Example sentences of "of a [noun pl] [noun] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In one case a complaint was made on behalf of a Residents Association to the Parliamentary Commissioner alleging maladministration by the Department of Environment and the Health and Safety Executive at an inquiry into two appeals against the refusal of a Metropolitan Borough Council to give planning permission for the erection of a waste material incineration plant and an energy recovery plant . |
| 2 | In presenting a geomorphological approach to glaciers and landscape Sugden and John ( 1976 ) utilize a simple systems approach as a vehicle for the explanation of complicated ideas because they believe ‘ in the value of a systems framework as a powerful explanatory tool ’ . |
| 3 | An example of this would be the operation of a lettings policy in a school . |
| 4 | Your introduction of a letters page to the match programme should be congratulated . |
| 5 | The current programme of the IT Committee includes the investigation and evaluation of a telecommunications network for the Bar as a whole . |
| 6 | Easter Day 1945 found him in the darkness of a cattle truck in a German railway tunnel ; there was a true resurrection moment when prisoners were allowed out in to the sunshine and flowers of the railway cutting . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I have a vision of resident tutors beating up classes with the cheerful persistence of a sports organiser on a trans-Atlantic liner ; of extra-mural directors deploying their forces through the English countryside , themselves deciding what classes are suitable for the people of Swindon and Banbury and Slough ; of district organisers calling on mill hands in the remotest dales of Yorkshire with the regularity of the man who collects the rent … |
| 9 | He paused to light the green-brown dirigible of a partagas perfecto with a flickering windproof lighter . |
| 10 | She picked up the bag , checked inside to see that everything was still there , and was about to confiscate the switchblade when she heard the sound of a police siren in the distance . |
| 11 | Failure to obey any instructions he or she might issue in this context may amount to the statutory offence of obstruction of a police officer in the execution of his duty , for which the sentence can be either imprisonment or a substantial fine . |
| 12 | He was arrested and , although there was no blockage of the highway , disorder , or violence , he was later charged with obstruction of a police officer in the execution of his duty . |
| 13 | The overwhelming majority of Scottish cases related to one of four offences : conduct likely or intended to cause a breach of the peace , obstruction of a police officer in the execution of his or her duty , criminal damage or breach of bail conditions ( Wallington , 1985 : 150 ) . |
| 14 | Police shot dead three men in a raid on a Cairo flat on Dec. 19 , 1988 , one of whom was an Islamic militant wanted for the killing of a police officer in the Cairo district of Ain Shams earlier that month . |
| 15 | THE brutal murder of a child leaves a firm trace on the mind of a police officer like an indelible pen . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In due course , she was charged with and convicted of obstruction of a police constable in the execution of his duty . |
| 18 | Flashman is now the subject of a police enquiry as a result of a complaint by Sun photographer Paul Welford after a scuffle following the Football League hearing at a West End hotel on Monday . |
| 19 | Joe was taken in the back of a police van to the Divisional Headquarters on Vine Street . |
| 20 | The hotline has been established for former pupils , families and staff at New Barns school at Toddington in Gloucestershire , which is at the centre of a police investigation after the vice-chairman of the governors , Peter Righton was arrested and questioned about alleged pornography . |
| 21 | It was widely suspected that the Tucayana had links with the military and had been involved with anti-insurgency operations against the Jungle Commandos and that they feared the establishment of a police force for the interior composed mainly of former Jungle Commando members . |
| 22 | The police are called upon to perform many public services ( for example , see Punch 1979b ; Punch and Naylor 1973 ) , which is true even of a police force in a divided society like Northern Ireland , as the last chapter showed . |
| 23 | Dictionaries are the results of a lexicographers analysis of a language . |
| 24 | ‘ I am very pleased at the progress made and hope the concept of a watersports centre on the Lagan becomes a reality in the near future , ’ he said . |