Example sentences of "[noun sg] and a [noun pl] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A DAY on which this newspaper , not untypically , carries reports of a city centre bombing , a knife attack , a police murder and a drugs death might seem an inauspicious occasion to take issue with a judicial speech about the virtues of punishment . |
| 2 | ‘ He did not know a great deal about navigation , although he had enough fuel to get to France , but all he had with him was a holdall with a spare pair of shoes , a sandwich and a sports diary with a map of the world in it . ’ |
| 3 | Other features include a health spa with pre-flight grooming salon offering massage and aromatherapy , a library of more than 5,000 books , a music room , a study and a games room featuring the latest computer technology . |
| 4 | It comes the day after a village post office was held-up at gunpoint and a police officer shot at . |
| 5 | Eleven devices have been found at Europe 's biggest shopping complex and a police chief said last night that more could still be hidden . |
| 6 | The offer was of six new Eagle shares for each Samuelson share or a cash alternative and a rights issue to Eagle shareholders . |
| 7 | At the kerb-side stood an ambulance and a police car . |
| 8 | I was subsequently Chief Constable of the combined Sheffield and Rotherham Police Force which whilst a joint committee , still regarded so very much as serving the two separate authorities and finally I was Chief in a Metropolitan country , with a county council and a police committee and I 'm quite sure that the police were much more sensitive to the needs and the wishes of their local communities when you were sitting at one of those , not necessarily police committee meetings , but the county council meetings , when they discussed the minutes of the police authority . |
| 9 | Between a service organisation and a producer , e.g. between a travel company and a breakfast cereal manufacturer , or a dry cleaner and a clothes manufacturer . |
| 10 | AIl five have been offered the vacancies they wanted : one to be a military policewoman , another a driver , the third to train as an administrative assistant , While the other two are destined to be a staff clerk and a telecommunications operator . |
| 11 | A stone set ring watch and a ladies bracelet watch , two together , ten pounds for them . |
| 12 | two watches again , the designer a watch and a ladies bracelet watch , . |
| 13 | The black car stopped outside the airport building and a police officer opened the door . |
| 14 | Mr Hargreaves , single , a graduate of Bangor University and a fisheries expert , has been a regular visitor to Alaska for the last four years . |
| 15 | The house was just the right size for us ; downstairs , an entrance hall , four rooms , a kitchen and a servants hall ; upstairs , six bedrooms and an attic . |
| 16 | The SEC and CFTC are fighting in the courts over which should regulate ‘ stock-basket ’ products , new financial instruments with a cash security and a futures contract . |
| 17 | I have a 30″ Powerglo tube and a 30″ Aquastar . |
| 18 | The Test Packs also include instructions for the teacher and a Levels Chart . |
| 19 | It comes with 16Mb of RAM , 525Mb disk and a 19″ colour monitor , it is priced at $27,900 . |
| 20 | There is also a free sauna , turkish bath and whirlpool , solarium ( local charge ) , sun terrace , TV room and a games room offering table tennis , billiards and bowling . |
| 21 | They have a formal code of recruitment and selection and a personnel specification for the task of advice worker . |
| 22 | His death provokes an outrage and a police investigation into the shooting . |
| 23 | Items supplied as standard with every computer are Microsoft WinWindows 3.1 , DOS 5.0 , a Microsoft mouse , mouse mat , keyboard and a 14″ SVGA non-interlaced low-radiation monitor . |
| 24 | He needs to sharpen up before the Olympic decathlon trial in Sheffield on June 5 and 6 , when only victory and a points score of 7,850 will guarantee selection . |
| 25 | the dependency on a natural father can be reduced by dependency on an adopted father and a childs dependency in relation to his natural mother is limited to the period between death and adoption . |
| 26 | An RIB ( Rigid Inflatable Boat with a ninety-horsepower outboard engine , capable of nearly forty knots ) races out to meet her with the operations captain and a customs officer on board . |
| 27 | The club had its blazer and badge , a captain and lady captain and an honours board . |
| 28 | He stuck his head out of the manhole and a police car drove over it . |
| 29 | Towards the end of the last century the gaol became a lock-up and a police station , gradually falling into disrepair . |
| 30 | There Televisa owns its four TV networks ( three of them nationwide ) , a cable-TV outfit and a sports newspaper in Mexico City , ten radio stations , three record labels , two soccer teams , a billboard company and Aztec Stadium . |