Example sentences of "a [noun] [verb] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The less fortunate have to stand on aching pins as the carriage , unventilated ( it is impossible to fit air conditioning to tube trains as the tunnels are too small to acccommodate such devices ) , grows hot and foetid ; even the lines of Shirley Lim 's Modern Secrets up there amongst the ads- ‘ Last night I dreamt in Chinese/Eating Yankee Shredded Wheat ’ -brought to us by ‘ Poems On The Underground , ’ a ruse to make tube travel a little less stressful , can not alleviate the strap-hangers ' gloom and frustration . |
| 2 | They cut through a cable controlling signalling equipment then put a bed frame on the line at Den Road in Kirkcaldy just before 10pm on Monday . |
| 3 | In his report Roger mentions the probable cost of a level to drain Levers Water as £16 . |
| 4 | Given free plutonium , the report says that such a plant could generate electricity at 3.1 cents a kilowatt hour ( kWh ) , compared with 3.0 cents a kWh using uranium fuel in a standard reactor . |
| 5 | As a runner initiates foot strike , the ART system automatically adjusts to the ground forces . |
| 6 | Typical of the man , Ashe seemed more concerned about my welfare , hearing that I had been beaten up outside the stadium by a stick wielding Army officer , than his own . |
| 7 | For that end , for that end , you people over there , who took a decision to implement Local Management at the earliest possible time , regardless of the state of preparation of each particular school , regardless of the resources of staff and equipment and , if that was not enough , you also introduced a cut of thirteen million pounds in education funding . |
| 8 | Established internationals Gord MacKinnon and Pat Palmer represented the national team squad at the CRU 's recent three day planning meeting in Vancouver and were most supportive of a decision to implement fitness testing for all the country 's top players as an ongoing requirement . |
| 9 | Nursing unions at Greenbank Hospital , Darlington , yesterday said a decision to invoke dispute procedure was delayed until next week because management had called a joint meeting with staff and unions next Monday . |
| 10 | Sir , — We write in reply to an article detailing East Hampshire District Council 's comments following our successful appeal against a decision to refuse planning permission for a private gipsy site for one family in Passfield . |
| 11 | So , for example , it may be that a keen walker would have a special interest in a stretch of country where he or she frequently walked which would entitle him or her to challenge a decision to grant planning permission to develop it , whereas an ordinary member of the public or even of some environmental group in a different area might not have . |
| 12 | In retrospect the decline of the tram in Britain was not so much a response to technological change but more a decision to cut capital investment in public transport . |
| 13 | CPRW has no doubt that in this particular instance a decision to provide planning consent would be quite disastrous , whereas a rejection would strengthen the value of National Park designation at a time when development pressures of the kind being considered are on the increase . |
| 14 | Human-Computer Interaction : Issues and techniques which determine the usability of computer systems , interactive programming techniques , and novel types of human-computer interface such as computer hearing , vision , speech , and AI systems ; Industrial computer vision systems ; Aiding the work of a programmer producing computer vision systems for specific applications ; Building into such systems the ability to monitor their own performance and adapt appropriately ; Studying the human-computer interactions involved both in the developmental and industrial environments . |
| 15 | Security guard Ron Letts was crushed by a getaway van when he surprised a gang stealing scrap metal . |
| 16 | Just a fortnight earlier , she 'd been on a course called Heart Start , which taught her the basics of resuscitation . |
| 17 | Another point is that the information management unit was intended not only as part of a construction industry course for students at universities and polytechnics , but was also aimed as a course to assist construction industry personnel already in industry . |
| 18 | VIRGINIA Bottomley yesterday called a halt to a plan to spend £20,000 on a course to show women hospital managers how to look good and dress well . |
| 19 | How significant a part does inheritance play in sustaining or raising standards of living ? |
| 20 | In a letter to Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson on the eve of sentencing , Barry requested a sentence comprising community service . |
| 21 | The Lifetime Award to Tremayne was the work of a taken-over revitalised hotel chain aiming to crash the racing scene with sponsorship in a big way . |
| 22 | The details are immaterial , and it is sufficient for present purposes to say that they were concerned with two subjects , namely the accounts of Carrian and a building called Gammon House . |
| 23 | If the materials used to build walls , roofs and other parts of a building allow water vapour to penetrate , then condensation can occur within the structure as well as on its surface if the air 's moisture content is high and the structure 's temperature is low . |
| 24 | In 1583 the Woodcocks were back ‘ with divers ... desperate and lewde persons ’ who ‘ in riotous manner dug ... one myghty diche more like in truthe a defence to have kepte owte some forren enemyes than an inclosure to keepe in cattell ’ . |
| 25 | One very extensive class is er is a calcium activated potassium channel , where calcium 's now activating from the inside as we 've already seen in that example I showed you early on . |
| 26 | The spillage occurred on Monday , when a hose connecting HMS Talent to a facility barge burst . |
| 27 | It is a shock , no doubt , to find so humanistic a writer denigrating Renaissance humanism , which he saw as philistine and obscurantist : the New Learning , he believed , created the New Ignorance . |
| 28 | And yet the Chancellor had the cheek to describe this as a measure to improve energy efficiency . ’ |
| 29 | Mr Pat Roberts for installation of a coin operated electricity meter . |
| 30 | The Torstar Corporation , a Canadian based communications organization , was itself an amalgamation ; in 1967 , the Toronto Star Ltd and Charth Investment and Publishing Company Ltd had merged to form the largest communications conglomerate in Canada . |