Example sentences of "a [noun pl] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secondly , the Convention may itself prescribe a conflicts rule and thus displace the normal conflicts rules of the forum . |
| 2 | The glass thickness may be correct for say , a 24″ tank , but two 24″ tanks become a 48″ tank and the glass thickness must be suitable for this size of aquarium . |
| 3 | And they told me about Azul , in Jersey , and before that I think it was before that they showed me the forensic photographs of all of them : Bissett skewered on the railings , grotesque and spread and limp ; the blood-smeared vibrator used on the retired judge , Jamieson ; the drained shapeless white body of Persimmon , tied to his grid above a pool of blood , then nothing when there should have been something ; then what was left of Sir Rufus Carter , blackened bones , distorted and bent , the black skull 's jaw hinged down in a blind scream but the flesh all gone very much a dental-records job and it was all black , the nails , the wood and the bones too but it 's their mouths their jaws I remember , their silent screams , hanging slack or jammed open and it gets worse because they show me the fucking video they show me the video they think I made or that I think they think I made but I did n't ; they make me watch it and it 's horrific ; there 's a man and he 's dressed in black or dark blue and he has a gorilla mask on and he keeps sucking on this little bottle he 's carrying which must be helium because it gives him that baby voice disguising his own voice and he has this fat little guy strapped to a chrome seat , his mouth taped , one arm tied down onto the arm of the chair , shirt rolled up and the little guy 's shrieking as hard as he can but it sounds quiet because the noise is having to come down his nose while the man in the gorilla mask looks from the camera to the guy in the seat and holds up this huge fucking syringe like something from a nightmare from an old movie from a horror film and I can feel my heart beating wildly because that 's what this is . |
| 4 | ‘ I am a Spurs supporter and my kids would never forgive me . ’ |
| 5 | Stick with a non-Windows solution and you 'll be maximizing your existing investment — without having to waste time converting your data , and without having to relearn or reprogram . |
| 6 | Last Tuesday , at the first Diesel in Action day at Millbrook Proving Ground , near Bedford , fleet buyers were able to test the cars , ranging from the 205 super-mini to executive 605 , on a hills-and-bends circuit and the renowned high-speed bowl . |
| 7 | These are allowed to rot in a biogas generator or digester . |
| 8 | Its 10 staff are divided into an Applications Development Team which works on one-off technical developments , bespoke application development and product evaluation ; a Products Department that supplies integrated open systems products ; and a customer services unit offering consultancy , support and training . |
| 9 | You can seek help with it in a number of ways : there are your own staff and possibly other work colleagues ; and there may be a personnel department or at least a person with some training in this area . |
| 10 | The emphasis needs to be on alleviating the problems of day-to-day administration , which can exert a disruptive effect on a personnel department because of the large amounts of work created for short amounts of time . |
| 11 | When a production manager for example , meets a customer to discuss a quality problem or a minor design change , he is fulfilling a marketing role ; and so is a personnel manager when he negotiates an agreement with union representatives that a particular customer 's goods may be moved from the premises during a strike . |
| 12 | This could be an important consideration for a personnel manager when putting together a cost justification for a system . |
| 13 | This is sometimes known as a personnel specification and is an essential part of pre-interview preparation . |
| 14 | Yes sure , the card itself er is authorisation that is signed by er an officer of at least the rank of Assistant Chief Constable and er it 's a firearms authorisation that enables us or as an individual , to be issued with a firearm that is named on this card , er for that particular type of weapon er if if we go to a firearms operation . |
| 15 | ‘ We 've got ta be the only band in history to be sued by a comics company and a clothing company , ’ says Eugene , wryly . |
| 16 | Well they have a contracts department that deals with all these these are funding issues . |
| 17 | Mixing their metaphors with exuberance , they talked of reversing the tide of history , delivering a skills revolution and mounting a crusade to make the British workforce the best trained in Western Europe . |
| 18 | I , I can remember all the activity and er when it was erected there was a fella from the First World War , he lost a leg in the war and he was in charge of the billiards room and the tables , when they built the club itself the front part used to be devoted to card games and then they installed a billiards hall and the tables and as I say a chap named he used to live in Street , but he was , a lost a leg during the war and they found him the job of looking after the tables and marking |
| 19 | The use of limit pricing can lead to considerable differences between the settlement price of a futures contract and the underlying equilibrium price . |
| 20 | Strategy 2 involves the purchase of a futures contract and the investment of a sum of money equal to the value of the cash index purchased under strategy 1 ( i.e. P s ) at the money market rate of interest . |
| 21 | For example , a futures transaction where the contract price is payable on settlement and a written option where the underlying property or an appropriate cash difference must be paid on settlement , will be contingent liability transactions . |
| 22 | But co-operation over matters such as a futures rulebook and joint compliance have indicated the economies of scale possible in combining with the TSA 's 1,000 members . |
| 23 | Other FSA activities , such as " advising " on or " dealing " in investments , would require the same authorisation as a futures broker or dealer . |
| 24 | First , for many assets ( such as stock market indices ) there is either a futures market or a forward market , but not both , and so a direct comparison is not possible . |
| 25 | Thus , supposedly , nothing can be admitted to our writings unless it is capable of being checked by the reader , either via the presentation of original data and a methods section or through reference to other work which upholds similar standards . |
| 26 | Right , erm , what happens then , Philip , if the client says to you , and it 's unlikely with Covermaster , but it 's the same principle if you 're talking of a savings plan or a pension , erm , I do n't like the idea of my money being invested in a managed fund , I 've been reading the financial press , and I 'm very interested and excited at the thought of the Japanese market going up through the roof . |
| 27 | Pen 's run out right okay so you 're looking for er a savings plan or a l a lump sum of money for ten years plus for your daughter ? |
| 28 | Erm tt I think , oh dear , I saw an advert in the paper I think to , to take out a savings plan or something and I just signed up a , a form and back it came . |
| 29 | Yes that 's right , looked like a , a good plan , I was looking for a savings plan and er I suppose it 's one of those er fortunate circumstances , Friends Provident sent some stuff through , it looked good so I took it out . |
| 30 | Arkan owns the best ice-cream parlour in Belgrade , a shopping centre , a savings bank and other businesses . |