Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] a [adj] [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inside the office there were midget desks and a huge plans chest and a poster about putting fires out and another that showed two wooden-faced men and artificial respiration . |
| 2 | Social activities and a varied arts programme contribute much to the quality of university life . |
| 3 | Social activities and a varied arts programme contribute much to the quality of university life . |
| 4 | Hewlett-Packard Co is offering new management applications and a centralised systems integration component for the Unix version of its OpenView systems management environment . |
| 5 | He even wears checked trousers and a natty sports jacket , as he describes to his son Art how , in 1944 , he survived 10 months in Auschwitz , dodging from one hair's-breadth escape to the next , outwitting his enemies by the skin of his teeth , emerging miraculously intact at the end of each cliff-hanging episode of this astounding strip cartoon . |
| 6 | On the following day there were further protests but a heavy police presence prevented renewed outbreaks of serious fighting . |
| 7 | Differences were also reported centring on Soviet and Chinese fears that an immediate arms reduction plan for the Middle East would imply a freeze of Israeli weapons superiority over Arab states . |
| 8 | You will take away on your course notes , a list of suppliers and an optional materials kit , which can be purchased at a competitive price should you wish to put your new-found skills to further use at home . |
| 9 | Even the modest Benelux union was greeted with scepticism by Belgian civil servants and a single customs system was not established by its three members until January 1948 . |
| 10 | The chastened company admitted that the shock loss showed that it had been guilty of poor financial controls and a badly-timed shareholders letter — Vannotti said the board was convinced up to March 22 when the shareholders letter was sent that it would record a profit for 1992 , but he and the chairman subsequently ordered a special audit , after financial controllers warned of problems with the accounts for Ascom 's cable television and mobile telephone businesses in Germany , and a closer examination revealed the German results had to be corrected by $41m — $28m of extraordinary depreciation and $12.8m of adjustments to inventory values , Vannotti said . |
| 11 | The main building , which has floor space of around 40,000 square feet on two stories , houses a pilot plant for the production of autocatalysts , a pilot plant for the production of fuel cell catalysts and a fabricated products area as well as full analytical capabilities to support these activities . |
| 12 | Scotland Yard said shots were fired at anti-terrorist squad detectives and a tactical firearms unit as they moved in on a house in Stoke Newington , north London . |
| 13 | The committee proposes relaxation of height requirements and an equal opportunities policy ‘ based on a genuine commitment to increase the proportion of police officers from the ethnic minorities to match the proportion in the local population . ’ |
| 14 | IRISH nationalism , women 's issues and a dirty tricks campaign . |
| 15 | A wooden kitchen table with some crocks on it , a car battery split long ago , three chairs and a broken clothes horse , a pile of something in a corner that could have been a tramp 's bed , or , indeed , a long-dead tramp . |
| 16 | The ability to respond constructively to frequent re-organisations and a moving requirements target has become part of life . |
| 17 | The campus ' South Building houses recently refurbished Students ' Union facilities and a minor sports hall . |
| 18 | The campus ' South Building houses recently refurbished Students ' Union facilities and a minor sports hall . |
| 19 | Passing through the right-hand lobby , glazed doors shut off the passenger lift which serves three floors and a well-equipped games cupboard . |
| 20 | A monthly Members Forum , suggestion cards and a New Members cocktail party ensure a steady crossflow of ideas and views . |