Example sentences of "a [noun pl] [noun] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyone who was n't a wheels-on railwayman was demonstrably stupid . |
| 2 | But within a minute , any hopes of a Spurs recovery were ended , when the outstanding Roy Keane scored Forest 's second , thus securing their victory . |
| 3 | However , in certain areas such as Guernsey and Northern Ireland , a firearms certificate is required for all guns . |
| 4 | DEADLOCK between Suffolk County Council and a neighbouring Essex local authority over a roads scheme is likely to be resolved by a Government inspector . |
| 5 | DEADLOCK between Suffolk County Council and a neighbouring Essex local authority over a roads scheme is likely to be resolved by a Government inspector . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | For the purposes of the SFA Rules , a futures contract is both a " derivative " and a " contingent liability transaction " . |
| 9 | Any attempt to define a futures contract is likely to be unsatisfactory in some respect . |
| 10 | All the proposed solutions to the problem of defining a measure of the benefits per time period from owning a futures contract are open to objections . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | News chief Stewart Purvis said : ‘ Talk of a ratings collapse is nonsense . ’ |
| 13 | The money side of a clergy family is terribly difficult . |
| 14 | He led her into one of his work alcoves where a hi-res VDR was set up . |
| 15 | A 4″ pipe was built-in between this pond and the top header pool and a 2″ pipe was added just below where the capping stones would be . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | One of the quandaries for a CHS owner is how to get top performing sails without incurring a CHS penalty . |
| 20 | South Cave school was opened in 1967 , further extensions including a sports hall were completed in 1978 . |
| 21 | ‘ He used to say that the first obligation as a sports writer was not to be in the least boring ; that you had to try and retain the excitement of the event in your writing — without taking liberties with the truth or manufacturing drama . ’ |
| 22 | IN 1965 a Sports Council was set up to advise the government on future policy on sport and physical education . |
| 23 | Negotiations on the establishment of a customs union were ahead of schedule , and the Commission was forecasting that the union could come into effect by 1967 , three years earlier than originally planned . |
| 24 | The document on the formation of a customs union was not unanimously agreed . |
| 25 | Polarisation means there will be an end to the practice of claiming to be an independent financial intermediary when in fact 80–90 per cent of a firms policies are set up with a parent organisation . |
| 26 | The obvious best measure of a machines performance is how well it performs the tasks you bought it for . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Occasionally I felt that a policeman or a plain-clothes dick was looking rather too intently into my face . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | ( 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 . |