Example sentences of "a [noun] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , a substantial proportion of the council housing built on low-density suburban estates in the inter-war period has now been incorporated into the owner-occupied sector and no longer provides a route for lower-income households wanting to move into the suburbs . |
| 2 | Conditions under which plea bargaining might take place included a payment of substantial fines , restoring cash to the victims of fraud , full cooperation in the investigation and giving evidence for related cases . |
| 3 | King John , for example , undertook a payment of 1000 marks annually to the Roman see from 1213 onwards , when he became a vassal of the Roman Church . |
| 4 | Pinochet Hiriart stated in his testimony to the committee in mid-January that the money , apparently used to buy out his share in a small bankrupt arms manufacturing company , was in fact a payment for three loans which he had personally secured in Europe for the company . |
| 5 | There has n't been a prince for some years . |
| 6 | At one level , McLuhan brought together a variety of existing studies of cultural modes and forms in oral and in literate societies . |
| 7 | It assembled a variety of skilled sympathisers on the stage of the ICA that both set the audience hopping up and down and delivered music of such a strong African flavour as to make the issue and the entertainment inseperable . |
| 8 | Heclo and Wildavsky adopt an anthropological tone when they speak of the British policy-making system in Whitehall concerned with public expenditure as a ‘ village community with a variety of subtle norms about the type of behaviour which is acceptable and unacceptable , praiseworthy and condemnable . |
| 9 | The life review can provide a means of re-establishing and confirming individual involvement with current reality , and linking their past work and efforts with the social change that has occurred , for in a variety of subtle ways they will have been part of the changes and developments that they are witnessing . |
| 10 | With a variety of subtle tricks , morphological , behavioural and biochemical , these social symbionts are accepted into otherwise closed ant societies . |
| 11 | Results using the tachistoscopic paradigm and a variety of verbal tasks are as conflicting as those obtained with the dichotic technique . |
| 12 | The virus lies dormant in the tissues and will manifest itself , in those who suffer symptomatic recurrences , following a variety of provocatory factors . |
| 13 | A variety of fund-raising schemes are planned , including a relaunch of the group 's Penny Appeal , which encourages people to collect and donate their small change . |
| 14 | Museums such as the Victoria & Albert have responded to these pressures by experimenting with a variety of fund-raising schemes : commercial sponsorship of exhibitions and galleries , the establishment of ‘ friends ’ and — perhaps most controversially — the implementation of entrance charges . |
| 15 | A variety of major improvements will be carried out in the West Granton , Pilton , Muirhouse and Pennywell areas involving local residents . |
| 16 | Marion does not qualify for a maintenance grant because her parents are well off , but they are also estranged , from each other and from her , so she is obliged to support herself at University with a variety of part-time jobs . |
| 17 | The same year he resigned from teaching and , helped by influential friends made while collecting material for his museums , undertook a variety of part-time jobs and published his first books , until in 1862 he became a civil servant on the staff of the India Museum , where he remained until 1880 . |
| 18 | A variety of part-time courses are also offered for those who ca n't commit themselves full-time . |
| 19 | Conditions provided plenty of drama on the reach out of the Crouch , with a cold and vicious south-westerly and a lumpy sea which spread-eagled the unwary in broaches both to windward and to leeward , and a variety of spectacular gybes and blow-outs . |
| 20 | As he reached the door , with a variety of helpful obstructions he shouted his Parthian shot — ‘ You ca n't bloody have it both ways … ’ |
| 21 | Should there be specialist social workers in area teams with responsibility for developing dementia teamwork , or would this be more properly the function of the specialist social worker for the elderly ? iii Would the care of dementia sufferers as well as that of other groups be enhanced is care of the elderly was integrated at local level , uniting the functions of the geriatric and psychiatric services , or uniting both with social services for the elderly ? vi Alternatively would it be better to pursue the Griffiths proposal of Community care as an integrated organisation for the planning and delivery of care to a variety of disabled groups ? |
| 22 | We now also know that high intakes of bran may have a variety of adverse effects on nutritional balance , and in general vegetable and fruit fibre is a better bet . |
| 23 | A variety of suitable finishes are available . |
| 24 | However , it is clear from a variety of European studies that improved competitiveness helps jobs . |
| 25 | Support of this kind was to enable Leopold to take his two young children on long musical tours throughout their formative years , tours which exposed them to a variety of European cultures and styles and which were consequently to direct the course of Mozart 's development as a musician . |
| 26 | ‘ Experts ’ from a variety of European agencies were brought together to discuss and report on the various cross-cultural attitudes to drug-taking among young people . |
| 27 | Back in 1973 the Turin vice squad had a tip-off that all was not as it should be in one of the city 's massage parlours which offered a variety of therapeutic services , among them ‘ Overall body massage with opportunities for meditation ’ . |
| 28 | These include Myths , Martyrs and Murderers , Winnie The Pooh , The Rich & Famous , The West Pier , Inns and Taverns and a variety of haunted haunts . |
| 29 | Okahata and his colleagues coated their balance with an artificial lipid bilayer , enclosed the balance in a sealed chamber and injected vapours of a variety of odorous substances , including commercial perfumes . |
| 30 | It includes improved memory management functions that provide memory partitions for a variety of Unix-compatible routines . |