Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [prep] a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In short , local government 's future financial base will have to be a hybrid — either of two or more taxes or of a tax-and-grants kind . |
| 2 | Up to the passing of the new Act , the loan societies recovered money owed to them either by a summons to a Court of Requests or to a Police Court . |
| 3 | These may arise if there are minority shareholders in a company and pre-emption rules apply either under the Articles of Association or under a shareholders ' agreement . |
| 4 | We all knew that the Repubblichini were tools of the Nazis , used as spies and as a police force ; but they did not know us well enough to denounce us as anti-Fascists . |
| 5 | However , the Historic Buildings Council for Scotland has increasingly been able to give some very substantial grants towards churches , ensuring that churches faced with closure because of a repairs crisis have been able to continue in use . |
| 6 | The ‘ Auxiliary ’ section has three jacks : ‘ Tuner ’ , which can be used either for plugging in an electronic tuner or as a non-effects direct out ; ‘ Phones ’ which is self-explanatory ; and ‘ Mastercontrol ’ , a special socket for use with a volume pedal — very useful for electro-acoustics without onboard volume controls , or even violins or mandolins . |
| 7 | She failed , too , to get jobs in boarding kennels and at a vets ' practice . |
| 8 | Traditionally parents , through direct appeals or through a parents ' organisation have provided additional funds for ‘ extras ’ for the children and the school . |
| 9 | At a further ministerial meeting in August and after a heads of government meeting in Grenada in September , the four Windward islands agreed to create a regional constituent assembly to discuss unity plans and to prepare for a referendum to be held in mid-1991 . |
| 10 | As a parish priest he also served as a diocesan representative on the first National Liturgy Commission and as a schools commissioner with the North Riding of Yorkshire in the diocesan office . |
| 11 | To take an extreme illustrative case , one can imagine a situation where broadly similar relationships exist between direct land-users ( pastoralists or peasants ) and other groups and the state , and they develop historically in a steep-sloped area and in a plains area nearby . |
| 12 | There can be no doubt that this sort of help is most valuable for teachers , and where it can not be provided from a curriculum development project itself might in less ambitious form be offered from a teachers ' centre or from a schools library service , although in the latter case the advice on sub-themes and topics would necessarily be tentative rather than prescriptive . |
| 13 | Following a decision to arrest a suspect he must not be interviewed about the relevant offence except at a police station … 11.4 . |
| 14 | This was in four storeys and in a no-frills , prefabricated style that could have been anything-a tax office , a really dull hotel , a leaking hospital doomed never to come fully into service . |
| 15 | Go on to Trecadifor Farm and over a cattle grid . |
| 16 | A limited number of studentships available to UK students and on a fees only basis to EC applicants . |
| 17 | AUSTRALIA is now in its seventh week without domestic air services because of a pilots ' pay dispute which has begun to have a serious impact on the economy and has left Bob Hawke 's Labor government few options for reaching a settlement . |
| 18 | He was sitting his roan horse on this side of the street but down a ways . |