Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] [noun pl] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I actually believe that one of the areas where the Catholic Church did a lot of damage , is that because of a celibate clergy this obsession with sex has exaggerated it too much . |
| 2 | However , the richness as a cultural object of a deteriorated Windows 1.0 disc pack is cold comfort to an archivist or historian preoccupied with preserving or regenerating the operational environment of the product . |
| 3 | Two hundred and fifty British troops are preparing to fly to war-torn Croatia as part of a United Nations peace-keeping force . |
| 4 | A few governments say that they own weapons to provide a part of a United Nations peace-keeping force . |
| 5 | I was to perform two of Joyce 's pieces , the first being ‘ Committee ’ , a deadly accurate re-creation of a Northern Ladies Choral Committee meeting convened to axe one of its founder members : ‘ Now , we do n't want any unpleasantness , friendly is what we are and friendly is how we mean to go on … but I think we all know there is one voice in the altos that did not ought to be there . |
| 6 | 1987 ; Reiner 1985 ; for an earlier and related argument see van Maanen 1973 , 1975 ) , and thus to the existence of a generalized police occupational culture . |
| 7 | At the heart of this is the introduction of an Integrated Services Digital Network ( ISDN ) system which not only allows fast , cheap transfer of data along lines that are free of interference but also voice and data transmission at the same time rather than using two separate lines . |
| 8 | Almost two years of acrimonious disputes between the Indian Government and the European aircraft manufacturer Airbus Industrie came to an end on Jan. 11 , when a court of inquiry in New Delhi ruled that the crash of an Indian Airlines A-320 Airbus in February 1990 , in which 92 people had died , had been due to pilot error , and not to technical failure , as the Indian authorities had maintained [ see p. 37268 ] . |
| 9 | The scandal also increased calls for the creation of an independent securities regulatory body similar to the Securities Exchange Commission in the USA . |
| 10 | In the SAS he undoubtedly learned rather more than that , including the survival skills which he has had to draw on so often in expeditions which have not always gone according to plan.He has been a full-time explorer since he was 25 and ‘ like everybody else , in every career , you do n't retire until you have to , ’ he says.His CV reads like a non-stop Boys Own adventure — shooting up the White Nile in a hovercraft , parachuting on to the Jostedalsbre Glacier and negotiating more than 4,000 miles of Canadian and Alaskan rivers.Between 1979 and 1982 , he circumnavigated the world on the Transglobe Expedition , becoming one of the first men ever to reach both the North and South Poles overland . |
| 11 | All were powered by GE engines and were to formate on a Lear Jet flown by H Clay Lacey for a public relations photographic sortie over the Mojave Desert . |
| 12 | and it 's just a take on , so I watched what I said , but erm , we mentioned it , we , we did n't see very much about it we just said it 's coming up we 'll have , we 'll let you in for a full details next month so |
| 13 | ISSUED HERE as a double 12″ white label pack , so it 's impossible to say which mixes will actually end up on the street . |
| 14 | Since part of the lithosphere is replaced by hot mantle of lower density from the asthenosphere , the lithosphere as a whole experiences isostatic uplift . |
| 15 | An excited fan planted a kiss on the Duchess of York 's cheek yesterday as she practised for her new role as a United Nations roving ambassador . |
| 16 | To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what discussions he plans to have with the United Nations Secretary General about a United Nations peace-keeping force in Yugoslavia . |
| 17 | Take advantage of this brand new collecting opportunity and you could soon be aboard a British Airways scheduled flight to any one of 140 international destinations . |
| 18 | The princess flew back to Britain as an ordinary passenger aboard a British Airways scheduled flight . |
| 19 | We know he will enjoy watching the sports programmes despite the fact that Bristol Rovers football team have not quite made it on to Sky TV yet ! is well know for being a keen supporter of Bristol Rovers , a fact which did not go unrecognised by who presented him with a beautiful jugglers top hat in his favourite team 's colours . |
| 20 | ICL Plc and Hoskyns Group Plc have beaten the competition from IBM ( UK ) Ltd and Digital Equipment UK Ltd to win a prestige contract to provide the UK 's Department of Social Security with an Analytical Services Statistical Information System — Assist : the system , which is designed to enable users to extract , analyse and tabulate data for modelling and forecasting , will be based on a variety of ICL 's Openframework hardware and software products , running under Windows 3 , and includes data analysis tools from Berkshire-based SAS Software Ltd ; Hoskyns is to provide bespoke development effort where required . |
| 21 | This was as an International Securities Self-Regulating Organisation ( ISSRO ) , and took the AIBD outside both the RIE and FSA-authorisation requirements . |
| 22 | As an alternative ¾″ thick chipboard can be used where regulations allow but fixings into this will not be as secure as into plywood . |
| 23 | The final day of the hearing has included evidence from a Metropolitan Police forensic expert , who admitted ammunition found at the scene of the crime did n't match that found at Marsh 's parents ' home . |
| 24 | This change was recommended in a recent Customs Foreign Business Review on future developments for international trade in the UK . |
| 25 | It has all the joy of being in a United Nations peace-keeping force . |
| 26 | A 1920s shop experience in a fully-furnished Valleys general store of the period |
| 27 | Comdisco had been playing in a high stakes financial game known as risk arbitrage , hoping to get ahead of the rapid run-up in a company 's share price when it became the object of a takeover ( or the reversal of fortune that occurred when a takeover fell apart ) . |
| 28 | EVIDENCE was growing last night of a cover-up over a British Airways jumbo jet captured in Kuwait by Iraqi troops as the Gulf War erupted . |
| 29 | On a quartz-feldspar-rock fragments triangular diagram these more susceptible minerals plot together in one corner . |
| 30 | Whilst ICL has duly announced that it is to support Santa Cruz Operation 's SCO Unix MPX for multi-processing , Open Desktop environment and the SCO communications suite on its Intel Corp 80486-based personal computers , the OfficePower-on-SCO validation work — see above — was actually carried out on an Apricot Computers Ltd box . |