Example sentences of "of an [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The industry commissioner , Martin Bangemann , told reporters yesterday that it was still unclear what line Mr Clinton would take on Airbus , which was the subject of an EC-US subsidy reduction deal last year after a long-running dispute . |
| 2 | The oilseed agreement , which reduces the cultivated area used to produce vegetable oils , struck in Washington last December to avoid a damaging trade war , is a part of an EC-US farm trade accord that is crucial to a long-delayed world trade deal under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade . |
| 3 | The onset of open kitchen fast food catering , as introduced by the Americal multi-outlets , has shown that cleanliness can be a central part of an operators product and marketing strategy — grubby kitchens invariably produce grubby food . |
| 4 | The Whitney Museum is to take photography seriously : its director , David Ross , has announced the setting up of an acquisitions committee whose job will be to establish a coherent acquisitions policy , mainly by filling gaps in the present collections . |
| 5 | It should also mention that it requires the application of an acquisitions policy which balances the strategic needs of RBGE staff with the longer-term ‘ national heritage ’ aspects included in our statutory objectives . |
| 6 | P5 Learning Outcome 3 — In this Learning Outcome only a simple ‘ database ’ is required , eg. this could be a stock control programme , a spreadsheet or part of an accounts package . |
| 7 | The publications will be further enhanced , and we have started work on the preparation of an experts systems version of the guidelines themselves , which is expected to be ready early in the new year . |
| 8 | Plastic knitting needles were scrounged and a series of holes slightly smaller than the needles were drilled in one end of an 8″ length of 4″ diameter pipe . |
| 9 | This led to the establishment of after-school clubs for children of junior age , staffed by a team of teachers and parents and to the provision of an activities programme for under-tens in the summer holiday , organised through the Parent-Teacher Association . |
| 10 | Admission to the fourth year of an honours course depends on performance in previous ( usually third year ) courses . |
| 11 | They can also spend all or part of an honours year abroad , as the department and the faculty have links with many European and American universities . |
| 12 | After a two-year common course students elect and are selected for either a three-year honours degree in Consumer Studies or a four-year sandwich degree in Consumer Studies which , as well as leading to the award of an honours degree , includes a Diploma in Industrial Studies ( DIS ) awarded for the successful completion of a year 's industrial placement . |
| 13 | It is suggested that the framework is sufficient to allow for the definition , within it , of an honours degree course in Electronic Publishing and that the time is ripe for such courses to begin to appear . |
| 14 | It is assumed that the reader is familiar with the elements of thermodynamics , statistical mechanics and elasticity to the level of an honours degree in physics or chemistry but since continuum mechanics and viscoelasticity are not commonly found in such courses a detailed account of them is give in Chaps 2 and 3 , Chap . |
| 15 | Significant developments at the undergraduate level , were the reintroduction of an Honours programme in Political Studies , with a particular emphasis on Europe and the graduation of the first students with degrees in Japanese . |
| 16 | ( 7 ) The members of a licensing board for an islands area or licensing division of an islands area shall be elected at a meeting of the council of the islands area to be held on a date between May 16 , 1977 and June 30 , 1977 to be determined by the council , and , in the case of subsequent elections of those members : ( a ) except in so far as paragraph ( b ) below otherwise provides , at the first meeting of the council held after each subsequent ordinary election of the council ; and ( b ) where a determination under subsection ( 3 ) above is made ( whether or not at such meeting of the council as is mentioned in paragraph ( a ) above ) , either : ( i ) at the meeting at which the determination is made ; or ( ii ) at the first meeting of the council held after such meeting as is mentioned in sub-paragraph ( i ) above . |
| 17 | In the case of a board for an islands area or division of an islands area , the members were to be elected at a meeting of the islands council to be held between May 16 , 1977. and June 30 , 1977 , and thereafter at the first meeting of the council after every ordinary election . |
| 18 | Whereas the report of an ex-police inspector highlighted the genocidal implications of Chesterton 's speech , that of the Special Branch scribe merely stated that the whole of his discourse was directed towards racial discrimination and hatred of the Jew . |
| 19 | Clamp it between the two parts of an algae magnet and sink it to the bottom of the tank . |
| 20 | We start with a common game theory model of an arms race . |
| 21 | Fears of fresh fighting between the now entirely separated Armenian and Azeri communities within Nagorny Karabakh itself have been heightened by discovery of an arms cache hidden aboard an Armenian helicopter , which landed on Sunday in a football stadium in the Armenian-controlled section of the enclave . |
| 22 | The charges follow the discovery of an arms cache , including 50lb of Semtex and Kalashnikov rifles , in a lock-up garage on Tuesday . |
| 23 | It has been suggested that the presence of an arms dealer and a minister engaged in selling arms , makes such an illegal cargo less implausible . |
| 24 | ‘ The idea of an arms embargo , I think that this is practical , and morally speaking I think this is right and really worthwhile to consider , ’ the Dalai Lama , accompanied by the other laureates , told reporters in Bangkok . |
| 25 | Most of the arbitrage and speculative activity on the floor of an options exchange tends to be in options that are " at the money " — i.e. those whose exercise price is approximately the same as the current spot price of the underlying asset . |
| 26 | I ca n't fault it in performing the basic functions that you can reasonably expect from a spreadsheet , but I do feel that Lotus has tried to sell 1-2-3 for Windows on the back of the original DOS version , which misses the point of an Windows spreadsheet entirely . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | But in the High Court , Parker LJ has stated that whilst the creation of an admissions policy is a matter of discretion for the LEA itself , that policy must enable consideration to be given to exceptional cases and therefore should not be too rigid . |
| 29 | Mr. Howell submitted that Parliament having expressly dealt with the case of an admissions policy designed to preserve the character of the school in subsections ( 3 ) ( b ) and ( 6 ) , it was not open to the school ( even though over-subscribed ) to apply such a policy under section 6(3) ( a ) in selecting the applicants who were to be rejected . |
| 30 | One advantage of the correction of twice the number of degrees off track , is that it produces the two equal sides of an isosceles triangle . |