Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [prep] a [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm a bit of a clothes freak . |
| 2 | MR JUSTICE MILLETT said that the particular question was whether a decision of a commons commissioner that certain land was not registrable as common land because it formed part of a highway was capable of giving rise to an estoppel per rem judicatam so as to preclude the landowner from afterwards asserting , in proceedings unconnected with the register , that the land in question did not form part of a highway . |
| 3 | Years of moving from one home to another , having meals cooked for you , never having to think twice about leaving lights on or taps dripping is hardly the best preparation for surviving in a bedsit on a YTS wage of £29.50 a week ( trainees do n't qualify for income support ) . |
| 4 | The oilseed agreement , which reduces the cultivated area used to produce vegetable oils , struck in Washington last December to avoid a damaging trade war , is a part of an EC-US farm trade accord that is crucial to a long-delayed world trade deal under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade . |
| 5 | In the case of a board for an islands area or division of an islands area , the members were to be elected at a meeting of the islands council to be held between May 16 , 1977. and June 30 , 1977 , and thereafter at the first meeting of the council after every ordinary election . |
| 6 | Following disturbances in Southall , London , in April 1979 , when Asian youths assembled to protest against a National Front political rally during the general election , and when a New Zealand demonstrator was killed , some alleged by a blow from a police officer , the Home Secretary set in motion a review of the law . |
| 7 | The plaintiff there was claiming damages for her son 's death brought about , she alleged , by a blow from a police truncheon . |
| 8 | Amendment thirty-one confirms that a chairman of a police authority will be elected by the authority itself , instead of being appointed by the Home Secretary As Noble Lord , Lord has already said . |
| 9 | As a consequence , the sequence of development of a contract on an options exchange is initially to offer just a call option on the underlying , and when that is established to supplement it with a put contract . |
| 10 | Andrew , 38 , a buyer for a sports equipment company , said they were very surprised when they learned they had been entered . |
| 11 | One minute I was in Holland working as a clerk in a police station and the next I was zooming all around the world . |
| 12 | the Deputy Head ( Curriculum ) worked with the Head of Additional Studies Faculty to produce a framework for a study-skills course which would link with the work of all other departments ; |
| 13 | A salesman from a components supplier has just offered to provide the firm 's requirements for two components , the BC100 at £7.75 each and the BC200 at £2.00 each . |
| 14 | Angela Kinsella , 28 , of High Northgate , Darlington , was sentenced to a month 's imprisonment yesterday for causing fear or provocation of violence , resisting a police constable and stealing a shirt from a clothes shop . |
| 15 | On May 7 a woman protester was killed by a ricochet bullet shot from the gun of a gendarme in a demonstration at an arms factory ( Poudreries Réunies de Belgique ) alleged to be connected with the Iraqi supergun affair . |
| 16 | A MOTHER-of-three was killed instantly when her car was in a pile-up with a police Volvo answering a 999 call . |
| 17 | There is no attempt to weight the votes — a vote on whether the marigold should be the national flower counts as much as a vote on an arms limitation treaty . |
| 18 | I mean you know what happened when , wh when th General Strike was on , there was er nothing entered unless it 'd got a permit from a Trades Council , and you know that do n't you ? |
| 19 | Question 13 Subject to this , do you agree that grants from the compensation fund should continue to be made without limitation to individual private clients who have lost money as a result of a solicitors dishonesty ? |
| 20 | The case of the two-storey extension , that as a result of an Architects advice , became a single storey extension with internal rearrangements at 60% of the budgeted cost illustrating the point . |
| 21 | ( There was a rustling of an appointments book . ) |
| 22 | Albert Rice was knocked down as he left a pub by a police Sierra racing to answer a distress call from two WPCs . |
| 23 | In an interview last week on the French radio station France Inter 's RadioCom program , Alcatel Alsthom NV president Pierre Suard indicated he did not rule out taking a stake in France Telecom if the latter is privatised by the next administration : ‘ I do n't think the question has been posed today , but when it is , I can tell you that we will study it very seriously , ’ Suard said — ‘ It is essential that France Telecom has a structure that enables it to extend itself beyond France and I think that can come from a new shareholder ; there is industrial logic in the ‘ world 's number one manufacturer of telecommunications equipment ’ owning a stake in a telecommunications operator , ’ he added — ‘ It is the Anglo-Saxon logic ; AT&T is constructed on that basis , but up to now , it has not been European logic , ’ he said . |
| 24 | And there has been an unexpected spin-off — because SNIA Fibre is a subsidiary of a chemicals group controlled by Fiat , cars have been available for UK Novaceta workers at discounted prices . |
| 25 | The plaintiff in Harling v. Eddy ( 1951 C.A. ) bought a heifer at a cattle auction . |
| 26 | After considerable reflection , a discussion of the match with a wide circle of friends , a session with a sports psychiatrist , and two calls to the Samaritans , I decide that I lost because Martin played much better than I did . |
| 27 | For larger items , a holdall like a sports bag can be useful . |
| 28 | More recently George ( 1989 ) has re-examined this approach , pointed out its drawbacks and concluded that the balance of theory and evidence does suggest that there is a need for a mergers policy . |
| 29 | Brook Street Bureau sent Sue Hill to an interview for a job as a telesales clerk with a publishing company last autumn and , after months of rejections , she was offered the position . |
| 30 | He escapes from a fast food outlet and makes his way to the City of London where he gets a job as a securities analyst . |