Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun pl] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | New recruits to Medau came forward after visiting the stand at the Royal Norfolk Show , and more joined after a Promotions Week in the Lowestoft area organised by Marlene McGee and Jane Fisk , with Come-and-Try sessions and demonstrations by Oulton Broad class members . |
| 2 | In one case a complaint was made on behalf of a Residents Association to the Parliamentary Commissioner alleging maladministration by the Department of Environment and the Health and Safety Executive at an inquiry into two appeals against the refusal of a Metropolitan Borough Council to give planning permission for the erection of a waste material incineration plant and an energy recovery plant . |
| 3 | Your introduction of a letters page to the match programme should be congratulated . |
| 4 | The current programme of the IT Committee includes the investigation and evaluation of a telecommunications network for the Bar as a whole . |
| 5 | POWYS councillors are being recommended to approve the installation of a cattle grid at the Lake Vyrnwy Reserve , Y Gadfa , following representations from the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds , but only on condition that the RSPB is responsible for all the costs involved in the construction of the grid . |
| 6 | She picked up the bag , checked inside to see that everything was still there , and was about to confiscate the switchblade when she heard the sound of a police siren in the distance . |
| 7 | Failure to obey any instructions he or she might issue in this context may amount to the statutory offence of obstruction of a police officer in the execution of his duty , for which the sentence can be either imprisonment or a substantial fine . |
| 8 | He was arrested and , although there was no blockage of the highway , disorder , or violence , he was later charged with obstruction of a police officer in the execution of his duty . |
| 9 | The overwhelming majority of Scottish cases related to one of four offences : conduct likely or intended to cause a breach of the peace , obstruction of a police officer in the execution of his or her duty , criminal damage or breach of bail conditions ( Wallington , 1985 : 150 ) . |
| 10 | Police shot dead three men in a raid on a Cairo flat on Dec. 19 , 1988 , one of whom was an Islamic militant wanted for the killing of a police officer in the Cairo district of Ain Shams earlier that month . |
| 11 | Irrespective of its formal purpose to introduce community policing , the appearance of a neighbourhood patrol restricts its effects to simply the demonstration of a police presence on the streets . |
| 12 | In due course , she was charged with and convicted of obstruction of a police constable in the execution of his duty . |
| 13 | Joe was taken in the back of a police van to the Divisional Headquarters on Vine Street . |
| 14 | The hotline has been established for former pupils , families and staff at New Barns school at Toddington in Gloucestershire , which is at the centre of a police investigation after the vice-chairman of the governors , Peter Righton was arrested and questioned about alleged pornography . |
| 15 | It was widely suspected that the Tucayana had links with the military and had been involved with anti-insurgency operations against the Jungle Commandos and that they feared the establishment of a police force for the interior composed mainly of former Jungle Commando members . |
| 16 | ‘ I am very pleased at the progress made and hope the concept of a watersports centre on the Lagan becomes a reality in the near future , ’ he said . |
| 17 | ‘ You 've been like a YTS trainee for the past millennia . |
| 18 | ‘ That was not felt to be the most suitable way of proceeding in this matter , ’ he says , sounding like a police spokesman for the first time . |
| 19 | The caravan has a canopy , disabled access and has been painted to look like a police car from the back ! ’ |
| 20 | On Sept. 14 , 1989 , an agreement was eventually initialled which provided for a customs union with the EC whereby industrial goods would flow freely between Andorra and the EC but the EC 's external tariffs would be applied by Andorra to third countries . |
| 21 | Turkey 's application for full membership of the European Communities ( EC ) remained deferred for consideration in 1993. Özal 's proposal for a customs union with the EC by 1995 received EC endorsement in a formal communication issued in Brussels on June 6 , 1990 . |
| 22 | Lewis and the Western Isles in general have suffered greatly through the folly of successive governments in negotiating for a fisheries policy within the EEC on a national instead or a regional basis . |
| 23 | From the 1840s public anxiety had also been focused on prostitution , the ‘ great social evil ’ , by studies from evangelical clerics and medics , and by rescue and reform societies campaigning for a police crackdown on the London streets . |
| 24 | Police were not informed and the matter only came to light last year during a police investigation into the running of children 's homes in North Wales . |
| 25 | But the Code will also apply where a suspect , not in detention , is being questioned about an offence by a police officer acting as a police officer for the purpose of obtaining evidence . |
| 26 | The Chipmunk is also of interest , its previous identity suggesting it was recently acquired from the MoD but not so — it is an ex Army Air Corps example that was sold many years ago after storage at Kemble and has been kept as a spares source at the gliding site at Currock Hill , Northumberland , for at least fifteen years . |
| 27 | Most of the Alresford reservoir — which began life in the 12th century as a fisheries pond for the Bishop du Lucy — is now owned by the Alresford House Estate Trust , one of whose trustees is the prospective Conservative candidate for Stoke-on-Trent South , Peter Maxwell . |
| 28 | As a parish priest he also served as a diocesan representative on the first National Liturgy Commission and as a schools commissioner with the North Riding of Yorkshire in the diocesan office . |
| 29 | The court may proceed with a directions appointment in the absence of either the applicant or one or more of the respondents ( FPCR , r16(3) and 16(6) ; FPR , r4.16(3) and 16(5) ) . |
| 30 | The new unit is headquartered in England , with a tele-sales operation in the Netherlands . |