Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun pl] [noun] [subord] " in BNC.
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1 | This may not fall quite so easily into the category of a communications medium as you see it , but its relevance will be glaringly obvious later . |
2 | He was just as at home behind the wheel of a Sports Car as he was in a Grand Prix car , and his passion for all branches of the sport possible hindered his quest for the world title . |
3 | Thousands of pounds worth of antiques are filling the cells of a police station while officers try to find out whether they were stolen . |
4 | It is not like a pools entry when one can mark an X for no publicity . |
5 | This could be an important consideration for a personnel manager when putting together a cost justification for a system . |
6 | She initially mistook him for a police officer as he was wearing a police-style anorak , white shirt and black tie . |
7 | It was built in 1829–30 , but already by 1844 had been relegated to use as a goods station as railway development speeded ahead . |
8 | ‘ Jones was at the club as a YTS player when I arrived . |
9 | In other words , so far as I am concerned , unless and until we are prepared to deal with this demonstrated cause of inflation and want to do so , we are wasting our time ; and as soon as we want to do so , there is no reason to suppose that there will be any problem or therefore any reason for an incomes policy as defined . |
10 | It 's the sort of question that a man and a woman might very well give different answers to , but it seems to me that there are different sorts of things that erm some women tend to notice , different sorts of ideas that tend to assume prominence in the imaginations of some women , and erm to that extent I think that George Eliot 's sympathy for other people , including people that she does n't actually agree with , is perhaps a characteristic that one might tend to find more in a women novelist than in a male novelist , although I 'm not sure that one can be absolutely dogmatic and say that one would never find a male novelist who could write the way that George Eliot does . |
11 | These references lead to specific paragraphs in a procedures manual where full information is given when necessary . |
12 | It was described in a TReeS pamphlet as ‘ a project set up by Madre de Dios 's indigenous people which aims to combine the best of modern and traditional approaches to health-care , in order to maintain acceptable standards of health throughout the region 's native forest communities ’ . |
13 | Perhaps we might try to think of an ideal university tutorial in an Arts subject as though it were a little world in isolation from everything else . |
14 | B. ‘ That , subject to the passing of Resolution A , before this meeting , the Directors be and they are hereby empowered pursuant to Section 24 of the Companies ( Amendment ) Act 1983 to allot equity securities ( as defined by section 23 of the Companies ( Amendment ) Act 1983 ) for cash pursuant to the authority conferred by such resolution as if sub-section ( 1 ) of the said Section 23 did not apply to any such allotment provided that this power shall be limited to the allotment of equity securities in connection with a rights issue in favour of shareholders and to the allotment ( otherwise than pursuant to a rights issue as aforesaid ) of equity securities up to an aggregate nominal value of IR£1,772,100 . |
15 | Habitual criminals were also required to report once a month to a police station after they were released . |
16 | they took him to a police station where they miraculously found 15g of cannabis . |
17 | Later , we read that ‘ nothing … shall prevent a constable delaying taking a person who has been arrested to a police station if the presence of that person elsewhere is necessary in order to carry out such investigations as it is reasonable to carry out immediately ’ . |
18 | He drove to a Customs depot where it was sealed by Spanish Customs officers . |
19 | You were greeted by senior Iraqi officers who would take you through a maze of corridors to a communications centre where Saddam himself would be sitting and following the progress of the war . |
20 | ‘ What will you have ? ’ he enquired , going over to a drinks table while she tested out the couch and discovered that its appearance of comfort was no lie . |
21 | In addition , even if it does not have a UK office , a non-UK firm nonetheless needs to be authorised for investment business carried on from a non-UK office with customers or counterparties in the UK on a services basis unless the FSA 's overseas person exemption applies ; this indeed also applies to UK firms ( see page 43 below ) . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | WORK should be completed this week on safety measures being put in place on a busy road outside an infants school where a crossing patrol was axed . |
24 | Why should teachers have to submit to an incomes policy when the bosses made a 22.7 per cent . |
25 | ( 3 ) A requirement under this section to provide a specimen of blood or urine can only be made at a police station or at a hospital ; and it can not be made at a police station unless — ( a ) the constable making the requirement has reasonable cause to believe that for medical reasons a specimen of breath can not be provided or should not be required , or ( b ) at the time the requirement is made a device or a reliable device of the type mentioned in subsection ( 1 ) ( a ) above is not available at the police station or it is then for any other reason not practicable to use such a device there , or ( c ) the suspected offence is one under section 4 of this Act and the constable making the requirement has been advised by a medical practitioner that the condition of the person required to provide the specimen might be due to some drug ; but may then be made notwithstanding that the person required to provide the specimen has already provided or been required to provide two specimens of breath . |
26 | He was arrested at 6 a.m. and detained at a police station until his interview began after noon . |
27 | Or Munni , a slum dweller in Delhi , arrested with 11 others and kept overnight at a police station where she was stripped and beaten . |
28 | He had long ago noticed that if you stared at a customs officer when going out through the green channel , the customs officer stopped you . |
29 | Keith Pringle who was shot by a police marksman after a 47-hour siege in Darlington was yesterday said to be in a ‘ stable ’ condition in Middlesbrough General Hospital . |