Example sentences of "of a [adj] [noun pl] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These will be extended by the opening of a Regional Arts Centre on the site of the former Leith Academy . |
| 2 | THE Scottish Arts Council has shocked organisers of a regional arts festival by cancelling its annual grant . |
| 3 | Assisting with the creation of a viable payments union in the area that used to be described as the Soviet Union would be the single most important contribution that the Twelve could make to that unstable and dangerous part of the world . |
| 4 | Mr Shahal , moreover , has been discussing the creation of a Palestinian police force for the West Bank and Gaza . |
| 5 | Swindon 's 75th minute effort came at the end of a spell when they were getting on top of a hard-working Rovers side in a lack-lustre derby . |
| 6 | Studies of a European customs union in 1947–8 suggested that this would demand a revolution in British economic practices without necessarily bringing dramatic results . |
| 7 | Before I finish I I just wonder whether I could put one point to the county and that 's whether in the absence of a strategic exceptions policy in the structure plan , they would allow the borough council to include the type of policy we 're seeking in our district wide local plan bearing in mind that some of the considerations in involved are of a strategic nature . |
| 8 | Students specialise in either Danish , Norwegian or Swedish and the chosen area may then be studied as a single honours course or part of a joint honours course in Modern European Languages and with Scottish Ethnology or Linguistics . |
| 9 | A one-off idea sowed the seeds of a flourishing ceramics business for a Scots couple . |
| 10 | While possession of a good Honours Degree in Celtic ( or Irish or Welsh ) is a normal prerequisite for the research degrees , candidates with an equivalent qualification in a related field may apply . |
| 11 | The spectacle last week of 400 officers in riot gear running round the Broadwater Farm Estate and finding little or nothing in the way of drugs reminded me of Sir Robert Mark 's definition of a good police force as one which employed fewer criminals than it caught . |
| 12 | The conclusion of a major arms agreement with the United States was perhaps the central achievement ; but still more important was the restoration of normal relations with the other global superpower after the collapse of detente in the late 1970s . |
| 13 | Photographer Beth Davidson , a Darlington artist , is showing pupils how to print and develop pictures as part of a major arts initiative in the county . |
| 14 | The passage by the House of representatives of a civil rights bill by 381 votes to 38 on Nov. 7 , following Senate approval by 93 votes to 5 on Oct. 30 , brought to an end a two-year battle for enactment which had included Bush 's 1990 veto of a previous bill and months of inconclusive efforts in mid-1991 by Democratic and moderate Republican senators to work out a compromise with the administration [ see p. 38381 ] . |
| 15 | the development of a civil rights movement as an intrinsic but distinct element in the social and political opposition to the regime ; |
| 16 | The other important check on bureaucratic dominance is the provision of a high-level complaints procedure through ombudsmen . |
| 17 | In Parkin v. Norman where the defendant had engaged in masturbation within sight of a plain clothes policeman in a public lavatory , McCullough J. put the matter as follows : |
| 18 | Raphael Samuels has also reported an instance of a suspected police informer in the East End who was visited by a mob who expressed their displeasure by burning effigies . |
| 19 | The concluding La Paz Declaration included a joint agreement on the removal of all customs tariffs between the Andean Pact member countries by Dec. 31 , 1991 , and the establishment of a single customs system by 1995 , with the objective of establishing a Latin American common market by the end of the century . |
| 20 | 2.1 Uses of a Computerised Personnel System in a Company |
| 21 | a ) Help with clearing land mines ; b ) Targeting rural poverty ; c ) Helping the Cambodian government to make the best use of aid and d ) The UK should use its influence in the United Nations to ensure the fullest support for the move to peace and democracy in Cambodia , and specifically should call for the establishment of a Human Rights Rapporteur for Cambodia reporting directly to the United Nations Security Council . |
| 22 | On March 3 the government had announced the creation of a human rights department in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to examine and promote human rights in Iraq and abroad . |
| 23 | This was the first time that a member of the military had been tried and found guilty of a human rights violation in 11 years of civil war marked by accusations of government-sanctioned torture , kidnapping and murder . |
| 24 | Secondly , through the enactment of a special powers Act in 1922 Stormont gave itself and its police force the powers of detention without trial . |
| 25 | It was the first conviction of a white police officer on charges arising from such killings . |
| 26 | POLICE last night appealed for information about the whereabouts of a missing antiques dealer as a man claimed he owes him £1,600 . |
| 27 | The other major aspect of the charter is the establishment of a formal communications system between branches and depots . |
| 28 | Similarly , the advice and judgments of a proposed ECOWAS Court of Justice would be binding on all institutions and members . |
| 29 | Endorsing the concept of " open skies " and " open lands " , he indicated the Soviet Union 's willingness to participate in " the establishment of a United Nations register of sales and transfers of weapons " . |
| 30 | HARDSELL is the name of a public relations company in London . |