Example sentences of "of a [noun pl] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In one case a complaint was made on behalf of a Residents Association to the Parliamentary Commissioner alleging maladministration by the Department of Environment and the Health and Safety Executive at an inquiry into two appeals against the refusal of a Metropolitan Borough Council to give planning permission for the erection of a waste material incineration plant and an energy recovery plant . |
| 2 | Use of a goods vehicle |
| 3 | Proof of the number of seats in a passenger motor car or the maximum gross weight of a goods vehicle may be necessary to show this new offence applies to the vehicle in question , eg. ‘ The motor car had been adapted to carry 8 seated passengers in addition to the driver ’ ( but not more than 8 ) . |
| 4 | — he takes his Wife and Bairns with him , a Waggon the size of a Squatters Cabin and all such apparatus as will imcumber [ sic ] him not a little — he has never travelled in the Woods , never salted his rump Stakes [ sic ] with Gun Powder and how he will take to it , will be a ‘ sin to Crockett ’ . |
| 5 | If you find sheer weight a good judge of a products quality you 'll be pleased by this one ! |
| 6 | The robbers ran off down a nearby street , but fired their gun again at a women who was looking at them through the window of a hairdressers shop . |
| 7 | The robbers ran off down a nearby street , but fired their gun again at a women who was looking at them through the window of a hairdressers shop . |
| 8 | In presenting a geomorphological approach to glaciers and landscape Sugden and John ( 1976 ) utilize a simple systems approach as a vehicle for the explanation of complicated ideas because they believe ‘ in the value of a systems framework as a powerful explanatory tool ’ . |
| 9 | Perhaps one of the greatest advantages of a systems viewpoint has been to cement the branches of physical geography more closely and therefore to make what Walton ( 1968 ) characterized as the unity of the physical environment a more realistic prospect . |
| 10 | However the compartmentalized approach , rather reminiscent of that followed by Goudie ( 1981b ) , may not be as integrative as Douglas would hope , although the use of a systems paradigm and energy flows as discussed in chapter 7 ( p. 153 ) may provide a more integrative solution . |
| 11 | There is nothing new in the idea of a parents charter . |
| 12 | The idea of a parents charter is not new ; what is new is the brazenness with which the Government play fast and loose , spending taxpayers ' money on party political propaganda . |
| 13 | The forces of nature , even today , are in control , and a winter storm which will inconvenience town and city dwellers can still devastate the hopes and aspirations and the economic structure of a Dales community . |
| 14 | There 's nothing finer than standing on the edge of a Dales hill like this looking down at the landscape strung out below . |
| 15 | Thomas Muldoon , a consultant , was imprisoned on Feb. 17 for 27 months for conspiracy , for acting in the bribery of a Marines procurement officer , and for violations of interstate commerce , in connection with defence purchasing . |
| 16 | Prima facie , the development of a capital-goods sector should have created a vested interest in innovation in the consumer-goods industries , as well as a major new outlet for independent inventors of production machinery . |
| 17 | The Plan offers the safety and security of a with-profits endowment assurance , plus the protection of increasing life cover as bonuses are added to your Plan . |
| 18 | Equally , these buildings may have been connected with the promotion of the town to the status of a civitas capital . |
| 19 | Every time he went into one of those phone-booths , he had a mental image of something going wrong , of a faster-than-usual trace , of a plain-clothes policeman being only a few yards away , taking the alarm on his personal radio and walking up to the phone-booth . |
| 20 | An example of this would be the operation of a lettings policy in a school . |
| 21 | He took the money in Georgia — but presented it to UEFA in Geneva as irrefutable evidence of a bribes scandal which has rocked Europe . |
| 22 | A significant number were aimed at positive prevention and these included altering the time allowed for lesson changeover to reduce crowd chaos , a decision to involve all staff in corridor supervision , a move to set up mutual support pairs amongst staff and the creation of a rewards system following the realization that for non-academic pupils the school offered little or no incentives . |
| 23 | If the insured insists on the original invoice being returned to him the invoice should be noted and stamped to show that the GA have included this invoice as part of a claims settlement . |
| 24 | POLICE are hunting the killer of a drugs centre counsellor who was found battered to death at her office in Worcester . |
| 25 | ‘ There were some strands of a drugs story in California but the reporters could n't link it to smuggling from South America , which was the obvious line of enquiry . |
| 26 | Another man , apparently the victim of a drugs dispute , had been shot dead inside thirty one . |
| 27 | In 1736 he received two commissions from Graham : the construction of a nine-feet zenith sector ( the arc of which Graham divided himself ) for the French Académie des Sciences expedition to Lapland under Pierre de Maupertuis to measure the length of a degree of the meridian ; and preparing brass rods and scales for the Royal Society and the Académie for new standards to show the relation between the English yard and the French half-toise . |
| 28 | Your introduction of a letters page to the match programme should be congratulated . |
| 29 | MR JUSTICE MILLETT said that the particular question was whether a decision of a commons commissioner that certain land was not registrable as common land because it formed part of a highway was capable of giving rise to an estoppel per rem judicatam so as to preclude the landowner from afterwards asserting , in proceedings unconnected with the register , that the land in question did not form part of a highway . |
| 30 | And suspicions are growing that he could be the victim of a dirty-tricks campaign . |