wall Co. was to launch a communications satellite for Arabsat at the end of 1991 . |
| 10 | One of the first duties undertaken by Kajiyama was to observe a police operation in one of Tokyo 's most notorious areas of prostitution , on Sept. 20 , which resulted in the arrest of 45 foreign women who were accused of working as prostitutes . |
| 11 | On March 9 Iran called on the UN to impose an arms embargo on the two states . |
| 12 | Coun Richmond believes the authority squandered the opportunity to create a shops development in part of the town centre which could be hit by the new Cornmill shopping complex . |
| 13 | Toronto-based Unitel Communications Inc is to open a telecommunications centre in Winnipeg , Manitoba , by the end of the year , creating 400 jobs : the telemarketing and customer services centre will join the ones in Kamloops , British Columbia and in Edmundston , New Brunswick . |
| 14 | One summer I was invited to chair a Brains Trust at the Scottish Lawyers ' annual conference at Aviemore . |
| 15 | Emma was Captain of the School 's under 12 soccer team … and today her friends started a collection to buy a sports trophy to be presented in her memory . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | And you only have to see a police uniform through the door to feel racked with guilt , even though you 've done nothing wrong and he 's only looking for a lost cat . |
| 18 | I agree with the hon. Member for Carshalton and Wallington ( Mr. Forman ) that by far the most useful thing that we could do in the short run would be to fund a payments union among the commonwealth of independent states so that they could at least have a currency in which to trade with one another . |
| 19 | The court is likely to fix a directions appointment in all cases but it is not obliged to do so . |
| 20 | There was , he believed , no route from a world of warring states to genuine peace except via the imposition of the rule of law in international affairs : ‘ a stable peace requires all disinterested nations to form a police force in any quarrel . |
| 21 | Now it says on average for , and then essentially we looked at the three main support of erm protectionist powers , like the E E C , U S A and Japan right , and they said that on average alright for every one dollar benefit alright for every one dollar benefit , one agricultural support , right it actually costs right one one fifty dollars of the general statistics in order to give a pounds worth of support to domestic farmers , we er have to find one pounds fifty right . |
| 22 | On 22 November 1968 , the Prime Minister , Terence O'Neill outlined an ameliorative package of reforms which , in amongst its other measures , encouraged local authorities to devise a points system for the allocation of housing ; abolished the company vote for local elections ; and repealed parts of the Special Powers Act . |
| 23 | The problem in West Yorkshire is that it costs more there to put a police man on the beat , and the authority spends more per head of the population . |
| 24 | He left wearing a dinner suit to attend an awards dinner at the Portman Hotel in Marble Arch . |
| 25 | bid for a contract to run a careers service on their own |
| 26 | This study is related to Professor Rosenbrock 's SERC Senior Fellowship award ‘ Social Effects of Automation ’ and is to develop software which will enable the operator to program an FMS system by making the first batch of parts . |
| 27 | They urged the President to hold a police inquiry into the killings and called on Congress to set up an investigation into links between the police and the death squads . |
| 28 | The United States is lukewarm to the Vance-Owen plan while the Europeans are resisting U.S. pressure to lift an arms embargo against the Bosnian Muslims . |
| 29 | The first woman to place a lonely-hearts advertisement in a British newspaper was Helen Morrison , a spinster of Manchester . |
| 30 | ‘ Hey thanks , Chief … but I reckon this could be a blatant attempt to influence a police officer in the execution of his duty . ’ |