Example sentences of "an [noun] [prep] [noun prp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lech Walesa dissolved the Polish parliament and called an election for September rather than accept the resignation of Hanna Suchocka 's government after a vote of no confidence . |
| 2 | I had the privilege of spending an afternoon with Morrissey shortly before the release of ‘ Kill Uncle ’ . |
| 3 | ( Interestingly , in the car industry , although Ford has never belonged to an association in Britain nevertheless in Germany it is an active member of the metalworking employers ' association and follows the terms of its negotiated agreements . ) |
| 4 | There 's an auction in Liverpool soon . |
| 5 | THE vehicle registration 1 RAT is expected to fetch over £7,000 at an auction in Birmingham later this month . |
| 6 | The portrait was sold for almost six thousand pounds at an auction in Cirencester today . |
| 7 | I do n't really know where I , or I know where I 'm going but I have to take the troops with me I had er , I got you see what is parts of a I A P compact certificate it might in fact , if the boss would let me do , if I could do an industry in December right ? |
| 8 | They therefore adopted the view that faith was not a work because it was an act of God rather than of the human person . |
| 9 | A factor which could be regarded as an act of God now intervened . |
| 10 | On Saturday the news was that France and Britain had issued an ultimatum to Germany either to withdraw their troops or face war with France and Britain . |
| 11 | On the main highway leading to Charleroi and Brussels the Dragoons were clattering along at a fine pace , almost as if this was an exercise in Provence instead of war . |
| 12 | An establishment at Arras even serves a speciality of andouillettes flambées au whisky — a faint echo of the haggis ritual … ? |
| 13 | Castles Farm on the north side of Loch Awe , extending to 8,000 acres of some of the wildest , steepest and most challenging farming country imaginable , sold to an Englishman from Kent just before Christmas on a lock , stock and barrel basis for more than £500,000 . |
| 14 | ‘ I saw a headline on an article about Kylie once which read ‘ I should be so ordinary ’ and I thought , ‘ Yeah , that 's exactly right ’ . |
| 15 | Tom Edwards , the Mayor of Whitby , Ontario , has put November 7 in his diary for an appearance at Whitby Now , an event which gives local performers a stage . |
| 16 | Thomas and Lynn owned a spread on Boars Hill , an annexe of Oxford closely resembling the WASP 's nest suburbs of Tom 's native Philadelphia . |
| 17 | A BRITISH tourist shot and killed in an alley in Washington apparently had become lost in the underground , then blundered into a high crime area . |
| 18 | There was an earthquake in Tokyo recently but I 'd be surprised if you 'd heard about it . |
| 19 | Co-host Terry Nutkins thought up an assignment for Michaela shortly after she started working on the BBC1 nature programme . |
| 20 | Her supervisor and other friends in the Faculty encouraged her to think that she would get an appointment at Cambridge eventually if she could hang on . |
| 21 | Why then did they seal off an area of Tottenham more than one mile across ? |
| 22 | It was from the beginning an area of Birmingham rather than a self-contained town superimposed on the landscape , and its running and development have always been independent of the chocolate factory . |
| 23 | One policeman from an area outside Easton once stated that he had ‘ sort of fixed it ’ for a lorry driver who had run over a lady 's leg because ‘ the lady was n't very nice but the lorry driver was dead on ’ ( FN 22/2/87 , p. 1 ) . |
| 24 | Sedimentary rocks , unaffected by metamorphism , crop out in an area from Stornoway eastwards to the Eye Peninsula and northwards along the coast to Vatisker Point . |
| 25 | ‘ He has no compassion and actually encourages his wife to have an affair with Mellors so that he has an heir to his estate . |
| 26 | I 'm going to get an address for Sam anyway cos I I want to get in touch with him |
| 27 | Came up with a an idea about Maxwell today , I cos I said Maxwell |
| 28 | The jury at an inquest in Wrexham yesterday into L/Cpl Wayne Edwards ' death returned a unanimous verdict that he was unlawfully killed in an area of Gornji Vakuf nicknamed Sniper 's Alley while on attachment to the Cheshire Regiment . |
| 29 | Seven SAS colleagues , their identities protected by a screen , gave evidence at an inquest in Hereford yesterday . |
| 30 | Gary 's father , Frank Hutchinson , of Frederick Street , Meadowfield , told an inquest in Darlington yesterday that as soon as he heard the news on the radio he was certain his son had been hurt and immediately contacted police . |