Example sentences of "a [noun] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [unc] " in BNC.
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1 | The second fee is known as the initial contribution and is a payment towards the Solicitors ' Compensation Fund . |
2 | At that time a variety of the women 's presses were mooting ideas for conventional anthologies of Black writing in the UK . |
3 | Before taking a decision on whether to take a case to a Children 's Hearing , the Reporter has to consider the reports from all the appropriate agencies . |
4 | Focusing on the ‘ ideological cracks ’ e.g. internal contradictions of the film text , they made a case for a women 's discourse where it was previously thought none could possibly exist . |
5 | He 's a bit of a ladies ' man , ’ he said , adding ‘ Nigella Lawson — she 's very tasty , nicer than in her picture . |
6 | The movement called for a referendum on the islands ' continued union with the mainland . |
7 | By contrast requiring a case to be stated , just like the appeal by way of case stated from a decision of a magistrates ' court or the Crown Court described in chapter 7 , obliges the tribunal to set out its decision and the reasons for it together with a formulation of the questions to be considered by the High Court . |
8 | But if PRP substitutes for existing pay , it is rarely going to be practicable for the employer to pocket the whole of the saving , since this would imply not only a reduction in the employees ' gross pay , but also an element of risk in remuneration that had previously been assured . |
9 | A division of the property of State Television and Radio ( Gosteleradio ) , announced on Sept. 13 , involved transferring to Russian television ( launched in May — see p. 38206 ) the second all-union television channel and a part of the correspondents ' network . |
10 | Local issues , including the election of three independent candidates who campaigned against a new road , played a part in the Tories ' loss of Merton , and similar borough-specific factors seemed to be at work in those Labour authorities where the party fared particularly badly . |
11 | The chronic sick , the elderly and others who would need long-term care were a drain on the hospitals ' budgets and of little interest for teaching purposes . |
12 | Thus the Declaration confirmed the illegality of the suspending power and dispensing power , it abolished the Commission for Ecclesiastical Causes , and it defended the right of subjects to petition the Crown ( a defence of the bishops ' action in opposition to the second Declaration of Indulgence ) . |
13 | Community policing is a preventive rather than a crime control made of policing and in the United Kingdom it has become associated in the popular image particularly with those inner-city areas where crime rates have risen sharply and where police relations with ethnic minorities have deteriorated , although it is also a response to the police 's loss of contact with other sections of the community , especially young people ( Schaffer 1980 ) . |
14 | But on the river , when you 're getting a bite a chuck , especially on the lead and missing most of them , I 'll guarantee the hook size you 're using is too small to find a purchase in the fishes ' mouths . |
15 | And Joseph Fernandez 's old job has other complications : being second-guessed continuously by an unelected board of education that puts its small moral agenda above all else , sabotaged by the remains of corrupt school boards , starved of federal money and unable to settle on a contract with the teachers ' union . |
16 | For the longer term , the Secretary of State proposes to replace the Burnham Committees by a Teachers ' Negotiating Group , with central government rather than LEAs in a majority on the employers ' side . |
17 | A majority of the islands ' councillors — 11 out of the 21 with seats on the local authority — have signed a letter calling for Ron Gilbert 's position to be fully examined . |
18 | ‘ I 'm sure your wrong , ’ said Anna , but she remembered how Maria Jakob had said that if the money was not forthcoming she must think of something else , a way to make up to her for Melusina 's death , and she had not meant a donation to the Cats ' Protection League . |
19 | " No man shall be allowed to work anywhere without a certificate from the Masters ' Union and no man allowed to take passage on any steamer to leave this country unless he produces his certificate . |
20 | Eve , 23 , who plays a striker in a men 's team in a BBC drama , said the Chelsea and QPR fans were ‘ disgusting ’ . |
21 | A Kentish farm-labourer , writing from New Zealand , thanked the farmers for having driven him out by a lockout of the labourers ' union , since he now found himself so much better off : he would not have thought of going otherwise . |
22 | The volunteers made a desperate charge through the Nez Perce ranks towards Perry 's position but were forced to make a stand against the warriors ' close pursuit . |
23 | ‘ Making men ’ , then , was an active process , the emphasis was on ‘ the making ’ , the success of which depended on establishing a relationship that could bring about , through influence and example , a change in the boys ' character . |
24 | A change in the banks ' demand for excess reserves |
25 | Various solutions to the problem of rising unemployment in Britain have been suggested , some of which depend in part on a change in the workforces ' concept of work . |
26 | Public care is seen as inevitably damaging the psychological health of the child and as a verdict on the parents ' abilities to offer appropriate care . |
27 | Criminal prosecutions are commenced either in the Magistrates ' Court if the matter is to be tried summarily or , following a committal before a Magistrates ' Court , in the Crown Court if the matter is to be tried upon an indictment . |
28 | The minaret is a souvenir from the Turks ' use of the building as a mosque . |
29 | It could be argued that this was a violation of the satyāgrahi 's moral duty not to coerce his opponent or to take advantage of his weakness and vulnerability . |
30 | Cardinal Jozef Glemp , the primate of Poland , claimed that the 1987 agreement under which the nuns at the Carmelite convent would be re-located to an inter-faith centre nearby , had been negotiated by " incompetent " people and was a violation of the nuns ' rights . |