Example sentences of "in a [adj] [adj] [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the case of an Aboriginal teenager , John Pat , whose death in a Western Australian police cell in September 1983 led to public pressure to establish the inquiry , the Commission found that the victim had died after being injured in a brawl started by an off-duty policeman . |
| 2 | One aim of this respecified model is to show that the choice of the γ 's is not irrelevant to the behaviour of output , and hence that there is a stabilizing role for monetary policy even in a flexible-price rational expectations model . |
| 3 | Col. Jean-Baptiste Bagaza , who had come to power in a coup in 1976 , and had been elected President by direct suffrage in August 1984 , was overthrown in early September 1987 in a bloodless armed forces coup led by Maj. Pierre Buyoya [ see pp. 35631-32 ] . |
| 4 | The Punjab government on Oct. 21 ordered the freezing of the assets of 113 directors and sponsors implicated in a recent financial co-operatives scandal [ see p. 38438 ] . |
| 5 | The more shadowy COSE III should result in a standard distributed systems management environment specification that may include the Tivoli Systems Inc object-oriented applications programming interface . |
| 6 | The more shadowy COSE III should result in a standard distributed systems management environment specification , that may include the Tivoli Systems Inc object API . |
| 7 | To this end the investigator shall circulate a questionnaire to about 150 traffic officers and inspectors in a major provincial Police Force to look at : views on the impact of Fixed Penalty Notices on police/public relations ; officers ' workload ; officers ' exercise of discretion ; supervisors ' mechanisms for monitoring discretion ; views on the proper extent , limitation , acquisition and training of discretion ; and attributes of the offence and the offender which influence officers ' decisions . |
| 8 | The seven-year-old showed steady improvement over fences last season , culminating in a brilliant eight lengths victory in the Scottish National at Ayr . |
| 9 | This time there was no mistaking the command , but , short of trying out one of the manoeuvres she had been learning in a regular martial arts class , there was n't much she could do about it . |
| 10 | Pinochet Hiriart stated in his testimony to the committee in mid-January that the money , apparently used to buy out his share in a small bankrupt arms manufacturing company , was in fact a payment for three loans which he had personally secured in Europe for the company . |
| 11 | Next thing I know , he 'd driven out of there , hell for leather , in a bright red sports car , and headed south . |
| 12 | In addition , there is more provision outside the state system and residential services appear less integrated into wider family and community approaches than would be the case in a generic social services department in the United Kingdom . |
| 13 | The opal allotoca , a two-inch fish species thought to be extinct , has been found alive and well in a large Mexican cattle pond . |
| 14 | Their decision follows crowd trouble by supporters in a previous European Champions League match at Marseille last December , for which their punishment by UEFA was to play their home game against Rangers on 3 March in an empty stadium . |
| 15 | And er what have you got to do in a double white lines system ? |
| 16 | ‘ I 've still to make my mind up , ’ said Murray , who runs in a special 2,000 metres race in next Saturday 's TSB Invitation meeting in Birmingham before leaving the next day for three road races in California ; a 5K , 10K and 5K . |
| 17 | And we 'll bring you the results in a special local elections programme tomorrow night at eleven forty . |
| 18 | In a few short sentences Quinn explained what he had done . |
| 19 | Alternatively , it may be a prerequisite for the evolutionary development of intelligence — which leads us to the premonition that , in a few billion years time , there may be intelligent lugworms stalking the Earth . |
| 20 | Lindka Cierach took the opposite line , and won her recent case dressed in a tight red damn-your-eyes jacket and no-nonsense sunglasses . |