Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Across the Channel , Sherwood had indulged in a similar restoration exercise with a variety of former Wagons-Lits coaches , arranging the professional refurbishment of the sleeping cars , diners , day cars and staff vehicles by the Wagon-Lits shops at Ostende , and the Bremer Waggonbau company at Bremen . |
| 2 | Now at this juncture here you would n't actually say what products you 're gon na do , cos you 're not gon na go back and say well I 'm thinking of er two hundred thousand pounds of convertible term assurance and we 're looking personal pension plan , but you 'll tell the guy you 're gon na go back to the branch , we 've got a variety of different things sir and what I wan na do is to go back to the branch and work on one or two ideas for you and then present them to you at some time in the future . |
| 3 | Yeah let them do it , we 've covered a variety of different areas investments , life assurance , protection etcetera on a scale of one to se one to seven which is the most important , one being that the er your number one priority , and get them to prioritize it . |
| 4 | A more mainstream product is the 33MHz Image 433 , designed for users with a variety of everyday Windows applications . |
| 5 | A Budget for all seasons Norman Lamont has laid out plans to increase taxation without nipping recovery in the bud . |
| 6 | A reduction in Junior Doctors hours is making the situation more difficult . |
| 7 | For example , if the warehousing department is considering a reduction in finished goods stocks , this will affect production ( less output needed ) and sales ( there may be inadequate stock levels to meet customer demand without a waiting list ) . |
| 8 | Woods speculated that such a " plankton multiplier " had been instrumental in a rise of 7 degrees Celsius over just 50 years at the end of the last ice age . |
| 9 | From such a course of imaginative practicals Heisenberg emerged with the triumphant conclusion that his uncertainty principle was a consistent epistemological consequence of quantum theory . |
| 10 | Barry Stewart , prosecuting , said Sinclair , who was born with only one arm , was a persistent confidence trickster who had served a sentence of 18 months imprisonment for deception in 1990 . |
| 11 | ( S. ) 468 , where a sentence of four years imprisonment was upheld for robbery of a taxi driver who was threatened with a lighted cigarette and a knife , although he did not suffer injuries comparable with those suffered by the victim in this case . |
| 12 | By extending a kind of equal opportunities policy to the whole discipline , it tries to create a gender-neutral psychology , ‘ a non-sexist science , a psychology of human behaviour ’ ( Vaughter quoted in Unger 1979 : 24 ) . |
| 13 | Naturally this enforcement pattern could be justified by the inspectorate who see their primary function not as a kind of industrial police force , but more of a pastoral mission rounding up wayward factory owners and showing them the light and contentment to be gained from compliance with current standards of safety , health , and welfare required by law . |
| 14 | Consider a field of three bits x , y , and z , and let r and 5 be ( respectively ) the value of the contents of the accumulator and the value of the sign bit of the accumulator . |
| 15 | From the low admission rate , the nine hundred thousand in our revenue budget which was shown this year as savings , seven hundred thousand of which was met by fudging community care money in June is now short by three hundred thousand so at the end of this year there will be an overspend or rather a loss of income of three hundred thousand which will show up as a deficit on social services budget for this year . |
| 16 | Following on from my recent committment to investment , I would like to nominate the Scottish Cycling Council , of which I am the Treasurer , for a donation from Ethical Investors Group , or , better still , sponsorship on a regular basis in return for carefully targeted publicity for EIG . |
| 17 | In late March the Indonesian government responded to recent attempts by various Western countries to establish a link between human rights concerns and development aid by announcing its rejection of all aid from the Netherlands and the disbandment of the Netherlands-chaired 14-member aid consortium , the Inter-Governmental Group on Indonesia ( IGGI ) . |
| 18 | Tivoli Systems Inc , based in Austin , Texas , has a growing band of acolytes which are supporting its effort to bring a framework for distributed systems management to Unix . |
| 19 | Tivoli Systems Inc , based in Austin , Texas , has a growing band of acolytes supporting its effort to bring a framework for distributed systems management to Unix . |
| 20 | In so far as economics is offered as a model of explanation , a theory of individual behaviour is likely to be a component of International Relations theories as much as of theories of microeconomics . |
| 21 | A midwife with 25 years experience , she thought she had done a good job — then she discovered the truth . |
| 22 | On the same day Rodríguez addressed a demonstration of 4,000 grassroots supporters . |
| 23 | The ruling , by a Nazareth district court , was hailed as a landmark by human rights activists . |
| 24 | TL dates of three burnt flints have been measured at the British Museum , and these straddle a mean of 190.000 years BP , but there is a large variation about this mean because of the inhomogeneity of the radiation environment in the cave outlined above . |
| 25 | There was a mean of 50 years age difference between the 22 young subjects and the 28 old subjects studied . |
| 26 | A term of x years imprisonment to be served and y years suspended might be imposed , when previously x would have been thought sufficient . |
| 27 | One year ago he was sentenced to a term of fifteen years imprisonment . |
| 28 | ( S. ) 460 , which established that where a juvenile pleaded guilty to an offence for which he could be ordered to be detained under Children and Young Persons Act 1933 , s.53(2) , it was open to the sentencer to impose a term of 12 months detention in a young offender institution , if he considered that apart from the plea of guilty a sentence of detention under section 53(2) would have been warranted . |
| 29 | It may be unfair on clubs who could lose out as a result of weak Quins combinations , but I would hate to see the Football League system of fining clubs for this practice being brought into rugby . |
| 30 | of those appointed to public bodies as a result of public appointments unit nomination this year are women . |