Example sentences of "[adv] a [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | One of the two men accused of murdering a police informer was also a drugs dealer , according to evidence given by the prosecution on the second day of their trial . |
| 32 | The famous inscription from Brough-on-Humber ( vicus Petuariensis ) , attesting the presence of a theatre , shows that some vici possessed magistrates with the title of aedile , although we may be dealing here with a site which was also a civitas capital . |
| 33 | For those who prefer something a little more energetic , there 's also a darts board and a pool table . |
| 34 | There is also a games room with table tennis , pool and video games and normally some sort of activity or entertainment going on . |
| 35 | There is also a games room and a solarium , available for guests to use for a small charge . |
| 36 | An hour later a police constable went to the house to confirm Mr Hutchinson 's fears . |
| 37 | An hour and a half later a police wagon pulled up at the dock , and out from the back climbed a bleary-eyed Howard escorted by two gendarmes . |
| 38 | A few minutes later a police jeep screeched to a halt outside . |
| 39 | Mrs Faber , 27 , was formerly a sports presenter on Super Channel and the BBC 's Ski Sunday . |
| 40 | The employers acknowledged that , in addition to the force of public opinion , another way to curb prices would be to establish a body ( probably a prices commission ) to examine particular prices and report on them publicly . |
| 41 | This is the meaning of the proposition that ‘ another way to curb prices would be to establish a body ( probably a prices commission ) to examine particular prices and report upon them publicly ’ . |
| 42 | It is significant that during the second and third centuries B.C. what was probably a customs post at Begram , Afghanistan , on the route between China and the west was handling ivory as well as glass and bronzes from the west in addition to lacquer bowls from China . |
| 43 | At one of the interviews where both an arts adviser and an administrator were present , differing views were expressed , but surprisingly , the ambiguity of this did not appear to be apparent to either interviewee . |
| 44 | He was by trade a painter-stainer , a craft which in 1581 included face painters , history painters , arms ( heraldic ) painters and house painters ; Treswell was probably an arms painter , for he painted streamers and banners for several City companies . |
| 45 | The Scots language is taught in a full first-year course as well as in English Language 1 and 2 , and there is also an honours course devoted entirely to it . |
| 46 | Old Tintern Station , just off the A466 is now a visitors centre and museum , with the original station buildings restored and used as an excellent refreshment room , plus a fine display of artifacts from the railway scene . |
| 47 | There is no place for the in-form Michael O'Neill , now a Hibs player , or Nottingham Forest winger Kingsley Black ; both are on the substitutes bench . |
| 48 | As many retired Rentokil folk are probably aware there is now a Rentokilonians society based in East Grinstead . |
| 49 | Now a plastics firm called FOLARPILO has come up with tiny semi-permanent condoms for guppies . |
| 50 | That 's not really a police word is it ? |
| 51 | We may roughly classify problems connected with fishing industries as those which are affected by very quick changes , such as uncertainties of the weather ; or by changes of moderate length , such as the increased demand for fish caused by the scarcity of meat during the year or two following a cattle plague . [ … ] |
| 52 | But how can we decide how far an Arts education is good in itself ? |
| 53 | Today a drugs expert who 's on the drugs abuse advisory committee of the Sports Council said the council |
| 54 | From this point moral indignation became more than simply a grassroots phenomenon . |
| 55 | Ten days ago a police bullet had hit the explosive which Terry Place had hidden in a carrier bag in the tunnel . |
| 56 | There 's even a poisons database . |
| 57 | To celebrate the arrival of two notables in town , I approached the mayor , well known for his Butchers Arms , and asked him to send a joint off the Old Dun Cow or even a Bulls Head . |
| 58 | Yet , in 1989 , according to the FBI , only 15% of all murder victims were related to their killers ; 39% were ‘ acquainted ’ with their murderers , but this figure would include , say , a drug dealer killed by a fellow gang member , or even a police officer murdered by a suspect whom he or she had once arrested . |
| 59 | Normally , a ride in a car , even a police car , would be something of a treat for a child particularly now that a gratifying crowd was beginning to collect to witness his notoriety , drawn by the yards of white tape which sealed off the whole of the south part of the church and by the police cars and the unmistakable black and sinister mortuary van parked between the church wall and the canal . |
| 60 | Earlier a drugs worker had given evidence relating to general drugs policies but Sheriff Archibald Bell QC said it was n't the court 's job to listen to critisism of government agencies , local authorities or individuals who were n't represented . |