Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun pl] [noun] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | a redefinition of the advanced module as one-tenth of the notional effort of a full-time honours degree candidate in one year ( the basic module remained as one-twelfth ) ; |
| 2 | British Telecom wants to set up a global framework which can offer a complete telecommunications service package to multinationals by reselling spare capacity on the international private line circuits of other US carriers . |
| 3 | From a service-provider ( mainly the development officer for the action sample , or a social services department member for the control sample ) or a near relative or friend . |
| 4 | We have a social concerns pressure group within the church that brings to our attention matters for action . |
| 5 | The Princess Royal , President , Riding for the Disabled Association , visits the Abingdon Group , Longworth , Abingdon ; attends the Annual General Meeting of the National Association of Victim Support Schemes at Central Hall , Westminster , London SW1 ; and as President , Royal Yachting Association , attends a Racing Rules Committee Meeting at the Royal Thames Yacht Club , 60 Knightsbridge , London SW1 . |
| 6 | As the system is updated , nothing is lost for storage is so cheap that it is always more cost effective to slap a primitive TEI type header on each block of data and transfer it to the next store rather than sort out what is likely to be needed from what is not . |
| 7 | The £100,000 project — including a Scottish Arts Council grant of £20,000 and funding from the Gaelic Television Committee and the National Gaelic Arts Project — is the brainchild of Alisdair MacDonald of the Aberdeen-based Invisible Bouncers Theatre Company and the Gaelic actor and writer Domhnall Ruadh , now infamous nationwide as the anti-hero of Gaelic' first soap opera , Machair . |
| 8 | The £100,000 project — which has a Scottish Arts Council grant of £20,000 and funding from the Gaelic Television Committee and the National Gaelic Arts Project — is the brainchild of Alisdair MacDonald of the Aberdeen-based Invisible Bouncers Theatre Company and the Gaelic actor and writer Domhnall Ruadh , now infamous nationwide as the anti-hero of Gaelic' first soap opera , Machair . |
| 9 | Elevations , a response to dance by Glasgow-based Richard Learoyd , the result of a Scottish Arts Council commission in 1990 ( until 16 Feb ) . |
| 10 | Ayala Corp , the Philippines biggest conglomerate says it has signed a generalised telecommunications co-operation agreement with the state owned Singapore Telecom Ltd . |
| 11 | A PUBLIC AFFAIRS TELEVISION PROGRAMME IN LAGOS , NIGERIA . |
| 12 | In 1950 Winchester left Kenya to attend a Joint Services Staff College at Latimer , and became a GSO1 at the War Office the next year . |
| 13 | The continuity was impressive , brought about by a reformed style of capitalism on the one hand and a moderate Labour Party and a cautious trades union movement on the other . |
| 14 | In the next few months , with British taxpayers ' money , we shall be setting up a national drugs intelligence unit in Czechoslovakia to try to intercept drugs coming overland . |
| 15 | Added to a National Rivers Authority grant of £100,000 , it 's enabled 3 weirs to be restored . |
| 16 | The leaders also approved the creation of a human resources development centre in Pakistan , a regional tuberculosis centre in Nepal and a regional documentation centre in India . |
| 17 | Mr Chettle , who comes originally from St Albans , helped set up the Aspex Gallery , a major artists studio base in Portsmouth . |
| 18 | President George Bush 's nomination to the Supreme Court of Clarence Thomas , 43 , a black Appeals Court judge with strong conservative views [ see p. 38328 ] , occasioned what was probably the most controversial Senate confirmation hearing in US history . |
| 19 | Generale de Service en Informatique SA , France 's sixth-largest software and systems engineering firm , announced yesterday a five-year facilities management contract with Picard Surgeles SA , a retailer of frozen foodstuffs , which aims to automate its distribution system . |
| 20 | Hewlett-Packard Co is offering new management applications and a centralised systems integration component for the Unix version of its OpenView systems management environment . |
| 21 | Marston Magna lies in a flat lias clay area of south Somerset , and its name suggests marshy surroundings . |
| 22 | Similarly , the graphics sub-system turns in some respectable benchmark timings , allied to a neat 14″ SVGA monitor of indeterminate parentage which gives a very steady , if over-bright display . |
| 23 | ARTILLERY fire and minelaying by government and rebel troops have halted a United Nations reconnaissance mission in Cambodia . |
| 24 | A second KSR1 is going to a General Notors Corp lab in Detroit for development and conversion of systems management tools . |
| 25 | A second KSR1 is going to a General Motors Corp lab in Detroit for development and conversion of systems management tools . |
| 26 | This talented young Liphook rider notched up a runaway experts class victory in the Bognor Regis Club trial at Lavant , near Chichester . |
| 27 | That is why it is so important that , as one of the conclusions of the Maastricht settlement , it was agreed that the 12 countries should set up an organisation loosely known as Europol whose first job would be to set up a Europeanwide drugs intelligence unit among the Twelve , which should lead to a greater level of co-operation with our continental partners to stop Ecstasy and other drugs coming into the country . |
| 28 | Computer Sciences Corp has won a multi-year facilities management contract from Sun Microsystems Inc that is expected to generate $27m a year : under the agreement , Sun will temporarily transfer all its mainframe data centre activities in Milpitas , California to a Computer Sciences data centre in San Diego , enabling Sun to convert its mainframe systems , which oversee its worldwide manufacturing operations , to a client-server environment , with help from Computer Sciences , and the El Segundo company will run Sun 's day-to-day operations , supporting applications maintenance for its Manufacturing Resource Planning software , while the client-server system is developed and installed . |
| 29 | Graham Lambert and Martyn Walsh linger for a chat with the fans , and one girl wearing a home-made Cows shirt runs of wailing ‘ He likes my cow ! |
| 30 | Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG is tracking the move towards distributed , networked systems by US corporations with the creation of a new Systems Integration Group at Burlington , Massachusetts , which will target telecommunications , government , retail and manufacturing markets . |