Example sentences of "a [noun pl] [noun] is " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , in certain areas such as Guernsey and Northern Ireland , a firearms certificate is required for all guns . |
| 2 | DEADLOCK between Suffolk County Council and a neighbouring Essex local authority over a roads scheme is likely to be resolved by a Government inspector . |
| 3 | DEADLOCK between Suffolk County Council and a neighbouring Essex local authority over a roads scheme is likely to be resolved by a Government inspector . |
| 4 | As with the purchase of a share , the maximum loss that can be suffered by anyone who buys a futures contract is the initial price of the asset ( S t ) , since negative share prices are not possible . |
| 5 | Kipnis and Tsang ( 1984a ) argued that the usual relationship between spot and futures prices during the life of a futures contract is as shown in Fig. 7.3 . |
| 6 | For the purposes of the SFA Rules , a futures contract is both a " derivative " and a " contingent liability transaction " . |
| 7 | Any attempt to define a futures contract is likely to be unsatisfactory in some respect . |
| 8 | The view of Keynes ( 1930 ) , Hicks ( 1946 ) and Houthakker ( 1968 ) is that the usual situation for a futures market is one of normal backwardation , that is , F t < E ( S T ) . |
| 9 | News chief Stewart Purvis said : ‘ Talk of a ratings collapse is nonsense . ’ |
| 10 | The money side of a clergy family is terribly difficult . |
| 11 | They are free to rotate and the brakes work , so if for any reason a wheels-up arrival is made there should be little or no damage to the airframe . |
| 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 | In one a hunts man , his hunting-horn swinging free from his neck , is sticking a stake into a wild boar , which also has a dog sinking its teeth into its neck ; in another , two lions , one very heraldic and standoffish , are attacking a gazelle , helped by a bird of prey ; in the third , which is decidedly curious , a mule leads a lolling-tongued , wolf-like animal captive while ahead of it a hunts man is tensing his bow to fire at some unseen target . |
| 14 | One of the quandaries for a CHS owner is how to get top performing sails without incurring a CHS penalty . |
| 15 | The obvious best measure of a machines performance is how well it performs the tasks you bought it for . |
| 16 | Given the risk associated with the possibility that the market price may fall below the subscription price the timing of a rights issue is extremely important . |
| 17 | ( 4 ) If a cash underwritten alternative or a rights issue is being used to finance the bid , the underwriting agreement should be in place before the announcement is made and the terms of the agreement should ensure that there is a guaranteed commitment to provide the necessary funds if the offer becomes or is declared unconditional . |
| 18 | ( 2 ) The principal advantage of a cash underwritten alternative over a rights issue is that the new shares in the bidder are allotted to the target 's shareholders , in which case merger relief and , possibly , merger accounting may be available ( see para 23.1 below ) . |
| 19 | Meanwhile a woman who adopts a kairos approach is to see herself as one whom God has now deigned to choose , and privileged at that . |
| 20 | For most students , the decision to follow an arts path or a sciences path is made at the age of 16 , when choosing A levels ; for some students , it is made earlier , at 14 , or , for a very few students , those who have kept their options open , later , after A level . |
| 21 | The advantage of a Loans Fund is that it facilitates the authority 's management of debt . |
| 22 | We therefore feel that a Pensions Act is now necessary in order to consolidate existing legislation , clarify the major areas of uncertainty which currently exist in trust law , and to introduce new safeguards which we believe to be necessary . ’ |
| 23 | Adjustment to a payments imbalance is restricted under a rigidly fixed exchange rate system since the authorities lose one of their policy tools , that is the ability to vary the exchange rate of their currency . |
| 24 | For the enthusiast , making a copy of a games program is more fun than playing the game itself . |
| 25 | To help in judging and assessing CPE achievement a points system is recommended . |
| 26 | The Art of Laughter … a cartoonists job is all about drawing on the funny side of life … |
| 27 | That 's not really a police word is it ? |
| 28 | There should be mandatory minimum jail terms for crimes like these and if a police officer is killed in the line of duty it should be classified as a capital offence . |
| 29 | confessed to having initially found ‘ prima facie perverse and incomprehensible ’ — was that a police officer is not acting in the execution of his duty if he is doing something that he is not compelled by law to do . |
| 30 | However , if a police officer is suddenly told by control that the member of the public with whom he is dealing may be suffering from a mental disorder , he may start to deal with that individual differently , and in a way that may not be particularly helpful . |