Example sentences of "a [noun] [noun] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | Print workers too were said to have improved in character : " a printing office was like a public house on a Monday when I was an apprentice , and now we have no drinking at all " . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , a man has appeared in court charged with causing death by dangerous driving after a Swindon fan was killed by a car during the promotion celebrations . |
| 3 | A trial weekend was n't it ? |
| 4 | A trial run was carried out but it was soon realized the volume of traffic in the town of Paisley would prevent any large movement of aircraft in time for the carrier to meet its scheduled departure . |
| 5 | ( See the earliest drawing ) , was unsatisfactory , so in September 1908 a trial tee was constructed somewhere near what is now the ladies ' winter tee on the 16th , the 17th green being more or less as we know today , although at this time a twin green with the first . |
| 6 | On Monday night , a teargas grenade was fired at angry demonstrators trying to storm the local Stasi building in the town of Suhl . |
| 7 | On Monday night , a teargas grenade was fired at angry demonstrators trying to storm the local Stasi building in the town of Suhl . |
| 8 | On Monday night , a teargas grenade was fired at angry demonstrators trying to storm the local Stasi building in the town of Suhl . |
| 9 | Sometimes being a racehorse owner was tough on the nerves . |
| 10 | A KITCHEN porter was yesterday jailed at Edinburgh Sheriff Court for two years after he was convicted of sex offences with young children . |
| 11 | The younger boy is recovering in hospital after a kitchen knife was plunged into his chest at his home in Bath , Avon . |
| 12 | In the 16th century , an east wing was added to replace the earlier parlour , while in the 17th century a kitchen wing was built to balance it to the west . |
| 13 | In one , a kitchen extension was completely wrecked . |
| 14 | A kitchen maid was usually the most menial servant in a house . |
| 15 | For those still baffled , ECU is the European Currency Unit , ERM is the Exchange Rate Mechanism and Maastricht is the Dutch town where a unity deal was agreed . |
| 16 | During wartime a money payment was made from the sultan 's coffers to supplement the spoils of war . |
| 17 | These include allegations against various solicitors of negligence in connection with the execution by C.M.C. and the plaintiffs of a legal charge in favour of B.M.T. to secure a loan of £420,000 ; the giving of personal guarantees by the plaintiffs in respect of this indebtedness ; and subsequent proceedings brought by B.M.T. in which a possession order was made in respect of the bakery and a money judgment was given against the plaintiffs as guarantors for a sum of nearly £375,000 . |
| 18 | Following an agreement between the Duke of Buccleuch and the Caledonian Railway a branch line was constructed from Slateford , on the main Carstairs–Edinburgh ( Lothian Road ) line , through generally open countryside , to West Granton where the Duke owned the Harbour . |
| 19 | Although Mr Wallace agreed that a referendum call was potentially unifying , he said of the convention : ‘ I ca n't see it having any active role at the present time . ’ |
| 20 | His quill pen scratched away on a sheet of treated notepaper , creating a little masterpiece of querulous complaint about a mistress Byron was tired of . |
| 21 | In this instance the issue of accountability was a principal and explicit motivation , and the need for a curriculum review was placed in the context of the need to provide information for the headteacher , the school governors , ‘ feeder ’ schools , and the LEA . |
| 22 | Every hotel room in a 40-mile radius was booked . |
| 23 | ‘ A budget ceiling was involved , to enable us to develop services with a shadow or actual weekly running cost that did not exceed that of institutional care . |
| 24 | A bargaining position was established that would draw attention to the needs of the lowest paid workers , and , hopefully , lead to a reasonable wage settlement . |
| 25 | At present the income to a forester/ farmer was 25% from the forest and 75% from the farm . |
| 26 | Although Constance soon learned that life in a couture house was more about hard work than glamour , she loved Maison de Levantiére . |
| 27 | This , this bomb dump it was a RAF place was it ? |
| 28 | Just how formidable a barrier these noble-dominated strongholds presented to evolution in a liberal-constitutionalist direction was fully revealed during the premiership of Stolypin . |
| 29 | Under the plan there were to be changes in public finance policy ; budget deficits were to be limited to 10 per cent of total revenue ; government bonds were to be issued on the Muscat securities market to replace dependence on foreign borrowing ; the state general reserve fund was to be strengthened by a transfer of oil revenues ; a contingency fund was to be created to " cope with any international or domestic variables " ; and privatization of selected assets was to go ahead . |
| 30 | A reforestation project was started in eastern Amazonia in mid-July 1990 when President Collor de Mello signed an agreement providing for the replanting of over 10,000 sq km of former forest . |