Example sentences of "a [n mass] [prep] [noun prp] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ( This plan was abandoned when rumours began to circulate that the castle was about to be taken over as a headquarters for Field Marshal Kesselring ; rumours which subsequently proved to have no basis in fact . )
2 Independence Technologies Inc picked up a $1.95m from Cincinnati Bell Information Systems Corp which is building large customer information , billing and network configuration applications with its iTran OLTP development tools , iView system management software and USL 's Tuxedo transaction monitor .
3 A pair of Derwent jet engines , once fitted to Meteor WL181 and latterly used as runway de-icers were hammered down for only £750 .
4 Tuppe was wearing a very smart tartan shirt and a pair of Osh Kosh dungarees .
5 Tim had gone to Warrington 's busy town centre to buy a pair of Everton football shorts when an IRA bomb blew up in his face .
6 But half a century on and the most basic Jeep will , according to UK importers TKM , be as much as an impulse , fashion buy as a Harley-Davidson motorcycle or , though on a slightly less grand scale , a pair of Ray-Ban Aviator sunglasses .
7 Included will be a magnificent Shang dynasty , bronze food vessel , a range of cloisonné pieces , a pair of Ming dynasty armchairs , and group of blue and white porcelain including a transitional Ming/Qing brushpot .
8 The lucky winners will receive a Ventoris wide bodied racquet , a pair of Ventora tennis shoes and a deluxe tennis thermo holdall , all from the Head 1991 tennis range .
9 Head are offering three fantastic first prizes , consisting of a Ventoris tennis racquet , a pair of Ventora tennis shoes and a Head deluxe tennis thermo bag .
10 All the women who say , ‘ I spend £40 on a pair of La Perla panties , but I do it for myself , ’ are A-cups .
11 Pulling on a pair of Garfield boxer shorts , grumbling Dommie tiptoed barefoot across the gravel out to his Lotus .
12 You 're the winner of our July competition and will receive a wide selection of goodies from Burton Mc Call including a Karoo tent , a Snowfox sleeping bag and a pair of Trezeta Vajolet leather walking boots .
13 The complex comprises a pair of MetJ repressor dimers which bind to adjacent met- box sites on the DNA , and contact each other by means of a pair of antiparallel α -helices .
14 That afternoon I went to the café at Fagurhólsmýri and bought a pair of Tuf workman boots .
15 At each location , a pair of Unwin surface rails is mounted in the carpet .
16 A mere £59.99 will buy you a pair of Mizuno Lendl Match TP shoes , a leather shoe with a mid cut upper and double padded topline .
17 Put on a pair of Mickey Mouse ears for the occasion .
18 7 HE features in a series of US TV cartoons , including the Super Mario Bros Show .
19 We considered them exemplary material for a series of CBC radio talks , edited and read by him , and produced by me .
20 The BBC ran a series of Thursday evening programmes , based on his characters , in 1944 .
21 A series of Friday night swim discos get under way at Bishop Auckland 's Woodhouse Close leisure complex next week .
22 A series of Friday night swim discos get under way at Bishop Auckland 's Woodhouse Close leisure complex next week .
23 NOEL REDDING , former bassist with the Jimi Hendrix Experience , and RANDY HANSEN play a series of Hendrix tribute concerts to commemorate the anniversary of his death at Glasgow King Tut 's Wah Wah Hut
24 Audiences dipped below 600,000 for Manchester City v QPR , the first of a series of Monday night specials .
25 The Mall is also starting a series of Monday Night Fever in June featuring top live bands from 70s and 80s including Rose Royce , Odyssey and Sweet Sensation .
26 Around 25,000 spectators watched a series of Princes Street Mile races last year , which attracted an international field , including Olympic women 's 800 metres champion Ellen van Langen and Olympic men 's 1500 metres champion Fermin Cacho .
27 They were in videos : Richard in a series of David Bowie ones ( ‘ Underground ’ , ‘ Loving The Alien ’ , two for ‘ Blue Jean ’ ) ; Fred for Billy Ocean .
28 In this report we review the sequence of changes in liver allografts performed in a series of HBV surface antigen ( HBsAg ) positive patients , and described the clinical and pathological factors that seem to influence the course of recurrent HBV infection .
29 Alsys Inc , Burlington , Massachusetts , now owned by Thomson-CSF SA , has a series of Ada software development products supporting the Solaris 2X operating environment from SunSoft Inc .
30 Alsys Inc , Burlington , Massachusetts , now owned by Thomson-CSF SA , stepped up to announce a series of Ada software development products supporting the Solaris 2X operating environment from SunSoft Inc , the first availability of Ada software development tools for Sparc-based systems running Solaris 2 .
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