Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] an [noun] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some authors have reported high sensitivity and specificity values for an ELISA test which , like Biolab Malakit , detects antibodies against partially purified urease antigen . |
| 2 | From 1973 the winter service has been operated by one-man cars as an economy measure which has been successful in saving the line . |
| 3 | But the long-term solution to piracy will remain elusive , unless , in the words of an Atari engineer there is ‘ an improvement in public morals ’ . |
| 4 | L t Watts hopes to return to Bosnia where he experienced the most stimulating six months of an army career he embarked on at just 18years-old . |
| 5 | SHELL is sending a top financial professional to Japan to take charge temporarily of treasury operations of an affiliate company which has lost huge amounts on currency speculation . |
| 6 | The entire school 's Christian input restricted to two Bible verses on a Friday morning and the opinions of an RE teacher who does n't even believe in God ? |
| 7 | It is an aid to guide the reviewer of a contract towards those areas of an acquisition contract which are of accounting significance and which might be sources of dispute in the future — it is not a comprehensive guide to analysing every acquisition contract . |
| 8 | The parents of an Oxford haemophiliac who recently died after contracting the H I V virus from contaminated blood , have written to the Prime Minister calling for a quick , out of court compensation deal . |
| 9 | The parents of an art student who disappeared in the middle of his exams , have made an emotional plea for him to come home . |
| 10 | You poured donations into an appeal fund which now stands at £280,445 . |
| 11 | He had an express power to delegate this function to a committee which , in turn , attempted to further sub-delegate its functions to an executive officer who issued a directive to a farmer that only sugar should be grown in a particular field . |
| 12 | Working in Grendon must be one of the most difficulkt places for an officer becausec we 're telling them they 're not dependant on their uniform but their personality and ability to relate to people . |
| 13 | His works reflect his travels ; as he gained commissions as an estate surveyor he would use the opportunity to survey for county maps and town plans . |
| 14 | Earlier , pro-ANC mobs were said to have hunted Zulu-speaking workers from an Alexandra hostel whom they accused of starting violence on March 10 in which 28 people died . |
| 15 | The second bankruptcy proceedings brought against him , in I906 , were instituted by a man named Scott , claimed by Wilson to be a Shipping Federation official , He was again saved by his parliamentary friends and trade union allies in an indemnity committee which found that the debts which were alleged were in no way personal . |
| 16 | Groups will get a chance to perform in front of the rest of the festival participants in an evening programme which has been given an extra fillip with the inclusion of professionals of the stature of Siobhan Davies Dance Company as well as Dundee Rep Dance Company . |
| 17 | From record pancake tossers and bubblegum blowers to an Ulster woman who was still working at 107 — they all get a mention in the book that is second only to the Bible in the best sellers list . |
| 18 | After his education , he was apprenticed to his father 's coach-building premises , graduating after three years to an office position which he retained until his father retired in 1890 . |
| 19 | Edwin Muir 's One Foot in Eden ( 1956 ) is a last collection of poems by an Orkney poet whose passion for ancient myth was an expression of something deeper still — a profound distrust of the urban , the rootless and the industrial — and he repeatedly glimpsed , with a painful sense of loss , a paradise beyond grey modernity : |
| 20 | Other features of an auction process which may need to be set out in the transmittal letter are : |
| 21 | Secondary information services typically index a document into terms of an indexing language which can be considered a semantic net . |
| 22 | There is a trap for the unwary where Newco is a close company and lends money to the trustees of an employee trust which holds shares in Newco , for example where funding is required to enable the trust to acquire further Newco shares . |
| 23 | There he discussed the details with an R.A.F. officer who , although none of the party had jumped before , was most helpful . |
| 24 | There were also all the stock characters in an army unit who stayed on when the Pinewood machine swept into the sequel business . |
| 25 | No one can be forced into an ujamaa village , and no official — at any level — can go and tell the members of an ujamaa village what they should do together , and what they should continue to do as individual farmers . |
| 26 | If you examined Dover 's chalk cliffs with an electron microscope you would see their myriad forms , about one millionth of a metre across , the remains of trillions of these microscopic plants . |
| 27 | Apart from Ghofar cutting his side , all the horses returned safely , as did the jockeys in an election year which will be remembered by all parties concerned . |
| 28 | At the same time , Greenpeace released the results of an opinion poll which showed that six out of ten of those questioned wanted the government to give greater priority to renewable-energy projects as part of the effort to counter the greenhouse effect . |
| 29 | The drivers were Ch'kassians : small olive-skinned men from an island country which Hodai said was on the other side of the Inner Sea . |
| 30 | ‘ If you simply take cuttings from an apple tree they will grow vigorously but take years and years to fruit . |