Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In supplies , for example you often have to undertake almost military type operations I witnessed a group of 150 women who planned and carried out an ambush of the enemy to requisition bread and flour and the only arms they were carrying consisted of sticks and cords , To be a nurse also requires a lot of mental equanimity and physical strength . |
| 2 | From the ramparts I had a view across the bay to green marshes and , far above them , rising above a swathe of cloud , the snow-covered summit of Olympus , infinitely remote . |
| 3 | After a few minutes I take a look round the place , stepping under Moorish archways and over low white walls , past an astroturf tennis court and a swimming pool about the same size , uncovered and still . |
| 4 | After about five minutes I heard a voice behind me say : ‘ Hi , there ! |
| 5 | In ten minutes I saw a summary of the whole butcher 's shop of war . |
| 6 | Well times I receive a fax I just keep going up there and bothering them until they say it 's gone through . |
| 7 | I remember clearly one of the first times I gave a word of knowledge . |
| 8 | ‘ Lots of times I think a president seems so out of your league as far as knowing somebody . |
| 9 | I moved from Nazeing into Harlow because my house was condemned at Nazeing and I had to come into a Council house at , and erm , from I had erm , when I came from Nazeing I had erm , three sons three sons then and when I got to , I 'd been here a year and then I had another son and after that er , when he was about two years and four months I had a daughter , but unfortunately I lost her with heart trouble and er she only lived four months and I lost her and er , er I stayed there , stayed there and , in and after that I moved to because it was a bit larger house for my family you see and from erm I was there several years and er stayed there and I had erm oh first of all I , I had my twins , my twin boys after I lost the daughter , I had twin boys and they , I went to I suppose about two years and four months between and I wanted to adopt a little girl but they would n't let , my hubby said no and so then I er , sort of see if I get a little girl and I had twin boys did n't I , and I 'm still in , I 'm in and after er after I had the twins when I was about er forty two if I did had another boy which is the one I 've got , the last one up there of my eight , I ended up with eight boys |
| 10 | During the course of the next few months I uncovered a tale of wickedness and depravity hard to credit . |
| 11 | Any patient characteristics which gave a p value of ≤0.1 or less were then used together in a multifactorial model in an analysis of variance with each index of oesophageal function being the dependent variable . |
| 12 | But Palace yesterday played down fears that Salako aggravated the knee ligaments which required an operation last year . |
| 13 | Sun 's biggest US distributor Access Graphics has taken on Hummingbird 's HCL-exceed PC X servers which offers a Sun interface with X Windows applications and can run on top of PC-NFS : IBM Canada has also picked up the product to run off networked hosts like the RS/6000 . |
| 14 | For example , most trade unions started out as organizations which delivered a range of material benefits , such as insurance against unemployment or sickness . |
| 15 | Organizations which have a market orientation are said to have adopted the ‘ marketing concept ’ . |
| 16 | This also applies to a few P1 units which take a column of C cells end-to-end . |
| 17 | Two commanders of NPA units which staged an ambush on an Army patrol in Bohol province in 1988 were sentenced to a total of 144 years in prison on Dec. 27 , 1990 . |
| 18 | It may be considered advisable with small units which form a chain of enterprises to expand trading by means of partnership or sole trading so that initial losses made in new units may be offset against profit obtained through trading at established units . |
| 19 | The Classbook contains 10 units which offer a variety of reading texts , on topics ranging from ‘ Advertising ’ to ‘ A Taste of Literature ’ , designed to promote classroom discussion . |
| 20 | HM Forces addresses which include a BFPO number and HM Ships |
| 21 | At the time Cook was concentrating on smaller , more select parties which left a gap in the market for larger tours . |
| 22 | Since the mid-nineteenth century , the continuing reform of company law has tried to strike a balance between all of those parties which have an interest in the corporation — shareholders , creditors , directors , customers , suppliers and employees . |
| 23 | The vast number of wreaths filling three of the eight chauffeur-driven limousines which led a funeral procession which stretched almost from the gates of the cemetery to the family home , appeared to testify to that . |
| 24 | The spacious interior includes 2 lounges , a card room , and 2 restaurants which serve a choice of menu at dinner ; an a la carte menu is available . |
| 25 | The sex hormones which give a woman her femininity , and control ovulation and the menstrual cycle should not be affected . |
| 26 | The dummies are dressed in worn clothes which retain a strong human scent , and some have mobile heads which give an illusion of life as they move into the wind . |
| 27 | Party loyalty is by no means an irrelevant factor in explaining and predicting the behaviour of congressmen , but on any issue that they perceive to be contentious within their districts nobody expects a member of Congress to put party before district . |
| 28 | Rural society was isolated , localized , and subject to recurrent food crises which bred an atmosphere of apprehension and insecurity and led to periodic outbreaks of disorder . |
| 29 | A natural monopoly is sustainable if there is no vector of prices and associated vector of outputs which allow an incumbent 's total costs to be at least covered by revenues but which make entry unattractive . |
| 30 | Some of the older clubs were narrowly evangelical , but Russell wanted to see religion used ‘ to comprehend all the impalpable influences which give a club a grip on its boys and tend to awaken their higher nature or further their spiritual development ’ . |