Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun pl] [noun] in " in BNC.

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1 PaT hope to do this partly by a Private Members Bill in the autumn which will :
2 The City of London anti-apartheid group claimed that 30 protesters infiltrated a private sports club in south-west London where the South Africans were staying on Sunday night .
3 President Sam Nujoma announced on Oct. 29 that Namibia would shortly be opening a Namibian interests office in South Africa .
4 Yes , we did have a strong profits recovery in the second half , greatly helped by oil services and U S educational publishing .
5 However , I pointed out that what I was asking for was no more than would comprise a normal police station in a provincial town and that there were many economies to be made by giving up our offices in central London .
6 Studies of a European customs union in 1947–8 suggested that this would demand a revolution in British economic practices without necessarily bringing dramatic results .
7 Champion was a friend of two youngsters who died on a stolen police motorbike in July , sparking three nights of rioting in the Hartcliffe area .
8 In 1989 , the University decided to establish a combined honours course in the History of Art , which will admit its first intake this October .
9 They offer a range from a Combined Studies Certificate in Horse Husbandry and Secretarial Skills to British Horse Society Instructor courses .
10 TESL was run as an alternative methods course for a few years , until TEFL/TESL became a combined methods course in 1986 .
11 Indeed , societies have traditionally operated with a liquid assets ratio in the range of 15–20 per cent .
12 Meanwhile , a social services manager in Essex has said that a Government grant to fund the new Community Care Act from April 1 is not enough .
13 Moreover , these dependent people do not reach a social services department in most cases unless the family can not care for them without help .
14 I would like to invite members to stand and join me in a few moments silence in memory of Doctor .
15 In a few hours time in Toronto Lynn Gibson will be racing for Britain in the 800 metres …
16 He told the Congress of People 's Deputies that , while he would make a few personnel changes in his Cabinet , he would not give up his position as Prime Minister until he was sure the reforms had become irreversible .
17 At the Apollo 17 site an experiment was carried out by the astronauts which gave the seismic wave speeds down to a few kilometres depth in the vicinity of the site .
18 As a result , erm , prices wo n't be quite as volatile as they are in the opposite case , alright , when the world market , and virtually nobody , let's assume that virtually nobody uses the world market to trade in , they 've all got their own agricultural policies , right , just a few countries trade in the world market , it only takes erm , a , a sort of poor harvest , or a very good harvest in any one of these erm , er , sort of protected countries , in order to get rid of this output , they 'll put it on the world market .
19 On the face of it , the Friend 3 seems the model least likely to benefit from flexibility — the thick stem interferes little with the working of the cams , both designs have the same strength rating and there 's only a few grams difference in weight between them .
20 Even a few microns difference in the size of a component can cost valuable minutes on the production line as machines are re-set .
21 Many of the stations as Curzon found them were no more than rude shanties , a few planks half-buried in the sands of Central Asia .
22 About a week before Michael was due to go back into hospital , we managed a few days holiday in the Lake District .
23 After the wedding , a reception was held in the New Farm Loch Community Centre , followed by a few days honeymoon in York .
24 Just a few miles west in the grounds of Nuneham Conference Park stands another folly which has ended up in an unexpected place .
25 The Financial Times reported on Feb. 5 that arsonists had set fire to a British Airways office in East Jerusalem .
26 The abduction sparked a house-to-house police search in the Willenhall area of Coventry .
27 He graduated in 1884 with a second-class honours degree in modern history , taking his BA in 1885 and his MA in 1897 .
28 Raphael Samuels has also reported an instance of a suspected police informer in the East End who was visited by a mob who expressed their displeasure by burning effigies .
29 At the west end is a 300 feet tower in the same architectural mode and crowned by a fine octagon .
30 Now , each householder or tenant in a Scottish Homes estate in West Lothian has to pay for this service as well their poll tax .
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