Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Graham Lloyd of Lancashire received an inscribed Gucci watch , worth £1000 , and a case of champagne after being named Young Player of the Month by City investment company Whittingdale , whose chairman Patrick Whittingdale hosted a celebrity lunch for umpire Dickie Bird before the Oval Test . |
| 2 | because there was a bit of work to be done |
| 3 | A budget of money to be spent is agreed . |
| 4 | recommend a course of action to be taken and describe any alternatives that could be considered |
| 5 | And he felt that it would be in a sense a miracle to produce a detailed adaptation to a particular way of life , a kind of adaptation to being fertilized by bees that you see in an orchid , by a single a large jump . |
| 6 | It was a kind of ecstasy to be beside him . |
| 7 | This Solomonic model treats a community 's public order as a kind of commodity to be distributed in accordance with distributive justice , a cake to be divided fairly by assigning each group a proper slice . |
| 8 | The situation was so bizarre , so totally unlike her usual environment , that there was a kind of exhilaration to be found in it , in its very discomfort and danger , such as explorers must feel , she supposed , in a remote and barbarous country . |
| 9 | Not a speck of dust to be found ! ’ |
| 10 | In Kursell v Timber Operators and Contractors Ltd [ 1927 ] 1 KB 298 , a contract for timber to be felled by the buyer at a future date was treated as a sale of goods . |
| 11 | Salsabil , a 13-2 shot , took command of the Prix Marcel Boussac a furlong from home before being driven clear by Wille Carson . |
| 12 | Later it transpired that the INAO ( Institut National des Appellations d'Origine des vins et eaux -de-vie ) would accept this 10% as a stock régulateur , a reserve without appellation to be kept for possible classification should any future shortfall require it . |
| 13 | But youth was too important a force in society to be left to the sometimes romantic , sometimes subversive trends of the multi-faceted ‘ Jugendbewegung ’ ( youth movement ) at the turn of the century . |
| 14 | League general secretary Ron Bridges has blasted clubs who try to create a web of deception after being caught cheating . |
| 15 | Mr. Leonard contended that the expression ‘ office or employment ’ is a term of art to be construed in accordance with its established legal meanings in other contexts . |
| 16 | For example , the Church of Scientology has fought in the courts of Australia to be defined as a religion in order to be able to claim tax-exemption , while The Science of Creative Intelligence ( Transcendental Meditation ) has fought in the courts of the United States to be not given religious status so that it can be taught in the public ( State ) schools — a practice denied to religious organisations by the First Amendment of the United States ' Constitution . |
| 17 | So er I reckon she just want a skive from work to be honest ! |
| 18 | Emissions which currently amount to nearly 500,000 tonnes per year will be cut to 73,000 tonnes as a result of modernization to be carried out on the plants , in the towns of Nikel and Monchegorsk on the Kola peninsula . |
| 19 | In 1985 there was published the White Paper , " Completing the Internal Market " , which called for a programme of legislation to be implemented to create an Internal Market by the end of 1992 . |
| 20 | From June 1990 to February 1991 the Lawnmarket Building was vacated in order to allow a programme of refurbishment to be carried out . |
| 21 | Sufficient common ground existed for a programme of reform to be formulated and presented to an electorate , so constituted as aggressively independent working class — males as producers , females as consumers and reproducers . |
| 22 | This level increases depending on our activity and the demand for a surge of blood to be sent where it is needed , for instance to the muscles during exercise or to our brain when under pressure mentally . |
| 23 | Mum , dad and the three children were sitting round the fire , cracking nuts and watching TV and the atmosphere inside was as clear as a spring dawn — not a puff of smoke to be seen . |
| 24 | They do n't produce a piece of vinyl to be sold in a retail outlet . |
| 25 | I was just a piece of luggage to be labelled and sent wherever they wanted . |
| 26 | All this is possible if you book a car through Enterprise to be collected at your arrival airport , for the duration of your holiday . |
| 27 | They hark back to an older , more religious notion , where it 's not a question of wholeness of being , but of holes . |
| 28 | First , the question of what is a sufficient interest is partly a question of legal principle — what do earlier cases say about standing ? — and partly a question of fact to be decided in the light of circumstances of the case before the court . |
| 29 | 1.10 Whether there should be a reduction for contributory negligence and the amount of such reduction is a question of fact to be decided on the circumstances of the particular case . |
| 30 | Dalrymple 's evil vindictiveness is shown by the wording of a letter he wrote to the leader of the men who were to carry out his plans — ‘ It is a work of charity to be exact in rooting out that damned sept ( clan ) , the worst in all the highlands … . |