Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] [noun pl] [noun] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The having adoption of a strategic exceptions policy is an invitation for many possible major developments to be to ride on the back of the strategic in exceptions policies and to argue that they come within in . |
| 2 | The Bandung communiqué had stressed the urgency of an early solution , and strong Afro — Asian support was expressed for the Indonesian case at the UN though eventually the familiar device of a Good Offices Commission was accepted . |
| 3 | The first and most fundamental requirement of a rational expectations equilibrium is that expectational errors should be distributed around a mean value of zero . |
| 4 | Claims that the IAEA inspection team had found conclusive proof of a nuclear weapons programme were denied by the government , which accused the IAEA team of exceeding its authority and engaging in espionage . |
| 5 | From my present point of view the question of whether the manufacturers on opposite sides of a human arms race are enemies of each other or identical with each other is irrelevant , and interestingly so . |
| 6 | A quick spin of his ‘ Sweet Freedom — The Best Of ’ compilation album of a few years back is proof enough that he has had many hits in his home patch without making similar in-roads here . |
| 7 | It took her a long time to come to terms with that presence ; the proximity of an armed police officer was the most potent reminder of the gilded cage she had now entered . |
| 8 | The hush-hush builder 's blueprint , which gave details of an undercover police station being built in the Palace grounds , later turned up in Kilburn , North London — a stronghold of IRA sympathisers . |
| 9 | Although not formally linked to other current multilateral negotiations , the signing of an Open Skies treaty was widely regarded as an important means of facilitating agreement on verification questions at the Vienna CFE negotiations . |
| 10 | It is obvious , when you come to think about it , that my picture of an ever-advancing arms race was too simple in at least one respect . |
| 11 | It was not until the Trunk Roads Act , 1936 that anything like a national roads strategy was suggested , with a rational division of roads into four : Trunk , Class I , Class II and unclassified — and even then Britain declined to embark on motorway building , in sharp contrast to Germany 's autobahns and Italy 's autostrada . |
| 12 | The first priority for a systematic communications programme is to meet the employee 's personal need for information directly relevant to himself such as : the payments system ; hours and conditions ; status and boss ( who gives me orders , who are my subordinates ) ; amenities and fringe benefits ; termination arrangements ( what justice do I get ) ; leave ; discipline ( penalties , rules , grievance procedure ) ; union and key officials ; prospects ; changes affecting him ( new boss , working conditions , rearrangement of the plant , office accommodation ) etc . |
| 13 | The second priority for a systematic communications programme is to provide all relevant information to the employee about his job such as : skills , resources and how flexible he can be ; factors affecting performance ( limits of responsibility , work targets ) ; factors affecting the environment of the job ; changes in any of these . |
| 14 | For a few months Hervey was one of those in day-to-day control of the royal administration . |
| 15 | A DRUNKEN driver who hit speeds of 100mph during a 35-mile police chase was yesterday jailed for five months . |
| 16 | Possibly it has its origins in the ‘ white noise ’ techniques which the Brits , ever the innovators , pioneered in Northern Ireland in the 1970s ( it has always seemed unjust that what was deplored then as a human rights abuse was later marketed under the brand name of acid house ) . |
| 17 | Earlier this week the members of the University Lecturers ' Association at the school , where Mrs Falconer 's post as a senior textiles lecturer is being made compulsorily redundant , voted 19-2 for the one-day strike , with the threat of escalating their action next week . |
| 18 | Within a hundred years Islam was " a mighty empire stretched form the Punjab to the Pyrenees and from Samarkand to the Sahara , " In the authority of the Shahs . |
| 19 | But within a few hours Mal was suffering exhaustion and Bill had injured himself falling on diamond-hard green ice on the Lhotse Face . |
| 20 | Within a few hours Denwood was stripped of everything , there was not a soul or a vestige of its recent occupation to be seen in the place . |
| 21 | Within a few minutes Elisa was on the settee in the sitting room where , at last , she regained consciousness . |
| 22 | Within a few days Caledonia was in complete agreement : the entire team should take up golf . |
| 23 | Contact with the man Wagner now kindled an interest in Wagner the theorist and within a few weeks Nietzsche was writing again to Rohde to impress on his friend his high opinion of Wagner 's Opera and Drama , a treatise written nearly twenty years before , but apparently now providing Nietzsche 's first direct acquaintance with any of Wagner 's theoretical works . |
| 24 | Within a few weeks Richard was loading Marshal with honours , lands and responsibility and an incident such as this , combining skill at arms with sound political common sense , could well have impressed him . |
| 25 | 3.24 A case in which aggravated damages were awarded in a personal injuries claim was Westwood v Hardy ( 1964 ) The Times , 24 June . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | People living in a nearby travellers camp were woken by the crash , they describe the scene as something from a nightmare . |
| 28 | In a few cases data were not available for some of the more minor roads entering a junction . |
| 29 | In a few cases people are the target , usually the result of the horses not having being handled properly ; but mostly the aggression in horses is directed towards other horses . |
| 30 | And then in a few minutes Dennis is going to join with me in explaining to you how we are going to make the quality planning procedure work for you . |