Example sentences of "[conj] a heavy [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He also confirms that a heavy goods vehicle has just been loaded and is about to leave for another customer in Tamworth .
2 Since martial law was imposed , with army checkposts everywhere , and a heavy plainclothes police presence , protests last only a few moments .
3 Sometimes I stick to ‘ driver — ’ well , I have a cab ( though you 'd better not be talking to a real musher ) and a Heavy Goods Vehicle licence .
4 But the essence of Commando organisation was its flexibility , and a Heavy Weapons Troop , for example , might be strengthened from its established two Vickers machine-guns and two 3 inch ( 76mm ) mortars to twice that number for a particular operation .
5 At a further party congress held in Rosenheim , Bavaria , on Jan. 13-14 , 1990 , there was internal conflict and a heavy police presence as the party agreed its new programme for the immediate reunification of Germany with its capital in Berlin .
6 On the following day there were further protests but a heavy police presence prevented renewed outbreaks of serious fighting .
7 The march was allowed by police to pass into the vast Manezh Square beside the Kremlin walls after it had overspilled the intended venue for its concluding rally , outside the Moscow city soviet building on Gorky Street , but a heavy police cordon prevented the marchers from entering nearby Red Square .
8 FRESH calls for a bypass were made last night after a heavy goods vehicle hit the underside of a railway bridge in Cleveland .
9 Traffic lights throughout Seaham were thrown into chaos yesterday after a heavy goods vehicle hit a post on the Times Inn bank , bringing down an electricity cable .
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