Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The total is slightly up on 1991 when DEC sold a total of 5,225 workstations in the UK worth £47.9m — 3,855 of which were VAX/VMS workstations worth £33.1m , against just 1,470 Unix systems valued at £47.9m . |
| 2 | ECSOFT LAUNCHES A DOWNSIZING AND RIGHTSIZING SERVICE PACKAGE |
| 3 | During World War II ICI operated a factory making anti-knock additives for aviation fuel and Gibson was in charge of the process work . |
| 4 | In a development that highlighted Rosyth 's struggle to survive , the MoD last night confirmed it was giving serious consideration to an attempt by Devonport to poach a £28 million ship refitting contract already awarded to the Fife yard . |
| 5 | The ideal management of any case of RSI involves a doctor well acquainted with the subject , and a good physiotherapist . |
| 6 | On March 12 Hawke announced a package of market-liberalization measures designed to make the economy more competitive and to reduce the current account deficit . |
| 7 | In its first full financial year , RBIC made a profit of more than £4 million but even better results are promised . |
| 8 | One Friday , I drove out to Cardiff to attend a luncheon , and the Royal Welsh Polo Classic , at Pontcanna Fields in the grounds of Cardiff Castle , for many years the home of the Marquesses of Bute . |
| 9 | " Well , perhaps — no , I do n't think so , " somehow Lalage conveyed a feeling of being unwanted . |
| 10 | Aged nineteen , never kissed back and greener than Kermit , I was sipping Crème de Menthe in the basement of a jazz club , when an elderly roué ( as in twenty-two ) from the Oxford Union made a pronouncement which made my spine stiffen . |
| 11 | Harvey produced a couple of cigars and we looked at the glow above the dark city and smoked , and Harvey said , ‘ It 's a millionaire 's toy , ’ and I said , ‘ Yes , with eight million working parts . ’ |
| 12 | Moreover , Allan offers a description of her which seems more explicit than any offered through another mouthpiece . |
| 13 | whether they 're for a , what 's Jim got a Fiat ? |
| 14 | it really was So erm but I do n't know , I , I think if Jim got a ticket , if he got two tickets and he said do you wan na come ? |
| 15 | A house has stood on this site since the year 1216 , when the Bishop of Lincoln ordained a vicarage here , but it has been rebuilt over and over again , and last of all in 1856 . |
| 16 | While Montaine endured a typing school above the dry-cleaners in Reine les Falaises , Jean-Claude worked on the attic to make it habitable . |
| 17 | After a number of rows , Peckinpah got a double to complete the scene . |
| 18 | Their first recorded connection with Richard is after his accession , when the second son Roger became a yeoman of the crown . |
| 19 | Their first recorded connection with Richard is after his accession , when the second son Roger became a yeoman of the crown . |
| 20 | David Macdonald made a series of quota quickies before going on to a larger budget with the striking comedy-thriller This Man is News ( 1938 ) , and Michael Powell built a reputation as a director of energetic quota films before making his mainstream début with Edge of the World ( 1937 ) , about the depopulation of a remote island in the Shetlands . |
| 21 | Films such as The Sleeping Tiger ( 1954 ) , where a psychologist 's efforts to reform the mugger he 's picked up off the street are subverted by his own drives and the desires of his wife , The Criminal ( 1960 , The Concrete Jungle in US ) , in which Stanley Baker plays a loner trapped between the violent prison system and the criminal underworld , or The Servant ( 1963 ) , in which butler is pitched against master , focus on tensions in British society much more interesting than anything opened up by Anderson 's contemporaries . |
| 22 | The airline had already being criticised by some CAA officials , and pilots believe Mr Stewart became a pawn in a trial of strength . |
| 23 | Marianne Farningham became a member of the Northampton School Board in the mid-1880s , but she declined to canvass or address meetings , preferring to send a printed letter round to electors , though this ladylike course of action did not prevent her heading the poll . |
| 24 | At the end of June 1862 , not long after Young Russia and the fires in St Petersburg — and immediately after an attempt on the life of the Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaevich — Valuev produced a paper on the internal condition of the empire in which he admitted the many difficulties under which the government was labouring but proposed no more than converting the State Council into a somewhat more representative body and bypassing the judicial system to deal with radicals more speedily . |
| 25 | Galerie de La Scala sold a drawing of two boys by nineteenth-century artist Guiguet for FFr14,000 . |
| 26 | Ian produced a string of good results to finish fourth in last year 's 600cc British Motorcycle Clubman 's championship . |
| 27 | Tiriac became a father figure and Nastase was at least able to fulfil some of his potential . |
| 28 | Bishop and priests left , and Clonmacnoise became a ruin , used only as a burial ground for those who held the site forever sacred . |
| 29 | Miss Honey got a teapot from the cupboard and put some tea leaves into it . |
| 30 | Mrs M Brett from Norfolk receives a copy of Ian Orr-Ewing 's Celebration Of Lords And Commons Cricket . |