Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [verb] a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To answer the understandable need to touch and be involved with animals , the park has a Children 's Farmyard . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The case follows a police raid in January on a caravan site at Sandford near Oxford . |
| 4 | For most students , the decision to follow an arts path or a sciences path is made at the age of 16 , when choosing A levels ; for some students , it is made earlier , at 14 , or , for a very few students , those who have kept their options open , later , after A level . |
| 5 | ANDES headquarters were returned and the ministry opened a grants programme for the children of the 33 teachers assassinated the previous year . |
| 6 | They have taken a selection from their Cordillera , Appalachian , and Outback lines , adapted the harness to suit a women 's figure and called them the Nanda Devi range . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The Department operates a Sports Bursary Scheme offering an educational programme , conditioning , medical and other support services and financial assistance to selected outstanding sportsman and women studying at the university . |
| 9 | The programme showed a children 's nightdress which is sold in the shops for £1.10 . |
| 10 | A BEER festival is back on after the council overturned an arts centre 's refusal to hold it . |
| 11 | The council has a points system . |
| 12 | London-based Ideal Business Solutions Ltd claims to be the first to market with an 80486DX 66MHz notebook computer , the EPS-486 : the machine has a 10″ active matrix colour display , PCMCIA slot , 4Mb of memory , 128Mb of RAM , a removable 200Mb hard disk , and a portable expansion unit , housing three 16-bit expansion cards ; it weighs 6.4 lbs and costs a phenomenal £2,000 . |
| 13 | In 1950 the Circuit organized a Veterans ' Tea , held in Thomas Street Lecture Hall on Thursday 26 October . |
| 14 | His boyish features seemed almost bright , almost happy , as he listened to the Coroner questioning a police Inspector , who had been in charge of the Metropolitan Police 's part in the operation . |
| 15 | The team had a supporters ' club in which local women were represented . |
| 16 | The meeting established an officers ' co-ordination council , of about 100 elected members , to put the army 's point of view in CIS negotiations on military and strategic issues . |
| 17 | Indeed reason would infer the existence of a wall , especially if the town became a civitas capital , and even more so if it became the capital of the late-formed province of Valentia . |
| 18 | The Group has a Donations Committee which considers charitable appeals , and which oversaw donations of 2 million to registered charities in the UK during the year . |
| 19 | Before they were finished , the first charges went off and the place became a hornets ' nest . |
| 20 | The service offers an out-of-hours emergency call-out service to the patients of GPs practices on Teesside . |
| 21 | The race includes a ladies ' race , the first lady taking about five minutes longer to cover the distance . |
| 22 | While taxi-ing the crew received an airways clearance and the aircraft was lined up on the runway without delay . |
| 23 | The landlord wants a months deposit and another month 's rent in advance which I already paid to the agency . |
| 24 | Incidentally , the SRU will continue to press for the IRFB to form a Laws Advisory Committee consisting of genuine experts as opposed to five members of the board who may be good men and true but who know damn all about , for example , why the laws have evolved as they have . |
| 25 | The US , having failed to persuade Britain or the OEEC to pursue a customs union , gave strong support to the Schuman Plan . |
| 26 | Overall winner of the 1990 award will receive a £1,500 Longshot Golf holiday to Spain , with the runner-up claiming an all-expenses paid weekend for two at Scotland 's famous Gleneagles hotel . |
| 27 | Incredible as it may seem , in Mark Crowe the paper has a sports reporter who is unable to hold his drink . |
| 28 | Mr Anderson also admitted checking to see if the woman had a police record . |
| 29 | By 1978 Britain , under Labour , was still in the EEC , the government had an incomes policy of sorts and had curbed the growth of public expenditure , and private education remained . |
| 30 | Suppose the government imposes a profits tax on a monopolist : what effect would this have on the monopolist 's output decision ? |