Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [prep] a [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is very much the way in which the law approaches the extraction of the truth , and it is different both from the vivid imprecision of ordinary life and the intimacy of a police interrogation . |
| 2 | With the addition of a structured-parts data base , such as HERMS , this task becomes relatively easy , enhancing the system and providing the designer with a set of very powerful tools . |
| 3 | There was neither a window nor a door open : customers and staff sweated visibly and there was the smell of a sports changing-room . |
| 4 | Frances Power Cobbe deplored the approval doctors gave to what she considered to be an essentially unhealthy lifestyle ; she had little faith in medical expertise and liked to recall the case of a women friend who , on deciding to stop seeing her doctor and carry on normally , promptly recovered . |
| 5 | There are also adjustable tins which enlarge or reduce in size or , as in the case of a numerals tin , can be altered by moving around squares to create different numbers . |
| 6 | Bars 1–4 are based on the E minor pentatonic scale : E , G , A , B , D. As is often the case in a blues style song , though the underlying chord may be major and frequently dominant ( in this case E7 : root E , major 3rd G&sharp ; , 5th B , ♭7th D ) , the melody or soloist will often make use of a flattened 3rd interval ( here a G ) to help create a bluesy mood . |
| 7 | The advantage of a Loans Fund is that it facilitates the authority 's management of debt . |
| 8 | This may not fall quite so easily into the category of a communications medium as you see it , but its relevance will be glaringly obvious later . |
| 9 | As far as the police part of the Bill is concerned , the er Government er under considerable pressure from erm er er members on their own side er as well as from these benches , have made the er very welcome concession that the chairman of a police authority shall no longer be appointed er by the Secretary of State , by the Home Secretary , but elected from among the members of the police authority er they have also made provision that the er er er i in response to the er criticisms that were made at second reading that the size of the p of a police authority shall no longer be limited to er sixteen members but could er by er order of the Secretary of State be extended to er twenty er er er twenty-four members . |
| 10 | Strategy 1 involves the purchase of a futures contract . |
| 11 | Strategy 2 involves the purchase of a futures contract and the investment of a sum of money equal to the value of the cash index purchased under strategy 1 ( i.e. P s ) at the money market rate of interest . |
| 12 | Consideration was given to the purchase of a CPIS package . |
| 13 | They were then smuggled out of the building in a police decoy operation , being driven away in unmarked cars with blankets over their heads . |
| 14 | Charles made a cursory check for blood-stained fingerprints , the thread of a sports jacket made from tweed only available in a small tailor 's shop in Aberdeen , the scratch marks of an artificial hand or the faint but unmistakable aroma of orange blossom . |
| 15 | Following the preliminary roadside ‘ breathalyser ’ test , the old code provided that the specimen to be taken for analysis from the driver at a police station should be of blood or urine , in effect at the driver 's option . |
| 16 | A POLICE hotline set up to take calls about a rave party in Stafford got two complaints — about the noise from a police helicopter . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It 's ironic that you should still make excuses for the fact that the band can play really well , yet there 's nothing here that ca n't be appreciated on the level of a blues number . |
| 19 | It 's ironic that you should still make excuses for the fact that the band can play really well , yet there 's nothing here that ca n't be appreciated on the level of a blues number . |
| 20 | In December 1991 Moore married an air stewardess , Stephanie Parlane-Moore , but there was bad news with the collapse of a sports business . |
| 21 | Attention was given to planning , diet , fitness and mental attitude , the latter under the guidance of a sports psychologist . |
| 22 | But they did not want to offend the public ; and , most important , they had billed the march as a civil-rights story . |
| 23 | THE brutal murder of a child leaves a firm trace on the mind of a police officer like an indelible pen . |
| 24 | The bequest is described as a legatum but the action as a fideicommissi persecutio . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Durie then teamed up with Hobbs to complete the whitewash with a straight-sets doubles win to earn Britain a second-round confrontation against Austria , the eighth seeds . |
| 27 | PC Timms strolled into the inn , confronted the man at the bar and accused him of being Robert James , wanted for the murder of a police officer at Harwell . |
| 28 | This was the murder of a police officer , one of their own , no one would step aside . |
| 29 | Two men have gone on trial for the murder of a police informer , whose body was found weighted down in a lake three years ago . |
| 30 | A witness at the trial of two men accused of the murder of a police informer has claimed that one defendent drove the victim to a meeting with the other , who them killed him . |