Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun pl] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Operatives may be produced who are , to quote Mr Leslie Kemp , the 1983 chairman of the CITB , ’ general handymen , expensively trained by the taxpayer , turning up on site and giving the services of a jack-of-all-trades and master of none ’ . |
| 2 | Archaeologists have been recreating the bronze age cremation of a women and child — by burning a dead sheep . |
| 3 | Archaeologists have been recreating the bronze age cremation of a women and child — by burning a dead sheep . |
| 4 | This event also marked the formal opening of a sports and culture week for primary school pupils , as well as an annual town trade exhibition in which LASMO took part . |
| 5 | In retirement he showed new skills as the owner of a sweets and tobacco shop in Kirkby Lonsdale . |
| 6 | Mr Symington was on the board of a savings and loan , as Mr Goddard 's advertisements allege , but he resigned in 1984 when the thrift was still in good shape . |
| 7 | May I support what my hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham , Selly Oak ( Mr. Beaumont-Dark ) has just said in urging the Government to give serious consideration to the establishment of a Securities and Exchange Commission in Britain . |
| 8 | It is sufficient here to treat as a futures or option contract any contract whose terms contemplate future performance and which is made on or under the rules of a market cleared by a clearing house . |
| 9 | Czechoslovakian ecologists are launching a campaign to prevent large areas of national park land in Slovakia 's Tatra mountains from being developed by an American company as a sports and tourism complex . |
| 10 | E&Y paid $400m to the Resolution Trust Corporation and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation at the end of last year , as full and final settlement of any outstanding claims relating to its work as a savings and loan auditor ( see ACCOUNTANCY , January , p 15 ) . |
| 11 | But remember that dreams and ambitions change as you get older , by his forties your high-flier may have turned into a slippers and spaniel man , and who knows , by then you may want to be PM . |
| 12 | The Teifi Valley Sports and Leisure Centre Management Committee is a group which renovated a disused woollen mill and turned it into a sports and leisure centre . |
| 13 | This would require far greater funding by the parties to Cites for an investigations and ivory unit . |
| 14 | As a result , he accelerated the Centre 's latest move into the SIP building , a former scientific instruments factory on the fringe of industrial Geneva and near to the opera house , which the city had acquired for an arts and exhibition complex . |
| 15 | Probably Tolkien would have accepted the thesis ( not unfamiliar to medievalists ) that all great works of fiction should contain a kernel scene or a ‘ lyric core ’ : to use the terminology of Marie de France , whose ‘ Breton lays ’ Tolkien imitated in ‘ Aotrou and Itroun ’ , 1945 , every conte or story comes from a lai or song . |
| 16 | At least once a week I also like to sit in a Magistrates or Crown Court observing different dramas of life — and sometimes death . |
| 17 | The provisions which permit the confiscation of the literary proceeds of crime may do little to prevent this kind of journalism , which is arguably more repugnant than the profits made by offenders who may merely be pawns in a ratings or circulation war . |
| 18 | Alejandro Guzman , known as Tito , and Ademar Lima Lobo , who were allegedly two of the country 's most wanted drug traffickers , were arrested in a police and army drug raid , along with 54 others , on Dec. 9 in the eastern department of Beni . |
| 19 | Look up 1902 in an annals or book of dates and events , and make a list of ten other events or publications ( historical , artistic , literary , philosophical , musical , scientific , etc. ) from 1902 . |
| 20 | subject them to a drugs and alcohol test |
| 21 | ‘ did cause wasteful employment of the police ’ This point means that the offender actually caused police time to be wasted in one of the three ways listed at point 4 , i.e. falsely reporting a possible offence , danger to a person(s) or property or that the reporter had material information . |
| 22 | ‘ We subscribed to a Customs and Excise newsletter to keep pace with the changes — and things were happening so fast they even brought out a special Christmas edition . |
| 23 | Both Institutes were replying to a Customs & Excise consultation paper . |
| 24 | From St. Albans , Harpenden , Leighton Buzzard and Luton came many to a Sports and Recreation Afternoon for Active Retired at Luton Regional Sports Centre . |
| 25 | Drugs were also seized and police say it was part of a long term campaign , codenamed Operation Lucy and targeted on a guns and drug network . |
| 26 | Interestingly , this work drew to a large extent upon the highly-theorised use of psychoanalysis and deconstruction ; it emerged around the same time that the feminist anti-pornography movement , on a grassroots and activist basis , was also seriously problematising our culture 's sight of women 's bodies . |
| 27 | NO-one was hurt when terrorists launched a mortar bomb attack on a police and Army station at Crossmaglen , in South Armagh . |
| 28 | One of the things we are doing during International Women 's Celebrations is we 're putting on a jobs and training opportunities fair , in Templar Square in the middle of Cowley Centre erm on the fifteenth of March between ten and four , so any women who want to know how they can get back to work , or what training opportunities there are available , are welcome to come . |
| 29 | Re-released by Old Gold in 1988 , the record sold well but was only aimed at a collectors and oldie jukebox market . |
| 30 | A UN military observer , Colonel Walter van Dijk , who was with the convoy when it was stopped at a police and army barricade in Serbia yesterday , said the fate of the convoy had been ‘ resolved at the highest level ’ . |