Example sentences of "[vb past] a [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That court had , in fact , subpoenaed a draft copy of the Royal College of Physicians ' report on allergy . |
| 2 | Wally received a Benefit at the end of 1953–54 and almost 4,000 admirers turned out to see the Palace beat a London XI by six goals to five ! |
| 3 | erm And then we go turn around and beat a league division side three side , or a league division four side with no problem whatsoever ; it 's just inconsistency . |
| 4 | In 1965 J. T. Wilson of the University of Toronto proposed that these were not simple strike-slip faults , as had been previously suggested , but were an entirely new variety , which he termed a transform fault ( Fig. 2.13 ) . |
| 5 | The station , he said , had been part of the Anglesey scene for 55 years , trained fast jet pilots and provided a helicopter rescue service of great value . |
| 6 | Max Pechstein 's painting ‘ Sunset ’ of 1929 provided a surprise success , selling to the USA for more than double its estimate at DM440,000 ( £176,000 ; $281,600 ) . |
| 7 | Gauci had remembered the sale so vividly that , almost ten months later , he had given the Scottish police a probable date for it , 23 November 1988 , and provided a FBI videofit artist with a detailed description of his customer — he believed , a Libyan . |
| 8 | The northern courtyard , with a fairly open aspect to the west , was the boys ' playground , while the south court provided a play area for the girls . |
| 9 | ‘ That was entirely unregulated and provided a field day for the sex and violence merchants . ’ |
| 10 | Hurd provided a Heineken view of voluntary work , designed to reach the parts of our society which will always be beyond state provision . |
| 11 | Oh yes , the interesting part there , in those days , was that the majority of the children were in the same boat , we were all poor and er m the Town Council had got this skating ring at Mansfield , roller skating ring , near the Gas Works , where they provided a school meal for all the children that could there during the hour lunch . |
| 12 | Elsie provided a copper ashtray the size of a flower pot . |
| 13 | Anticipating this , the Club provided a bike tent , an important consideration . |
| 14 | The poll results provided a morale boost for the Conservatives , who have been campaigning against the background of a fierce economic recession . |
| 15 | Loughborough provided a scoring winger for both sides — Dawson for England and Anderson in reply . |
| 16 | Enfield provided a reference site for Ayr , where a similar approach was followed , with similar results . |
| 17 | The reason for this quiet revolution was simple , the combination of hardware and software provided a management tool that had never been available before whilst being sorely needed in a world of ever increasing financial pressures . |
| 18 | Diagenetic pyrite in the Lower Palaeozoic rocks of the Southern Uplands provided a sulphur reservoir . |
| 19 | It introduced successive generations of students to an emergent radical subculture , and it provided a transmission belt through which a small minority became involved in illegal political activity . |
| 20 | Run-DMC sensibly provided a side order of heavy metal with their rantings and secured crossover success , while it 's noticeable that LL Cool J has resorted to introducing unabashed Radio 2-style ballads into his repertoire . |
| 21 | Deaf Sport provided a world heavyweight boxing champion in James Burke . |
| 22 | In traditional music , melody provided a silhouette , usually established in the treble clef , while the bass provided a ground line , with periodic counterchange . |
| 23 | Not only did factors draw on it in some years for London , but later in the century the rise of Plymouth as a naval centre provided a counter attraction for corn from its eastern half which might otherwise have gone into the increasingly populous western mining districts . |
| 24 | They provided a meeting point for people who were increasingly diversified in language , manners , status and even political allegiance . |
| 25 | The trees stood at intervals down the Main Street and provided a meeting place for the villagers and presumably a resting place whilst they journeyed to Lowry Field at the bottom of the village , which had the communal St Laurence Well and provided water when all the house and farm wells were dry . |
| 26 | It was a large open space surrounded by buildings and provided a meeting place and a centre for commerce and public life . |
| 27 | Also , that they were run within agreed cost parameters and provided a quality service by means of a professional employee base . |
| 28 | Though they fell far short of the giant-killing exploits of Citizen Ralph Nader in the decade to come , the consumers ' organizations provided a rallying point and the hard evidence to contest the claims of £450 million-worth of advertising a year , roughly the same as was spent on schools . |
| 29 | They provided a sounding board , enabling the civil servants to keep abreast of the state of reformist opinion , and for the penal reform groups and academic researchers to obtain an insight into current thinking at the Home Office . |
| 30 | There was a cassette which provided a background commentary , a monologue about the glory of dying in the arms of a comrade at Christmas as the stars above sung out the glory of the Lord . |