Example sentences of "[noun] [num] [conj] a [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Training officers who noted that they were able to spend their full time on training were very rare , although it was noted in Chapter 4 that a training officer or more ‘ training officer time ’ was the most commonly wanted further ‘ resource ’ to expand or develop existing training programmes .
2 Crisp hair curling on his collar , Levi 501s and a taupe cotton shirt .
3 If the summons for recovery of land has been served under Ord 10 , r 15 and a money claim is joined , the court must , unless it thinks it just to do otherwise , mark the summons " not served " as to the money claim ( Ord 10 , r 15(5) ) .
4 For example project A has an initial cash outflow of £1 million and a cash inflow of £300 000/year for 10 years .
5 ( ii ) has had a bankruptcy order made against him or has made a composition or arrangement with his creditors or has made a proposal for a voluntary arrangement under Part VIII of the Insolvency Act 1986 or is or has been a director of a company in respect of which an administration order under Part II of the Insolvency Act 1986 or a winding-up order has been made or in respect of which a resolution for voluntary winding up has been passed or which has made a proposal for a voluntary arrangement under Part I of the Insolvency Act 1986 or in respect of which a person has been appointed receiver or administrative receiver ; or
6 Now he takes charge of a division with turnover approaching £3 billion and a product portfolio ranging from toothpaste to Calvin Klein perfumes .
7 Over 100 stocks were listed with a total nominal value of just under £125 billion and a market value slightly in excess of this .
8 As a result of the demonstration the Estonian Supreme Soviet announced on May 16 that a Home Guard was being set up to defend government buildings , and the Tallinn city council placed a temporary ban on the organization responsible for calling the demonstration , the United Council of Work Collectives .
9 Visits to Damascus by US Assistant Secretary of State John Kelly on Aug. 9 and Aug. 13 and a telephone call to Assad from Bush on Aug. 12 confirmed the USA 's altered perception of Syria [ see p. 36180 for return of US ambassador in September 1987 after strained relations over Syria 's alleged involvement in international terrorism ] .
10 Ethiopian transitional government representative Lencho Leta told the rally in Asmara on Sept. 1 that a standing committee on Eritrea formed recently by Ethiopia 's Council of Representatives was on a fact-finding mission in Eritrea " to facilitate a good interaction between the two peoples " .
11 Corollary Inc will sponsor a Multiprocessor Summit on February 23 and a Multiprocessor Boot Camp on February 24 at the Santa Clara Marriott in Silicon Valley .
12 The Ulster Girls ' Choir gave a concert in January 1967 and a garden fete in Chambers Park later in the year which raised £350 .
13 Mr Warren was arrested in Mayfair , London , in May 1990 after a roadside breath test proved positive .
14 Mr Warren was arrested in Mayfair , London , in May 1990 after a roadside breath test proved positive .
15 Unfortunately there have rarely been precise identifications although two are stated to be of Middle Eastern origin , the Cypraea Arabica from Sarre grave 238 and a tiger cowrie from Haslingfield ( Cambridgeshire ) , whose source is the Red Sea .
16 It was reported on March 21 that a transport plane , in which members of Senegal 's contingent in the anti-Iraq coalition were returning from a visit to Mecca , crashed in Saudi Arabia killing 92 people .
17 However , it was in March 1917 that a fighting body was founded in Italy , led by Mussolini , called Fascists , who were avowed anti-communists and anti-socialists .
18 You ‘ Il be very glad you did this if you turn up one day to find the river high and murky because if , for example , you know that one swim has a lovely clean gravel bottom and another has half a Morris 1000 and a blackberry bush in it then this may help you decide where to fish and where to stick your mate !
19 Once pressed , the hogsheads , each weighing four and a quarter hundred-weight , would be sold to the fish merchants for export , mainly to Italy and other Mediterranean countries .
20 The fuel consumption of my 1966 IIA two and a quarter petrol is horrendous and the oil consumption is not much better .
21 The early part of 1990 witnessed closer relations with France following a visit by Ershad to Paris on Feb. 4-5 and a return visit to Bangladesh by President François Mitterrand on Feb. 22-24 ; in April France promised US$47,400,000 in aid to Bangladesh .
22 It was announced on Feb. 22 that a government inquiry into the position of former East German Prime Minister Lothar De Maizière , who had been obliged to resign from the German Cabinet in December 1990 because of alleged connections with the Stasi [ see p. 37905 ] , had failed to prove that De Maizière had spied for the Stasi .
23 The redemption was completed in the autumn and the membership elected its first lady to the main committee , the able Joan Haley , handicap 10 and a County player .
24 With pre-tax profits of £1.3 million and a purchase price of around £8 million , FUS was a good deal for Norton .
25 Little real progress was achieved , however , and the FMLN broke off peace negotiations on Nov. 2 after a trade union headquarters was blown up by a car bomb [ see pp. 37037-38 ] .
26 Whereas during the 1980–81 period the unemployment rate in the South East was on average three and a half percentage points lower than the national average , it currently stands close to one percentage point lower , while the unemployment rate in Greater London is equal to the national average of 8.7 per cent .
27 A Shaman has one piece of mushroom , a Shaman Champion two , a Master Shaman three and a Shaman Lord four .
28 Construction seems to have been completed in September 1866 and a passenger service to Abergynolwyn started in the December of that year .
29 Klaus announced on March 23 that a government office for privatization of state-owned enterprises would be set up ; it was reported , however , that there were differences within the Cabinet over the extent to which such enterprises should be privatized .
30 Five foot two and a half sex thimble cuddly Dudley Moore with the beautiful girlfriends , the limp , Peter Cook and the piano .
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