Example sentences of "a [noun prp] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WHAT a difference between my experience and that of a Swindon woman who receives a letter 90 minutes after it was posted . |
| 2 | The minute was sent to members of a Whitehall committee which included Chancellor Major . |
| 3 | But at a Whitehall seminar there was no agreement on how that national grid of optical cables , bringing hundreds of new services to home and business , should be built . |
| 4 | The troops ' intervention in the ambulance strike is being authorised under a Whitehall arrangement which enables one department to request ‘ military aid to the civil ministries ’ from the Ministry of Defence and pay the bill afterwards . |
| 5 | THE troops ' intervention in the ambulance strike is not being authorised under the Emergency Powers Act , but under a Whitehall arrangement which enables one department to request ‘ military aid to the civil ministries ’ from the Ministry of Defence and pay the bill afterwards . |
| 6 | Perhaps the most important difference between the ordinary and duty solicitor is illustrated by the following statement of a Cardiff solicitor who discussed the purpose of vocational training through articles and experience : |
| 7 | We also have ideas for a Morse exercise which should be quite fun . ’ |
| 8 | While at the hand of a Gabo , a Victor Vasareley or a Ben Nicholson its poetry enjoys analogy and metaphor , its strength is based on scientific methodology , inductive and deductive reasoning ( ref : ‘ The Design Spectrum ’ , Chapter 15 ) . |
| 9 | I 'm a Churchill man myself . |
| 10 | But at 30 Hick was not given the benefit of the doubt when lbw to a Cairns ball which had no more than a 50–50 chance of hitting the top of the leg stump . |
| 11 | The bailie apparently also read the correspondence which passed through his hands , perhaps as part of his own political activities , or he would not have learned of the contents of the letter in question , but in any event his adherence to the Duke of Argyll 's friend , Sir Peter Halkett , did him no harm and he was still postmaster of Stirling in 1755 , when his ill-health and reported nearness to death induced Lord John Murray to seek the post , in the event of Maiben 's death , for a Stirling surgeon who was a son of James Graham of Bowhaple , a Perthshire freeholder . |
| 12 | The tall 21-year-old striker used to be a Bangor favourite himself . |
| 13 | I 'm a Sunderland supporter who lives down here , I 've only had a day 's notice . |
| 14 | But they were gifted the points by a Sunderland side who failed to take the chances on offer . |
| 15 | In March I joined a CPRW delegation which met the senior Welsh Office planners and statisticians to find out more about the basis of the population and future housing projections given to the eight Welsh counties by the Secretary of State for inclusion in their Structure Plans . |
| 16 | But to really appreciate a Woodstock kitchen you have to look deeper than the cabinet door . |
| 17 | The result is a Woodstock kitchen you will be truly proud to call your own . |
| 18 | Even the family allowances , though based in their present form upon the experience and conditions of the inter-war years — when Seebohm Rowntree 's surveys in York suggested that one male in four earned less than was necessary to maintain a man , wife and two children above the poverty line — consist of a simple system of payments and enter into budgetary habits and expectations no more and no less than the fiscal allowances , of which I once suggested to a CPC conference they might be regarded as an extension . |
| 19 | The high church Anglican theologian Eric Mascall , writing in response to a report of a Lambeth subcommittee which commented that medieval understandings were based on false biological views , expressed himself thus : |
| 20 | As Distillery manager Billy Hamilton said before a clash with the Glens : ‘ I have yet to send my team out against a Glentoran side which did n't have eleven household names in it . ’ |
| 21 | And so a Harlow councillor who was elected in nineteen eighty eight , yeah ? |
| 22 | Finally , all the powers present signed a Nine-Power Treaty which guaranteed the independence of China and the principle of the " open door " in trade with that country . |
| 23 | But she also had living there a Colonel Stringer who was quite an important Scots Officer , three of his servants and a sergeant and one other soldier , so she had 6 extra people . |
| 24 | ‘ The future risks are tremendous , ’ said Mr John Roberts , a Panama expert who served as general counsel on the Senate Armed Services Committee when the Panama Canal treaties were ratified in 1978 . |
| 25 | ‘ If you go into a Panama restaurant you can always tell the people who 've been to BCI — they 're scratching like you . |
| 26 | The who was a Herr Hocher who , with a dedicated voluntary worker , Fräulein Renn , ran the Youth Club . |
| 27 | Tiny little thing that he is ! ’ ) has faded out of her life as smoothly as he shimmered in and left her a Cartier pen which she seems to have mislaid . |
| 28 | what about a Bakewell tart I made yesterday |
| 29 | Newton did n't have to be a scientist either to realise what his two goals had done for a Chelsea side which played with impressive self belief considering its young personnel . |
| 30 | He hands over to a young man with a toothless grin under a Coca-Cola hat who has been elected locally as the group 's ‘ popular educator ’ . |