Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] a [adj] [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it was n't , and he came back and caught me , then I 'd have to fall back on my story as an over-enthusiastic games player . |
| 2 | " Is n't there a case for an official police search ? " |
| 3 | An Indonesian-registered freighter , the Perintis , carrying 32 containers of toxic pesticide , sank on March 15 , 1989 , in an area of the English Channel described by the UK Ministry of Defence as a conventional explosives dumping ground . |
| 4 | The University is trying to raise support for an Equine Sports Medicine Centre , both to pursue research into these ‘ optimal training régimes ’ and to offer a service for judging the fitness of equine athletes . |
| 5 | Checklist for an efficient enquiries procedure |
| 6 | Thorold Mackie was alleged at the High Court in Edinburgh to have used information obtained from a company chairman about an impending profits warning . |
| 7 | In the past , such houses had always been offered to the National Trust , which had initially taken them without endowment , accepting instead an undertaking that the Ministry of Works would make good any deficit on repairs and maintenance through a Historic Buildings Council grant . |
| 8 | Although they had no objection to the presence of professional artists in schools as a means of stimulating pupils and demonstrating the valuable work which artists offered the community through their own professional activities , they were concerned that the artists in schools programme appeared to be subverting the search for a coherent arts programme for all pupils . |
| 9 | Whatever happened to all the talk about a world-class skills revolution ? |
| 10 | A DISTRAUGHT oil worker wrapped a cartridge belt around his waist and placed the barrels of a loaded shotgun in his mouth during a three-day police siege at a remote country cottage . |
| 11 | Hamish Deans and his son George , who were removed from their positions as chairman and vice chairman at the club in May , were on Wednesday charged with fraud after an eight-month police investigation into the club 's affairs . |
| 12 | The brutality and unprovoked nature of the attacks , together with the fact that the victims were white and middle class — the jogger was a vice president of a leading securities firm — whilst the assailants were black or Hispanic , meant that the case received a massive degree of publicity and became symbolic of US racial tension and urban violence . |
| 13 | Many readers will have noticed the absence of any mention of a forthcoming Careers Forum . |
| 14 | Cross-examined by Donald Macfadyen , QC , for the defence , Mr Malcolm read from a note he had written for the firm 's compliance director which said Mackie had asserted he had made no mention of an impending profits warning . |
| 15 | Elevations , a response to dance by Glasgow-based Richard Learoyd , the result of a Scottish Arts Council commission in 1990 ( until 16 Feb ) . |
| 16 | In stressing the ubiquity of the differential principle in all aspects of Russian Formalist thought one runs the risk of implying that the coherence of the theory is the result of an intellectual parti pris , and that the intention on the part of the Formalists was to establish a fixed dogmatic system . |
| 17 | In November 1990 the government removed the power of arrest from the military police following the August murder of a senior police chief who was investigating army officers thought to be involved in criminal activities . |
| 18 | In my respectful submission there could be A , no question that the jury would be discharged and B , in the submission er some er judicial displeasure of an experienced police officer volunteering what any police officer must know is A inadmissible and B not an answer to the question . |
| 19 | It also examines a recent case study of a British police operation which exemplifies current trends . |
| 20 | The PSI report is the most detailed study of a British police force yet produced , and Section Four of the report , entitled ‘ The police and people in London ’ , examines the relationship between the police and the public in some depth . |
| 21 | In another reinterpretation , in 1874 , the Rev. Sedley Taylor of Cambridge talked of the trial of Galileo , drawing attention to the possibility of a forged Inquisition minute , and the probability therefore that Galileo ought to have been acquitted whatever one thought of the general merits of his theories ; his condemnation was the fault of a dirty tricks brigade rather than of the Church . |
| 22 | The paper will be processed from pineapple and banana leaves , under the initial guidance of a Canadian crafts specialist . |
| 23 | A joint statement on Dec. 12 announced " good progress " on the completion of a strategic arms reduction treaty ( START ) [ see also p. 37518 ] , and expressed the hope that a treaty would be ready for signing during a Bush-Gorbachev summit meeting , scheduled for Feb. 11-13 , 1991 . |
| 24 | So at one end of the scale , the courts upheld a restrictive covenant in the contract of an employee of an international armaments manufacturer called Maxim Nordenfeldt , which extended throughout the world for the whole of the man 's life . |
| 25 | As with the latter-day Johnson , his exploits in the autumn of his career were inglorious : pathetic exhibitions , a shameless contest against a martial arts exponent , Anonio Inoki , and a misguided come-back fight against Larry Holmes in 1980 , when aged 38 . |
| 26 | She took a resolute breath and manoeuvred the jeep behind a low sports car . |
| 27 | The DIA 's interest in them sprang from their association with a Chinese arms dealer named David King , also known as David Loo Choy , who represented the People 's Republic of China and had played a part in the North network 's illegal supply of arms to the Nicaraguan Contras in association with Monzer al-Kassar . |
| 28 | Early last year , in an interview with a low-circulation Blues fanzine , Bowyer stated that the current political climate in Northern Ireland would make it almost impossible for Catholics to cross the sectarian divide and play for Linfield . |
| 29 | Well if there is water in the gutter , as there was in the Strand , you can create a remarkably similar effect with a fast sports car . |
| 30 | The defendant in a personal injuries action is likely to be represented by an insurance company , which takes complete control of and financial responsibility for the claim . |