Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun pl] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Sports Centre has a medium-sized sports hall and an adjoining minor hall , which are used for basketball , indoor tennis , indoor hockey , martial arts , netball , table-tennis , badminton , fencing , and fitness training . |
| 2 | Transend Professional is a solid comms program but it 's no match for the latest Window-based fax software |
| 3 | The difference between the groups shown in Fig. 5.8 has been called a differential outcomes effect because the superior performance of the correlated group depends on the fact that the outcome of a correct response is reliably different for the two trial types ( tone trials and clicker trials ) . |
| 4 | It is within this conceptual framework that a government minister at the Department of the Environment can , with seemingly irrefutable common sense , conceptualise inner cities as the places where ‘ those living there have not been able to participate in the economic miracle of the Thatcher years ’ ( Trippier , 1989 , p7 ) and which require a strong police presence because ‘ the future prosperity of the inner cities depends directly on how safe they are in which to live and work ’ ( ibid , p22 ) . |
| 5 | AT&T Co has been awarded a $5m contract by the island of Nauru to digitise the country 's telecommunications network and set up direct international service : the order includes a 5ESS gateway switching system , equipment to digitise Nauru 's existing analogue earthstations , microwave towers and other terrestrial communications links , a cellular communications network and one year of on-site technical support ; the eight-square-mile island is 2,445 miles southwest of Hawaii and has 9,000 residents ; it makes a living exporting $75m a year in phosphates . |
| 6 | There 's a mutilated notes department as well that you can send really screwed up notes to . |
| 7 | Mr Askew , born in Crook , was a retired police superintendent and also worked as a consultant at ICI . |
| 8 | This would correspond to a named award in a combined studies degree or a tripos award in the Oxbridge sense . |
| 9 | It is therefore a good ideas to make copies from fairly early on of all language and anthropological materials , and to keep them in other places , such as a technical studies department or headquarters office . |
| 10 | One should not overlook the desirability of having the railway line , which goes fairly directly to the station on a Regional Railways route and one should not overlook the importance of having a radial road which does not go through or otherwise influence villages between it and the centre of York . |
| 11 | He got it written er if you remember the rules of the game are that all Regional Railways work will go to a Regional Railways office and they will decide if it goes out . |
| 12 | The lower floor is to become a Regional Railways office and train crew depot , while the upper floor will be taken over by the Welsh Tourist Board . |
| 13 | We may choose a professional sports person as our referent and bemoan the fact that our salaries do not compare despite the fact that we may have as much talent in our chosen fields . |
| 14 | In February 1944 , the Irgun Zwei Leumi , ( the Irgun , in short ) killed a British police inspector and constable . |
| 15 | Scotland Yard said shots were fired at anti-terrorist squad detectives and a tactical firearms unit as they moved in on a house in Stoke Newington , north London . |
| 16 | If the candidate makes the grade in the Hawk , where he learns to handle fast jets and basic skills in bombing and dogfighting , he is posted to a Tactical Weapons Unit where these skills are honed . |
| 17 | This smaller team takes records to shops which have a high singles turnover and also carries the most popular current albums to top up a shop 's supply of its best-selling products . |
| 18 | The required duetting gelled pleasingly , if perhaps at the expense of individuality , although two items — a gutsy blues improvisation and that old chestnut Sixteen Tons — still brought out some steel . |
| 19 | But experts from a theatrical pyrotechnics company and the police are happy . |
| 20 | OFFER unhappy customers a proper complaints system and conciliation service . |
| 21 | And we must not forget that it is to a Public Relations expert that we owe the invention of traditional Irish coffee laced with Irish whiskey , which nobody will deny is a very great improvement on Irish coffee tout court . |
| 22 | Gordon Reece , a public relations consultant and personal adviser to Margaret Thatcher , was at the time Director of Publicity at the Central Office . |
| 23 | " Packaging the campaign " is a public relations function and that packaging is usually done first for the media — the powerful ally or potential enemy of your campaign . |
| 24 | But this modification may be more of a public relations coup than a genuine therapeutic improvement . |
| 25 | The meeting with Mr Terreblanche — ‘ ET ’ as he is popularly known — is seen more as a public relations gesture than a meaningful initiative . |
| 26 | THAILAND 'S Foreign Ministry yesterday suffered a public relations fiasco when it failed to produce five Vietnamese soldiers it claimed had been captured inside Cambodia after Hanoi 's much-publicised troop withdrawal from Cambodia last week . |
| 27 | He need not be taken to a designated police station if it is not anticipated he will be detained for more than six hours or where the arresting officer is without help . |
| 28 | In recognition of this , in 1990 , Lothian Regional Council , The Scottish Office and Edinburgh District Council commissioned The MVA Consultancy to undertake a Joint Authorities Transportation and Environmental Study ( JATES ) . |
| 29 | We do n't want you to be a graphic arts expert or a copy expert we have plenty of those back at head office |
| 30 | It was agreed that another meeting should be called to launch a civil rights body and this took place on 29 January 1967 . |