Example sentences of "[noun pl] of a [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even though this is a DOS program is has many of the characteristics of a Windows user-interface — drop down lists , dialog boxes and so on — and it is very easy to use with a mouse . |
| 2 | On Jan. 8 the Azapo-linked Azanian National Liberation Army ( AZANLA ) bombed the offices of a promotions company involved in the South African tour of the United States musician Paul Simon . |
| 3 | In the past eight years , some 5,400 police officers have been freed for operational policing duties by civilianising posts which do not require the powers or skills of a police officer , representing an efficiency gain of around £100 million per year . |
| 4 | Conflict : Once bankers have a direct/indirect stake in the activities of a securities affiliate , investment advice to customers will no longer be impartial . |
| 5 | But it has always been recognised that , where individuals desire that services of a special kind which , though not within the obligations of a police authority , can most effectively be rendered by them , should be performed by members of the police force , the police authorities may ( to use an expression which is found in the Police Pensions Act 1890 ) ‘ lend ’ the services of constables for that purpose in consideration of payment . |
| 6 | Another binary is created here , for we became separated in our communitas of spontaneity from the rigid belief systems and certainties of a police structure rooted in language , law , and custom . |
| 7 | Perhaps one of the greatest advantages of a systems viewpoint has been to cement the branches of physical geography more closely and therefore to make what Walton ( 1968 ) characterized as the unity of the physical environment a more realistic prospect . |
| 8 | The packs are being introduced to help the authority meet the needs of a Patients Charter . |
| 9 | These include snow and ice hazards , where impacts on transport and the need to plan road salting or gritting strategies are obvious ( see Perry et al. 1986 for the beginnings of a GIS approach ) . |
| 10 | By the summer of 1967 Birmingham had the beginnings of an arts laboratory , partly masterminded by the future It music editor , Mark Williams , who was street-selling the paper to supplement a meagre income as a trainee advertising account executive in Solihull . |
| 11 | Can the Prime Minister say also whether he has encouraged discussion of the establishment in the new democracies of a payments union similar to that which played such an important part in western Europe 's recovery after the second world war ? |
| 12 | This is very bureaucratic in terms of an organisations administration , but does establish the positive ‘ right to be informed ’ , which is more meaningful than mere ‘ access ’ rights . |
| 13 | ‘ There were some strands of a drugs story in California but the reporters could n't link it to smuggling from South America , which was the obvious line of enquiry . |
| 14 | When one of the most energetic spokesmen for applied science in nineteenth-century Britain , Lyon Playfair , addressed the members of a mechanics institute in 1853 , he unashamedly declared that ‘ science is a religion and its philosophers are the priests of nature . ’ |
| 15 | First I believe if we are going to seek a broader approach to the problems of law and order , I feel we need a broader electorate than the existing members of a police authority . |
| 16 | Wearing his very best clothes and shoes , he had played all alone in the pouring rain while she and a balding detective discussed important business behind the steamy windows of a police car . |
| 17 | Some companies incur unnecessary underwriting costs , presumably because of a lack of appreciation of the mechanics of a rights issue … . |
| 18 | One advantage of the correction of twice the number of degrees off track , is that it produces the two equal sides of an isosceles triangle . |
| 19 | Dictionaries are the results of a lexicographers analysis of a language . |
| 20 | We must wait no for the results of a police complaint . |
| 21 | The answer may turn out to be that the main results of university education for which intrinsic value can reasonably be claimed — such as the activity of critical thought — are included as main elements in the educational process itself , so that it is pointless to go on putting essential questions off by starting with questions about the value of the results of an Arts education . |
| 22 | He said they were the self-indulgent ramblings of a patches-on-the-elbow peasant , and who the hell did he think he was anyway ? |
| 23 | His pastry has the makings of a vrai maître . |
| 24 | The motive behind this action is usually to reduce the chances of a police check of two on a motor bicycle . |
| 25 | Indeed , he had enjoyed his three score years and ten twice over before he thought it necessary to engage the regular services of a sports correspondent . |
| 26 | It 's heartening to realise that you have taken the Sinead interview seriously and not just dismissed it totally as the meanderings of a bonkers woman . |
| 27 | Thousands of pounds worth of antiques are filling the cells of a police station while officers try to find out whether they were stolen . |
| 28 | Shareholders will be asked to renew the authority of the Directors to allot and issue the Ordinary Share capital in the Company and to renew , until the Annual General Meeting in 1994 , the authority not to apply the strict statutory pre-emption provisions in the events of a Rights Issue or in any other issue up to an aggregate of 5 per cent of the issued Ordinary Share Capital as at 31 December 1992 . |
| 29 | Clamp it between the two parts of an algae magnet and sink it to the bottom of the tank . |
| 30 | ICI fell 42p to 1076p ahead of Thursday 's figures , accompanied by rumours of a rights issue . |