Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun pl] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shooter , described in court as a salesman , was caught after a plain-clothes police officer posed as a courier taking the first of the blackmail money to a pick-up point at Edinburgh Airport . |
| 2 | So that , when she went to the headmistress with what I was supposed to have done to her as we were changing after a singles tennis game , of course everyone believed her . |
| 3 | Riots erupted in the Mount Pleasant area of Washington DC , on May 5 , hours after a police officer shot and critically wounded a Hispanic man . |
| 4 | Thomas Muldoon , a consultant , was imprisoned on Feb. 17 for 27 months for conspiracy , for acting in the bribery of a Marines procurement officer , and for violations of interstate commerce , in connection with defence purchasing . |
| 5 | The Plan offers the safety and security of a with-profits endowment assurance , plus the protection of increasing life cover as bonuses are added to your Plan . |
| 6 | POLICE are hunting the killer of a drugs centre counsellor who was found battered to death at her office in Worcester . |
| 7 | In 1736 he received two commissions from Graham : the construction of a nine-feet zenith sector ( the arc of which Graham divided himself ) for the French Académie des Sciences expedition to Lapland under Pierre de Maupertuis to measure the length of a degree of the meridian ; and preparing brass rods and scales for the Royal Society and the Académie for new standards to show the relation between the English yard and the French half-toise . |
| 8 | Barclays ' support of the National Trust continues to include a secondment of a Donations Administration Manager based at the Trust 's head office and the annual 48-page full-colour booklet Information for Visitors with Disabilities , which the bank is sponsoring for the sixth year running in 1991 . |
| 9 | At this time the Personnel Information System Department was formed within the Personnel Directorate and the evolution of a Personnel Information System began . |
| 10 | They included colleagues from Egypt , India , Jordan , Kenya and Malaysia , who were trained in photogeology and remote sensing ; mineral sciences ; mineral separation ; evaluation of clay minerals ; petrology and mineralogy of gemstones ; book , map and desk-top publication ; production of a minerals year book ; and geological cartography . |
| 11 | The conception of a three-years honours course incorporating as many as fifteen weeks teaching practice was the component of the response that produced the most controversy inside the CNAA . |
| 12 | However , the implementation of a GIS user interface involves considerably more than the improvement of the human-computer interaction ( HCI ) process . |
| 13 | With the addition of a structured-parts data base , such as HERMS , this task becomes relatively easy , enhancing the system and providing the designer with a set of very powerful tools . |
| 14 | The report , compiled by Judge Ezra Kama and issued on July 18 , claimed that rioting had broken out at the Temple Mount after the accidental discharge of a police tear-gas canister near a group of Palestinian women . |
| 15 | Under the gloomy strip lighting of a police interrogation cell he might be stripped of his self-possession , and confess . |
| 16 | In addition to the Patents Act 1977 , there are a number of rules dealing with details such as registration procedure , fees and the setting up of a Patents County Court in London . |
| 17 | This experience of combining special make-up with puppets or models , unusual in Smith 's career , nonetheless illustrates the peculiar calling of a special-effects make-up artist , and the variety of skills he ( occasionally she ) needs or has to call on to do the job . |
| 18 | This pursuit of existential self-knowledge , however , does not yield the knowledge of a substanti al self . |
| 19 | The industry commissioner , Martin Bangemann , told reporters yesterday that it was still unclear what line Mr Clinton would take on Airbus , which was the subject of an EC-US subsidy reduction deal last year after a long-running dispute . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The publications will be further enhanced , and we have started work on the preparation of an experts systems version of the guidelines themselves , which is expected to be ready early in the new year . |
| 22 | It is suggested that the framework is sufficient to allow for the definition , within it , of an honours degree course in Electronic Publishing and that the time is ripe for such courses to begin to appear . |
| 23 | In October 1914 Maitland was sent to Belgium in charge of an RNAS balloon detachment for artillery spotting . |
| 24 | Mr Campbell was inspired to set up the fair by the publication last year of an Arts Council pamphlet which gave names and addresses of those producing books in Britain at the present and his fair is concentrating on British work . |
| 25 | Oh it 's a fill in , I thought that was sort of more like a personnel type phrase . |
| 26 | The winners of our Vernons Live Like a Pools Winner contest in September will all be getting the chance to sample the high life . |
| 27 | Nintendo Co has lost a bid to keep competitors from selling devices that modify its video games after the US Supreme Court refused to hear its arguments against an appeals court ruling in favour of Lewis Galoob Toys Inc , which offers Game Genie , which plugs into the Nintendo Entertainment System and cartridges , enabling players to use a simple code to change up to three elements of a game at a time ; the appeals court wrote that because Game Genie does n't cause any permanent change to the Nintendo cartridges — and is dependent upon a cartridge and the Nintendo system in order to operate — it does not usurp Nintendo 's copyright ; Nintendo said Game Genie violates a copyright owner 's exclusive right under the Copyright Act of 1976 to authorise or prepare derivative works . |
| 28 | DIXONS , the electrical retailing giant , looks certain to launch a vigorous campaign for a Monopolies Commission investigation of the £461million bid for the company by Kingfisher . |
| 29 | DIXONS , the electrical retailing giant , looks certain to launch a vigorous campaign for a Monopolies Commission investigation of the £461million bid for the company by Kingfisher . |
| 30 | So the company 's SunSelect subsidiary has launched its Wabi software package , which allows Unix-based computers to run Windows applications software without the need for a Windows operating system . |