Example sentences of "a [noun pl] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This month 's competition prize is a 48″ systemised tank and cabinet in your choice of polished wood finishes . |
| 2 | Active exploration requires a Mines Royal Licence , issued for twelve months extended annually for up to three years dependent on satisfactory progress . |
| 3 | Billy Jones , a Spurs amateur centre-forward in the 1920s , remembers him for his clever ball control . |
| 4 | Operational er commanders of incidents erm have a , what is called a firearms tactical advisor , er a highly trained officer who is made available to people in the position that I then found myself , er in order that they can advise as to the tactics to follow and my tactical advisor on this occasion was er Sergeant . |
| 5 | The value of shares over which each participant may at any time be granted an option under the Executive Scheme when added to the aggregate of the values of shares ( as at the date of grant of the options ) comprised in outstanding options granted in the preceding ten years under the Executive Scheme and any other employee share option scheme operated by the Company ( other than a savings related share options scheme ) is limited to four times the participant 's annual salary . |
| 6 | An executive share option scheme was first introduced in 1980 followed by an Inland Revenue approved executive scheme in 1984 and a savings related scheme for UK employees in 1990 . |
| 7 | the number of shares made issuable pursuant to options granted ( excluding lapsed options ) under the Executive Scheme and any other employee share option scheme ( other than a savings related scheme ) shall not in any ten year period exceed 5% of the Company 's issued ordinary share capital for the time being ; and |
| 8 | Shire difficulty became sheer impossibility after a months long battle to deselect David Abrahams , the previous candidate . |
| 9 | John McFall , Labour 's Scottish rural affairs spokesman , said : ‘ Ministers were not prepared to give a pledge that there would be no further measures of this kind which ban fishermen from pursuing a centuries long tradition . |
| 10 | The brown muddy plain had sparse vegetation , most of which appeared to have been burnt away in a centuries old holocaust which had dried out and cracked most of the mud . |
| 11 | The Vale of White Horse Hunt maintains a centuries old tradition . |
| 12 | They will soon share a 6′ × 2′ × 2′ tank with a 10″ Black Shark , 12″ plec , 7″ Pangasius , and two Reed Fish . |
| 13 | London-based Ideal Business Solutions Ltd claims to be the first to market with an 80486DX 66MHz notebook computer , the EPS-486 : the machine has a 10″ active matrix colour display , PCMCIA slot , 4Mb of memory , 128Mb of RAM , a removable 200Mb hard disk , and a portable expansion unit , housing three 16-bit expansion cards ; it weighs 6.4 lbs and costs a phenomenal £2,000 . |
| 14 | Such a policy was first suggested over a decade ago when it seemed that a Polytechnics Central Council on Admissions , styled PCCA and doubtless pronounced ‘ Pukka ’ , would not be inappropriate . |
| 15 | Erm , I 'd just like to ask Sir Leonard whether the nature of the issues that are dealt with by environmental organisations , erm , indeed arguments such as pays etc. erm , introduces a difference in the nature of the relationship between the private sector and environmental N G Os , particularly when the issues that we promote , such as su the sustainable use of the world resources and the reduction of environmental degradation can have a direct impact on a companies bottom line . |
| 16 | We had one called Stumpy , a Dales short horn , light roan in colour , which we reared from a calf . |
| 17 | Clints have been quarried for rockeries at a markedly increasing rate in the last 20 years , according to a Dales National Park report . |
| 18 | It will be divided from the gravel and undergravel filter by a 3″ tall strip of glass across the tank . |
| 19 | It 's available in a wide range of thicknesses , including a 3″ thick pond matting which can be chopped into cubes to make a filter media in its own right ; and a carbon impregnated version which will remove impurities . |
| 20 | I recently began to stock a 4ft 6″ tank , commencing with a 5–1/2″ Plec , a 3″ Weather Loach and a 3″ Gold Severum , followed by two small Corydoras and a handsome 2–1/2″ Red Oscar . |
| 21 | In a planners ideal world where we might have a wholly directed economy competition would not be relevant but I 'm afraid the reality is we have to compete in North Yorkshire with other counties in er this region and with other regions in Britain with other countries in the European Union and with other countries in the world . |
| 22 | Providing loans without interest , the People 's Bank is a grassroots financial institution owned by the Government and targeted at the poorest Nigerians who live below the poverty line . |
| 23 | Fish number are comparatively low , and lighting is by a 42″ domestic tube , on nine hours a day . |
| 24 | Harris Corp , Melbourne , Florida has formed a telecommunications joint venture with Shenzhen Telecom Equipment Co : Shenzhen Harris Telecom Co Ltd to manufacture and sell Harris 's low- and medium-capacity digital microwave radios and will integrate them with other systems . |
| 25 | Bosnia is a telecommunications black hole . |
| 26 | The legacy of the 1905 Promenade widening was a 100-feet wide frontage , with separate carriageway , tramway and promenade . |
| 27 | Peter Lilley as a right winger has to combine his reputation as a zealous cutter of the state sector with a departmental budget that eats up to forty percent of the hole , one MP groans , rather inconsequentially , a weeks social security payments would buy a warship , even Kenneth Clark and Michael Portillo , sharpening their axes have to admit that Lilley did not exactly invent unemployment personally , but the burgeoning budget for invalidity benefit , together with much anecdotal evidence , suggest that somebody in Whitehall , well before his time , decided to cut the unemployment figures artificially by allowing , even encouraging people with little hope of jobs to remember that troublesome pain in their backs , and in the process get better benefits . |
| 28 | Social events included a Ball held in the Management Centre in November , a Sports Fun Day in May and events organised by individual departments to welcome back former staff and students . |
| 29 | He was an East Ender , near as possible a Cockney , and , with his mother , shopped the markets of Walthamstow and Leytonstone insisting that chips with this and chips with that was a triumphant diet for a sports crazy kid . |
| 30 | He was an East Ender , near as possible a Cockney , and , with his mother , shopped the markets of Walthamstow and Leytonstone insisting that chips with this and chips with that was a triumphant diet for a sports crazy kid . |