Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun] [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would hope , however , that any grant received by the Council in respect of a private sector partners investment in a joint project could be treated differently . |
| 2 | Within the last 18 months , the company has sold : its European silicones business to Rhone-Poulenc for £30million ; four businesses from its Canadian offshoot CIL ; a computer software company to managers ; a West German printing inks business ; its over-the-counter drugs business in the US and Savlon in Britain ; a Canadian building products business to Trafalgar House ; and its Coopers Animal Health , which it owned with Wellcome , to Chicago-based Pitman-Moore ; During the period it has bought : Cambridge research Biochemicals ; a privatelyowned US acrylics company , K-S-H ; Rayca Chemical Corporation , which makes chemicals for the US textiles industry . |
| 3 | A BRAVE schoolboy who overcame a devastating illness to return to school and pass his exams is to receive a prestigious Champion Children Award . |
| 4 | To overcome this communication problem , a health-related pollutants standards index ( PSI ) was devised for nationwide adoption ( Crossland , 1978 ) . |
| 5 | You are covered for the tank and any damage to carpets and fittings , on a normal household contents insurance , covering £15,000 or more . |
| 6 | The tour followed a summer residential course at which the young musicians received tuition from Bournemouth Orchestras players as part of a BP-sponsored music workshops programme . |
| 7 | Russian President Boris Yeltsin on Oct. 14 handed over to a US and South Korean delegation in Moscow data relating to the shooting down by the former Soviet Union of a Korean Air Lines Boeing 747 over Sakhalin in September 1983 [ see pp. 32513-17 ] . |
| 8 | It is for this reason the UK accountancy bodies have put forward the idea of a European accounting standards body in the hope of persuading Brussels to toe the IASC line . |
| 9 | Question : Which two British players have a European Cup winners medal and a European Cup runners-up medal won with different clubs . |
| 10 | Question : Which two British players have a European Cup winners medal and a European Cup runners-up medal won with different clubs . |
| 11 | John McFall , a Labour home affairs spokesman , had pressed for the proposed penalties , a six-month jail sentence or a fine of up to £1,000 , to be increased . |
| 12 | The pressure came from John McFall , a Labour home affairs spokesman , who put forward an amendment to the Carrying of Knives etc ( Scotland ) Bill calling for the planned six-month jail sentence or fine of up to £1,000 to be increased to two years or an unlimited fine . |
| 13 | , Gertrude ( 1843–1932 ) , garden designer , writer , artist , and craftswoman , was born 29 November 1843 , in Grafton Street , London , the fifth of seven children and second daughter of Edward Joseph Hill Jekyll ( the son of Joseph Jekyll , q.v. , wit and politician ) , a retired Grenadier Guards officer , and his wife Julia , daughter of Charles Hammersley , banker . |
| 14 | He has asked his father Richard , a retired Grenadier Guards lieutenant colonel and Tory Central Office employee , to send him cash . |
| 15 | Coordinators of the WCY , at the Geneva-based International Telecommunications Union ( ITU ) , see the year as ‘ an opportunity for a quantum leap in the development of a complete world communications network , which will leave no one isolated from his local , national or international community . ’ |
| 16 | However , pressure on the government had increased markedly since his introduction of a controversial job reservations policy in August [ see p. 37653 ] . |
| 17 | If the request were to be included in a foreign aid appropriations bill already going through the Senate , it could secure approval by Sept. 30 ( the end of the 1991 fiscal year ) . |
| 18 | An alternative vision of human flourishing to that which underlies wealth maximisation as a social goal ranks autonomy above continued increases in material well-being , and thus calls into question the legitimacy of non-participative organisations . |
| 19 | Many months of snow availability and a good sunshine record make it a favourite winter sports centre ; and a multitude of varied excursion opportunities and walking trails attract summer visitors . |
| 20 | Forty-seven passengers died when a British Midland Airways Boeing 737 trying a forced landing hit an embankment at Kegworth , Leics , in 1989 . |
| 21 | The take-over the first time a South African bank has bought a British bank values Ansbacher at £57.8m . |
| 22 | A British Transport police spokesman said : ‘ Fans had been drinking heavily before the accident and would have been fairly merry . ’ |
| 23 | His passenger Anthony Ballard , 17 , of Cradley , West Midlands , scrambled free of the wreckage before it was hit by the train , and escaped with whiplash injuries and shock , said a British transport police spokesman . |
| 24 | These movements were : new appointments transfers to a different location resignations promotion or transfers within the same location change of name Computer input forms were therefore designed to cover each type of movement indicated above . |
| 25 | For example , employees know where they stand with regard to compensation for moving at company request ; a clear policy aids employee relations . |
| 26 | A top level police report on security leaks in Ulster is calling for tighter controls on the handling of intelligence documents . |
| 27 | A DNA-dependent kinase phosphorylates c-Jun |
| 28 | The basic strategy was top-down : first order the YAC library by hybridising cosmids and genetic markers ( 1 ) , and then order the cosmid library ( 10 ) , using the cosmids hybridised to the YACs as a high density PTS map . |
| 29 | Kate Spencer-Nairn has been in wheelchair for eight years since her treatment at the Churchill Hospital in Oxford.In a High Court damages case against Oxfordshire Health Authority , she 's claimed that her spine was n't properly shielded during radiation treatment for Hodgkin 's Disease . |
| 30 | On LIFFE 's APT system a high speed communications network links APT trader workstations in LIFFE members ' dealing rooms to a central processing system based at the Exchange . |