Example sentences of "a [noun pl] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As most part-timers are women , it would be considered ‘ grossly discriminatory ’ to have ‘ a part-timers first ’ rule on redundancy selection ! |
| 2 | The tank is lit by a 48″ Actinic , 48″ Northlight and a 42″ Triton . |
| 3 | Q I recently set up a 48″ x 12″ x 18″ Mbuna community . |
| 4 | Q I have decided to set up a 48″ x 18″ x 15″ fish only aquarium , with a view to changing a mixed fish/invert set-up and I am now contemplating which fish to buy . |
| 5 | Q I am planning a 48″ x 15″ x 12″ marine tank and wish to use undergravel filtration . |
| 6 | Q. I am planning to set up a 48″ x 15″ x 12″ marine tank and two wet/dry trickle filters , with hopefully a home-made filter , using syphons and valves . |
| 7 | This month 's competition prize is a 48″ systemised tank and cabinet in your choice of polished wood finishes . |
| 8 | Active exploration requires a Mines Royal Licence , issued for twelve months extended annually for up to three years dependent on satisfactory progress . |
| 9 | He was arrested yesterday in his home town of Portsmouth … he faces one charge of robbery … it follows a raid on a jewllers five days ago … when the jeweller … |
| 10 | When we see sin unmasked now and again , and reigning even for a minutes unrestrained , we get a faint idea of its extreme hatefulness and loathsomeness . |
| 11 | Billy Jones , a Spurs amateur centre-forward in the 1920s , remembers him for his clever ball control . |
| 12 | In 1987 , when she entered the House of Commons as the MP for Norfolk South West — a safe-as-houses rural Tory seat — she was already 46 , with none of the outward trappings of a high-flier , merely a proven ability to work swiftly and effectively and an unthreatening charm . |
| 13 | Segmentation Market segmentation means the analysis of a definitions particular total demand in terms of its constituent parts , so that sets of buyers can be determined . |
| 14 | Operational er commanders of incidents erm have a , what is called a firearms tactical advisor , er a highly trained officer who is made available to people in the position that I then found myself , er in order that they can advise as to the tactics to follow and my tactical advisor on this occasion was er Sergeant . |
| 15 | So it 's probably better to stick to the system of A times that one , that gives us the A squared okay . |
| 16 | ‘ By his assurance , condescension , ease of posture and conversational initiative , ’ said a Times editorial , ‘ Mr Kennedy might just as well have been a bishop testing a candidate for ordination . ’ |
| 17 | An executive share option scheme was first introduced in 1980 followed by an Inland Revenue approved executive scheme in 1984 and a savings related scheme for UK employees in 1990 . |
| 18 | the number of shares made issuable pursuant to options granted ( excluding lapsed options ) under the Executive Scheme and any other employee share option scheme ( other than a savings related scheme ) shall not in any ten year period exceed 5% of the Company 's issued ordinary share capital for the time being ; and |
| 19 | The value of shares over which each participant may at any time be granted an option under the Executive Scheme when added to the aggregate of the values of shares ( as at the date of grant of the options ) comprised in outstanding options granted in the preceding ten years under the Executive Scheme and any other employee share option scheme operated by the Company ( other than a savings related share options scheme ) is limited to four times the participant 's annual salary . |
| 20 | Shire difficulty became sheer impossibility after a months long battle to deselect David Abrahams , the previous candidate . |
| 21 | BROUGH PARK 'S top grader , Burnhope Jimmy , won a 640-metres open for trainer Yvonne Bell at Middlesbrough on Monday night . |
| 22 | Cope saw Jones in action a year or so ago , when he narrowly beat Hartlepool 's Kevin Crumplin in the national schools championships semi finals and repeated the victory just in a schools international . |
| 23 | The development of a GIS capable of storing and manipulating the volumes of data required for a global research programme is still some way off , but smaller GIS have been used to attempt to provide at least a beginning . |
| 24 | The basic principle of the UGIX design is that in order to make a GIS easy to use the process of making a database enquiry , plotting a map or carrying out spatial analysis must be broken down into manageable parts , linked by a pathway for the user to follow . |
| 25 | John McFall , Labour 's Scottish rural affairs spokesman , said : ‘ Ministers were not prepared to give a pledge that there would be no further measures of this kind which ban fishermen from pursuing a centuries long tradition . |
| 26 | This is a centuries old , charming village situated on the promontory that separates Lake Como from Lake Lecco , so you 're getting two lakes for the price of one ! |
| 27 | The brown muddy plain had sparse vegetation , most of which appeared to have been burnt away in a centuries old holocaust which had dried out and cracked most of the mud . |
| 28 | The Vale of White Horse Hunt maintains a centuries old tradition . |
| 29 | They will soon share a 6′ × 2′ × 2′ tank with a 10″ Black Shark , 12″ plec , 7″ Pangasius , and two Reed Fish . |
| 30 | London-based Ideal Business Solutions Ltd claims to be the first to market with an 80486DX 66MHz notebook computer , the EPS-486 : the machine has a 10″ active matrix colour display , PCMCIA slot , 4Mb of memory , 128Mb of RAM , a removable 200Mb hard disk , and a portable expansion unit , housing three 16-bit expansion cards ; it weighs 6.4 lbs and costs a phenomenal £2,000 . |