Example sentences of "[noun prp] [conj] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't think it 's against the constitution that er it would be a bit unusual to find him involved in handling money to be involved in he went to Majorca or Tenerife or in a bid to see each other it 's a possibility . |
| 2 | The interim government , a coalition of conservative parties , was bound more by common hostility to Bhutto than by a consensus on policy . |
| 3 | The problem was Ron Dennis and in a way , this clash between the two men is a microcosm of life in FI and deserves a brief aside . |
| 4 | NATO decided to go ahead with the cruise missiles before the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and against a background of Soviet-American agreement in the Salt 11 talks on strategic weapons . |
| 5 | Voting was also held for all State Assembly seats in Haryana and West Bengal and for a number of State Assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh . |
| 6 | The sisters and their assailants , who went to McDonalds and for a walk through the city together , had also exchanged addresses . |
| 7 | They were linked by blood to Charles II , the Dukes of Marlborough , Devonshire and Abercorn and through a quirk of history to seven American presidents , including Franklin D. Roosevelt , and to the actor Humphrey Bogart and , it is said , the gangster Al Capone . |
| 8 | With reference to starting points , Wyre is the name of a Borough Council covering a large area of the North Fylde but there is no town or village of Wyre and as a starting point ‘ Wyre ’ does not make sense . |
| 9 | I would be employed also by the WEA and as a Trade Union lecturer ( which , as far as I know , I still am ) . |
| 10 | It had provided that the deal could be varied in writing only and had to be signed by Mr Gillespie and by a director of the purchasing company acting with the authorisation of its board . |
| 11 | My Sophie , for example — if she were in Darcy 's Utopia and in a couple of years were to become a teenage primigravida , which is perfectly on the cards — I reckon the neighbours would know better than Lou or me if she was fit to be a mother or not . |
| 12 | Feisal , for instance , was not welcomed by the French in Syria and as a result was installed king of another emergent country — Iraq . |
| 13 | The other branch runs south-eastwards through New Guinea and the New Hebrides and through a scatter of small Melanesian islands , before making an abrupt dog 's leg northwards to the Samoan islands to join the Tonga-Kermadec chain which extends southwards again into New Zealand . |
| 14 | In recent weeks , I have had the opportunity of discussing the matter not only in the United States but with a number of colleagues in the European Community . |
| 15 | Roland 's stag night was planned the same Saturday but after a week the best man realized that he was going to be skiing then ! oops . |
| 16 | There were about twenty of us , all told ; mostly McHoans but with a smattering of civilians . |
| 17 | Liverpool 's Rob Jones expects to be fit after failing to re-appear in the second half of the 1–0 defeat against Aston Villa because of a calf injury . |
| 18 | The AC Milan player , who has not played since last May 's European Cup triumph over Steaua Bucharest because of a knee injury , is involved in a contract dispute with the club . |
| 19 | The on-loan Millwall keeper comes into the reckoning at Southend on Saturday because of a fitness doubt over Welsh international Tony Norman . |
| 20 | Their presence , either in medieval England or aboard a space rocket , situated them ideally as narrators ; to offer explanations of everything from the Battle of Hastings to nuclear propulsion . |
| 21 | There would be even more noise when the navvies moved to their next camp closer to Swinbrook and beside a stream that flowed through the village and on to the river Windrush . |
| 22 | Anne Seaton taught at a SKFA ‘ associated movement ’ course in Glasgow in February and at a WLHB charity rally in Ayr in March ( specification — tow identical half-hour sessions , each for 100 people , using balls and clubs ) ; Anne was also invited for the second year to help judge a heat in the Movement and Recreative Dance section of SKFA 's Open National Championship . |
| 23 | The strike began on the morning of Wednesday 15 May and within a week was bringing Ulster close to a standstill . |
| 24 | My office was subsequently informed by telephone on 10 May and by a letter dated 13 May from the deputy manager of the unemployment benefit office that Mr. Docherty 's case had been allowed by the adjudication officer , and that he was therefore entitled to arrears of benefit . |
| 25 | I I obviously Cornwall is a special case which we obviously as our Celtic cousins it is the only non-Anglo Saxon county in England and as a result we feel a very , very strong erm er almost a kind of Uncle erm Nephew relationship to Cornwall , whereas the Cornish are certainly not Welsh but they 're certainly not Anglo Saxon English either . |
| 26 | In addition , due to the efforts of Woodhouse , Babbage , Herschel and Peacock from 1803 onwards , Leibniz " notation and methods in the calculus had gradually replaced Newton 's in England and as a consequence much of continental analysis had become available to the English . |
| 27 | He was a South African like Albert , but eventually settled in England and after a period at York City became a postman . |
| 28 | It is tea and scones — and where else can you get a good cup of tea or a decent scone , or real beer , as the hero of one of C. S. Lewis 's space-fictions reflects as he returns to earth and finds himself — miraculously and blissfully — in England and in a country village . |
| 29 | Huxley as a popularizer of Darwin and as a teacher of biology emphasized rather different aspects of science . |
| 30 | In talks with Borja and during a speech to the Ecuadorean Congress , Fujimori reiterated his proposal , made in November 1991 [ see p. 38673 ] , that Ecuador be offered navigation rights on the northern Peruvian Amazon and that the border dispute be settled on the basis of the 1942 Rio de Janeiro protocol , which fixed the border after a war between the two countries . |