Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | President Sam Nujoma announced on Oct. 29 that Namibia would shortly be opening a Namibian interests office in South Africa . |
| 32 | Nevertheless , it did manage to report in January 1950 in favour of the abolition of internal tariffs , the creation of a common external tariff , and a broad customs union built upon large-scale and specialised industrial production . |
| 33 | In reality , road-blocking was part of a broad police strategy , decided upon at a high level , aimed at preventing ‘ flying pickets ’ travelling from county to county lending support to striking miners . |
| 34 | For instance , a unified acrylics business was created from two that were previously in Mond Division and two in Petrochemicals & Plastics . |
| 35 | The educational and cultural gap between the élite évolués and the rest of the African population was noted by Almond and Coleman as a ‘ marked discontinuity in communication ’ between the two ; at the same time , between this African élite and European Frenchmen , ‘ one could argue that a unified communications process tended to develop ’ . |
| 36 | PAT Garrow , who has died in Richmond , Surrey , aged 79 , was a noted sports writer both north and south of the Border . |
| 37 | Another trader is leaving a prestigious docklands shopping centre because she says it has n't been advertised enough . |
| 38 | The interaction of these three elements leads to discordances and complaint , as when a frail person-s destinations are t–o distant , or when pram-pushing mothers encounter narrow pavements . |
| 39 | To overcome this communication problem , a health-related pollutants standards index ( PSI ) was devised for nationwide adoption ( Crossland , 1978 ) . |
| 40 | The difference between the groups shown in Fig. 5.8 has been called a differential outcomes effect because the superior performance of the correlated group depends on the fact that the outcome of a correct response is reliably different for the two trial types ( tone trials and clicker trials ) . |
| 41 | For many ordinary Colombians , the drug traffickers have become heroes who fund social programmes and provide work , in a classic beans-and-bullets strategy . |
| 42 | As to placing cable patterns , there is no need to have them all over the garment , unless it is a classic sports sweater . |
| 43 | ‘ His reputation for saying different things to different people , for working both sides of the street , is a classic politicians method . |
| 44 | Another enchanting piece in the same book , ‘ Chiome d'oro ’ , is described as a ‘ Canzonetta a due voci Concertata da duoi Violini Chitarone o Spinetta ’ ; the voices duet ( mostly in parallel thirds ) over an ostinato bass , each of their five strophes being introduced by one of three ritornelli for the two violini over the same ostinato . |
| 45 | She took a resolute breath and manoeuvred the jeep behind a low sports car . |
| 46 | These three companies , all believing in the need to maintain a strong components capability , in 1988 formed the $3.3 billion JESSI ( Joint European Submicron Silicon Initiative ) co-operative research and development programme . |
| 47 | Thompson ( 1980 ) has warned of the potential danger of a strong police autocracy , conscious , no doubt , of the slim line which exists between the democratic use of power and its subversion by a more centralized totalitarianism . |
| 48 | It is within this conceptual framework that a government minister at the Department of the Environment can , with seemingly irrefutable common sense , conceptualise inner cities as the places where ‘ those living there have not been able to participate in the economic miracle of the Thatcher years ’ ( Trippier , 1989 , p7 ) and which require a strong police presence because ‘ the future prosperity of the inner cities depends directly on how safe they are in which to live and work ’ ( ibid , p22 ) . |
| 49 | A strong police presence outwitted their every move . |
| 50 | In sum , their duties probably varied from place to place and from time to time , although there was always likely to be a strong police element , especially in those areas on or near the frontiers where military government was paramount and where the natives enjoyed only limited autonomy . |
| 51 | Yes , we did have a strong profits recovery in the second half , greatly helped by oil services and U S educational publishing . |
| 52 | However , I pointed out that what I was asking for was no more than would comprise a normal police station in a provincial town and that there were many economies to be made by giving up our offices in central London . |
| 53 | It 's a constant threat of danger and after debrief which takes place in the police station , erm relaxation is necessary erm , we have the availability of er stress counselling as well and a period of about two hours normally elapses before the officers is er reasonably able to er function as a normal police officer again and because of this er it has been decided that the officer 's duties for that day er will be terminated . |
| 54 | This is the state of affairs at a normal sports centre , where everyone else seems to be skilled and athletic and you too embarrassed to start . |
| 55 | Mr Adnan Khashoggi , a Saudi arms dealer , is being tried with her , accused of helping out in the property deals . |
| 56 | A UNIFORMED police constable accused of raping a young mother on the front seat of his patrol car claimed yesterday that she had handed him ‘ sex on a plate ’ . |
| 57 | Warsaw Pact deputy foreign ministers and military commanders meeting in Prague agreed on Oct. 27 to cut 490 tanks and 400 artillery pieces from their conventional arms holdings , clearing the way for a European arms treaty due to be signed in Paris in November . |
| 58 | But MEPs complained that the package had reappeared for a second reading minus the crucial proposal to create a European Medicines Agency . |
| 59 | Vogts , an expert angler blissfully at home with his squad on the banks of Loch Lomond , took a harpoon gun to the legislators for their idea of forming a European Champions League . |
| 60 | A permanent WEU group would set up military units answerable to the WEU , plan possible deployments , and set up a European armaments agency . |