Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [pron] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Editorial assistant Paula Lockey spent a day at Grayshott Hall Health and Fitness Resort where she had a body massage , a reflexology consultation and an hour-long Cathiodermie facial . |
| 2 | GEM format — Draw , Artline 1 and Artline 2 — needing an upgrade from the now no longer supported Artline or who use an application that works with . |
| 3 | Similarly a grant is paid to staff who move from a rented unfurnished house or flat to a similar property at the new base or who buy a house of their own at the new location . |
| 4 | The conflict develops in the second part where it reaches a climax : in Giselle a death , in Romeo and Juliet several deaths . |
| 5 | The patient will die within a dew days unless either a special machine is used to clean the blood or he/she has a kidney transplant . |
| 6 | There are many people who come into English-language teaching without having passed through formal pedagogic processes , so that when they are confronted with the terminology of the subject , they may be at a disadvantage to those who have already been to teacher-training college or who have a university degree in linguistics . |
| 7 | We flew to San Diego on the West Coast where we hired a car and headed for the bright lights of Las Vegas . |
| 8 | It was in this splendid fifteenth-century monument to the high architectural taste of the Catholic sovereigns that I read a message written by a fifteenth-century schoolboy on his classroom wall : Aquí supo lo que es bueno , y lo que es malo , / Lo que es dulce , y lo que es amaro ( Here I had knowledge of what is good , and of what is bad , / Of what is sweet , and of what is bitter ) . |
| 9 | So angry was he with her that he flung a handful of the stars after her , and they fell to earth with such force that they formed a row of waterholes across the country . |
| 10 | In practice it would be almost impossible to disprove a claim by the defendant that he had a licence but had lost it and had forgotten from which local taxation office it had been issued . |
| 11 | With the result that you 've a choice which can get the very best out of your budget , your kitchen and your cooking . |
| 12 | The Judge found in favour of Sergt. Kerr … but for the plaintiff against P. C. Neame for wrongful arrest and false imprisonment , assessing the damages at £100 with costs … it was alleged the plaintiff was struck by both police officers and severely handled in the street and in the Bridewell , with the result that he received an injury to his right eye which necessitated its removal in hospital … |
| 13 | The cast could n't have come from Stavanger 's teeth : he was wounded in the mouth by a piece of shrapnel during the war , and lost a good many teeth , with the result that he wore a plate with artificial teeth in both upper and lower jaws . |
| 14 | As erm as a doctor , Bill , I have ingrained on my heart Aneurin Bevan 's words when the National Health Service was introduced in this country by the post-war Labour government , against the wishes of my colleagues , and he commented that he would erm cross our palms with silver , and he did that very successfully , with the result that he stifled a lot of opposition amongst some very powerful people , and erm of course when you 're trying to introduce a new scheme such as this and you 're terribly keen that erm it should take off and be successful , you do , of course , cross palms with silver . |
| 15 | It 's a suggestion for Marie that she has a set of yellow whatsits and when you get one you get them all . |
| 16 | Today over half the new cars registered in Britain each year are bought by employers , and 2m of Britain 's income-tax payers admit to the Inland Revenue that they have a company car . |
| 17 | I had always enjoyed working in the commercial sector and was missing the action so I got a job in Singapore in March , 1992 and am working as a sales and marketing manger in an electrical engineering company . |
| 18 | It is such a landmark that it seems a shame to let it pass without making a permanent reminder of this important occasion . |
| 19 | It has come into my mind that he needs a wife , one of his own kind , to keep him company . |
| 20 | ‘ To Lucinda ’ , because of its date , is an important indication that she saw a need to tone down her protests as she approached a polite readership . |
| 21 | I have no doubt that were he here today he would tell us that he was merely offering the hypothesis as a basis for argument ; but bearing in mind that the right hon. and learned Gentleman is the author of the words that I uttered a moment or two ago in support of the analysis of the historical nature of the government of Scotland , the Government should certainly take some account of this further straw in the wind . |
| 22 | My Proposition , embracing The House of the Dead , Notes from Underground , Crime and Punishment , The Possessed , Karamazov , and , negatively , by way of relative failure , The Idiot , is that Dostoevsky could only promote his dearest values by creeping up on their blind side : in other words that he had an urge towards crisis and clarity which he could only satisfy by yielding it to the enemy — to the horror of the flogging routine in the ‘ Thy kingdom come ’ episode in the Dead House at one chronological extreme , and to Ivan Karamazov 's showdown with the Religion Swindle at the other . |
| 23 | Sir Hector said : ‘ It 's absolutely crucial to dairy farmers and the industry that we have a scheme up and running by April 1994 which is acceptable . ’ |
| 24 | The president told aircraft workers at the company 's plant in Seattle that he believed a lot of the redundancies would not have been announced ‘ had it not been for the $26 billion that the US stood by and let Europe plough into Airbus over the last several years ’ . |
| 25 | We may conclude that violence is such a wide term that we need a typology , each item of which may have its own consequences and causes and so be best dealt with by different interventions . |
| 26 | WAITING for the fate of Fulham 's football ground to be determined proved too much for one fan so he wrote a poem to Chairman George Younger . |
| 27 | It is because the Government would not allow local authorities to appoint a couple of gatekeepers that we face a bill probably in the region of £1.9 billion . |
| 28 | Salmon was imprisoned too , along with Andrew Wyke , and was released on condition that he published a recantation , which appeared in August 1651 under the title Heights in Depths . |
| 29 | Would it be a valid objection to an Order made under this statute that it imposes a tax ? |
| 30 | What we had to do was pop out to buy daddy a card and we got a paper and we got some biscuits and cake for tea for tomorrow . |