Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] [noun pl] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result of a recent Monopolies and Mergers Commission decision , we are now allowed to sell proprietary contact lens solutions . |
| 2 | The addition of a user-definable Thresholds and Gauges feature — as specified in the IEEE 802.1F standard — enables network management to be customised . |
| 3 | The ethics committee of the US Senate on Feb. 27 concluded its investigation into the conduct of five senators — the so-called " Keating Five " — accused of having had improper links with Charles Keating , the owner of a failed savings and loan institution . |
| 4 | The remaining locations should be using the new system by October this year which will then see the completion of a major personnel and data processing project which will have taken two and a half years to plan and implement . |
| 5 | The demonstration went ahead on March 28 amid high tension , and in the face of a huge police and troop presence . |
| 6 | If the explanation of a high standards and routines specification as symptomatic of the desire to be satisfied is correct , one would expect some relationship between this measure and answers to the ‘ Do you like housework ? ’ question . |
| 7 | A 36-day strike by workers in the mining and metallurgical industry over wages and conditions was ended by an agreement on July 23 , 1990 , which provided for a substantial wages and conditions package , payment during the strike and a one-off cash payment . |
| 8 | She then departs that day for a 15-night Mediterranean cruise , returning to the Mersey on September 29 and leaving that day for a 14-night Canaries and North Africa cruise which terminates at Southampton on October 13 . |
| 9 | Obviously , even in a statistically developed country it is an almost insurmountable task to achieve completeness in reporting spontaneous abortions , since an early miscarriage , particularly in the first weeks of pregnancy , can be easily mistaken as a late menses and some spontaneous abortions may not seem sufficient cause to some women for them to seek medical attention . |
| 10 | But to maintain its market position as a leading systems and software house , it would need to persuade about 70 per cent of its key employees in the north London locations to relocate with the company . |
| 11 | While there has been contraction more recently , New Zealand Railways , almost uniquely , use the magnificence of some of their stations as a public relations and marketing feature . |
| 12 | Elemental ( aminoacid based ) diets were initially introduced as primary treatment of active Crohn 's disease because of their hypoallergenicity , because it was considered that whole protein may act as a dietary antigens and increase the immune stimuli to the gut . |
| 13 | Jean-François Lyotard provides a theoretical grounding to Sontag 's distinction between a modernist hermeneutics and a postmodern aesthetics of sensation in his counterposition of ‘ discourse ’ and ‘ figure ’ . |
| 14 | Sear , K ( 1983 ) The correlation between A Level grades and degree results in England and Wales , Higher Education , 12 : pp 609–619 . |
| 15 | The treaty , with a 10-year durations and which required ratification by both parliaments , followed that confirming the Oder-Neisse border between the two countries signed in November 1990 [ see p. 37867 ] . |
| 16 | During his period in England from 1831 to 1832 , in what was to be the first of several such sojourns , Louis-Napoleon met his uncle Joseph — only to be received with a glacial politeness and a lecture on his Italian escapade . |
| 17 | I mean I , my sister used to have one and she said you could take it on the motorway and it 'll just keep up a , a very good speed still with a noisy engines and then it just kept going and going and going . |
| 18 | It was because the people were used to that kind of society with a secret police and er government inspectors and sending people out to Siberia and putting |
| 19 | Holly had listened with a chilled politeness and shrugged and turned away on his side for sleep . |
| 20 | Two off-duty prison officers who were also in the minibus were beaten up and then released , but three others who escaped claimed that they had been unable to get help from a nearby police and Army checkpoint . |
| 21 | Well perhaps it 's the shape of the if they go in threes and the other three perhaps approach from a different stairs and it comes up , you know the type I mean ? |
| 22 | This is no longer funny , because , that is what will happen when the recommendations made in a recent Monopolies and Mergers Commission report come into force . |
| 23 | We had proved in a recent elections and even in the general election , that where the pensioners ' movement was strong , the election results were more positive for candidates in support of our aims . |
| 24 | Jameie Geekie , Buckley 's key bowler , and Colin Evans , their young batting hope are both ruled out due to A level studies and that will improve the chances for Chris Lloyd 's Wrexham side , who are in need of a success after falling 19 points behind . |
| 25 | Their advice should probably have been to go down the High Street to a large newsagents and buy one or more magazines devoted to the PC and read up on the subject . |
| 26 | By 1973 the Conservatives had moved to a statutory prices and incomes policy and massive state intervention in industry ; the reorganization of secondary schooling along comprehensive lines proceeded , albeit at a slower pace than under Labour , and the trade union legislation under the Industrial Relations Act was effectively non-operational . |
| 27 | Mr Heath 's U-turn in 1972 , shifting from free-market policies to a statutory prices and incomes policy and state intervention in industry , is a negative example for her . |
| 28 | THE natural tendency to consider the West Germans as better Europeans than ourselves will be severely tested when the EC seeks to complete work on a common monopolies and competition policy in Brussels today . |
| 29 | as I was holding on a particular images and create and then become those energy |
| 30 | The board 's proposals for its future as a voluntary co-operative have been criticised not only by the Scottish dairy trade , but by a recent Monopolies and Mergers Commission report . |