Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On an outing to the obscure Gate Crag in Eskdale we picked a route called Bosigran — this had to be climbed because I 'd just returned from my first climbing trip to Cornwall . |
| 2 | The first was not so much Offa 's death on 26 or 29 July 796 ( ASC D , s.a. 796 ) as the death of Ecgfrith , his successor , 141 days later ( ASC A , s.a. 755 ) which threatened all that Offa had struggled to achieve within Mercia and created dynastic uncertainty at the centre of the Mercian polity as royal power was assumed by Coenwulf , a prince claiming descent not from Eowa or Penda but from a certain Coenwealh , allegedly in the genealogies a brother of Eowa and Penda ( see Appendix , Fig. 8 ) . |
| 3 | In vain , Agnes tried to think of a ruse to get Paul out of the house . |
| 4 | Rival comics reckon it 's just a ruse to boost sales — and that Superman will be resurrected . |
| 5 | Developing nations argued that the motion on protection of rainforests abused their right to self-determination [ see ED 49-50 ] and the convention on biodiversity was seen by some as a ruse to gain control of their resources . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Or it may have been no more than a ruse to exert pressure and force him to reconsider . |
| 8 | Yes , I , I 'd give you two , one is my favourite of all shrub roses which is Fantan la tour which has what one can only describe as loosened sort of shaggy shell pink flowers with the most exquisite perfume , it 's a , it 's an untidy flower like the old shrub roses really should be the best of them erm and a very pale shell pink , a wonderful variety , not particularly repeat flowering , relatively short flowering season but so wonderful when it is in flower and the other one , er she says she does n't like red , now is n't really red , it 's a very very deep reddish purple and it 's a variety called Tuscany Superb and I grow Tuscany Superb in my garden alongside er some fennel , a foliage fennel plant and the feathery fennel together with , almost the aniseed aroma of the fennel together with these deep deep purple flowers of Tuscany Superb is absolutely wonderful , it 's actually on the edge of my herb garden . |
| 9 | I had Radio One on this morning and on the news it said that Porsche had developed a , a base to shoe horses . |
| 10 | As a result , Brown reckons that the two companies are eager to cash in on such a base to generate interest in their own products . |
| 11 | ‘ And a base to store weapons and stuff . |
| 12 | Murray , of Bethlin Mews , Kingswells , has also denied using the depot as a base to supply heroin and Temgesic on various occasions between December 1989 , and December 1991 . |
| 13 | The thermodynamic data for poly ( A ) , poly ( C ) and poly ( dA ) indicate that the entropic cost per nucleotide in forming an ordered structure , formally involving six rotors ( see Figure 2 ) , has a mean value of -34 ( ±5 ) kJ mol -1 ( TΔS helix at 300 K , averaged over 9 data sets from references [ 8-13 ] ( Table 1 ) , where the error limits equal the range of reported values ) , and is closely balanced by a base stacking exothermicity of -37 ( ±4 ) kJ mol -1 . |
| 14 | In essence the process consists of mixing vegetable and animal wastes , adding a base to neutralize acidity , and managing the mass so that the aerobic micro-organisms which break it down can work to the best advantage . |
| 15 | This rule was later extended to include the power to issue bonds for a further £1,000 … a provision made use of straight away as 280 x £25 bonds were registered from the beginning . |
| 16 | The ban on abortion counselling and referral by federally funded family planning clinics , imposed in 1988 under President Ronald Reagan and maintained by Bush , came under congressional challenge as both House and Senate enacted human services appropriations bills containing a provision to block enforcement of the ban during fiscal 1992 . |
| 17 | He may derive some support from the statement of Templeman LJ in Amalgamated Estates Ltd v Joystretch Manufacturing Ltd : I think it is a great pity that any landlord should require , or that any tenant should accept , a provision making time of the essence when the consequences are so onerous . |
| 18 | The agreement also contained a provision to increase security along the Tajik-Afghan border . |
| 19 | Use of a chart prevents repetition of work that has already been carried out by blocking any attempt to reapply the same rule in the same place . |
| 20 | Each presentation may be a chart demonstrating relationships , a picture to stimulate discussion , or a series of sequences demonstrating a manipulative skill , procedure or physiological process . |
| 21 | A typical portion of a Chart showing vertices , active and inactive edges and different levels of description is given in Fig. 3.1 . |
| 22 | Mr. Arlidge 's argument is as follows : The word ‘ defer ’ in this context means ‘ put off ’ or ‘ postpone ’ or ‘ delay ’ and that if a trial takes place after a time which is obviously longer than that normally required for the preparation of a trial of that nature , then there has been the kind of delay prohibited by the statute . |
| 23 | What it recommended , instead of simply pursuing the diet/cholesterol link , was a trial to control cholesterol , blood pressure and smoking all at once . |
| 24 | A hasty burlesque of a trial exculpated Bothwell , but instead of keeping tactfully out of sight for a while he abducted the queen on the pretence of seeking to protect her . |
| 25 | ‘ Do n't you have a sister called Edith ? ’ said Lulach . |
| 26 | There were a million Müllers in Germany and no doubt a good many Louise Müllers , but of Louise Müllers who were opera singers , and had a sister called Katje , there could hardly have been more than one . |
| 27 | Yeah it was something like that and he had a sister called Lisa who was about a year older than me and I used to be best friends with her . |
| 28 | ‘ Mum did n't have a sister called Elaine ? |
| 29 | ‘ I think she had a sister called Elaine . |
| 30 | Has a sister called Yvette . |