Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | The State Council gave the armed groups an ultimatum to lay down their arms by March 30 and to open transport routes . |
| 2 | The Council , for historical reasons an influential force in German politics , would like to see the Soviet Jews welcomed in Germany . |
| 3 | In medieval times an effigy of the saint was met and escorted into the town by crowds of people , but this was frowned upon at the time of the Reformation and the effigy was replaced by a man dressed in white robes . |
| 4 | As far back as can be traced it has been a village of yeomen , small independent farmers , and never since medieval times an estate village ruled by one big landowner , though for a period in the 18th and 19th centuries the Grimston family of Kilnwick and later the Hothams of South Dalton acquired some farms . |
| 5 | Summary In this chapter , we have described the different forms an argument in literary studies can take . |
| 6 | The convention , so familiar in the Victorian novel , that ancient things themselves have histories to relate , allows to long-inhabited places and well-used objects an individual being of their own . |
| 7 | And , with luck , not long after that we will have in our very own editorial offices an electronic excuse for the mistakes that occasionally slide into these pages . |
| 8 | The main purpose of advertising the application for an O licence is to give local residents and other interested parties an opportunity to raise any objections to or comments on the proposed licence . |
| 9 | The re-emergence of the Soviet Union from its self-imposed isolation offers British companies an alternative to the saturated consumer markets and cartelised suppliers of western Europe . |
| 10 | Queen Anne died a year after the signing of the Treaty of Utrecht , which had brought to an end a cycle of wars which , while primarily concerned with the balance of power in Europe , had given English governments an opportunity to take colonies away from other European countries and increase their empire by annexation as well as by settlement . |
| 11 | I have today won a concession from the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry , in as much as he is going to give a delegation from the Southampton and district licensed victuallers an opportunity to see him at the Department to talk over some of these matters . |
| 12 | Goodlad 's ideas have received some outside encouragement : the Royal Society of Arts gave his course on communication of scientific ideas an Education for Capability award for providing an effective combination of academic reflection and the learning of practical skills in communication of ideas . |
| 13 | These chinks have recruited their so-called Apostles an ’ Disciples from the streets an' trained 'em to use violence . |
| 14 | Francis Mulhern has argued that Scrutiny developed and propagated for the profession of English studies an ideological framework suited to the maintenance of a talent-governed career structure which eventually came to dominate the profession as a whole . |
| 15 | It is reported on the front page of The Times today that the common agricultural policy — that squalid policy which is costing British families an average of £18.50 a week each — will destroy the world free trade talks , which have been going on for four or five years , and involve just about every country in the world . |
| 16 | ‘ Were the French envoys an exception , particularly in the days preceding his death ? ’ |
| 17 | He is also attempting to push through a plan to increase the EC Budget by 30 per cent — costing British taxpayers an additional £1 billion a year — with the aim of raising the Budget from its present level of about £4 billion to £30 billion by 1997 . |
| 18 | Er the erm the environmental health check I think he did discuss it at fantastic length , the question of our public lavatories an an and the savings that can be made and the judgement it came to in the end was a , was a very one I think on the outlook against of what you can reasonably do , erm nevertheless I do gather that erm erm it is no longer necessary under standing orders , for erm amendments to the budget to be self financing because you can move amendments to simply increase the budget and er the amendment that I reserve I suppose , it 's not very much . |
| 19 | ( b ) Express terms negative implied terms An express term in a lease generally excludes the possibility of the implication of a term dealing with the same subject matter as the implied term . |
| 20 | These factors , taken together with the attractions of Edinburgh as a city and the University as a large , intellectually lively and well-supported institution , make the Faculty of Social Sciences an exciting and satisfying place in which to conduct research . |
| 21 | By the end of it , some members may have forgotten the reasons for the whole idea , so let us recap briefly : there are economies of scale , certainly , though the addition of 6,500 members to 100,000 does not in itself produce any great saving in CIB operating costs ( we used to recruit nearly three times that number of new members from the banks alone in a good year in the 1980s ) ; there is potential recruitment , from more than 60,000 building society employees ; but , above all , the merger demonstrates to the public that two major parts of the much maligned financial services sector are keen to improve their standards , and gives commercial rivals an exceptional opportunity to enjoy the benefits of co-operation in educational endeavour . |
| 22 | Similarly , Lyons presents in universalistic asocial terms an argument that elsewhere he admits is culture-dependent . |
| 23 | It 's not exactly a skill , but , I 've got good erm , at work I 've got a good memory , like a knowledge of all the different items an the counter . |
| 24 | In recent years there has been among social scientists an extensive debate about the extent to which the analysis of society and of social institutions can be ‘ value-free ’ . |
| 25 | Ministers in the toils , by contrast , clearly find m'learned friends an expedient , if inconsistent , recourse . |
| 26 | Not only did " block decontrol " reduce the availability of unfurnished rented accommodation ( because of sales to owner-occupiers and conversions to " freer " furnished lettings ) , but the " creeping decontrol " gave unscrupulous landlords an incentive to evict tenants and then sell or relet at uncontrolled rents . |
| 27 | It will affect not only squatters but also give unscrupulous landlords an easy way of geting rid of people . |
| 28 | If the House will bear with me , I too can give hon. Members an insight into the words on my brief by reading them out : ’ I should begin by saying that the Report stage was dominated by Government amendments , which I believe is rare . |
| 29 | To compare seroconversion for HIV between drug users and homosexual men an additional control group of seroconverters for HIV-1 was selected from our cohort of homosexual men in Amsterdam , which has been extensively described . |
| 30 | ‘ This ram sale attracts entries from virtually every sheep breed in Northern Ireland and offers commercial flock-owners an opportunity to select quality sires essential for profitable lamb-production . ’ |