Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] a [adj] [noun pl] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Applicants should possess or expect to obtain shortly a good Honours Degree in Mathematics . |
| 2 | We welcome the proposal to try out a new Campaigns Unit for one year , but would stress : |
| 3 | Who can say whether the ambitious executive , brimming with ideas today , will be a suitable candidate for management tomorrow — or likely to remain just a great ideas person ? ’ |
| 4 | John Hutchinson is writing up an initial impressions report of the work in the region . |
| 5 | That is why it is so important that , as one of the conclusions of the Maastricht settlement , it was agreed that the 12 countries should set up an organisation loosely known as Europol whose first job would be to set up a Europeanwide drugs intelligence unit among the Twelve , which should lead to a greater level of co-operation with our continental partners to stop Ecstasy and other drugs coming into the country . |
| 6 | We 've got to set up a proper complaints procedure , so that people know how to complain about Social Services , although I doubt very much whether anybody would ever want to complain about Oxfordshire 's Social Services , and so on . |
| 7 | Prosecution witness Isham Chandra Dutta said he agreed to set up a dummy gems company in Bombay , for a £20,000 fee , which included a mail message centre with false letterheads and invoices . |
| 8 | His task was to set up a dummy gems firm in Bombay . |
| 9 | The home secretary announced plans to set up a special police unit to investigate suspects . |
| 10 | Firms are now required to set up an internal complaints procedure " which shall , inter alia , ensure that clients are informed whom to approach in the event of any problem with the service provided " ( Solicitors ' Practice Rule 15 and see Chapter 5 ) . |
| 11 | Is the Secretary of State aware that in London there is a majority in favour of Labour 's proposal to set up an elected police authority for the Greater London area ? |
| 12 | By Brian Oliver Ipswich 2 Wolves 1 IPSWICH , clearly suffering from the end-of-season jitters afflicting so many of their promotion rivals , needed an 89th-minute penalty to see off an enterprising Wolves side and extend their Second Division lead to seven points . |
| 13 | Generale de Service en Informatique SA , France 's sixth-largest software and systems engineering firm , announced yesterday a five-year facilities management contract with Picard Surgeles SA , a retailer of frozen foodstuffs , which aims to automate its distribution system . |
| 14 | HOPES that there will be more interest rate cuts to come sparked off a fresh shares boom yesterday . |
| 15 | In something of an afterthought the Irish News of 15 August 1966 recorded that ‘ a discussion took place on the desirability of holding a convention on civil rights for the purpose of drawing up a civil rights chart ’ . |
| 16 | Labour will set up a Human Rights Division in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office , and require all Britain 's diplomatic posts abroad to appoint an officer to monitor human rights . |
| 17 | It would set up a National Monuments Commission to care for ancient sites , institute small penalties for vandals who damaged them , and — most important — give the commission a right of purchase if the owner of a scheduled monument wanted to destroy it . |
| 18 | We will set up a National Qualifications Council to coordinate a single system of academic and vocational courses for 14–19 year olds , and a new Higher Education Standards Council to monitor quality in higher education . |
| 19 | As well as organising conferences and courses the group also helped set up a national awards scheme and backed a number of arts publications . |
| 20 | We have now set up a Human Rights Committee , properly structured and managed , with a defined budget . |
| 21 | As indicated above , we have now set up a Validated Courses Section within the Assessment Department and ( ) is heading this . |
| 22 | IN FEBRUARY the High Court in London heard how a Sussex-based antiques dealer knocked on the door of an elderly spinster 's Knightsbridge flat and talked her into parting with an art collection worth more than £30,000 . |
| 23 | British Gas has been swiftly building up its interests in the new developments to build up a new earnings stream and gain access to supplies . |
| 24 | Amnesty called on the government ( which had recently set up a human rights task force and an inquiry into alleged atrocities ) to admit the extent of abuses in the past , including its own role , in order to clear the atmosphere for a fresh approach on human rights observance . |
| 25 | Since the Bingham Report it has set up a special investigations unit and improved staff training . |
| 26 | PEP had set up a Post-war Aims Group even before the war began , and within a week of its outbreak had circulated.a draft report on war aims . |
| 27 | Students may take either a full MA(Honours) degree in Sanskrit , in which case a subsidiary related language such as Prakrit is normally studied in the last two years of the course , or a joint MA(Honours) degree in Sanskrit and Greek , Latin or Linguistics , where both subjects are studied for all four years of the curriculum . |
| 28 | This talented young Liphook rider notched up a runaway experts class victory in the Bognor Regis Club trial at Lavant , near Chichester . |
| 29 | The Department of Trade and Industry has ruled out an official Companies Act investigation of the flotation , in which the ashes of up to half a million share certificates were discovered in a skip in South London and tens of thousands of other documents were botched . |
| 30 | More formally , if equations ( 3.6 ) — ( 3.8 ) are the ‘ truth ’ and we carry out an ordinary least-squares regression of C t on Y t , as shown in equation ( 3.9 ) , then , assuming that we have a very large sample so that we can use population variances in place of sample variances , our estimator of will tend to the conventional formula : where is the covariance between C and Y and is the variance of Y. |