Example sentences of "[noun sg] on a [noun pl] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The emphasis needs to be on alleviating the problems of day-to-day administration , which can exert a disruptive effect on a personnel department because of the large amounts of work created for short amounts of time . |
| 2 | One , a twenty five year old woman , appeared before magistrates in Dursley this afternoon charged with attempted grevious bodily harm on a police seargeant . |
| 3 | After discussing the problem of defining the return on a futures position , the distribution of futures returns is considered . |
| 4 | The actual rate of return on a futures position depends both on whether the position is long or short , and on the amount of margin that has to be paid . |
| 5 | Next , the issue of whether the return on a futures contract includes a risk premium is examined . |
| 6 | The arithmetic return on a futures contract might be expressed as the change in the price of the future during the period ( F t +1 ; - F t ) , divided by the initial investment ( I t ) . |
| 7 | In consequence , it is not possible to define a rate of return on a futures contract , and some other type of analysis must be used which does not require the use of the sum invested . |
| 8 | Three men have been jailed for a total of eighteen and a half years for a violent robbery on a jewellers shop . |
| 9 | Three men have been jailed for a total of eighteen and a half years for a violent robbery on a jewellers shop . |
| 10 | Speaking at his home at James Street , Falkirk , Graeme explained that before the incident , he had worked for a short spell on a YTS course with ScotRail , before taking a job as a gardener . |
| 11 | Remembering that anything that bodes to threaten concentration in wood-machining is a prime risk , let us consider a router cutter revolving at anything up to 24,000rpm sitting midway between 12 highly unstably-sprung devices whose proper purpose in life is the support of wet laundry on a clothes line . |
| 12 | Since the issue price can be fixed so that it is virtually impossible for the rights price to become negative , companies which pay underwriting commission on a rights issue are making an expensive ex gratia payment . |
| 13 | Comparisons are with restated figures to reflect the acquisition of Advanced Telecommunications Corp on a pooling-of-interests basis on December 1992 . |
| 14 | Years of moving from one home to another , having meals cooked for you , never having to think twice about leaving lights on or taps dripping is hardly the best preparation for surviving in a bedsit on a YTS wage of £29.50 a week ( trainees do n't qualify for income support ) . |
| 15 | SOCCER star Darron McDonough , Kevin Keegan 's first signing for Newcastle United , is to stand trial on a drugs charge . |
| 16 | Det Chief Insp John Stoddart described the brick-throwing as a callous , premeditated attack on a police officer who was acting in the public 's interest . |
| 17 | On Jan. 6 the government signed a peace agreement with Tuareg rebels , whose uprising had begun with an attack on a police station in June 1990 and led to the imposition of a state of emergency in the north of the country [ see pp. 37703 ; 37800 ] . |
| 18 | At end-January four policemen and two re-compas were killed in an attack on a police station . |
| 19 | Four members of the IRA were shot dead by soldiers on Feb. 16 after an attack on a police station at Coalisland ; another two men were injured . |
| 20 | A further 40 Sendero guerrillas were said to have been killed for the loss of three policemen dead and 20 wounded on Sept. 27 during an attack on a police post in Nuevo Progreso , San Martin department in the Upper Huallaga valley , the country 's major cocaine producing area , a Sendero stronghold . |
| 21 | The fighting had erupted after the rebels had launched an attack on a police post at Bang Wang Nua , in the Sanakham district of Vientiane province . |
| 22 | You lean out of a corner on a trials bike to keep the tyre biting . |
| 23 | I went back to the country earlier this year on a human-rights delegation , with no political affiliations . |
| 24 | Take the siren on a police car . |
| 25 | A BURGLAR who left his snarling rottweiler behind when he fled from the law launched a midnight raid on a police station and nicked it back . |
| 26 | On Dec. 13 , 1989 , a State Security court in Erzincan sentenced to death Adil Can for his part in a raid on a police station in Gumushane 's Siran district . |
| 27 | Tensions in Tbilisi were already running high after activists from the Society of St Ilya the Righteous ( one of the organizations in the Round Table ) had ransacked Georgia 's KGB headquarters on the night of Sept. 17-18 , in protest at the detention of one of their number on suspicion of taking part in a raid on a police station . |
| 28 | The three Baltic Prime Ministers , Gediminas Vagnorius ( Lithuania ) , Ivars Godmanis ( Latvia ) and Edgar Savisaar ( Estonia ) , meeting in Tallinn on Sept. 24 , reached agreement on a customs union to allow free trade between the three states , and to guarantee equal rights for Baltic entrepreneurs and visa-free travel between the three states . |
| 29 | The purchase of a call option on a futures contract gives the owner the right to acquire a long position in the futures contract at a set price ( the exercise or striking price ) during ( or at the end of ) a specified time period . |