Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun pl] [noun] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea of a parents charter is not new ; what is new is the brazenness with which the Government play fast and loose , spending taxpayers ' money on party political propaganda . |
| 2 | Every time he went into one of those phone-booths , he had a mental image of something going wrong , of a faster-than-usual trace , of a plain-clothes policeman being only a few yards away , taking the alarm on his personal radio and walking up to the phone-booth . |
| 3 | But within a minute , any hopes of a Spurs recovery were ended , when the outstanding Roy Keane scored Forest 's second , thus securing their victory . |
| 4 | Given the risk associated with the possibility that the market price may fall below the subscription price the timing of a rights issue is extremely important . |
| 5 | Kipnis and Tsang ( 1984a ) argued that the usual relationship between spot and futures prices during the life of a futures contract is as shown in Fig. 7.3 . |
| 6 | For the enthusiast , making a copy of a games program is more fun than playing the game itself . |
| 7 | If extended , this means that talk of a citizens charter is utter nonsense . |
| 8 | The obvious best measure of a machines performance is how well it performs the tasks you bought it for . |
| 9 | Polarisation means there will be an end to the practice of claiming to be an independent financial intermediary when in fact 80–90 per cent of a firms policies are set up with a parent organisation . |
| 10 | The document on the formation of a customs union was not unanimously agreed . |
| 11 | Negotiations on the establishment of a customs union were ahead of schedule , and the Commission was forecasting that the union could come into effect by 1967 , three years earlier than originally planned . |
| 12 | Those worthy of a runners-up slot are over the page , but this is the car that 's second to none — the Bentley Turbo R |
| 13 | The advantage of a Loans Fund is that it facilitates the authority 's management of debt . |
| 14 | A shot of a police station was used to accompany a voice-over commentary that " some CID men take bribes " ; for two and a half seconds , the officer could be identified in the film as he walked down the station steps . |
| 15 | A man whose name was linked to the killer of a police informer was found murdered at his home in Chapel Street , Stroud , Glos , early yesterday . |
| 16 | THREE men arrested after the IRA bombing of a Warrington gas works and shooting of a police officer were today further remanded in custody until April 22 at London 's Arbour Square Magistrates Court . |
| 17 | The discipline of a police state was what he had grown up with , what suited his talents best . |
| 18 | I lay there , half crying and pretending not to be hurt , as Charlie continued to pace , flinging flowered clothes into the street below and discussing the possibility of a police force being set up to arrest and imprison rock guitarists who bent their knees while they played . |
| 19 | The money side of a clergy family is terribly difficult . |
| 20 | News chief Stewart Purvis said : ‘ Talk of a ratings collapse is nonsense . ’ |
| 21 | But in the High Court , Parker LJ has stated that whilst the creation of an admissions policy is a matter of discretion for the LEA itself , that policy must enable consideration to be given to exceptional cases and therefore should not be too rigid . |
| 22 | JASON Livingston has vowed to continue the fight to clear his name after his appeal against a drugs ban was rejected . |
| 23 | The view of Keynes ( 1930 ) , Hicks ( 1946 ) and Houthakker ( 1968 ) is that the usual situation for a futures market is one of normal backwardation , that is , F t < E ( S T ) . |
| 24 | One of the quandaries for a CHS owner is how to get top performing sails without incurring a CHS penalty . |
| 25 | Anchor 's first application for a drinks licence was refused in December . |
| 26 | ‘ To paint Darlington as a jobs blackspot is not just factually wrong , it is also very damaging to the work the council and I are doing to attract new investment . ’ |
| 27 | The weakness of TANU as a communications channel was well known . |
| 28 | AN IRA terrorist who claims he was involved in more than a dozen killings while acting as a police informer was arrested yesterday . |
| 29 | ‘ He used to say that the first obligation as a sports writer was not to be in the least boring ; that you had to try and retain the excitement of the event in your writing — without taking liberties with the truth or manufacturing drama . ’ |
| 30 | As a QANTAS flight was due to come through the following day , they hoped that Koepang W/T would be on the air before their arrival at Timor . |