Example sentences of "[noun prp] a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | THE president of the Court of Governors of the University College of Wales , Aberystwyth , Sir Melvyn Rosser , has joined the board of Menter a Busnes , the agency that aims to make Welsh speakers more enterprising in business . |
2 | of the people asked thought that it was about privatisation , and that in Ayrshire a Systems Three poll showed 74 per cent . |
3 | European Community ( EC ) Finance Ministers in early October allocated Albania a balance-of-payments support grant worth ECU70,000,000 , conditional upon Albania concluding an agreement with the IMF and holding to its recommendations ( ECU1=US$1.39013 as at Oct. 5 , 1992 ) . |
4 | In order to maximise the long term impact this sports component has on participation in Scotland a Sports Information Point will be in operation throughout the Festival 's duration . |
5 | On 1 July a SOFRES poll in Le Figaro showed that 69 per cent of those asked predicted a ‘ Yes ’ vote . |
6 | During the past few months the change to End Product Duty has made Stretton a Customs & Excise Bond , and Albany 's extensive experience in bonded warehouse operations came in useful . |
7 | Nails and Hoomey wriggled free and made off like hares and by the time the opposition had refocussed on Seb as main aggressor rather than Jazz a police car was cruising to a standstill alongside and a new element was introduced . |
8 | Jim a sports-clothes buyer . |
9 | Of particular local interest were a Bronze Age spearhead found near The Lea an fragments from a German bomb dropped on Oakley Mynd in 1940 . |
10 | The Friendship Store is in the downtown area , and so we had a chance to stop on the way at the Tien An Men Gate ( the famous gate providing an entrance to the forbidden city ) , and Tien An Men Square , Peking 's equivalent of Trafalgar Square , except that it is about 20 times as big , and contains about one-twentieth of the traffic . |
11 | Shopkeeper Ajay Patel , 24 , failed to see 26-year-old Lynn Jones an honours graduate working to finance biology studies in Africa until it was too late , said Derek Inman , prosecuting . |
12 | But according to Sir Douglas Hague a revamps needed to meet the demands of the 21sst century . |
13 | Sporting matted hair , an unkempt beard and purple sneakers he even gave Charles and Diana a thumbs-up sign at the end of his performance . |
14 | The IMF had in April approved for Zambia a rights accumulation programme [ see also p. 38433 ] for up to a maximum of SDR836,900,000 ( US$1,138 million ) over three years to end-March 1994 . |
15 | Smoothly , and swiftly , Ray Doyle gained illegal entry to the flat , gave Bodie a thumbs up , and vanished inside . |