Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ ( 3 ) A person who has been released on bail in criminal proceedings and is under a duty to surrender into the custody of a court may be arrested without warrant by a constable — ( a ) if the constable has reasonable grounds for believing that that person is not likely to surrender to custody ; ( b ) if the constable has reasonable grounds for believing that that person is likely to break any of the conditions of his bail or has reasonable grounds for suspecting that that person has broken any of those conditions ; or … ( 4 ) A person arrested in pursuance of subsection ( 3 ) above — ( a ) shall , except where he was arrested within 24 hours of the time appointed for him to surrender to custody , be brought as soon as practicable and in any event within 24 hours after his arrest before a justice of the peace for the petty sessions area in which he was arrested ; and ( b ) in the said excepted case shall be brought before the court at which he was to have surrendered to custody . |
| 2 | Etheridge , English-born with Irish parentage , replaces Neil Francis , who withdrew last week because of business commitments , and he intends to play for the Irish Exiles side in their provincial championship debut next season . |
| 3 | Late in 1939 Jack Radford was moved back to Toronto and he was sorely missed ; he was succeeded by Peter Aylen who proved a most satisfactory station manager for a year until he also was transferred back east and shortly took over the post as Director of Radio for the United Nations Organization in New York . |
| 4 | The regional meetings called to set the agenda for the big human-rights conference in Vienna next month have provided forums for this bitterness . |
| 5 | Bill who campaigns for the human rights group in Nottingham says there 's too much margin for error in the justice system . |
| 6 | A spokesman for the National Farmers Union in Oxfordshire says members are encouraged to be very careful to avoid slurry leakage . |
| 7 | Qualifications in computing have international currency ; this is becoming more and more important as the worldwide skills shortage in computing and related professional areas acquires greater significance . |
| 8 | This is true both of the small and narrower groups , such as the Eastern Counties group in East Anglia , or Portsmouth and Sunderland newspapers , and the national groups with major provincial holdings , such as the Westminster Press and Associated Newspapers . |
| 9 | Carol Woods takes the lead as the legendary blues singer in Ma Rainey 's Black Bottom , Cottesloe Theatre , from October 19 . |
| 10 | The breakthrough came as the United Nations commander in Bosnia , Gen Philippe Morillon , of France , said he had secured a pledge of help from Serbia 's president , Slobodan Milosevic . |
| 11 | The traffic along Western Avenue had been quiet , and it was only an hour and a quarter after leaving Oxford that Lewis was speaking to the Night Sister on the third floor of the hospital , a neat , competent-looking brunette who appeared rather more concerned about the unprecedented police interest in matters than in the medical condition of her most recent road-casualty , now lying behind a curtained bed in Harley Ward . |
| 12 | And functions are a reflection of the operation of the industrial relations system in its entirety . |
| 13 | As Kassalow argues , ‘ without a fair understanding of the social , economic and political setting of the industrial relations system in a given country one can make errors of analysis or judgment , or , even more likely , learn only half truths about the significance of particular industrial relations policies or practices in a foreign country ’ ( 1968 : 99 ; cf. Shalev 1980 : 40 ) . |
| 14 | EIGHT Ulster Junior stars will travel to Perth in Scotland as part of the Irish Schools squad in the emerging Six Nation event with England favourites to win in all six categories . |
| 15 | The passing of the Insolvent Debtors Act in August 1844 ( 7 & 8 Victoria cap 96 ) , abolishing imprisonment for debts of less than £20 , however , was widely welcomed . |
| 16 | ‘ Sociability sells , ’ the head of the International Models office in Milan said at every opportunity . |
| 17 | A recent survey of the international relations literature in the English-language academic journals conducted by Alker and Biersteker revealed that the vast majority of those articles were based on Realist ( including Neo-Realist ) assumptions . |
| 18 | Suh Kyung-won was an activist in the farmers ' movement and became president of the Catholic Farmers Association in 1982 . |
| 19 | Restrictive practices , which we discuss shortly , have been separately examined since the establishment of the Restrictive Practices Court in 1956 . |
| 20 | We first consider tests of the rational expectations hypothesis in those relatively few cases when the expected variable is directly measured . |
| 21 | Possession of such direct observations on expectations would allow us to test the validity of the rational expectations hypothesis in two ways . |
| 22 | Recent Censuses have included questions about the birthplace of members of the household , but attempts to introduce an ‘ ethnic question ’ , to find out the size of the ethnic minorities resident in this country , have so far been unsuccessful . |
| 23 | Blackwells , with its nationwide spread , experienced huge differences in trading , from a 20% increase in Aberdeen to 7% in Oxford , static in Cardiff ( ‘ good , considering Waterstones had just opened ’ ) , to a decrease at Georges in Bristol because of the new Galleries mall in Broadmead , which drew people down to that end of town . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's like saying the government should advise people not to buy houses with leaky roofs , ’ says Michael Marcus , of the R & D division of the Federal Communications Commission in the US . |
| 25 | Indeed we had a whole term of the Bilingual Skills Course in Bedford without an Urdu tutor at all — the students preferred to stay and act as their own tutors until one was found — and proved to be an excellent self-help language group . |
| 26 | Or if she was aware of him , was she aware of the political turmoil the previous cancellation of a Mapplethorpe show has engendered in the U.S. over the last two years , with the director of the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati indicted for obscenity ( but acquitted ) and the very principle of government funding of contemporary art called into question ? |
| 27 | Since the introduction of the Financial Services Act in 1988 it has been compulsory for financial advisers and salesmen to base their advice upon a clients ' current ability to pay future as well as present requirements . |
| 28 | ( Some tightening of regulation has resulted from the recent introduction of the Financial Services Act in the UK : see section 5.3 ) . |
| 29 | We will back the regulators of the financial services industry in their efforts to achieve high standards while keeping the rule books down to manageable size . |
| 30 | The aim was expressed at the launch of a new report reviewing the role and prospects of the small firms sector in the economy , Small Firms in Britain , a publication which in some ways is the government 's answer to pressure for a regular ‘ report on small business ’ , similar to the weighty volume published annually in the United States . |