Example sentences of "a [noun] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Picking a route from the walking riches of Scotland is always somewhat arbitrary — but needs must and a traverse of the Five Sisters of Kintail will certainly pass muster as a first-rate choice . |
| 2 | Next wind some tape through the slots and around the core to provide a base for the pickup windings . |
| 3 | The campaign relies on a provision in the Water Resources Act 1991 , under which company directors are deemed guilty of an offence if their company causes pollution with their " consent or connivance " or if it is " attributable to any neglect " on their part . |
| 4 | In In re A Debtor ( No. 1 of 1987 ) [ 1989 ] 1 W.L.R. 271 , the Court of Appeal was concerned with the construction of a provision in the Insolvency Rules 1986 ( S.I . |
| 5 | The number of tuples in each relation is again a function of the component parts , with the first or " higher order " tuple being reserved for data specific to the parent assembly . |
| 6 | The total cleaning effect of the solution is not solely a function of the detergency characteristics . |
| 7 | Even so , it was equally true that huge sums had been lost in the courts and he called to mind a case from the text books , when a million dollar had been forfeited because of the misplaced comma . |
| 8 | No , this is one of er , a bit of a baby teeth come out |
| 9 | Mind you , I 'm not saying as that 's what she 'll get for the asking , and I 'm not saying there 's not many a man as 'll hand over his pay-packet unopened , but there 's enough of the other sort to give us a bit of a breather Thursdays . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ So , ’ he continued , ‘ each pulse of light is made up of a short series of humps and dips — a bit like the water ripples you get when you drop the soap into the bath . |
| 11 | The finger of suspicion was pointed in the direction of GCHQ , the government 's listening centre at Cheltenham , or a branch of the security services . |
| 12 | The finger of suspicion was pointed in the direction of GCHQ , the government 's listening centre at Cheltenham , or a branch of the security services . |
| 13 | For the Collector knew that he had to have earth as a cushion against the enemy cannons ; brickwork or masonry splinters or cracks , wood is useless ; only earth is capable of gulping down cannon balls without distress . |
| 14 | When an appeal is made from a decision of a family proceedings court in a secure accommodation order case , or in any case of urgency where time is short , it is the duty of the appellant solicitor to make the district registry or the district judge aware of the need for urgency and to invite the district registry or district judge to list the matter at the nearest court where an early hearing can take place before a High Court judge ( post , p. 92D–E ) . |
| 15 | When an appeal is made from a decision of a family proceedings court in a secure accommodation order case , or in any case of urgency where time is short , it is the duty of the appellant solicitor to make the district registry aware of the need for urgency and to invite the district registry or the district judge to list the matter at the nearest court where an early hearing can take place before a High Court judge . |
| 16 | THE British government has just refused to undo , by retrospective legislation , a decision of the law lords that invalidated all interest-rate swaps conducted by local authorities . |
| 17 | It is now trying to ram through retrospective legislation to undo a decision of the law lords that ought to save Britain 's building societies from what they consider double taxation . |
| 18 | This gas is better known to dental patients as laughing gas , but it is also a mainstay in the operating theatres of many hospitals . |
| 19 | Secondly , there should be a real assault upon the incompetence and inefficiencies of our courts , which would result in a reduction of the time men and women are held on remand and reduce pressure in that way . |
| 20 | If the latter then perhaps we are seeing a reduction in the distrust women have for the police in relation to their handling of rape , or maybe the greater ability of women to withstand the trauma of carrying through a complaint of rape . |
| 21 | The impasse was broken when Bush conceded on one of his key demands , a reduction in the capital gains tax . |
| 22 | In a speech outlining French policy towards Africa , President Mitterrand announced a reduction in the debt repayments which would be required from four middle-income countries — Cameroon , Congo , Côte d'Ivoire and Gabon . |
| 23 | The , perhaps the the points to make there , is that the bigger the ninety-four , five is er , getting on for four million pounds below the ninety-three , four level , and that reflects , firstly , a reduction in students grants , with a a corresponding increase in the amount available from student loans , and secondly , a reduction in the tuition fees payable as part of the mandatory award , er , in the light of direct , higher direct funding of higher education establishments . |
| 24 | That proposition presupposes that if you make a reduction in the district figures , then you must have an idea what the district contribution towards the Greater York figure is , er and I find it difficult to see that you can have , if you have a new settlement , if you have a new settlement the C provision for the new settlement floating in this table , erm but can I just say before we adjourn for coffee , that I really would like to have some very firm answers to the questions which are posed under issue two , er and particularly about two D and that is specific guidance on the location of the new settlement . |
| 25 | Longer term analysis still showed a reduction in the prevalence rates , but it was not as impressive . |
| 26 | In December 1985 the long-awaited Fowler review of the State Earnings Related Pension Scheme ( SERPS ) produced only a reduction in the pension benefits rather than an abolition of the scheme ( it is worth noting , however , that the encouragement to leave SERPS for private schemes has had some success ; by mid-1989 over one million people had left ) . |
| 27 | These changes in the participation rates of the elderly must be due either to a reduction in the demand for the labour of this section of the population , or a reduction in the labour services offered or supplied by the elderly , or some combination of the two . |
| 28 | Deflation put a brake on the much-heralded planned growth ; the application of wage restraint lost the government the support of the union leaders such as Cousins , Scanlon and Jones as well as many union members ; devaluation , as Callaghan pointed out in orotund fashion prior to his resignation as chancellor , involved ‘ a reduction in the wage levels and the real wage standards of every member of the working class of this country ’ . |
| 29 | It should lead to a reduction in the food costs themselves . |
| 30 | In a declining or stagnating hotel market the most likely impact of a new competitor is a reduction in the market shares of existing hotels , and therefore , profits . |