Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] a [adj] [noun pl] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been exposed as a secret police informer under the ousted communist regime , although he insisted that his activities had been confined to reporting on foreign visitors to Sofia 's Natural History Museum ( where he had been a department head ) and on his visits abroad for scientific research ; he categorically denied that he had ever informed on dissidents . |
| 2 | Compact can be regarded as an equal opportunities initiative . |
| 3 | The sounds had come from a hundred yards east of the dell . |
| 4 | It was strongly hinted that " a dividend is expected in a few weeks time " which is equivalent to " a discount on the purchase price . " |
| 5 | On Sept. 25 three gendarmes were arrested after 10 detainees had suffocated in an airless police cell the previous week . |
| 6 | That is why the Government are committed to an expanded roads programme and continuing major investment in our transport infrastructure . |
| 7 | Added to a National Rivers Authority grant of £100,000 , it 's enabled 3 weirs to be restored . |
| 8 | With primers described by Jiang et al and synthesised on an Applied Biosystems DNA synthesiser a 157 bp fragment of the K-ras gene was amplified containing codon 12 . |
| 9 | More than 200 residents were evacuated to a nearby police station . |
| 10 | If the day had been wet , the kitchen range would be surrounded by a huge clothes horse hung with wet washing , and the room would smell of steam and drying clothes . |
| 11 | There is no excuse for being caught by a marked police vehicle — but there 's not much you can do about unmarked cars or cameras . |
| 12 | So the flexibility of the model makes it the easiest to apply , but the assumption that Nottingham has grown as a Multiple nuclei model may be incorrect . |
| 13 | Plans are being prepared for a new communications network which would enable rapid and cost-effective exchanges of information between the police national computer and forces , and between police forces themselves . |
| 14 | Muradov said that the council should be seen as a traditional Turkmen institution . |
| 15 | CARL Lewis , who bleated because he was n't allowed to run in the Olympics against Linford Christie , has ducked out of the World Cup in Cuba where they would have met for a 100 metres showdown later this month . |
| 16 | Indeed , societies have traditionally operated with a liquid assets ratio in the range of 15–20 per cent . |
| 17 | There were on each circuit panels of barristers prepared to advise and act on behalf of any barrister threatened with a wasted costs order . |
| 18 | A solicitor threatened with a wasted costs order must always be given an opportunity to make representations before an order is made . |
| 19 | If ever an industry suffered from an industrial relations voodoo , that was it . |
| 20 | Afterwards he told reporters that the proposals would probably be incorporated in an industrial relations Bill which could be published either late this year or early next year . |
| 21 | For the company , a project spawned from a Scottish Arts Council initiative , has , as its objective , the support and development of live music in Scotland , through the nationwide network of music clubs , societies and arts guilds . |
| 22 | Eventually I was asked if my reference number related to a low-level police helicopter flight planned in Wales . |
| 23 | She had great difficulty getting herself accepted on a government-sponsored TOPS course because she was considered over-qualified . |
| 24 | Last week the Ulster Amateur Drama Festival had to be moved at a few hours notice , after Belfast 's Grand Opera House was extensively damaged by a 1,000lb bomb . |
| 25 | The children were assessed on two occasions , each separated by a three months interval . |
| 26 | The branch and regional structure is overseen by a national Branches Committee made up of Regional Directors . |
| 27 | Moreover , there are no major unresolved conflicts between states ( such as persist in , for example , the Middle East ) to be exploited by a potential arms supplier . |
| 28 | In one of the most outspoken statements ever made by a Metropolitan Police officer of his rank , he says : ‘ The council has been ensuring that as many cases as possible are referred to the SMG , a pernicious organisation spewing out lies and propaganda in pursuance of their own ideological aims . |
| 29 | Family planning Salvadorean fashion has become so notorious as to be classified as a human rights issue . |
| 30 | The spectators smoke and laugh among themselves : near the doorway a youth records the drumming on a cassette recorder emblazoned with a Rolling Stones decal . |