Example sentences of "[prep] an [noun pl] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Whitney Museum is to take photography seriously : its director , David Ross , has announced the setting up of an acquisitions committee whose job will be to establish a coherent acquisitions policy , mainly by filling gaps in the present collections . |
| 2 | It should also mention that it requires the application of an acquisitions policy which balances the strategic needs of RBGE staff with the longer-term ‘ national heritage ’ aspects included in our statutory objectives . |
| 3 | Developed in this country as an applications generator it has been used to create a data base publishing system of exceptional power . |
| 4 | POLICE are looking for an antiques dealer who mysteriously vanished from his Barnard Castle home last month . |
| 5 | Edward is a private detective hired by an antiques dealer who asked Edward to list all of the valuables in the house . |
| 6 | By an incomes policy I take it that , for the purposes of our discussion , we mean an attempt to influence the value of money by operating directly upon specific prices ; and price of course includes earnings , i.e. the price of a quantity of labour in a particular application . |