Example sentences of "of an [adj] [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sheriff 's reply sounded clearly in the hushed corridor , impressing the assembled kids and seeming to confirm Grant 's claim to be part of an official police operation — if any needed convincing after seeing one of the feared Apostles being dragged unconscious into an empty cubicle . |
| 2 | However , Friedman did not explicitly introduce rationality of expectations into the natural rate hypothesis , and indeed appeared to favour the use of an adaptive expectations model , at least for the US at the time he was writing . |
| 3 | It took her a long time to come to terms with that presence ; the proximity of an armed police officer was the most potent reminder of the gilded cage she had now entered . |
| 4 | Accordingly , the subject during the inter-war period concentrated on issues like the outlawing of war and the establishment of an international police force , until the events of the 1930s challenged its basic assumptions . |
| 5 | So at one end of the scale , the courts upheld a restrictive covenant in the contract of an employee of an international armaments manufacturer called Maxim Nordenfeldt , which extended throughout the world for the whole of the man 's life . |
| 6 | They have much less to do with the demands of competitiveness than with the perversities of an industrial relations law whose imbalance was over-corrected during the 1980s . |
| 7 | At the end of an outdoor games session Roger encouraged the pupils to risk themselves by attempting to catch a cricket ball he would throw into the air . |
| 8 | The growing diversity in the structure of degrees was reflected in the creation of an Interfaculty Studies Board ( there was some argument about whether it should be a full committee ) in 1977 , reporting to all the committees that had an interest in its activities . |
| 9 | In my respectful submission there could be A , no question that the jury would be discharged and B , in the submission er some er judicial displeasure of an experienced police officer volunteering what any police officer must know is A inadmissible and B not an answer to the question . |
| 10 | The Nov. 28 Bamako agreement , concluded at the end of an extraordinary ECOWAS summit , had been signed by ( i ) Charles Taylor , leader of the National Patriotic Front of Liberia ( NPFL ) , ( ii ) Noah Bordolo , for the breakaway Independent NPFL led by Taylor 's rival , Prince Yormie Johnson , and ( iii ) Capt. Wilmot Diggs , for the Armed Forces of Liberia ( AFL ) , the relics of the army of former President Doe . |
| 11 | The first step towards the consolidation of the Empire as a coherent military and political bloc , was the establishment of an imperial customs union . |
| 12 | Tension between Zhelev and Dimitrov increased dramatically in October when details emerged of an alleged arms scandal involving a prime ministerial adviser , Konstantin Mishev , and the chief of the country 's intelligence services , Gen. Brigo Asparukhov . |
| 13 | In July an Indian government report on the February crash of an Indian Airlines Airbus A320 in Bangalore in February 1990 [ see p. 37268 ] found that not enough time had been allowed to enable personal to adapt to changes in aircraft , equipment , maintenance , ground facilities and the training of engineers and pilots . |
| 14 | It is a ledger , the size and solidity of an old-fashioned accounts book , with broken corners and an air of belonging to that grey period which is too far gone to be new but not yet far enough off to be old . |
| 15 | Taking on the role of an Italian customs officer , she comes on board ship and tells the children that the authorities know about their activities . |
| 16 | The hush-hush builder 's blueprint , which gave details of an undercover police station being built in the Palace grounds , later turned up in Kilburn , North London — a stronghold of IRA sympathisers . |
| 17 | 60 hours of language improvement , and 91 on Language in Education were offered , out of an unspecified methods total . |
| 18 | Cross-examined by Donald Macfadyen , QC , for the defence , Mr Malcolm read from a note he had written for the firm 's compliance director which said Mackie had asserted he had made no mention of an impending profits warning . |
| 19 | A new art gallery has been opened in memory of an eccentric antiques dealer who hoarded millions of pounds worth of paintings and other works of art . |
| 20 | A joint venture company of Mitsubishi Electric Corp and IBM Japan Ltd , AST Co — no connection with AST Research Inc — has made moves to improve its standing in the open systems world , with the opening last month of an Open Systems Technology Centre , which will be a showcase for its multivendor and systems integration strategy . |
| 21 | Although not formally linked to other current multilateral negotiations , the signing of an Open Skies treaty was widely regarded as an important means of facilitating agreement on verification questions at the Vienna CFE negotiations . |
| 22 | ‘ All these lead to a decentralisation of an organisation 's activities and the requirement of an interactive communications system . |
| 23 | It 's not even got anything to do with his hedge-trimmer pageboy cut or his Oxfam dress sense , which would n't look out of place in the background of an Inspiral Carpets video . |
| 24 | A GROUP of 60 securities specialists brought together by the Royal Bank of Scotland will propose the phased introduction of a three-day , rolling securities-settlement system and the setting up of an institutional shares clearing house . |
| 25 | the creation of an Academic Standards Committee as a major area of responsibility of one of the Deputy Principals , underlining the importance attached to quality within the University at the highest level . |
| 26 | However , most informed commentators agree that the key factors include the inefficiency , and sometimes corruption , of an outmoded police force , in combination with the failures of a court system clogged up with cases and handicapped by immensely complex procedures . |
| 27 | One of Mr Teicher 's first tasks was to write a report in support of an American arms sale to Iran . |
| 28 | It is obvious , when you come to think about it , that my picture of an ever-advancing arms race was too simple in at least one respect . |
| 29 | The Studio Gate takes the form of an innocuous-looking 19″ rack-mount affair , with a straightforward complement of rotary controls , LEDs and small switches . |
| 30 | Exotic edifices enhanced the impression of an Arabian Nights baroque extravaganza captured and reborn in a setting of Nature at its most verdant . |