Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] [noun] [noun sg] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it was seven months later , after a prolonged rent strike and a number of symbolic occupations , before the municipal government implemented the agreement , lowering the tariffs by 50% and firing the most notorious crooks employed in the market administration . |
| 2 | IBM Corp last week said that the version of DB2 for OS/2 is generally available after a successful beta test and that it has a set of software development tools for the object-oriented C++ language . |
| 3 | Food giant Hillsdown Holdings added 8p to 130p after a maintained dividend forecast and boardroom shake-up . |
| 4 | But after a tough training session and several lectures during the day it 's great to wind down in front of the TV and not have to worry about anything . |
| 5 | After a magnetic resonance scan and talks with the neuro-radiologist , he decided that the lesion was more likely to be a tumour . |
| 6 | If a thought connected to fear bombards you , visualize the object of fear in front of a solid oak door and slam the door in its face . |
| 7 | In December 1942 his committee issued the so-called ‘ Smolensk Manifesto ’ outlining their aims , and early in 1943 the existence of a Russian liberation movement and its Russian Liberation Army ( Russkaya Osvoboditelnaya Armiya , ROA ) was proclaimed . |
| 8 | In a breakthrough case on 20 March this year , four policemen in Guatemala City were convicted of the murder of a 13-year-old street child and sentenced to between 10 and 15 years ' imprisonment . |
| 9 | The effect of these induced voltages can be seen in the high-speed waveform of Fig.5.2(c) , in which the waveform can no longer be described in terms of a simple exponential rise and decay . |
| 10 | This is illustrated in Figure 5.11 which represents the model of a simple pulley block and shows the problems of detecting interference between the axial pin and slide plate with and without the HERMS approach . |
| 11 | The agreement made by Dr H.J. Van Roijen with Muhammad Rum , a second-rank leader , under the auspices of the American H. Merle Cochran , left much of the recaptured territory in Dutch hands , but accepted the principle of a Round Table Conference and the release of the captured leaders . |
| 12 | The current Transport Commissioner , Karel van Miert , is an ardent supporter of a pan-European rail network and is confident that he can succeed in persuading the Council of Ministers of the need for a fund . |
| 13 | Alice had said : ‘ It 's a pity your husband did n't leave him to drown and save himself , but I suppose that on the spur of the moment he did n't weigh up the relative value of a useful teaching career and pimpled stupidity . ’ |
| 14 | The increasing importance attached to APL is indicated by the decision in Lothian Region to develop APL in all colleges ; the initiative is supported by the appointment of a Regional Development Officer and the allocation of funding by the Regional Education Department . |
| 15 | Barton is part of a regional development area and as such it can offer new companies a wide range of financial incentives . |
| 16 | Other treaties of alliance do not contain such precise prohibitions against conflicting agreements , but may be understood as forming part of a regional defence framework and thus as impliedly restricting future freedom of treaty-making . |
| 17 | Careful follow-up , and readily available expert advice and support form the basis of a successful rehabilitation programme and should be made available to all patients . |
| 18 | One influence is the fact that eurobonds can not be sold into the United States before the end of a 90-day seasoning period and must be registered . |
| 19 | All of this creates genuine difficulties for schools , not lessened by the fact that curriculum and timetable changes ( and all the other changes that the Act demands ) have to be resourced within the limitations of a formula-funded school budget and an LEA budget effectively determined ( because of the way the community tax will work ) by central government . |
| 20 | That 22-month-old Limousin X is out of a Simmental Angus cow and was bred by Peter Walker , Easterside , Dunnottar . |
| 21 | These constraints arise from the non-existence of a perfect annuity market and the nonexistence of perfect rental and mortgage markets . |
| 22 | She had a mince pie with her tea , then went to her bedroom and changed from her shop uniform of a black alpaca dress and white apron into a grey jersey-wool dress , then she went downstairs again . |
| 23 | A PENNILESS van driver 's master plan for murder ended in the slaughter and dismemberment of a retired bank official and his daughter — for the sake of stealing a car , an Old Bailey jury heard yesterday . |
| 24 | Of particular interest in this case is the fact that as part of a nutritional screen serum and red cell glutathione concentrations were measured and found to be low . |
| 25 | Although there had been a long established tradition of community and private forestry schemes , it was not until the launching of the Saemol Undong ( or New Community Movement ) in 1970 that it was possible to conceive of a nation-wide forestry policy and programme . |
| 26 | Using a dimmer a range of illumination voltages were used , measured with a voltmeter and readings of a fixed reference card and a fixed card subject compared . |
| 27 | To counteract difficulties in collection and methodological evaluation of the data we used several refinements of the method , including designation of a central data coordinator and use of a simple 10 point ( rather than a continuous ) scale . |
| 28 | A combination boiler combines the functions of a central heating boiler and a multi-point water heater . |
| 29 | It resulted in the creation of a Central Training Council and a comprehensive range of Industrial Training Boards . |
| 30 | ( 1937 , You 're in the Army Now in US ) , the improbable tale of an American hoodlum who takes on the identity of a murdered gambling companion and finds himself in the British Army , where he slowly comes to understand the habits of self-effacing Englishmen . |