Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] a [noun pl] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Prodrive team from Banbury have got their two cars into the top six of this year 's RAC Rally which will be coming to a close in Chester in about an hours time … |
| 2 | Actually going along with a careers officer |
| 3 | The mast combines a tapered fishing rod at the top with an aluminium tube that costs a fiver or so from a metals stockist . |
| 4 | She wanted both of these to some extent but only in a police force whose integrity she could believe in . |
| 5 | When they travelled together in a police car they had driven around in silence . |
| 6 | The legislation embodies numerous illogicalities and anomalies , including the double capital tax charge on gifts made within seven years before death , the taxation of some settlements as if no interest in possession exist when , in fact , they do , and the effect of the ‘ pooling ’ rules for shares etc , which can result in a chargeable gain which greatly exceeds the actual gain on a disposal of a recently acquired holding , eg on a rights issue . |
| 7 | The case was solved when Downey finally walked in to a police station earlier this year and confessed to the killing . |
| 8 | In Herefordshire , education , health , social services and voluntary groups are working together on a Lifestyles Project which enables students leaving college to have a life of their own within the community . |
| 9 | Has my right hon. Friend seen the view of the chief constable of west Yorkshire , Mr. Peter Nobes , that the upsurge in the taking of motor vehicles has probably occurred since the change in the Criminal Justice Act 1988 , which reduced the unauthorised taking of a motor vehicle to a summary offence triable only at a magistrates court ? |
| 10 | Anyone finding them should hand them in at a police station or to any officer he said . |
| 11 | In effect , when section 89 applies , the company if it wishes to issue equity shares for cash , has to do so by a rights issue , as described in chapter 13 or a similar process if it is a private company . |
| 12 | The idea is that an area consisting largely of derelict and/or vacant land should be landscaped and used for a variety of horticultural , leisure and recreational purposes , normally for a six-months period . |
| 13 | Such a word may be useful to a literary man but it throws little light on Green 's intentions except when he uses it in a negative sense ; in one chapter he states a subject was ‘ unpicturesque and consequently not worth an artists attention ’ . |
| 14 | Magnificent as it is , Somerset House was designed not as an arts centre , of course , but as offices for the civil servants whom Mr Heseltine now proposes to eject . |
| 15 | It is not like a pools entry when one can mark an X for no publicity . |
| 16 | In recent years , China has become a close ally and the main arms supplier to Burma , which is already under an arms embargo by the European Community and the United States . |
| 17 | She did not pass through the normal arrivals lounge and was driven away in a police van . |
| 18 | She did not pass through the normal arrivals lounge and was driven away in a police van . |
| 19 | When a person is arrested away from a police station , section 30 says that he should be taken to a police station as soon as practicable unless the investigation requires his presence elsewhere . |
| 20 | Section 32 regulates searches where an arrest is made away from a police station . |
| 21 | A woman 's been assaulted in her car just yards away from a police station . |
| 22 | No one in the shop seems surprised at two men slipping away from a police raid . |
| 23 | The demonstrators stopped their march , a few metres away from a police line deployed in the temple 's front square . |
| 24 | I 'm not in a police cell . |
| 25 | Just say I 'm not in a babies class at twelve . |
| 26 | Yes , between eight and a half to nine , we just in a dogs life a year , is seven of ours . |
| 27 | Their house was not searched at the time of the dawn raid ; they were not driven away to a police station for questioning . |
| 28 | ‘ What will you have ? ’ he enquired , going over to a drinks table while she tested out the couch and discovered that its appearance of comfort was no lie . |
| 29 | Thick Ethernet uses a DB-15 connector with 15 pins , rather like a games port . |
| 30 | In this box she showed him a long thick green book , a little like an accounts book , with sombre marbled endpapers : |