Example sentences of "an [noun sg] [noun sg] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | President Clinton made an election pledge to send a peace envoy there . |
| 3 | An election year heralds an ad blitz by the main parties . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | An endowment policy pays a capital sum to the insured at a specified time in the future , or on death if earlier . |
| 7 | One of Ko 's three brothers designed weapon systems while another served as an army major in an elite unit guarding the President . |
| 8 | Stan Dickenson , retired purchasing consultant for an electronics company adores the beautiful blossoms of tuberous begonia . |
| 9 | The pressure wave from an overtaking truck strikes the rear of the trailer first , setting up a swing . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | After waiting for Shildon for half an hour Rain used the phone in the Cloister and rang the Post . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Owning a long position in an index future enables the trader to participate in price changes of the shares in the index . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | AN ambulance boss saved the life of a choking baby when her parents raced into his control room as he handled a 999 call . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | An ambulance spokesman said the ‘ vast majority ’ of the casualties were suffering from minor injuries , shock and the effects of cold on the exposed stretch of trans-Pennine motorway . |
| 21 | But an ambulance spokesman said the man was not seriously hurt , although he suffered shock . |
| 22 | As there is no dinner served at Eagle House , it is quite usual for John and Rosamund to find their guests dinner bookings , and they consider it their responsibility to find an eating establishment to suit the purse and palate of each guest . |
| 23 | Eating disorders tend to come from childhood , or problems , or ways people have approached food in the past and the pressure is on women to be slim to fit into these categories are er , just more pressures that make it very difficult for somebody who has an eating disorder to sort the problem all these pressures just make it more difficult . |
| 24 | If an entry coupon costs a pound , half will go in prizes , then charities , arts , sport and heritage get their cut as will the millennium fund , earmarked for major projects like new museums . |
| 25 | Cellars sprouting fungus from every dripping crevice , where those who could not even afford a place on an upstairs mattress paid a penny to sleep standing up like horses , leaning against a rope which would be simply untied the next morning when the landlord considered they had slept long enough . |
| 26 | Then a chance hole in an upstairs wall revealed an entire late-medieval solar , ‘ lined with tin , sealed off from the rest of the house . |
| 27 | In the distance she could hear the rumble of a local farmer 's combine , busily gathering in this year 's corn harvest , while from an upstairs window floated the happy laughter of Emma and Sophie , mingling with the busy hum of bees in the nearby lime trees . |
| 28 | Victims of the Maxwell pensions scandal have set up an action committee to press the Government for compensation . |
| 29 | ULSTER school chiefs today revealed an action plan following the dismissal of a senior official over claims that £170,000 was paid out for goods never received . |
| 30 | Staying with EC programmes , a call for applications has also been published under FORCE — an action programme supporting the development of continuing vocational training in the community . |