Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] a [adj] [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SWINGEING UK premium hikes were one of the major reasons for a dramatic profits turnround by insurance giant Commercial Union in the third quarter of 1992 . |
| 2 | If it was n't , and he came back and caught me , then I 'd have to fall back on my story as an over-enthusiastic games player . |
| 3 | A DRUNKEN driver who hit speeds of 100mph during a 35-mile police chase was yesterday jailed for five months . |
| 4 | " Is n't there a case for an official police search ? " |
| 5 | An Indonesian-registered freighter , the Perintis , carrying 32 containers of toxic pesticide , sank on March 15 , 1989 , in an area of the English Channel described by the UK Ministry of Defence as a conventional explosives dumping ground . |
| 6 | It is also looking for partnerships with telecommunications operators through a new WorldPartners Association . |
| 7 | The University is trying to raise support for an Equine Sports Medicine Centre , both to pursue research into these ‘ optimal training régimes ’ and to offer a service for judging the fitness of equine athletes . |
| 8 | Checklist for an efficient enquiries procedure |
| 9 | Reed and his sister Miss B.C. Reed for a one-day foursomes competition . |
| 10 | Thorold Mackie was alleged at the High Court in Edinburgh to have used information obtained from a company chairman about an impending profits warning . |
| 11 | Two defendants were lorry drivers for a soft drinks company . |
| 12 | In the past , such houses had always been offered to the National Trust , which had initially taken them without endowment , accepting instead an undertaking that the Ministry of Works would make good any deficit on repairs and maintenance through a Historic Buildings Council grant . |
| 13 | Although they had no objection to the presence of professional artists in schools as a means of stimulating pupils and demonstrating the valuable work which artists offered the community through their own professional activities , they were concerned that the artists in schools programme appeared to be subverting the search for a coherent arts programme for all pupils . |
| 14 | Whatever happened to all the talk about a world-class skills revolution ? |
| 15 | A DISTRAUGHT oil worker wrapped a cartridge belt around his waist and placed the barrels of a loaded shotgun in his mouth during a three-day police siege at a remote country cottage . |
| 16 | Hamish Deans and his son George , who were removed from their positions as chairman and vice chairman at the club in May , were on Wednesday charged with fraud after an eight-month police investigation into the club 's affairs . |
| 17 | The brutality and unprovoked nature of the attacks , together with the fact that the victims were white and middle class — the jogger was a vice president of a leading securities firm — whilst the assailants were black or Hispanic , meant that the case received a massive degree of publicity and became symbolic of US racial tension and urban violence . |
| 18 | Many readers will have noticed the absence of any mention of a forthcoming Careers Forum . |
| 19 | Cross-examined by Donald Macfadyen , QC , for the defence , Mr Malcolm read from a note he had written for the firm 's compliance director which said Mackie had asserted he had made no mention of an impending profits warning . |
| 20 | Elevations , a response to dance by Glasgow-based Richard Learoyd , the result of a Scottish Arts Council commission in 1990 ( until 16 Feb ) . |
| 21 | In stressing the ubiquity of the differential principle in all aspects of Russian Formalist thought one runs the risk of implying that the coherence of the theory is the result of an intellectual parti pris , and that the intention on the part of the Formalists was to establish a fixed dogmatic system . |
| 22 | In November 1990 the government removed the power of arrest from the military police following the August murder of a senior police chief who was investigating army officers thought to be involved in criminal activities . |
| 23 | In my respectful submission there could be A , no question that the jury would be discharged and B , in the submission er some er judicial displeasure of an experienced police officer volunteering what any police officer must know is A inadmissible and B not an answer to the question . |
| 24 | It also examines a recent case study of a British police operation which exemplifies current trends . |
| 25 | The PSI report is the most detailed study of a British police force yet produced , and Section Four of the report , entitled ‘ The police and people in London ’ , examines the relationship between the police and the public in some depth . |
| 26 | Option 6 allows the librarian to have overdue reminders printed out by the microcomputer and in terms of time saved , this is one of the attractions of a computerized loans system . |
| 27 | In another reinterpretation , in 1874 , the Rev. Sedley Taylor of Cambridge talked of the trial of Galileo , drawing attention to the possibility of a forged Inquisition minute , and the probability therefore that Galileo ought to have been acquitted whatever one thought of the general merits of his theories ; his condemnation was the fault of a dirty tricks brigade rather than of the Church . |
| 28 | Benetton 's past publicity stunts have included images of a dying Aids sufferer , a victim of a Mafia shooting and a new-born baby with blood and the umbilical cord . |
| 29 | The paper will be processed from pineapple and banana leaves , under the initial guidance of a Canadian crafts specialist . |
| 30 | Is it feasible to imagine using personal computing for all aspects of a computerised personnel information system ? |