Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [prep] [art] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From an old book of local walks I read of a route up the Remarkables , the jagged range of peaks which overshadow Queenstown across the lake , and which rise to nearly 8,000 feet . |
| 2 | These packs are being used by both industry , colleges and individuals to provide the underpinning learning support for S/NVQs , or as a route to an HCIMA qualification . |
| 3 | ‘ It happened , he says , because of a prince of the Turcomans called Uzum Hasan whose wife was a princess of Trebizond . |
| 4 | A variety of the Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin , Sousa chinensis , is being threatened with extinction by the construction of Hong Kong 's new airport , just as it is being recognized as a distinct species . |
| 5 | But still the Peace People , or The Community of the Peace People , to give it its full title , continues its work from a base on the Lisburn Road in south Belfast . |
| 6 | On the other hand this was also the year when the British government had reluctantly bowed to American pressure and agreed to the establishment of a base in the Holy Loch in the west of Scotland for American Polaris submarines . |
| 7 | In an unusual move , the full Court of Appeals in a 10–2 decision , threw out the ruling , by one of its own panels as well as a trial court , which held a provision of the British-US extradition treaty unconstitutional . |
| 8 | A provision in the IBA code not to be found in the CCBE version draws attention to the need , when in the client 's interest , to endeavour to reach a solution to disputes by out of court settlement rather than by starting proceedings and adds : " lawyers should never stir up litigation " . |
| 9 | He published a chart of the Salvage Islands , thirteen charts of the Cape Verde islands , a chart of the coast of England , and one of Vidal bank off the north-west coast of England . |
| 10 | Already that morning she had drunk more than the weekly average for women she 'd noticed displayed on a chart in the Summertown Health Centre waiting-room . |
| 11 | Compared with 10 years ago , when it was estimated that at least 70 per cent of two-parent households with two children came within the scheme , less than half of two-parent families now qualify , according to the author of the study , Michael Murphy , a statistician at the London School of Economics . |
| 12 | As a trial for the Cheltenham Gold Cup , the outcome of the race caused few ripples in the ante-post market , although Chatam has shortened to a best priced 10-1 ( from 16-1 ) with Ladbrokes . |
| 13 | You never quite know what they do or where they go in winter , though I 'm told Froggy had a sister in the Birmingham area . ’ |
| 14 | His mind would likely have blown a fuse at the Jon Kessler show , at Luhring-Augustine until the 25th . |
| 15 | The effect is consequently a reversion to the pre-Anns position of developing new categories of duty incrementally by analogy with established categories rather than by a wide prima facie duty constrained only by undefined ‘ considerations which ought to negate , or to reduce or limit the scope of the duty or the class of persons to whom it is owed ’ . |
| 16 | Examples of the current price differences are : £136 charged by Ford for an Escort Mark III front panel , compared with £54 from an independent supplier — the true cost of making such a panel is closer to £10 ; Peugeot charges £136.50 for a bonnet on its 405 model , £85 from an independent ; A headlamp on a Granada Mark III can cost £106.50 from a Ford dealer , £67 from an independent . |
| 17 | It may be cordless or attached by a cable to the VCR . |
| 18 | ‘ Or a resort on the Costa Brava . ’ |
| 19 | Despite a recession in the US aerospace market , Turbine Engine Services recorded a good year in both the core business of fuel nozzle repair and calibration and the developing engine repair and overhaul market . |
| 20 | Despite a recession in the US aerospace market , Turbine Engine Services recorded a good year in both its core business of fuel nozzle repair and calibration and its developing engine repair and overhaul market . |
| 21 | It 's easier now : I remember when I was first in the TV newsroom , the foreign round-up as it was called went from pictures of policemen in Peru beating demonstrators , to a volcano erupting in the Philippines , to a hurricane in the Caribbean , to more police beating up more people somewhere else . |
| 22 | In the end the threat was made of calling a squadron of the RAF from Singapore to ensure withdrawal . |
| 23 | Typically , the first action he describes was a mistake : the bombing of Freiburg at the beginning of the war by a squadron of the Luftwaffe believing itself to be over Dijon . |
| 24 | In 1701 the Admiralty ordered a squadron to the West Indies , commanded by John Benbow [ q.v. ] , to carry out the first recorded naval therapeutic trials of two chemical medicines invented by Stringer to combat scurvy and fevers . |
| 25 | And she married er a man named , Mr , I c do n't know his christian name , and he was a warder at the Leicester prison . |
| 26 | Tony Starling partnered A Swetka of the USA to reach the semi-final of the Men 's 70 doubles . |
| 27 | We have seen such a case with the Lloyd 's building . |
| 28 | Is there not a case for the EC to reassure both sides that they can live in peace if the troops go ? |
| 29 | Originally it was thought that the bombings might be drug-related , but Vance had been involved in a case against the Ku Klux Klan in 1985 and Robinson had recently represented a black plaintiff in a school desegregation case . |
| 30 | Erm , it 's been an important year for us , and I think that , you may recall that last year we talked a bit about the Nathan report , and er , if you look at the Directors er , report , you will see that quite a lot of the work that we talked about and was in the Nathan report , is now under way , and I think it 's very important . |