Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] [noun pl] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , the advice and judgments of a proposed ECOWAS Court of Justice would be binding on all institutions and members . |
| 2 | Endorsing the concept of " open skies " and " open lands " , he indicated the Soviet Union 's willingness to participate in " the establishment of a United Nations register of sales and transfers of weapons " . |
| 3 | The first is worth mentioning only because it gave him his debut in a major studio , for a United Artists production of Studs Lonigan , one more Dean-like character taken from a successful trilogy of novels by James T. Farrell . |
| 4 | As a previous personnel director of ICI once said , treating people well makes good moral sense — and even better business sense . |
| 5 | CAIRD GROUP , the waste disposal company headed by former stockbroker Peter Linacre , is raising £34.5m through a two-for-one rights issue of convertible preference shares . |
| 6 | Brian Degas and Harry Robertson who devised , wrote and produced SPECIALS will discuss their new series with a senior police officer of national standing , and with members of the cast . |
| 7 | Abergele boosted their Division Two title prospects with a maximum points mauling of bottom team Menai Bridge to move into second place . |
| 8 | It had been bought with a United Nations grant of 1980 on the understanding that all the profits would be channelled discreetly into a numbered Swiss bank account to be used exclusively by UNICEF . |
| 9 | A psychology that ignores it is more likely to turn into a dogmatic police force of a discourse . |
| 10 | It is usual for each side to begin with an equal points value of troops — say two thousand points a side . |
| 11 | It is usual for each side to begin with an equal points value of troops — say two thousand points a side . |
| 12 | It is usual for each side to begin with an equal points value of troops — say two thousand points a side . |
| 13 | Products on this list with an estimated imports value of more than £1bn include perfume and toilet water , food additives , car tyres , paper , ceramics , glassware , pipes , recorded material and furniture . |
| 14 | The constant impact against the field 's rim , of everything from showers of meteors down to stray molecules of gas , resulted in a cosmic fireworks display of spectacular proportions : a long tail of deteriorating matter stretched out along the path which the ship had taken . |
| 15 | In a Financial Times poll of senior businessmen , 70% said the budget made little or no difference to their companies or their view of government policy . |
| 16 | He suggests that we first obtain estimates of α and β , say and , from an ordinary least-squares regression of equation ( 3.49a ) . |
| 17 | The fact that the system cost around £300,000 as compared to a traditional suppliers offer of £2.5 million and only took three months to design , install , train and make fully operational reflects well on the technology — even though the paper itself failed . |
| 18 | Two South Africans and a Swazi were arrested after the discovery of the country 's largest arms haul , according to a Swazi police statement of March 9 , 1990 . |
| 19 | CYCLOSPORIN A , a cyclic undecapeptide , is a potent immunosuppressant that binds to a peptidyl-prolyl cis-trans isomerase of 165 amino acids , cyclophilin . |
| 20 | The American stockmarket now trades on a not-cheap price-earnings ratio of 14 based on Wall Street 's profit estimates for 1990 . |
| 21 | Profits should rise from £2.09m to £2.5m in the year to May 1990 , rating the shares , down 1p to 242p yesterday , on a modest earnings multiple of around eight times . |
| 22 | In those circumstances , he had the jurisdiction under section 11(7) to require the child to be returned , to direct the return of the child to the former matrimonial home and to the interim care of the father , and to direct that the three little girls should remain with their father pending an inter partes hearing of the application for a residence order . |
| 23 | In one of the most outspoken statements ever made by a Metropolitan Police officer of his rank , he says : ‘ The council has been ensuring that as many cases as possible are referred to the SMG , a pernicious organisation spewing out lies and propaganda in pursuance of their own ideological aims . |
| 24 | For example , advertising may support a campaign to drink more lager with an in-pub promotion organized by the public relations team — or a health education advertising campaign aimed at children may be supported by a public relations programme of activities in schools . |