Example sentences of "[noun pl] of a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even though this is a DOS program is has many of the characteristics of a Windows user-interface — drop down lists , dialog boxes and so on — and it is very easy to use with a mouse . |
| 2 | Gagarin , in 1721 ) , the tsar 's ‘ Siberian satraps ’ enjoyed almost plenipotentiary powers in what they regarded as their own freedom , which they exercised with all the arbitrary and unbridled ruthlessness of a military dictatorship and the methods of a police state . |
| 3 | On Jan. 8 the Azapo-linked Azanian National Liberation Army ( AZANLA ) bombed the offices of a promotions company involved in the South African tour of the United States musician Paul Simon . |
| 4 | There still remains the primary need for all agreements , however limited in scope , which affect the partners to be set down clearly and exhaustively in writing to avoid subsequent dispute : such writing may range from the proper minutes of a partners ' meeting to a separate manual describing a firm 's management process as a guide , in the largest firms , to enable every partner and every employee to identify the person responsible for any particular aspect of the firm 's administration . |
| 5 | In the past eight years , some 5,400 police officers have been freed for operational policing duties by civilianising posts which do not require the powers or skills of a police officer , representing an efficiency gain of around £100 million per year . |
| 6 | Conflict : Once bankers have a direct/indirect stake in the activities of a securities affiliate , investment advice to customers will no longer be impartial . |
| 7 | 6 Draw sketches of an isosceles and an equilateral triangle of any size . |
| 8 | But it has always been recognised that , where individuals desire that services of a special kind which , though not within the obligations of a police authority , can most effectively be rendered by them , should be performed by members of the police force , the police authorities may ( to use an expression which is found in the Police Pensions Act 1890 ) ‘ lend ’ the services of constables for that purpose in consideration of payment . |
| 9 | Another binary is created here , for we became separated in our communitas of spontaneity from the rigid belief systems and certainties of a police structure rooted in language , law , and custom . |
| 10 | Perhaps one of the greatest advantages of a systems viewpoint has been to cement the branches of physical geography more closely and therefore to make what Walton ( 1968 ) characterized as the unity of the physical environment a more realistic prospect . |
| 11 | A doctor told my parents of a children 's holiday scheme in Switzerland . |
| 12 | The functions of a PPS vary . |
| 13 | The packs are being introduced to help the authority meet the needs of a Patients Charter . |
| 14 | He had told Ladislav when the Communists came to power : ‘ This is the beginnings of a police state . ’ |
| 15 | These include snow and ice hazards , where impacts on transport and the need to plan road salting or gritting strategies are obvious ( see Perry et al. 1986 for the beginnings of a GIS approach ) . |
| 16 | By the summer of 1967 Birmingham had the beginnings of an arts laboratory , partly masterminded by the future It music editor , Mark Williams , who was street-selling the paper to supplement a meagre income as a trainee advertising account executive in Solihull . |
| 17 | The major proponents of a rules based approach in the UK have been Crew and Rowley ( 1970 , 1971 ) . |
| 18 | Peacock 's Crochet Castle was surrounded by gravel workings ; Disraeli 's Bentham was decaying behind Ministry of Defence barbed wire ; and the lawns of Jane Austen 's Mansfield Park were engulfed by the classrooms of a girls ' school . |
| 19 | The determinants of an individuals ' welfare can be broadly classified as depending upon their own capacity to care for themselves combined with ( a ) market activities and relationships ; ( b ) the behaviour of ‘ significant others ’ as providers of ‘ informal care ’ amongst whom family members are likely to be the most important ; and ( c ) the role played by the state . |
| 20 | ( b ) Powers of a justices ' clerk Certain functions of the court may be performed by a justices ' clerk who may in turn delegate these functions to any clerk of the court authorised for this purpose . |
| 21 | The national security law was responsible for the fears of a police state . |
| 22 | The Sander Parallelogram distorts the apparent dimensions of an isosceles right angled triangle . |
| 23 | But the animals that are to be seen in our time can be interpreted as the end-products of an arms race that was run in the past . |
| 24 | Can the Prime Minister say also whether he has encouraged discussion of the establishment in the new democracies of a payments union similar to that which played such an important part in western Europe 's recovery after the second world war ? |
| 25 | But he revealed that details of a users and carers group to monitor implementation of community care would be forthcoming next month . |
| 26 | The Japanese Kyodo news agency reported on May 7 that Yazov and his Chinese counterpart , Gen. Qin , failed to finalize details of an arms deal during the visit . |
| 27 | This is very bureaucratic in terms of an organisations administration , but does establish the positive ‘ right to be informed ’ , which is more meaningful than mere ‘ access ’ rights . |
| 28 | From the late 1970s the debate around the imaging of women 's bodies was furthered , particularly in the UK and New York , by the work of those artists and theoreticians who wished to remove the body of woman from view while instead concentrating upon notions of femininity , replacing the bodies of a women as sites which produced struggle , with womanliness as a named site of struggle . |
| 29 | ‘ There were some strands of a drugs story in California but the reporters could n't link it to smuggling from South America , which was the obvious line of enquiry . |
| 30 | Representing as they have done the interests of a high-seas trading nation ( Britain still exports more per head of population than does Japan ) , British post-war leaders of all political persuasions , from Nye Bevan to Margaret Thatcher , have largely based their economic policies on the need to expand trade . |