Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] an [adj] [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er in the nineteen seventies and eighties there was a long running campaign to get an equal rights amendment er which was sponsored largely by er women 's groups and er and er gay and lesbian groups er and they got almost there , they got two , I think two states short of getting a constitutional amendment and then something called Ronald Reagan happened and it all sort of fell apart . |
| 2 | Sports Centre : The village boasts an excellent sports centre with an ice skating rink , a heated indoor swimming pool , 4 tennis courts and a fitness centre . |
| 3 | Jack Jones himself remained poised , perhaps torn , between his traditional stance as a union negotiator committed to autonomy and his wider view of the need to recast an adversarial industrial-relations system . |
| 4 | failing to adopt a comprehensive equal opportunities policy in relation to its activities both as a provider of educational/vocational services and an employer of staff ( in particular the failure to properly consider the need to employ an equal opportunities officer derived from the ethnic minorities using the GOQ provision of the Race Relations Act 1976 ) ; |
| 5 | It was expected that elimination of the anticipated need to recruit an additional personnel clerk would result in sufficient cost reductions to at least partially cost justify the system . |
| 6 | Rabo owns an independent facilities management firm , Facet , which will run the network should it win the bid . |
| 7 | Corporal Broadhead rapidly decodes the message and briefs his boss : ‘ The battlegroup have an armoured personnel carrier on the prairie north of Antelope Road with a blown engine — shall I call Corporal Bromby , it 's his crew 's turn for a task ? ’ |
| 8 | In the USA the Environmental Protection Agency produces an Acute Hazards Events Database while the Department of Transportation has a database recording details of 25 000 releases of toxic materials ; such details include locational information , type and amount of material released , mode of release and resulting injuries or deaths ( Cutter and Solecki 1989 ) . |
| 9 | To achieve this , and also to attract the interest of would-be exponents of the approach who have not had the opportunity to undergo an extensive systems education , it has been necessary at times to over-simplify the explanations of concepts and applications , and condense them from those developed by system researchers over many decades . |
| 10 | The University operates an Equal Opportunities Policy . |
| 11 | The use of B avoids the problem of estimating the normal level of government expenditure which , ADD argue , Barro handles inconsistently since he assumes that agents form their expectations about normal government expenditure using an adaptive expectations mechanism , while assuming that agents form their expectations rationally elsewhere in the system . |
| 12 | DataEase Express provides an intuitive Windows user-interface to a full relational database system . |
| 13 | When bad weather threatened an American Airlines flight from Chicago to New York the pilot , it emerges , offered his passengers the choice : shall we turn back or go on ? |
| 14 | Our client operates an equal opportunities policy and positively welcomes applications from ethnic minorities , Hispanics , the disabled , and persons of restricted height . |