Example sentences of "an [noun] [noun sg] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AN RAF man told a court yesterday how he had fallen asleep at the wheel of a Land-Rover before his friend died in a head-on crash with a lorry on the A1 . |
| 2 | FRANTIC balloon-blowing and a cancelled fly-past by an RAF formation marked the launch of a new hospital trust yesterday . |
| 3 | A MAJOR step in the development of the game in the ranks of the Services took place at St Helens on Sunday , when , in a curtain-raiser to the first match of the New Zealand tour , an RAF team defeated an Army XIII by 22-14 . |
| 4 | Then Peter Hitchens , the Express reporter following Mr Kinnock , was harangued by fellow reporters over how his paper got the name of the girl and an Express spokesman claimed The Independent must have got the name from Labour Party sources . |
| 5 | Aran has set up an ICL division to accommodate the new business , which will be run by ex-Transaction Point employees . |
| 6 | President Clinton made an election pledge to send a peace envoy there . |
| 7 | An election year heralds an ad blitz by the main parties . |
| 8 | Invitations to other political parties and representatives of business , trade unions and churches would be sent out immediately in the wake of an election victory to broaden the membership of the party 's working group under Prof Raymond Plant . |
| 9 | He also ruled out what an ITN interviewer called a ‘ gentle readjustment ’ of the pound , saying that was an unacceptable soft option . |
| 10 | Kerry Sadler , 14 , of Birtley , near Gateshead , who cares for her mum Ann , who has multiple sclerosis , has won £500 in the final of an ITN contest to find the country 's top carers . |
| 11 | OMARSKA was shut down this week and the starving prisoners moved out after an ITN report exposed the barbaric conditions . |
| 12 | A typical example is the adoption of an expropriation Article allowing the holders of , say , 90% of the shares to buy out the minority shareholders against their will . |
| 13 | An endowment policy pays a capital sum to the insured at a specified time in the future , or on death if earlier . |
| 14 | One of Ko 's three brothers designed weapon systems while another served as an army major in an elite unit guarding the President . |
| 15 | Stan Dickenson , retired purchasing consultant for an electronics company adores the beautiful blossoms of tuberous begonia . |
| 16 | This autumn join Harpers & Queen On Location at Harvey Nichols , Knightsbridge , London SW1 , where we are hosting an accessories extravaganza to celebrate the opening of their newly refurbished department . |
| 17 | The pressure wave from an overtaking truck strikes the rear of the trailer first , setting up a swing . |
| 18 | Seemingly unrestrained by their director , his principals , Juliette Binoche and Jeremy Irons , indulge in a perfect orgy of , in actor-speak , ‘ playing the result ’ : their first meeting , before they are even introduced , is a wild farrago of fish-like glances , tortured swallowing and interminable silences , and Malle follows suit , equipping his female lead with a get-up — black leather , gloves , fags , sunglasses , four-inch heels and an Eton crop to make a Brazilian transvestite blink , never mind a research assistant at Sotheby 's , which is what she is meant to be . |
| 19 | No 4472's insurance certificate granted her a 10-year ticket for her boiler ( ratified with an MOT style test every six months ) but only seven years of that covers main line running . |
| 20 | No , er I think it would be wise to separate the provision for increments from pay awards , they are quite separate er items of expenditure , the increments I refer to here , these are the annual increments which the County Council as an employers contract to take an individual as he addresses through his particular salary rate , will that |
| 21 | After waiting for Shildon for half an hour Rain used the phone in the Cloister and rang the Post . |
| 22 | An Oshkosh steamer won a 232 km ( 201 miles ) race from Green Bay to Madison , Wisconsin in 1878 but the French claim the first real race for automobiles was the 31 km ( 19.3 miles ) race from Saint-James , Paris , along the Seine , to Neuilly in 1887 . |
| 23 | The larger portion holds a numeric value , and the smaller , the addressing mode field , specifies how the numeric value is to be interpreted ; for example , as a numeric quantity for direct use ( see the next section ) , as a store address , or as a numeric quantity to be added to the contents of an index register to form a store address . |
| 24 | Owning a long position in an index future enables the trader to participate in price changes of the shares in the index . |
| 25 | Typically an index number indicates the current position of prices ( e.g. UK index of retail prices ) or quantities ( e.g. UK index of industrial production ) of a list of commodities relative to a specified base point ( though the principles can apply in other situations ) . |
| 26 | An ICI catalyst converts the latter to methanol . |
| 27 | The above discussion has shown that an intercommodity spread requires the choice of a spread ratio , and that the choice of this ratio depends on the purpose of the spread . |
| 28 | The producer would have to consider fitting some device such as an ionization screen to absorb the rays and , in the absence of a technological way of overcoming the problem , they might be forced to withdraw the product until such time as a solution could be found . |
| 29 | AN ambulance boss saved the life of a choking baby when her parents raced into his control room as he handled a 999 call . |
| 30 | AN ambulance boss saved the life of a choking baby at his desk when her parents raced into his control room as he handled a 999 call . |