Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] a [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mast combines a tapered fishing rod at the top with an aluminium tube that costs a fiver or so from a metals stockist . |
| 2 | She wanted both of these to some extent but only in a police force whose integrity she could believe in . |
| 3 | When they travelled together in a police car they had driven around in silence . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She did not pass through the normal arrivals lounge and was driven away in a police van . |
| 10 | She did not pass through the normal arrivals lounge and was driven away in a police van . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Section 32 regulates searches where an arrest is made away from a police station . |
| 13 | A woman 's been assaulted in her car just yards away from a police station . |
| 14 | No one in the shop seems surprised at two men slipping away from a police raid . |
| 15 | The demonstrators stopped their march , a few metres away from a police line deployed in the temple 's front square . |
| 16 | Yes , between eight and a half to nine , we just in a dogs life a year , is seven of ours . |
| 17 | Their house was not searched at the time of the dawn raid ; they were not driven away to a police station for questioning . |
| 18 | Thick Ethernet uses a DB-15 connector with 15 pins , rather like a games port . |
| 19 | FALLEN tycoon Asil Nadir was arrested in London yesterday during a police inquiry into missing company funds . |
| 20 | FILM star Sylvester Stallone paid £12,500 yesterday for a police box described as Dr Who 's original Tardis . |
| 21 | Woollen pile rugs of this type may be woven in grades of up to 360-line , usually with a ¼″ pile ( ½ cm ) ; pure silk pieces start at 120-line and may be much finer , depending on the requirements of the design . |
| 22 | Erm I know there had been occasion when we had people sleeping on the the stairway and you know , I think occasionally and but I think sometimes that was maybe somebody got home from a blues party , and had too much to drink or something , and they came into the warm , the heat w from the the downstairs flat , er k comes up on the stairwell , and I know there was someone sleeping there . |
| 23 | Ancient Egyptians being carried home from a drinks party . |
| 24 | For example , a drunken woman was brought into the station one night after assaulting a policewoman and using very abusive language , something to be expected from gougers , but was allowed home uncharged after spending a night in the cells : she was even allowed to leave early enough in the morning to avoid all but the milkman from seeing her arrive home in a police vehicle . |
| 25 | It was almost a pleasure to deal with a tantrum from Weenie , and a positive relief to be sent home in a police car . |
| 26 | One river close to a pharmaceuticals factory was liberally laced with painkillers . |
| 27 | This allows competitors to fight under virtually the same rules as their full-contact brothers , but strikes and kicks are judged more on a points system , points being awarded for perfection of technique rather than for pounding a competitor into the ground or knocking him out . |
| 28 | Father Barnes had gone , escorted home by a police constable . |
| 29 | we 're go somewhere with a darts board |
| 30 | A telex is only a message sent electronically along a communications cable and translated into type on a piece of paper at the receiving end . |