Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] an [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it was n't , and he came back and caught me , then I 'd have to fall back on my story as an over-enthusiastic games player . |
| 2 | " Is n't there a case for an official police search ? " |
| 3 | First of all if one looks at the draft advice on the erm regional plan guidance prepared by the Yorkshire and Humberside local planning authorities , they in fact advocate new settlement as an appropriate circumstances , there is not a policy which says that they are not appropriate or are inconsistent with other policy objectives , and I note in that respect that the D O E as Mr Donson said , are mildly supportive of the new settlement in the Greater York area . |
| 4 | The University is trying to raise support for an Equine Sports Medicine Centre , both to pursue research into these ‘ optimal training régimes ’ and to offer a service for judging the fitness of equine athletes . |
| 5 | Checklist for an efficient enquiries procedure |
| 6 | Thorold Mackie was alleged at the High Court in Edinburgh to have used information obtained from a company chairman about an impending profits warning . |
| 7 | At cricket , Leicester Deaf Cricket Club became their local league Division I champions in 1927 , and in 1929 the famous Lancashire and England batsman , Ernest Tydlesley , presented a cricket bat as a trophy for an annual Roses match between Lancashire Deaf and Yorkshire Deaf . |
| 8 | ON the eight o'clock radio news that Monday morning there was a substantial piece about an exciting police chase in Essex — understandably , on a rather lonely road . |
| 9 | Hamish Deans and his son George , who were removed from their positions as chairman and vice chairman at the club in May , were on Wednesday charged with fraud after an eight-month police investigation into the club 's affairs . |
| 10 | His rearrest was upon the recommendation of an independent doctors ' commission . |
| 11 | Way back in December , when we were first rehearsing erm the problems erm we were facing a hundred and seventy compulsory redundancies , the closure of an adult training centre , the closure of an elderly persons ' home , erm the closure of a hostel and a whole range of other quite draconian measures . |
| 12 | Cross-examined by Donald Macfadyen , QC , for the defence , Mr Malcolm read from a note he had written for the firm 's compliance director which said Mackie had asserted he had made no mention of an impending profits warning . |
| 13 | In stressing the ubiquity of the differential principle in all aspects of Russian Formalist thought one runs the risk of implying that the coherence of the theory is the result of an intellectual parti pris , and that the intention on the part of the Formalists was to establish a fixed dogmatic system . |
| 14 | In my respectful submission there could be A , no question that the jury would be discharged and B , in the submission er some er judicial displeasure of an experienced police officer volunteering what any police officer must know is A inadmissible and B not an answer to the question . |
| 15 | So at one end of the scale , the courts upheld a restrictive covenant in the contract of an employee of an international armaments manufacturer called Maxim Nordenfeldt , which extended throughout the world for the whole of the man 's life . |
| 16 | The sheriff 's reply sounded clearly in the hushed corridor , impressing the assembled kids and seeming to confirm Grant 's claim to be part of an official police operation — if any needed convincing after seeing one of the feared Apostles being dragged unconscious into an empty cubicle . |
| 17 | Baz Something dangled absurdly , in the ballooning pants , curly-toed slippers , tiny waistcoat and bulbous turban of an Arabian Nights eunuch . |
| 18 | Part of the function of an external UPS is to smooth out the incoming power , but that can only be done before it reaches the PC 's power supply . |
| 19 | One of Mr Teicher 's first tasks was to write a report in support of an American arms sale to Iran . |
| 20 | In the case of an asymmetric arms race , between a lineage of weapons and the specific antidotes to those weapons , it is the one-to-one correspondences that , over the successive ‘ generations ’ , lead to ever greater sophistication and complexity . |
| 21 | Also surprising , given Bourdieu 's work as an ethnographer in Algeria , is the lack of consideration for the nature of mass consumption as an historical phenomena . |
| 22 | The opposition to Raybestos was unusual in that it involved the formation of an autonomous women 's group , in which up to 30 women became involved . |
| 23 | In July an Indian government report on the February crash of an Indian Airlines Airbus A320 in Bangalore in February 1990 [ see p. 37268 ] found that not enough time had been allowed to enable personal to adapt to changes in aircraft , equipment , maintenance , ground facilities and the training of engineers and pilots . |
| 24 | Almost two years of acrimonious disputes between the Indian Government and the European aircraft manufacturer Airbus Industrie came to an end on Jan. 11 , when a court of inquiry in New Delhi ruled that the crash of an Indian Airlines A-320 Airbus in February 1990 , in which 92 people had died , had been due to pilot error , and not to technical failure , as the Indian authorities had maintained [ see p. 37268 ] . |
| 25 | ‘ All these lead to a decentralisation of an organisation 's activities and the requirement of an interactive communications system . |
| 26 | MONKLANDS District Council became the target of fresh accusations yesterday after it abandoned legal action against the local newspaper that had run a campaign against an alleged jobs-for-the-boys ‘ mafia . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I had already established my own gallery in an old ironmongers in Porthmadog , after realising that there was a market for prints of original paintings . |
| 28 | ULSTER education chiefs are taking a giant hi-tech firm to court to seek more than £1m compensation over an alleged computers bungle . |
| 29 | The film industry and the export of works of art , so far primarily the joint responsibility of the OAL and the Department of Trade and Industry , have long been candidates for transfer to an enlarged arts department . |
| 30 | Although this makes the rules more complex , on the whole the SFA have achieved a fair balance between the needs for investor protection and the need for an efficient futures market . |