Example sentences of "[noun] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found I could force the steering wheel a quarter of a turn and flex all sorts of things , like the casting for the gearbox mounting . ’ |
| 2 | He seemed to be deeply immersed in thought and was driving mechanically , his skill at the wheel a product of experience and finely honed reflexes , not of intense concentration . |
| 3 | One night Mr Gorman remembered that he had to visit the box to give Travis a message about the next week 's duty roster . |
| 4 | If Costica Dobre was no Lech Walesa , nor was Ceauşescu a fool like Eduard Gierek . |
| 5 | I Jordan de Blossevilla give in free alms to God and St Pancras and the monks … for the welfare of my soul and of my ancestors and successors a portion of my land in Bevenden lying by my well on the south side containing 4 perches in length and 2 in breadth ; to hold in tree alms , with a tree way of going in and out with the easement of drawing water in any well . |
| 6 | It was a brilliant tactical move which killed seven birds with one stone , gave The Smiths four pages in Melody Maker and gave the fanzines a slice of national exposure . |
| 7 | Remember that in Marks and Sparks a couple of months back they were selling borders off and I bought a beautiful aqua one . |
| 8 | In this connection , one opposing clergyman sought the intervention of the courts via an order of mandamus addressed to the Lord Chamberlain that he should present to Her Majesty a petition to the effect that the granting of the Royal Assent to the latter Bill would be contrary to the Act of Settlement 1700 and to Her Majesty 's coronation oath , both of which , he argued , forbade Her from thus imperilling the maintenance of Protestantism . |
| 9 | Since the arrival of the very first ship , the Annika , this Belfast to Rotterdam service has grown from a weekly to a twice weekly sailing , offering importers and exporters a choice of shipping at the beginning or at the end of the week . |
| 10 | The M.T.A. by its constitution had a power to put on a stop list the name of a member or person who infringed its rule forbidding the sale of articles at other than the list prices relevant thereto unless such person should pay to the Association a fine within limits to be laid down by the Council of the Association . |
| 11 | In an effort to meet its 1991 inflation target , the government in October 1990 concluded with the UGT ( General Workers ' Union ) and the Employers ' Association a pact for the following year : average wage increases would be below 13.4 per cent ; the working week would be reduced from 48 to 44 hours ; the minimum monthly wage for industrial and farm workers would rise by 15 per cent , as would most pension and social security payments ; labour disputes were to be resolved through negotiation rather than industrial action . |
| 12 | A group of unions has endorsed proposals put forward by the Involvements and Partnership Association a document towards industrial partnership was signed in September nineteen ninety two , by the General Secretaries of the A W E U , A U T , B I F U , the G M B , I M S F , N C U , U C W , and . |
| 13 | Her acceptance of this role has not only given enormous pleasure to the membership but it has conferred upon the Association a status in society and an endorsement which only the seal of Royal Patronage can do . |
| 14 | She gave Dot a peck on the cheek . |
| 15 | When Mrs Hollidaye had finished her praying and they were leaving the church , she stopped at the back and showed Dot a book with writing in it . |
| 16 | It bottles only 4% of its production under the Cellaro label , paying growers a bonus for healthier grapes with a better balance of sugar and acidity . |
| 17 | At Langan 's Bistro , with its gallery full of prints , plates and drawings , a waiter stood ready to whisper into more receptive ears a list of the day 's specialities . |
| 18 | Just like anybody else , they have understood science to be a process of investigation , and religion a matter of faith . |
| 19 | er which we stop for er we probably have a cup of tea a couple of times on the way down |
| 20 | Progressively reducing the twenty Mk 1 sets by half , and acquiring from regular service stock a fleet of Mk 1 first open coaches , Ward put in hand a programme of vehicle refurbishment involving re-upholstering , recarpeting and curtain replacement and the fitting of individual table lamps , with the aim of restoring a level of respectability to coaches which had seen better days . |
| 21 | He still owed Bert a fish over the bike deal . |
| 22 | Major institutional investors felt the deal gave too much to Mr Ritblat , his family and British Land management — New British Land was to be paid £15million a year in management charges for the first three years , coming down to £10million as properties were sold . |
| 23 | Hardening again : ‘ Is n't Jeff a way of getting out ; as well … |
| 24 | Simply to pass risks a sense of purposelessness ; but the purposefulness of approach requires delicacy and tact . |
| 25 | Er not a card a present for Ruth . |
| 26 | Purchasers could give the new deal a push by insisting that providers implement it . |
| 27 | It includes communal workshops containing metal and woodworking equipment , and a training room with computer programmes to give the new-starter a grounding in marketing , book-keeping and business management . |
| 28 | In this experiment a team from Culham went to the Kurchatov Institute to measure the temperature with the new laser-scattering technique that I have already mentioned . |
| 29 | It therefore appears that in the first experiment a match between parts of the superficial representation of the passage was influencing the way that a deep anaphor , the pronoun they , was processed . |
| 30 | Here developed in the eleventh and twelfth centuries a centre for the arts which attracted artists and craftsmen from all over Italy . |