Example sentences of "an [noun pl] [noun] [be] " in BNC.
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1 | Doubtless the freedom from ‘ bureaucracy ’ such as an accounts department is one of the reasons why individuals decide to practise on their own . |
2 | An accounts department is different from a marketing department . |
3 | An artists impression was drawn up of a man who was asking for directions to her home earlier in the day . |
4 | But how can we decide how far an Arts education is good in itself ? |
5 | This concern may to some extent have been justified : according to a newspaper report , one battle in which an AWACS aircraft was involved , albeit peripherally , nearly became several . |
6 | Independent fieldwork for an honours thesis is carried out between the third and fourth years of study . |
7 | There were conceivably differences in the quality of the students entering the courses , but there seemed to be ‘ different appraisals of the market , and what an honours degree was all about ’ . |
8 | On 12 June 1965 an Honours List was published containing my name on the list of life peers . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | An arms cache was found in the house of ‘ a certain Azimov ’ who was alleged to have been recruited by Bashir 's agents . |
11 | An arms cache was found in the house of ‘ a certain Azimov ’ who was alleged to have been recruited by Bashir 's agents . |
12 | There was even talk of an IRA link , after an arms cache was found eight miles away . |
13 | Also in Belfast , police arrested a man after an arms cache was found in the Protestant Donegall Pass district . |
14 | One underlying issue , however , troubles me , Throughout there is the implication that to partake wittingly in an arms race is a perversion of science — as the conclusions say , ‘ the role of scientists in the arms race is of crucial importance . |
15 | The reason why many ethologists would now prefer to explain ritualization as an arms race is that they have increasingly come to realize that selfish competition among individuals is the rule in the animal world . |
16 | The only European country that maintains an arms embargo is Great Britain , but even that is not absolute . |
17 | Meantime at the other end of the continent , the only country in northern Europe which does n't have an EDS presence is Finland , says Geoffrey Carroll , president of EDS 's northern European operations . |
18 | In the latest incidents , an antiques dealer was attacked at Keele services on the M Six shortly after midnight and yesterday a woman driving along a quite country road in Chepstow had her car rammed by a gang wielding baseball bats . |
19 | An example of good practice in incorporating disabled people into an allocations policy was again provided by Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council . |
20 | A further incentive for a share sale rather than an assets sale is that , if the target company has recently been acquired , the shares will have a much higher base cost than the historical cost of the assets and the business . |
21 | but in the plans for the reorganisation of community affairs there was an exhibitions officer was n't there ? there 's still a need for that is n't there ? |
22 | If she was an innocent abroad , her parents considered that a life cocooned in an all-girls school was hardly adequate preparation for the bright lights of the big city . |
23 | To meet this gap in the old ‘ circle of control ’ , an Estimates Committee was appointed in 1912 and reappointed in every session , except during the two world wars , until 1960 when Standing Order No. 80 made the sessional appointment of the committee mandatory . |
24 | An Alumni Association is being planned by the School of Hospitality Studies at Thames Valley University . |
25 | As a consequence , the sequence of development of a contract on an options exchange is initially to offer just a call option on the underlying , and when that is established to supplement it with a put contract . |
26 | Suppose an industrial salesperson working for an adhesives manufacturer is faced with the following objection : ‘ Why should I buy your new adhesive gun when my present method of applying adhesive — direct from the tube — is perfectly satisfactory ? ’ |