Example sentences of "a [noun pl] [noun] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not the student returning but a flood of visitors — a lady coming to teach Hungarian to students about to visit Budapest , a social worker sorting out a student with severe memory loss whose phone is about to be cut off , a personnel officer from the Civic Offices to recruit potential employees from students on the scheme and one or two others who just seem to have wandered in off the streets . |
| 2 | As a personnel manager in a Bradford mill put it ‘ Asian ladies are so well behaved . |
| 3 | They have a formal code of recruitment and selection and a personnel specification for the task of advice worker . |
| 4 | Yesterday , Chief Insp Fordy said Mr Jackson was accused of not having a firearms certificate for a shotgun and a rifle . |
| 5 | ON SEPTEMBER 5 — a week before he was first seen on campus — Marc Lepine acquired a firearms certificate from the Sûreté du Quebec . |
| 6 | Er in December nineteen eighty eight er I was a police constable , I was stationed at I was er a firearms instructor in the operations department and also a tactical advisor . |
| 7 | This determination to prevent the manufacturers exploiting a sellers , market induced Self to ask Smith to stay on and establish a Contracts Department as a step towards firmer financial control over the engineers . |
| 8 | Further , even smaller corporates may be treated as non-private under Rule 5 — 5(4) where they : ( a ) are carrying on a main business which is not investment business ; ( b ) enter into a futures transaction as an integral part of its main business ; ( c ) have , in the firm 's reasonable belief , sufficient experience and understanding to waive protections provided for private customers ; and ( d ) have received a clear warning of the protections under the regulatory system which they would lose , including a statement of its rights to request to be treated as a private customer . |
| 9 | As a parish priest he also served as a diocesan representative on the first National Liturgy Commission and as a schools commissioner with the North Riding of Yorkshire in the diocesan office . |
| 10 | On the technical side , the project will include a comparative assessment of two different strategies : adding statistical capability to a commercially available GIS , and writing a GIS module within a general statistical computing environment . |
| 11 | I had dropped out of regular English teaching and set up a special-needs unit in the school . |
| 12 | Or we 'd find out if there 's a special-needs school in the area which would benefit from special equipment for handicapped children . |
| 13 | I DID my National Service with a Guards regiment on the East German border in 1948 — but there was still some fraternisation with the Russians , usually in the bar at some remote border village . |
| 14 | He believed that there were ‘ some ’ , but he could n't name a Guards regiment with a black soldier in it . |
| 15 | Old school is a back-to-basics reaction to the sportswear industry 's increasing reliance on pink and pastel , splash and spray , an apparent brainstorm which has forced people who have no desire to look like an explosion in a paint factory to search in discount stores and back-of-beyond sports shops for the design classics of the recent past — nylon Adidas track tops with the simple three-stripe design on each arm , or a pair of shell-toed trainers . |
| 16 | An example of this would be the operation of a lettings policy in a school . |
| 17 | Imports fell by 8 per cent ; the trade surplus reached US$976 million , with a balance-of-payments surplus on the current account of $389 million . |
| 18 | The response from the people he talks to gives him a grassroots view of the questions being asked throughout the Company , while the meetings give the staff the opportunity to put their own points to him straight from the shoulder . |
| 19 | The court will allocate a file number to the case and endorse a date for a hearing or a directions appointment on the copies for service . |
| 20 | The court may proceed with a directions appointment in the absence of either the applicant or one or more of the respondents ( FPCR , r16(3) and 16(6) ; FPR , r4.16(3) and 16(5) ) . |
| 21 | The new unit is headquartered in England , with a tele-sales operation in the Netherlands . |
| 22 | He also commented that Spain 's integration into Europe was unthinkable until the country had a telecommunications network on a par with the networks existing in the rest of the European Community countries . |
| 23 | The current programme of the IT Committee includes the investigation and evaluation of a telecommunications network for the Bar as a whole . |
| 24 | His victory gives him a 4lbs penalty for the Hennessy Cognac Gold Cup at Newbury on November 28 , putting him on 10st 4lbs . |
| 25 | Hall was apt to be described as ‘ a tough-as-nails reporter with a marshmallow centre ’ , though in her ‘ Dear Unity ’ role , the emphasis was rather on the concoction of sympathy than on the cutting edge of insight . |
| 26 | On the night of April 8-9 a fire in a weapons depot of the former Soviet army north of Yerevan ( Armenia ) caused widespread damage as the weaponry stored there exploded . |
| 27 | I had found her when I was a Weapons Instructor at the Royal Marines ' Lympstone camp in Devon . |
| 28 | A senior official of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees surveyed chaotic scenes at an emergency processing centre in a sports hall in the northern town of Tuzla , where about 2,000 people are sleeping on blankets on the floor , and appealed for immediate international help . |
| 29 | The high rate of inflation in the 1970s was threatening the building of a new Junior School , and a Sports Pavilion at the Dialstone Lane field . |
| 30 | He recalls that in 1981 , when he ‘ crossed over ’ to become the first , and so far only , sports writer ever to win the ‘ Journalist of the Year ’ Award , Colin Hart , a sports columnist with the Sun , approached him and said ‘ Congratulations Hughie , you 've just struck a blow for the Toy Department ! ’ |