Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [prep] a [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In January 1988 Leeds crown court excluded statements by the accused with the result that he was acquitted of the murder of a police sergeant and the attempted murder of a constable . |
| 32 | He had been escorted back to the Vicarage by a plainclothes officer , not the one who had been working most closely with Commander Dalgliesh , but an older man , broad-shouldered , stolid , reassuringly calm , who had spoken to him in a soft country accent which he could n't recognize but was most certainly not local . |
| 33 | The conception of a three-years honours course incorporating as many as fifteen weeks teaching practice was the component of the response that produced the most controversy inside the CNAA . |
| 34 | Hillsborough was the result of a police decision to open an exit gate to allow mass entry onto an already crowded terrace . |
| 35 | This is done through exercises such as the study of a communications network , and case studies . |
| 36 | They show their immaturity as soon as they get behind the wheel of a sports car . |
| 37 | He was just as at home behind the wheel of a Sports Car as he was in a Grand Prix car , and his passion for all branches of the sport possible hindered his quest for the world title . |
| 38 | ‘ Jones was at the club as a YTS player when I arrived . |
| 39 | POLICE are hunting the killer of a drugs centre counsellor who was found battered to death at her office in Worcester . |
| 40 | A man whose name was linked to the killer of a police informer was found murdered at his home in Chapel Street , Stroud , Glos , early yesterday . |
| 41 | A hundred and fifty people look certain to lose their jobs with the closure of a weapons factory . |
| 42 | The Castle Eden Walkway Country Park was the setting for a woodcrafts weekend . |
| 43 | Iron Agers : Castle Eden Walkway Country Park is the setting for a woodcrafts weekend today and tomorrow . |
| 44 | Walter gave crack sprinter Sheikh Albadou a spin yesterday morning and he flies to New York to ride the horse in a pre-Breeders Cup race on Saturday week . |
| 45 | Unfortunately the statement of Balassa made some years ago still remains true , " there exists no wholly satisfactory way of measuring the effect of a customs union or free trade area on trade flows . |
| 46 | The siege , which ended with Keith Pringle being shot in the neck by a police marksman , was the latest incident involving firearms and has renewed calls for a clampdown on Britain 's gun laws . |
| 47 | Pringle , of Thirlmere Road , Darlington , was shot in the neck by a police marksman on Tuesday after 21-year-old Leanne Rees had been held at gunpoint for 47 hours . |
| 48 | The vast majority are paid ‘ premium ’ payments and in 1972 these were codified by the AWB into a wages structure whereby skilled and supervisory workers receive plus rates laid down by the Board . |
| 49 | The robbers ran off down a nearby street , but fired their gun again at a women who was looking at them through the window of a hairdressers shop . |
| 50 | The robbers ran off down a nearby street , but fired their gun again at a women who was looking at them through the window of a hairdressers shop . |
| 51 | He was attending a conference which had been called to discuss the formation of a police force in Oxfordshire . |
| 52 | The document on the formation of a customs union was not unanimously agreed . |
| 53 | In 1978 the Nora-Minc report suggested the formation of a Communications Ministry . ’ |
| 54 | ‘ It raises the spectre of a police force increasingly controlled by the Home Secretary . ’ |
| 55 | Likewise both business and government must have more than good intentions in order to turn the well meaning idealism into practical support , funding and long term dialogue , and the publication of a Charities Bill , in trying to increase public confidence in the sector , is a step in the right direction . |
| 56 | Next , the issue of whether the return on a futures contract includes a risk premium is examined . |
| 57 | After discussing the problem of defining the return on a futures position , the distribution of futures returns is considered . |
| 58 | The Economist dismissed the parallel , saying that differences between companies are greater than those between humans , and that a better analogy for the management thinker is the coach of a sports team , who deploys a body of knowledge and skills in changing circumstances ‘ as rival teams learn to outwit each other ’ . |
| 59 | Myeloski was beginning to realize that he could be taking on forces that encompassed the very people who ran the Soviet Union , the powermasters who employed him to keep the peace as a police officer . |
| 60 | The Cleveland firm which installed the panelling for a drugs trial could not take it down until today at the earliest . |