Example sentences of "a [noun pl] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.

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1 At the time er when I was a firearms instructor er that was the job that I did every day I went to work either firearms training or firearms operations .
2 and I think it 's perhaps important to start with that we go with something that 's a little bit open-ended that we can review in a years time er , perhaps a little bit later and say well look we have shown that we can do it valuably er the proof is in the pudding , it now beholds everybody to do it this way .
3 She went on seeing Jim , his friend , his appalled good friend , just as before — perhaps even in his own bed , Albert realized , since the shift-work timing of a customs officer 's job made the logistics of adultery comically easy .
4 Now you go into a seniors citizens ' club , you enter your name and you get registered in the register , you get your cup of tea and then you get social activity .
5 I was a police officer erm attached or er on a permanent basis with the operations support unit which we were based in er .
6 Well , yeah , I spoke to them like , on the telephone , erm and basically they er and we agreed that we would n't take it any further so it er happened to be a police officer 's view as against our view , and whilst we did n't agree with the view , er we sent enough references to make our point known anyway .
7 a police officer 's duty is to be a keeper of the peace and to take all necessary steps with that in view .
8 Norma Larkin , a police sergeant 's wife , an ex-hairdresser , and the mother of one son , is ‘ very dissatisfied ’ with housework :
9 She tottered to her right , bumped into a police horse 's hindquarters , stumbled against the horse , then screamed as she was pulled violently backwards by strong arms .
10 While readers might accept that the National Health Service could produce useful output measures such as the number and cost of various treatments , they might wish to consider what appropriate output measures could meaningfully be produced to measure , for example , a police force 's community liaison programme .
11 And anot in a careers officer 's view the other day , that seeing as though they 'd worked there twenty years ago , they wanted to go back and see how it had changed .
12 Under the new pricing , the 80960-based ViewStations start at $1,000 for an FX15 15″ mono terminal putting up 1,024 by 864 pixels ; a 19″ colour FX19CT with 1,280 by 1,024 pixels now costs $3,200 .
13 A BEER festival is back on after the council overturned an arts centre 's refusal to hold it .
14 Erm if there was to be an exceptions policy er I would n't like Scarborough to be excluded from it .
15 Powell and Pressburger made their last disillusioned statement on the post-war mood in The Small Back Room ( 1949 ) , the story of an explosives expert 's struggles against drink and pain that was their first film after the defection to Korda .
16 With the BBC ‘ illustrating ’ the cluster bombing of Iraqi airfields with an arms manufacturer 's demonstration video , tv 's claim to ‘ show it like it is ’ in 1990 appears as obscene as it did in the Falklands war .
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