Example sentences of "[adv prt] a [adj] [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | HOPES that there will be more interest rate cuts to come sparked off a fresh shares boom yesterday . |
| 2 | By Brian Oliver Ipswich 2 Wolves 1 IPSWICH , clearly suffering from the end-of-season jitters afflicting so many of their promotion rivals , needed an 89th-minute penalty to see off an enterprising Wolves side and extend their Second Division lead to seven points . |
| 3 | A permanent WEU group would set up military units answerable to the WEU , plan possible deployments , and set up a European armaments agency . |
| 4 | In something of an afterthought the Irish News of 15 August 1966 recorded that ‘ a discussion took place on the desirability of holding a convention on civil rights for the purpose of drawing up a civil rights chart ’ . |
| 5 | This set up a Civil Rights Commission empowered to assist blacks to exercise their right to vote . |
| 6 | The only redeeming feature was that he and Shan Hackett had lunch in Monty 's personal mess and ran up a goodly drinks bill which they charged to the teetotal general . |
| 7 | British Gas has been swiftly building up its interests in the new developments to build up a new earnings stream and gain access to supplies . |
| 8 | Stuart King of the Management Training Centre at Kingswood is setting up a new resources centre , but it is far less ambitious . |
| 9 | The Royal Commission on Justice has recommended changes to include curtailing a defendant 's automatic right to be tried by jury and setting up a new appeals procedure . |
| 10 | By storing up a few milliseconds worth of message and then pumping it out in a splurge , several digital phones can operate over a channel that would accommodate only a single analogue one : they merely send out their bursts at different times . |
| 11 | We could hang up a few politicians too. , ‘ There 's that farmer who used a plough with horses . |
| 12 | I assumed you 'd want to know that wreckage of a dinghy was washed up a few miles north of here on the Welsh coast last night . |
| 13 | He opened up a 24.8 seconds advantage over Jackson at the half distance refuelling halt and never looked back on a course which measured just over 190 miles in length . |
| 14 | Labour will set up a Human Rights Division in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office , and require all Britain 's diplomatic posts abroad to appoint an officer to monitor human rights . |
| 15 | We have now set up a Human Rights Committee , properly structured and managed , with a defined budget . |
| 16 | Amnesty called on the government ( which had recently set up a human rights task force and an inquiry into alleged atrocities ) to admit the extent of abuses in the past , including its own role , in order to clear the atmosphere for a fresh approach on human rights observance . |
| 17 | As indicated above , we have now set up a Validated Courses Section within the Assessment Department and ( ) is heading this . |
| 18 | This talented young Liphook rider notched up a runaway experts class victory in the Bognor Regis Club trial at Lavant , near Chichester . |
| 19 | PEP had set up a Post-war Aims Group even before the war began , and within a week of its outbreak had circulated.a draft report on war aims . |
| 20 | This problem overlapped with that of the Public Schools generally , and he had already in the summer secured Cabinet approval for setting up a Public Schools Commission . |
| 21 | The Government set up a Public Schools Commission to investigate the Direct Grant Schools : this brought together the sixty Heads of Direct Grant schools in the Headmasters ' Conference in much the same way as the Taunton Commission had led to the creation of the Conference itself in 1869 . |
| 22 | Prosecution witness Isham Chandra Dutta said he agreed to set up a dummy gems company in Bombay , for a £20,000 fee , which included a mail message centre with false letterheads and invoices . |
| 23 | His task was to set up a dummy gems firm in Bombay . |
| 24 | In the next few months , with British taxpayers ' money , we shall be setting up a national drugs intelligence unit in Czechoslovakia to try to intercept drugs coming overland . |
| 25 | It would set up a National Monuments Commission to care for ancient sites , institute small penalties for vandals who damaged them , and — most important — give the commission a right of purchase if the owner of a scheduled monument wanted to destroy it . |
| 26 | The proposal for National Parks , however , received further support in the Dower report , published in 1945 , and that of the Hobhouse committee , which proposed setting up a National Parks Commission paid for out of public funds . |
| 27 | We will set up a National Qualifications Council to coordinate a single system of academic and vocational courses for 14–19 year olds , and a new Higher Education Standards Council to monitor quality in higher education . |
| 28 | As well as organising conferences and courses the group also helped set up a national awards scheme and backed a number of arts publications . |
| 29 | That is why it is so important that , as one of the conclusions of the Maastricht settlement , it was agreed that the 12 countries should set up an organisation loosely known as Europol whose first job would be to set up a Europeanwide drugs intelligence unit among the Twelve , which should lead to a greater level of co-operation with our continental partners to stop Ecstasy and other drugs coming into the country . |
| 30 | We 've got to set up a proper complaints procedure , so that people know how to complain about Social Services , although I doubt very much whether anybody would ever want to complain about Oxfordshire 's Social Services , and so on . |