Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [noun prp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His criticism of Oesterley 's work makes it clear that for Eliot a ritual 's origins may be as meaningless as is its present form . |
| 2 | The local radio had reported that someone had heard a skylark singing , and that in Lerwick a blackbird was already on its first clutch of catfood . |
| 3 | The trouble is that in England a tomato good enough to be eaten raw and unadorned is becoming a good deal more of a rarity than a ripe avocado , and nearly as elusive as a perfect fresh peach or purple fig . |
| 4 | There are in fact quite a number of exceptions to this proposition , so that in England a county court summons will normally be served by an officer of the court sending it by post and some writs in admiralty may be served by the Admiralty Marshal ; in the United States federal courts , summonses in civil actions are served by a United States Marshal ; but service by the plaintiff or his agent is nonetheless seen as the common law norm . |
| 5 | Another mechanism , producing movement in the vertical plane , is indicated by Hollick 's ( 1940 ) finding that in Muscina a reduction in the amplitude of the wing-beat causes the thrust vector to intersect the long axis of the insect 's body behind the centre of gravity , so altering the cephalo-caudal couple around this centre . |
| 6 | Yeah they they do n't seem to like I I know that in Wick a lot of the folk in Wick have have two se they 've got their own dialect and they 've got English . |
| 7 | of the people asked thought that it was about privatisation , and that in Ayrshire a Systems Three poll showed 74 per cent . |
| 8 | It was with great satisfaction that in June 1918 The Seaman could report that at Southampton a case in which British seamen had refused , by prior arrangement , to sail with Chinese , was dismissed by the local magistrates . |
| 9 | Yet , if Durham had special strategic and political features which made Fordham unacceptable there in the eyes of the Crown 's opponents and of key northern lords , Ely was notoriously the rich neo-sinecure of English bishoprics , and for Fordham a homecoming . |
| 10 | Soon after Mandela 's release another Ismael , Fatima Meer 's nephew and like Ayob a lawyer , was being faxed daily by an American publisher bidding for an autobiography . |
| 11 | And with Ariel a prisoner her young caveys seemed to forget how once they too had loved to hunt . |
| 12 | When a weak-form word is being contrasted with another word , e.g. : ‘ The letter 's from him , not to him ’ A similar case is what we might call a co-ordinated use of prepositions : ‘ I travel to and from London a lot ’ ‘ A work of and about literature ’ |
| 13 | These identifications will not hold good throughout the poem , precisely because the two poets were so intimate , and would remain so : each could and did ‘ internalize , the other , in the sense that within Yeats there was a voice that spoke the sentiments of Pound , and within Pound a voice that spoke like Yeats . |
| 14 | For example , Pete Coleman had to carry a shooting-stick for Greg Norman to sit on in the 1982 Australian Open , and in Zambia a caddie I saw on my Safari Tour travels carried an extra that could have proved an even bigger life-saver than the carrots that are pulled out of the bag by Sam Torrance 's caddie Malcolm Mason ( the carrots are supposed to calm Sam down on the greens ) : the Zambian caddie was carrying President Kaunda 's bag in a pro-am , and surreptitiously tucked away was a gun , just in case somebody tried to assassinate the golfing president while he decided on a four- or a five-iron . |
| 15 | For example , in Indonesia LASMO is sponsoring a land rehabilitation scheme involving a number of villages ; in Colombia , LASMO is actively involved in the construction of schools and providing financial assistance for the supply of educational material and scholarships and has begun work on a Small Business Development programme to generate economic activity and assist local communities to become increasingly self sufficient ; and in Scotland a LASMO Arts Trust has been set up to provide cash awards for promising musical students . |
| 16 | He had initiated the case in April 1992 , and in July a Florida juvenile court had ruled that , under the state 's constitution , he was entitled to sue his mother for neglect and to seek adoption by his foster parents . |
| 17 | It is all too easy to make the mistake of treating it as a purely physical problem that can be overcome by renewal , as was discovered by costly experience in the USA during the 1960s and in Britain a decade later . |
| 18 | In Norfolk on one large site there have been three serious accidents involving falls from heights , and in Suffolk a case has just been sent to crown court after a man fell through an asbestos roof on a farm . |
| 19 | Dolphins have been trained to respond to human words , and in Holland a killer whale once spontaneously repeated a human sound . |
| 20 | the Headrow was a new traffic artery in the central city , and in Birmingham a combination of inner city slum clearance and a long-proposed inner ring road promised much change , while in Coventry a young city architect , Gibson , saw the possibilities of a new central area . |
| 21 | Hatchlands was his English estate , but he also had villas in Italy and the south of France , and in London a succession of grand houses , in the last of which , 10 Palace Green , Kensington Palace Gardens , he died 4 June 1913 . |
| 22 | From December 1972 the sole legal political organization was the United National Independence Party ( UNIP ) ; in September 1990 the party agreed to end its monopoly of power , and in December a bill was passed to allow for the formation of other political parties . |
| 23 | Laos and Thailand agreed on a plan under which Lao refugees living in Thailand would be repatriated or resettled by the end of 1994 , and in August a security and co-operation agreement was signed [ see p. 38391 ] . |
| 24 | And in November a manager at Martin 's newsagent was pushed to the ground , forced to hand over the shop keys and locked in a cupboard . |
| 25 | There was brawling at the Republicans ' conference in West Berlin in July 1989 and in mid-October a splinter group calling itself the Democratic Republicans of Germany ( Demokratische Republikaner Deutschlands ) was formed in Hannover . |
| 26 | In Gillingham there was a ‘ Free Church Employment Bureau ’ and in Newport a home for ‘ friendless girls ’ . |
| 27 | It 's a sell-out and in Gloucester a ticket to the match is worth more than gold . |
| 28 | In April 1991 Detlev Rohwedder , head of the Treuhand agency , was assassinated [ see p. 38155 ] , and in June a Berlin government official was killed by a letter bomb [ see p. 38298 ] . |
| 29 | In April and June 1985 , 316 prisoners and 135 prisoners respectively , were injured ( Guardian , August 10 1985 ) , and in June a demonstration occurred at Holloway by 43 women protesting about brutality inflicted upon a fellow prisoner . |
| 30 | Negotiators from the two countries agreed in Geneva , at the end of the 15th round of bilateral talks which closed on April 26 , to cut their chemical weapons stocks to 5,000 tonnes each , and in June a summit accord between them formally endorsed a ban on the production of chemical weapons [ see p. 37518 ] . |