Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When life gets too stressful , I play a Moody Blues album from end to end . |
| 2 | In the past , such houses had always been offered to the National Trust , which had initially taken them without endowment , accepting instead an undertaking that the Ministry of Works would make good any deficit on repairs and maintenance through a Historic Buildings Council grant . |
| 3 | There is clearly now an urgent need for a Historic Stations Trust to remove those treasures that remain beyond the reach of the hammers of the destroyers , both official and unofficial , so that at least part of this precious heritage may be handed down to future generations . |
| 4 | We tarried awhile to watch Messrs Anderson and Rowe perform doughty deeds with caber and shot on a pleasant summers day . |
| 5 | The Sports Centre has a medium-sized sports hall and an adjoining minor hall , which are used for basketball , indoor tennis , indoor hockey , martial arts , netball , table-tennis , badminton , fencing , and fitness training . |
| 6 | a Retrospective Chances Module . |
| 7 | According to a Which ? report , 40 per cent of menus in NHS hospitals claiming to have a healthy food policy failed to reach an acceptable score in a nutritional values survey . |
| 8 | All 129 passengers aboard a Scandinavian Airlines System ( SAS ) survived after it crash-landed near Stockholm on Dec. 27 . |
| 9 | Some companies are engaged in only one of these activities ( e.g. a single distillery or a warehousing company ) and some are engaged in all of these activities ( e.g. a multi-national drinks conglomerate ) . |
| 10 | They used minute-to-minute data to fit a simultaneous equations model of the determination of spot and futures prices for the MMI . |
| 11 | Schwarz and Laatsch ( 1991 ) again used a simultaneous equations model , and applied it to data for the MMI from 1985 to 1988 . |
| 12 | Using a simultaneous equations model , they regressed this measure of volatility on its own lagged values , lagged values of the volatility of the spot value of the S&P500 index , three volume measures , a maturity variable and day-of-the week dummies . |
| 13 | He was also convicted of having possession with intent to endanger life of a cache of explosives and arms found at another house five doors away during a simultaneous police search . |
| 14 | Stirling had a lucky encounter , however , with Brigadier John Marriott , a Scots Guards officer whom he had known in Cairo . |
| 15 | Easy way to sort them out this with with trig or with Pythagoras you 're only working with a right angles triangle . |
| 16 | Booth will be hoping for a Private Greens league singles championship , and then an Irish one to put him in the frame for Commonwealth Games selection . |
| 17 | PaT hope to do this partly by a Private Members Bill in the autumn which will : |
| 18 | A Private Members Bill , Transactions with Tax Havens , which has all-party support , has been introduced in the Commons by Conservative backbencher David Shaw . |
| 19 | Although a Private Members Bill , it had been included in the Government 's programme set out in the Queen 's Speech . |
| 20 | It may also , for instance , include a statement by a minister on the effect of a provision in a private Members Bill . |
| 21 | So , for instance , a variation in ministerial statements on the legislative intention behind a provision in a Government Bill might be sufficient to characterize the statements as unclear , but a similar variation in the statements in the Commons and the Lords by the promoters of a private Members Bill might not be treated as having the same significance . |
| 22 | They 're backing a private members bill , that 's the Wild Mammals Protection Bill , which has been introduced by the Labour MP Kevin McNamara . |
| 23 | Thousands of people turned out at the Royal Showground today to protest against a private members bill which aims to abolish blood sports . |
| 24 | Now a Private Members Bill to restrict the granting of bail will become law . |
| 25 | Mr Alton and Derbyshire Labour MP Harry Barnes today introduced a private members bill aimed at improving the electoral registration system . |
| 26 | The City of London anti-apartheid group claimed that 30 protesters infiltrated a private sports club in south-west London where the South Africans were staying on Sunday night . |
| 27 | If the employer is looking to make a judgement on a candidate 's power of invention and imagination then such a question may be relevant but this is open to question if he is seeking to appoint a solid contracts officer . |
| 28 | The only note of caution I have is that you need a solid Windows setup — load too many icon movies and things slow down a bit . |
| 29 | Transend Professional is a solid comms program but it 's no match for the latest Window-based fax software |
| 30 | Mind you , I mean , he he still still a solid weeks work . |