Example sentences of "a [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Behind it , but within reach of stretching hands , stood a branching candlestand , also in wrought iron , with a box of matches in a brass holder attached to it with a chains and a tray containing a few small candles . |
| 2 | They 've got a supermarket , if that 's a hairdressers that has n't made it , it 's not a good sign . |
| 3 | There is a pool and children 's pool , with bar ; a hairdressers and TV room . |
| 4 | and this is really sad , and he told me mum that he 'd been to a hairdressers and done it . |
| 5 | Unless you have recently became a Contract Volunteer you will find with this newsletter a Mailings and Materials sheet which I would like you to fill in . |
| 6 | She thought for a minutes and said : " Yes , you do have a look of a Renoir lady , sometimes " That 's a nice way of saying Fat is Beautiful . |
| 7 | His last call would be in Trinity Road , Hilderbridge , so he stopped at a confectioners and bought a box of fruit jellies . |
| 8 | It 's a swings and roundabouts situation which perhaps only a locking nut cures completely , but again cost enters the picture , as indeed does personal preference . |
| 9 | ‘ It is a swings and roundabout situation . |
| 10 | Operatives may be produced who are , to quote Mr Leslie Kemp , the 1983 chairman of the CITB , ’ general handymen , expensively trained by the taxpayer , turning up on site and giving the services of a jack-of-all-trades and master of none ’ . |
| 11 | [ MAS Partner ] is a Mergers and Acquisition Services ( ‘ MAS ’ ) Partner in KPMG 's London office . |
| 12 | Scientific interests have been chosen for these few pages of examples because of the tendency in some quarters to assume that resource-based learning is a Humanities or Social Studies prerogative . |
| 13 | In other words , in the contrast between a humanities and a science and technological education , there was an underlying gulf in the conceptions of what a higher education stood for ; and it was Snow 's failure to recognize that that lay at the heart of Leavis ' attack on Snow 's association of the two cultures . ’ |
| 14 | Hey , I 've been in a Streaks and Tips recovery programme for many years . ’ |
| 15 | that talk about the company of which I 'm chairman is that there is a personnel and compensation committee which in the absence of a chief executive sets the chief executive 's remuneration and with the presence of the chief executive , although he 's not , I 'm not a member of that committee we work on the other senior executives of the company , it 's quite similar to the process used here in your company . |
| 16 | This follows a Monopolies and Mergers Commission decision that to forbid advertising by GPs was against the public interest . |
| 17 | This follows a Monopolies and Mergers Commission decision that to forbid advertising by GPs was against the public interest . |
| 18 | They are also planning to renew calls for a Monopolies and Mergers Commission investigation into the electricity generators , National Power , PowerGen and Nuclear Electric . |
| 19 | By 1990 there were twenty-eight million cardholders , mostly ‘ Barclaycards ’ and ‘ Access ’ cards , owned by the Midland , Lloyds , National Westminster and the Royal Bank of Scotland ( recently renamed ‘ Signet ’ and up for sale ) , but since a Monopolies and Mergers Commission investigation in 1989 , there are a whole lot more . |
| 20 | The second cut comes four weeks after Board of Trade president Michael Heseltine announced a Monopolies and Mergers Commission review of the privatised gas industry . |
| 21 | Act 4 of 1984 contained detailed provisions of unfair competition and was re-enacted by statute 86 of 1990 prohibiting ‘ unfair conduct on the market ’ and setting up a virtual equivalent of a monopolies and mergers commission . |
| 22 | Grand Met maintains it had to issue the leases after a Monopolies and Mergers Commission report which said the six big brewers could not own more than 2,000 pubs . |
| 23 | THE President of the Board of Trade , Michael Heseltine , yesterday refused to order a Monopolies and Mergers Commission inquiry into the £225 million takeover bid by Airtours for its rival holiday group , Owners Abroad . |
| 24 | Nor , do the back , because that can be removed you put it on a surface , the side or underneath that can not be removed , and on a surfaces that 's not regularly dusted and polished because eventually it will wear off . |
| 25 | Now just so that they see whether to times or divide we 've got to tell them , it 's no good just putting a ten there is it I 've got to say it 's a times or divide okay ? |
| 26 | It is sufficient here to treat as a futures or option contract any contract whose terms contemplate future performance and which is made on or under the rules of a market cleared by a clearing house . |
| 27 | There is another concept of membership — market membership of a futures and options market . |
| 28 | Mr Symington was on the board of a savings and loan , as Mr Goddard 's advertisements allege , but he resigned in 1984 when the thrift was still in good shape . |
| 29 | Campaigning against a savings and loans bill , a Ralph Nader consumer group sent an Elvis impersonator to Capitol Hill . |
| 30 | E&Y paid $400m to the Resolution Trust Corporation and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation at the end of last year , as full and final settlement of any outstanding claims relating to its work as a savings and loan auditor ( see ACCOUNTANCY , January , p 15 ) . |