Example sentences of "a [noun prp] [noun] [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a huge impact on the labyrinthine London club scene , it was re-released through Talkin' Loud records , a Phonogram offshoot specializing in jazz-rap and modern soul and managed by Jazz FM DJ , Gilles Peterson . |
| 2 | Typical fluorescent plot of a PCR template sequenced with dye terminators . |
| 3 | Best puppy award went to Petrocella , a Newfoundland bitch owned by Ken Pinner of Lindford , Lyn Lane of Headley 's Zeeta , a rare Shibu Inu breed , won the non-sporting title , and Gable , a spaniel belonging to Mrs. Wright of Kingsley , was victor of the open class . |
| 4 | The previous night a Pamplona industrialist kidnapped on Nov. 24 , Adolfo Villoslada Martín , had been freed by ETA after 84 days in captivity , apparently after payment by his family of a ransom of 300,000,000 pesetas ( approximately US$2,800,000 ) . |
| 5 | STRAIGHT OUT OF BROOKLYN Unfortunately more interesting than 19-year-old Matty Rich 's film — a slice-of-Brooklyn melodrama crusted with symbolism and piety — is the story of how it came to be made : ambitious kid from Brooklyn drops out of film school , blags some equipment and funds a film on the back of radio appeals . |
| 6 | Although there is a small case of sketches juxtaposed with finished products ( a Richard Meier key ring and a Hans Hollein wristwatch ) , it is frustrating that larger objects in the Met 's collection ( from an 1879 Tiffany mixed-metal salver and a Woodstock cabinet made at Byrdcliffe Colony around 1904 , to 1988 chairs by Emilio Ambasz and George Ranalli and a Morison Cousins prototype ‘ Soup to Nuts ’ bowl for Tupperware ) could not have also been included beside their preparatory drawings . |
| 7 | A police spokesman said a Vauxhall Nova driven by Mrs Cowley had been travelling east , while the Mercedes articulated truck driven by John Thompson of Hartlepool was travelling west . |
| 8 | Window firm director Norman Waller , 34 , was just going to bed when he saw youths damaging a Vauxhall Cavalier belong to neighbour Bob Fay , Newcastle Crown Court was told . |
| 9 | The Court of Session was told that Mrs Clark was crossing with the ‘ green man ’ when she was struck by a Vauxhall Astra driven by PC Roderick Cooper . |
| 10 | He said he was a Bill Francis , so I told him we had a General Francis talking to Mum in the sitting-room , and he seemed ever so surprised ! |
| 11 | The NRA described the successful prosecution , brought against a Rhone-Poulenc Chemicals plant near Bristol , as an " historic case " . |
| 12 | Still to come : was Shakespeare in truth the seventeenth Earl of Oxford , and a Van Gogh made of money at the Museum of Modern Art . |
| 13 | A SENIOR fire-fighter has called on ‘ people in high places ’ to demolish a Middlesbrough street wrecked by arsonists . |
| 14 | THE rear window of a VW Polo parked in Orchard Lane , Alton on Saturday night was smashed by vandals . |
| 15 | Obviously this requires confidence on both sides and careful preparation ; inviting someone into class on a Friday afternoon to talk about engineering can be a disaster , but a timely introduction of an engineer to a project on water power can add to the reality and interest of the work . |
| 16 | A Pratt & Whitney R-2800 engine from a Grumman Tigercat came from Los Angeles and a propeller unit was found in San Francisco . |
| 17 | It is not that boys go out on a Saturday night looking for milk bottles or other things to smash . |
| 18 | Seeing a video hire shop on a Saturday night crammed with people choosing what they are going to watch that evening is a sad sight . |
| 19 | In a KLM Airbus circling over Switzerland and Germany at 41,000 feet bidders enjoyed caviar and champagne with 40 modern Russian paintings and 40 designs by Dutch jewellers and silversmiths came under the hammer . |
| 20 | He will open the summer season with his own production of a Feydeau farce adapted by John Mortimer — A Little Hotel on the Side . |
| 21 | Erm , the erm , the erm , the erm , er , settlement of the anti tr civil anti trust law suit that was referred to in the statement was erm , costs of about six million dollars this year on a class action law suit which we have reached a tentative settlement on in the last few days and , in fact , there were some , there was about six to seven million dollars of additional provision made at the end of last year in the one time charges that we referred to at that time but could n't really identify with erm , lawyers breathing down your necks in the United States and er , this is a class action law suit , would have been in a Texas Court and erm , you know , the boiler plate language is that you want to get rid of the , you know , the expense and uncertainty of this type of litigation and if you think that what a Texas jury did to Texaco , it 's probably a prudent decision to close the matter off at this time . |
| 22 | THIS informative and often horrifying volume results from a Unesco symposium held in Ajaccio , France , in February 1981 . |
| 23 | If it spins out of control in the first half of the period , the batteries could run down and put it beyond recovery , says Alan Harris , a ROSAT physicist based in Munich . |
| 24 | A BROWN leather bag , together with its contents , valued at £220 , was stolen from a Toyota Corolla parked at Alton Sports Centre on Friday . |
| 25 | ( At this time the EC was attempting to co-ordinate its position on the recognition of Croatia and Slovenia — see p. 38685 — and on Dec. 9 more than 10,000 people , primarily of Croat origin , held a rally in a Maastricht stadium calling on EC leaders to recognize Croatia . ) |
| 26 | DETAILS of crunch talks on a Sainsbury superstore planned for Darlington have been revealed by Transport Minister Roger Freeman . |
| 27 | I have recently bought a Panasonic KX-P1124i to use with MS Works on my computer . |
| 28 | The charcoal sketch , measuring 25.7×19.3 cm , is thought to have been part of a Leonardo sketchbook owned by George IV . |
| 29 | Yet there are memorable features here which no other composer could have devised ; the balance between the poetic slow movement and the headlong scherzo of No. 1 ; the echoes of tonal melody in the abrasively dissonant No. 2 ; while Nos. 3 and 4 both embody Tippett 's own rethinking of a late-Beethoven style overflowing with trills and intricate ornamentation until , at the end of No. 4 , the simple basic theme returns unadorned , as if in homage to Beethoven 's Op. 109 . |
| 30 | And he is noteworthy also as the composer of one of the only two known French Passion-settings of the sixteenth century : a Matthew Passion published by Attaingnant in 1534 in his tenth volume of motets , where it is followed by an anonymous John Passion . |