Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [prep] a [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If extended , this means that talk of a citizens charter is utter nonsense . |
| 2 | Where the degree course and the HNC/HND course have not been designed to be integral with each other , students seeking entry to the degree course on the basis of the HNC/HND will normally need to take two further academic years of full-time study for a Degree and three further academic years of full-time study for an Honours Degree ( or the part-time equivalents ) . |
| 3 | Where the degree course and the HNC/HND course are designed to form a continuous integrated programme and where students by the end of the second year or the equivalent stage have not only achieved the SCOTVEC award but also satisfied the objectives and reached the standard required by CNAA for that stage of a degree course , students may take one further academic year of full-time study for a Degree and two further academic years of full-time study for an Honours Degree ( or the part-time equivalents ) . |
| 4 | Then she , too , was driven at very high speed to a police station on mainland Orkney for interrogation . |
| 5 | Remembering that anything that bodes to threaten concentration in wood-machining is a prime risk , let us consider a router cutter revolving at anything up to 24,000rpm sitting midway between 12 highly unstably-sprung devices whose proper purpose in life is the support of wet laundry on a clothes line . |
| 6 | She had her first meeting this morning with a textiles importer called Colin Weatherhead , who had promised to show her a range of fabrics he was positive she was going to love . |
| 7 | This experience of combining special make-up with puppets or models , unusual in Smith 's career , nonetheless illustrates the peculiar calling of a special-effects make-up artist , and the variety of skills he ( occasionally she ) needs or has to call on to do the job . |
| 8 | TODAY we 're giving you the chance to sample the carefree life of a pools winner — in the fabulous West Indies . |
| 9 | I went back to the country earlier this year on a human-rights delegation , with no political affiliations . |
| 10 | Developed in this country as an applications generator it has been used to create a data base publishing system of exceptional power . |
| 11 | The first was an 87-year old widow with an OBS score of eight , living on her own in a local authority flat ; she had very poor mobility , was subject to falls , and had an increasing tendency to incontinence ; she could not manage her own personal care nor the care of her home . |
| 12 | The second was also an 87-year old widow with an OBS score of eight , and living alone in her own house . |
| 13 | And a hummingbird was building its woolly nest with some material from a visitors hat . |
| 14 | I mean like with Kevin and Bill , we negotiated but even that we would n't talk about their professional work as a careers officer |
| 15 | In other cases , economic pressures may impose a stable halt to an arms race , stable even though one side in the race is , in a sense , permanently ahead . |
| 16 | The onset of open kitchen fast food catering , as introduced by the Americal multi-outlets , has shown that cleanliness can be a central part of an operators product and marketing strategy — grubby kitchens invariably produce grubby food . |
| 17 | It had emerged that a recently formed Soviet state co-operative company called ANT , with clearance from at least three government ministries , had bought the tanks as surplus stock from an armaments factory at Nizhny Tagil in the Urals , had arranged to sell them to a Western country ( not officially disclosed , but unofficially reported to be France ) , and had stood to make US$8,000,000 profit on the deal . |
| 18 | There is no such ambiguity about a skills analysis which is always person-orientated and not just system-orientated . |
| 19 | Three men have been jailed for a total of eighteen and a half years for a violent robbery on a jewellers shop . |
| 20 | Three men have been jailed for a total of eighteen and a half years for a violent robbery on a jewellers shop . |
| 21 | Stephen Sedley was continuing his opening speech on the second day of a damages action against British Nuclear Fuels at the High Court in London . |
| 22 | The approving and majority response was typified by the following comment from a non-arts educator : |
| 23 | We have seen charts that describe the organisational chart of a police authority and yet miss off the lowly police constable . |
| 24 | He also suggests that the Japanese dominate the market partly because of their domestic need for a communications system which could accommodate an alphabet of some 2,000 characters . |
| 25 | I DID my National Service with a Guards regiment on the East German border in 1948 — but there was still some fraternisation with the Russians , usually in the bar at some remote border village . |
| 26 | But because he turned down an out of court settlement of £10,000 in August , his financial backers , the RCN , now face paying a large share of a costs bill of around £25,000 . |
| 27 | In ( 2 ) the listener is confirming a correct directional message with a components description . |
| 28 | Danny Morrison , 38 , the former publicity director of Sinn Féin , was sentenced in Belfast on May 9 to eight years in prison for his part in the false imprisonment of a police informer , but was acquitted of conspiracy to murder Alexander " Sandy " Lynch , who had been held and interrogated by the IRA 's security department for two days in January 1990 ; seven others were given prison sentences of up to 12 years for false imprisonment in connection with this and other cases . |
| 29 | ‘ You have a previous conviction for a drugs offence involving cannabis . |
| 30 | An inquiry was authorised to look into these incidents , but when its chairperson , John Stalker , the Deputy Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police , was suddenly removed over allegations about his previous conduct as a police officer , it led to speculation that a cover-up was taking place to avoid implicating senior RUC officers in covert and probably illegal operations ( ibid.:70 ) . |