Example sentences of "[noun] a [adj] [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the gateway to the dock a black sports saloon had passed across a junction , unnerving her , but she doubted it had been Rory 's . |
| 2 | We now have in place a new estates officer for Cherry Hinton er can I ask that that there is a special report brought to the housing committee er before the summer recess on the possible solutions to the problems that have been identified ? |
| 3 | While Microsoft Corp rolled out Bill Gates to demo a slick-looking Windows NT , Univel Inc admitted that UnixWare is not as elegant as Windows and probably wo n't even come near Windows NT in look and feel . |
| 4 | Another enchanting piece in the same book , ‘ Chiome d'oro ’ , is described as a ‘ Canzonetta a due voci Concertata da duoi Violini Chitarone o Spinetta ’ ; the voices duet ( mostly in parallel thirds ) over an ostinato bass , each of their five strophes being introduced by one of three ritornelli for the two violini over the same ostinato . |
| 5 | At the 1836 festival a disguised police officer saw ‘ … two men , with an effigy of a man stuffed and coloured red , holding it in front of the bull . |
| 6 | In recent years a major balance-of-payments crisis had been prevented only by assistance from foreign governments and loans from multinational institutions ( particularly the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank ) . |
| 7 | Officials were forced to step in to calm the pair as they rowed on board a British Airways flight to a summit in Ottowa , Canada . |
| 8 | In these cases a Senior Police Officer has ‘ first read ’ of any papers and all other personnel involved have been required to enter into an undertaking to respect the security of the information . |
| 9 | Within fifty minutes a Metropolitan Police helicopter swung in across the fields , guided by the radio of the squad car , to deposit on the road behind the cars a small , bird-like man called Dr Barnard , the Chief Explosives Officer of the Met , a man who , thanks to the bomb outrages of the IRA in mainland Britain , had examined more explosion scenes than he would have wished . |
| 10 | In October a public utilities commission was established to provide a legal framework for a programme of privatization , and to oversee the services provided by state enterprises targeted for sale to the private sector . |
| 11 | In the UK a Joint Exchanges Committee ( JEC ) was established in 1982 by London 's futures and options exchanges . |
| 12 | In fact , London qualified ambulance workers are being offered £12,100 , while to get anywhere near £25,000 a Metropolitan police constable would have to be putting in a huge amount of overtime — the annual pay of a PC with three years ' experience is £12,756 . |
| 13 | OFFER unhappy customers a proper complaints system and conciliation service . |
| 14 | Somehow among the chaos of coffee cups and a snowstorm of phonecalls and paper , she and Francis and a cheerfully unreliable string of volunteers threw together every month a gay arts magazine . |
| 15 | are reasonably senior , and the great thing is once they do you one favour that 's it , and it 's better because rather than have , for example a junior police officer , who has no idea of covering his tracks |
| 16 | There are also enjoyable cruises along the River Arun and in August a lively arts festival takes place . |
| 17 | Moxon informed the embassy by radio , and halfway up Edgware Road a Metropolitan Police Rover closed up behind them . |
| 18 | Heaven knows whether he has it in him to take on the legacy of Melvyn Bragg in the 21st century , but he will give Artrageous ! the hip image a youth-oriented arts programme needs to convey . |
| 19 | In the press-box a tired sports correspondent finished his report with the words ‘ Attendance , 6,000 ’ . |
| 20 | I think the number of er er ex I think the fact that this is merely an exception a major exceptions policy that deals only with exceptional cases and the the Humberside structure plan refers to possibly once or twice over a planned period erm might er indicate it 's not intended to open to subvert section fifty four A. |
| 21 | Although for a majority of employees a protected rights contract is usually likely to offer a higher return , there are certain limitations and the accepted wisdom seems to be that the older the employee and the larger the transfer value , the more attractive a section 32 buy-out becomes . |
| 22 | At the same time a determined police search for Terry Place began in the area down by the river . |
| 23 | It 's the first time a leading drinks company has lent its weight to such a campaign . |