Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] a [adj] [noun pl] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The third option is to go for a strategic exceptions policy in the structure plan and obviously this is what er the borough considered considers is appropriate .
2 We turned over the Bundesliga championships , and then were unlucky to come across an inspired Rangers side , who , but for the odd-bribe or two could have gone all the way .
3 When several of us got down there the CO informed us that we had to fly down the Gulf to look for an Imperial Airways airliner , one of those Armstrong Whitworth Argosys which was named City of Glasgow , and had been overdue for sometime .
4 A top-level decision to embark on a nuclear weapons programme … might well involve falsification of records and a good deal of covering up .
5 Furthermore , the time it takes for military expenditure to result in an operational arms system can be anything between ten or twenty years .
6 I do n't know how much the discount is for each game , or wether you have to go to a special members area which probably costs more than without vouchers anyway .
7 She 's been asked to sit on a human rights commission and now she 's full of stories of gruesome tortures in Turkish prisons , of Russian poets locked up in psychiatric wards . ’
8 If the Unix suppliers are able to agree on a consistent systems management application programming interface — and each also uses a similar implementation of the Object Management Group 's Common Object Request Broker Architecture — Corba — independent software vendors would be able to offer binary system management applications running across a variety of platforms .
9 If the Unix suppliers are able to agree on a consistent systems management application programming interface — and each also uses a similar implementation of the Object Management Group 's Common Object Request Broker Architecture — Corba — independent software vendors would be able to offer binary system management applications running across a variety of machines .
10 Whatever the vertical and lateral changes in the Coal Measures , we still have to account for a general facies development in late Carboniferous times that extends in essentially the same form all the way from Texas to the Donetz coal basin , north of the Caspian Sea in the U.S.S.R. This amounts to some 170 of longitude , and closing up the Atlantic by a mere 40 does not really help all that much in explaining this remarkable phenomenon .
11 A psychology that ignores it is more likely to turn into a dogmatic police force of a discourse .
12 Jocelyn on the other hand would have preferred a few irregularities in life and so was leaving to live in a battered wives hostel .
13 I 've got to take in a promotional drinks party first , and as the Press will be there they 'll focus on you like the leeches they are because you 'll be a new face . ’
14 Thousands of people turned out at the Royal Showground today to protest against a private members bill which aims to abolish blood sports .
15 It is usual for each side to begin with an equal points value of troops — say two thousand points a side .
16 It is usual for each side to begin with an equal points value of troops — say two thousand points a side .
17 It is usual for each side to begin with an equal points value of troops — say two thousand points a side .
18 A programme of this kind will be designed to operate within a national Arts Centre development programme , which is at present being discussed within the Arts Council .
19 There could be a need to check forensic evidence , for example , or to prevent a suspect absconding , or to travel to a far-away police station where the investigation was being conducted , and any of these could take more than a day .
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