Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun pl] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | My hon. Friend may have noticed that the Opposition have been floating a similar idea among themselves and discussing again in an internal memorandum the possibility of a luxuries rate of VAT . |
| 2 | But because he turned down an out of court settlement of £10,000 in August , his financial backers , the RCN , now face paying a large share of a costs bill of around £25,000 . |
| 3 | The motive behind this action is usually to reduce the chances of a police check of two on a motor bicycle . |
| 4 | What we were trying to say is there is actually a place and my Right Honourable Friend thinks that there is and indeed so do I , for people to contribute to the problem of policing in their locality who have n't necessarily for one reason or another and my Noble Friend Lord Whitelaw said , decided not to erm be on the police authority , maybe they have n't had time , maybe there has n't been their , their particular but nevertheless they do know and they do care about their locality and they have got a er er a contribution to make and we think that that would actually improve the local the police authorities , provided that they are not in an overwhelming position and that is the reason why we 've suggested that eight erm t er , er , er o of a police authority of sixteen , eight should be councillors in the majority , five should be independents and three should be er er er magistrates and My Lords and then of course the complaint was ah , but then some people may not be properly represented and the number ought to be larger . |
| 5 | Dictionaries are the results of a lexicographers analysis of a language . |
| 6 | But economic success may not be the only benefit of a martial-arts way of life : Yukiso Yamamoto , a famous aikidoist , found it helped his marriage too . |
| 7 | Plastic knitting needles were scrounged and a series of holes slightly smaller than the needles were drilled in one end of an 8″ length of 4″ diameter pipe . |
| 8 | Such beliefs are very difficult to change , but once changed , may have a massive knock-on effect in the rest of an individuals framework of reference . |
| 9 | I mean it seemed to me that the whole concept of an Arts Centre of that stature and calibre on campus was simply marvellous — not unique , but of a very remarkable concept — and I became , as you say , Chairman of the Gardener Centre through Aisa Briggs ' persuasion . |
| 10 | The standard cruise power setting of 18,500 feet equates to a TAS of 260 knots for a dry-tanks range of 300 nm . |
| 11 | Mrs Cynthia Jarrett died during a police search of her home in October 1985 , as did a five-year-old boy , John Shorthouse , when a police gun went off accidentally during a search of his home . |
| 12 | Do it with money , get erm about a pounds worth of pennies , |
| 13 | The crowd were streaming away , muttering about a Rovers run of one win in 11 matches , when Birch hit a hopeful 30-yarder with the match 45 seconds into injury-time . |
| 14 | Meanwhile , Powersoft Corp is to interface its PowerBuilder 3.0 environment with a Windows version of Encina , allowing users to build PowerBuilder PC clients for Encina-based distributed OLTP environments . |
| 15 | But with a price-earnings ratio of 62 using next year 's official earnings forecast , the company 's shares are hardly cheap . |
| 16 | The increase in robbery was 9 per cent. , compared with a police total of 62 per cent . |
| 17 | Botica 's scintillating running earned him the Man of the Match Award and he ended with a points haul of 18 with seven goals and a try when he swooped and fly-kicked on a wayward Northern pass which had gone to ground 40 yards out . |
| 18 | She was always clutching a fistful of sweets or biting into a between-meals snack of bread and condensed milk or scraping out bowls in which Aunt Margaret had mixed cake . |
| 19 | For example , if you had started a savings plan in 1900 for £1 per month at 8% interest you would receive £249,033.53 in 1993 with an earnings ratio of 22214.83% ! |
| 20 | The first was an 87-year old widow with an OBS score of eight , living on her own in a local authority flat ; she had very poor mobility , was subject to falls , and had an increasing tendency to incontinence ; she could not manage her own personal care nor the care of her home . |
| 21 | The second was also an 87-year old widow with an OBS score of eight , and living alone in her own house . |
| 22 | The third person was an 81-year old widow , again with an OBS score of eight , living alone in her own house . |
| 23 | In the children older than 12 months a respiratory rate of >=60/min; alone was the best discriminatory sign , with an odds ratio of 5.1 ( 1.19 to 22.1 ) and an overall accuracy of 70% . |
| 24 | The main production warehouse area runs to 54,400 sq ft with an eaves height of over 20 feet offering a clear span of 120 feet . |
| 25 | One of the last speeches that the Conference heard was a very emotional speech from a delegate from , Russia , within a winds breath of Chernobyl . |
| 26 | The Chesterfield Races were held within a stones throw of Sheepbridge & Brimington , and this is an original GC poster from the year 1911 when the fare from Penistone was two shillings and sixpence . |
| 27 | The enclosed manual is chock-a-block with plane and armaments information , but is poorly written from a users point of view , and appeared to be the same manual as for the Amiga product ( a command summary card for the PC is enclosed , but the documentation remains poorly written and even confusing ) . |
| 28 | duplicating VHS PAL copies from a 1″ master of 150 minutes ' duration , |
| 29 | Superintendent Cyril Donnan , a member of the group , said : ‘ From a police point of view , this is good news . |
| 30 | You can access a pop-up calculator , a notepad facility that can be called up each time you execute the program and , from a reviewers point of view the most appealing , you can access the manual at any time during the running of the program . |