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

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1 FOURTEEN police officers in South Wales are to take part in an equal opportunities course .
2 As emphasised in an Equal Opportunities Commission report , just because people are doing a good job which they may have chosen to do , does not mean they should be ignored and left to cope alone :
3 The 35-year-old has just had minor surgery to remove a floating piece of bone from his elbow and he intends to fly out of the country to represent Zimbabwe in an African Nations Cup tie next weekend .
4 His country still insist he must turn out in an African Nations Cup qualifier against South Africa rather than the televised curtain-raiser at the City ground .
5 Lupton 's own research , in an electrical components firm showed how an equitable balance between wages and effort can develop on the shopfloor .
6 In an unmarked police car equipped with a speed detection computer , Peter Joslin , Warwickshire 's Chief Constable and head of Britain 's police traffic committee , showed us the type of driving which he blames for many fatal road crashes .
7 The accused man Paul Beechey was driven into the magistrates court at Didcot in an unmarked police car .
8 This consequence was caused by London Weekend Television when it revealed that a juror in an official secrets case was a former member of the SAS , and by " The Guardian " when it published details of information discovered by police when they " vetted " a jury which was trying some anarchists .
9 Although Quattro Pro 4 ca n't be said to make any task easier than in an equivalent Windows spreadsheet , what it does prove is that with very little limitation a DOS product can manage the same job as a Windows product any trouble at all .
10 Afterwards he told reporters that the proposals would probably be incorporated in an industrial relations Bill which could be published either late this year or early next year .
11 On Sept. 25 three gendarmes were arrested after 10 detainees had suffocated in an airless police cell the previous week .
12 ENTERTAINER Joe Longthorne has been involved in an amazing drugs mix-up in his search for a miracle cure for his cancer .
13 Johnson was the shining star in an excellent Whitecaps side which included former English internationalists Alan Ball and Jon Sammels. his performances put an estimated 6,000 on the team 's home gate ; within a season Johnson had led them to the Soccer Bowl final against Tampa Bay Rowdies .
14 IBM Corp last week took its first step towards saving the AS/400 from going the way of the mainframe when it accompanied the new F models with a string of software offerings and initiatives designed to make the machine sit more comfortably as a database server in an open systems environment .
15 The company claims that customers say that they want to do their development at the workgroup level in an open systems environment , on a range of hardware and under different operating systems , and to share data in a decentralised development environment , rather than have it all tied to the Repository on the mainframe server .
16 LEGENT OUTLINES ITS STRATEGY TO BECOME TOP DOG BY 1997 IN AN OPEN SYSTEMS WORLD
17 In an undercover police operation in London a shop was set up purportedly to buy and sell jewellery commercially ; it was staffed solely by undercover officers purporting to be shady jewellers willing to buy stolen property .
18 By that time I was working as a registrar in an infectious diseases hospital and had been called out to see a very ill child who had just been admitted to the unit .
19 The first is that the increases have caused an unprecedented imbalance in the international monetary system , resulting in an immense payments surplus for oil producers and an ensuing loss of world liquidity .
20 Furthermore , the time it takes for military expenditure to result in an operational arms system can be anything between ten or twenty years .
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