Example sentences of "in a [adj] [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chartered Accountants Cohen Arnold & Co ( 071-734 1362 ) have now included , in a revised Charities Act 1992 booklet , a timetable for implementation of major provisions of the Act . |
| 2 | In a modern telecommunications system , the analogue signal is converted to digital form using an analogue to digital ( A–D ) converter . |
| 3 | For many ordinary Colombians , the drug traffickers have become heroes who fund social programmes and provide work , in a classic beans-and-bullets strategy . |
| 4 | Marston Magna lies in a flat lias clay area of south Somerset , and its name suggests marshy surroundings . |
| 5 | On Nov. 4 hearings began in a federal appeals court in Honolulu on the constitutionality of a Guam territorial law of 1990 , permitting abortion only when a pregnancy threatened to kill the woman or " gravely impair " her health . |
| 6 | France still wanted EURATOM more than she wanted a common market , and in September 1956 caused a new crisis in the negotiations , with various demands to ease her own position in a six-power customs union . |
| 7 | Lewin , in a stolen sports car , mowed down Daniel Davies , nine , and Adele Thompson , 12 , as they collected ‘ pennies for the guy ’ at Toxteth , Liverpool . |
| 8 | Nield , from Cheshire , joined up as a boy in a junior leaders battalion before passing out into the Royal Engineers . |
| 9 | Designed by student Jonathan Hitchen , the cover was described in a graphic arts magazine as : ‘ Combining strong colour and semi-abstract line . ’ |
| 10 | The common police services must be combined in a central police agency so that we can deal with serious and organised crime , not necessarily crime which immediately affects the lives of constituents but crime which can affect them through the stealing of their pension funds or the misappropriation of their assets and savings . |
| 11 | The constant impact against the field 's rim , of everything from showers of meteors down to stray molecules of gas , resulted in a cosmic fireworks display of spectacular proportions : a long tail of deteriorating matter stretched out along the path which the ship had taken . |
| 12 | For example , Cloke ( 1977b ) used 13 census variables and three variables based on distance from an urban centre , in a principal components analysis , to produce the index of rurality for 1971 shown in Figure 5.5 . |
| 13 | Amanda Brown gave the Cambridge club match victory in just under the hour , allowing Welwyn 's No. 1 Joan Caplen just two games in a straight sets dismissal . |
| 14 | Tip Anderson of Arnold Palmer fame , once told me he never learnt the precise yardages on the Old Course for such details are useless in a capricious links wind . |
| 15 | In a recent colleges survey ( admittedly with a return response of less than 40% ) 80% of the advanced instruction programmes which existed were timetabled and 60% of them were a formal part of the students ' courses . |
| 16 | There 's also the soft side , the Bill Morrison who is reduced to tears by Harry Secombe — ‘ I 'd love to be as good as him ’ and the Bill Morrison who confesses in an unguarded moment that as an epitaph he 'd like the description that appeared in a recent Times leader about him : ‘ a man they can trust ’ . |
| 17 | A RECENT post provided a note from one Neil from Birmingham , who wrote : ‘ In a recent Thrills section , there was a piece in which it was claimed NME had made Moz 's 45s Single Of The Week on ten occasions . |
| 18 | Then your detective should have much more of the qualities that make for success in a real police officer , and much less vulnerability to comic events . |
| 19 | The alarm was raised shortly afterwards by a milkman and officers in a passing police car who spotted the smoke and flames . |
| 20 | An Oxford student has been sentenced to four months in a young offendors institute for supplying drugs . |
| 21 | Davies , a former RAF driver , was sentenced to two years in prison while Crook will spend two years in a young offenders institute . |
| 22 | He sentenced both to four years in a young offenders centre for hijacking and to six months for criminal damage . |
| 23 | McHugh , who is now also serving nine months in a young offenders centre for motoring offences , was sentenced to three months in jail on the Customs offences . |
| 24 | So far , he 's had his licence endorsed and spent 28 days in a young offenders institution . |
| 25 | Reynolds was sentenced to 3 years in a young offenders institution and disqualified from driving for 2 years . |
| 26 | Judge Angus Macdonald sentenced Diaz to 18 months in a young offenders institution and Walker to 12 months . |
| 27 | Fenton was given 18 months detention in a young offenders institution for the aggravated burglary and 12 months concurrent for each of the other offences . |
| 28 | It may also , for instance , include a statement by a minister on the effect of a provision in a private Members Bill . |
| 29 | 3.24 A case in which aggravated damages were awarded in a personal injuries claim was Westwood v Hardy ( 1964 ) The Times , 24 June . |
| 30 | The defendant in a personal injuries action is likely to be represented by an insurance company , which takes complete control of and financial responsibility for the claim . |