Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun pl] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Thus the idea that instruments are substitutes at all is rather damning for a restrictive practices policy which , like that currently in operation in the UK , is based upon form rather than effect . |
| 32 | TRANMERE ROVERS , of the Third Division , forced a replay against a shaken Spurs side who were rescued by a Higgins own goal in the 69th minute of this Littlewoods Cup fourth-round tie . |
| 33 | A FIXED ODDS punter who attempted a huge swindle with a forged coupon was placed on probation yesterday . |
| 34 | They may be a branded goods company which does not have the strongest brands in the markets in which they operate . |
| 35 | Even er the breaking of dough was done with a lot of mang a little wringers thing you know . |
| 36 | Each course has a substantial Teachers Book which not only explains how Fast Forward works and provides teachers notes , but also gives ideas for possible classroom organization , lesson plans , and guides to the different types of exercises and activities . |
| 37 | But they offered a very tempting fee simply to transport an art object , a sculpture , which they 'd bought as a centrepiece for a planetary arts festival they were staging . |
| 38 | In the same way I was unable to do much else but grin and bear it when my then assistant chief constable ( crime ) , Ken Oxford ( later to be the chief constable of Merseyside ) implicitly restated police concepts of correct bodily order , when he jokingly told a group of visiting journalists who had come to do a story on this wayward group of detectives , ‘ we pay him a plain clothes allowance you know ’ . |
| 39 | He showed me the grass on which Tu'i Mala was wont to graze — Tu'i Mala being a blind Galapagos tortoise which Captain Cook presented to the Tongans in 1777 , and which died in 1966 at well over two hundred years old . |
| 40 | However , in the more usual case of a fatal accidents inquiry it is more common for the sheriff to become quite deeply involved in the technical causes of the accident to the extent of making recommendations for preventing other accidents in the future . |
| 41 | But what er what what needles me a bit , but you ca n't blame them cos I , if I was er a small communications firm I 'd do the same myself , but , you see we wo n't sell now small systems through a sell |
| 42 | Nick Briers is at scrum-half in the absence of Irish international Rob Saunders , who is on a business course in New York , while Rob Kellam , a former Wasps Colt who has played for England Under-21s , is hooker . |
| 43 | THE American government has seized assets of a Chilean arms dealer who allegedly took part in a complex $1 billion ( £575m ) fraud that brought defence group Ferranti to the brink of collapse . |
| 44 | This was so whether the reformative sentence would be disproportionately long or disproportionately short , although most adherents of the Justice Model in the 1970s ( who tended to be liberal or moderately radical in political persua-sion ) wanted a just deserts system which would punish less harshly overall — again like Beccaria two centuries previously . |
| 45 | CHART star Freddie Jackson is a secret clothes junkie who blows thousands of pounds each month on new threads . |
| 46 | The most attractive race on the card is a 631 metres event which sees McDermott 's improving young stayer Too Fast , running off scratch , giving 15 metres start to top marker Baron Again and 11 metres to Lee Anns Tramp . |
| 47 | If a form HO/RT/1 is issues and the driver elects to produce the document at a distant police station it is good practice to also request the suspected driver to produce his registration document at the same time . |
| 48 | A dissenting voice came from a Financial Times reporter who had recently visited the northern town of Kompong Thom , briefly captured by the Khmers Rouges in mid-June [ see p. 37533 ] . |
| 49 | But basically a gilt has got a fixed rate of , of value at the end and the beginning , so it 's worth a hundred pounds day one , a hundred pounds day you know whatever , h how many days it 's in force , if it 's a five year gilt , it 's worth a hundred , a hundred pounds then . |
| 50 | But basically a gilt has got a fixed rate of , of value at the end and the beginning , so it 's worth a hundred pounds day one , a hundred pounds day you know whatever , h how many days it 's in force , if it 's a five year gilt , it 's worth a hundred , a hundred pounds then . |
| 51 | A 23-YEAR-OLD customs man who drugged , bound and indecently assaulted his woman boss in a revenge attack after being passed over for promotion was jailed for seven years at the Old Bailey in London yesterday . |
| 52 | PEUGEOT has launched a new parts initiative they believe is unique among car manufacturers . |
| 53 | In making a case for for a new exceptions policy our our starting point really is the erm strategic planning framework provided by structure plan , that 's Policy I five and the proposed Policy E two . |
| 54 | The Minister of Law and Order Hernus Kriel announced on Nov. 8 the formation of a new police unit which would have the specific task of stabilizing and controlling political unrest . |
| 55 | Plans are being prepared for a new communications network which would enable rapid and cost-effective exchanges of information between the police national computer and forces , and between police forces themselves . |
| 56 | Introducing a new Thrills series which , frankly , has n't got a lot of mileage in it . |
| 57 | It will be replaced , most probably , by a modern sports centre which will have no room for cricket . |
| 58 | 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 . |
| 59 | Gail is very encouraged by a young wives group she started with a friend . |
| 60 | As a keen watersports enthusiast I was greatly alarmed to read in your news pages about the high quantities of toxic algae currently present in many of our inland waterways . |