Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun pl] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To have 32 seeds in a 128 women 's singles draw , would be nothing less than a protection racket . |
| 2 | There are trees here , inviting a picnic , and a pleasant anglers ' path may be followed up-river to bring Ben Stack , the most shapely of the mountains hereabouts , into close view . |
| 3 | He spent three years in New York State as resident secretary of the Sleepy Hollow Country Club , a rich men 's recreation park on the Hudson River , whence he could keep an eye on wealthy Irish-Americans . |
| 4 | The claim was made in an article published in the Wall Street Journal on Feb. 6 , which suggested that Clinton had received a four-year deferment from the draft by promising to join a reserve officers ' training programme ( ROTP ) at the University of Arkansas . |
| 5 | She taught music in a private girls ' school in Edinburgh . |
| 6 | A headmaster who resigned from a private girls ' school is waiting to see if he 's to be prosecuted for allegedly importing child pornography . |
| 7 | At the crown of Port Solent is Oyster Quay , an outstanding development of spacious , luxury apartments with a private residents ' leisure centre , including swimming pool and gymnasium . |
| 8 | There have been major rebellions against the imposition of charges for eye and dental tests , for an amendment to grade the poll tax according to ability to pay , and for the second reading of a private members ' bill to liberalize the Official Secrets Act . |
| 9 | The Jockey Club believes that in the long term Sunday racing without cash betting is impractical and it is resigned to trying to bring about a change in the legislation by a private members ' bill . |
| 10 | Just as he did this , the government had a change of heart and decided that there would after all be a Private Members ' ballot . |
| 11 | this time in promoting a Private Members ' Bill , which came to the statute book as the Civic Amenities Act , 1967 . |
| 12 | Cigarettes are a type of goods ordinarily bought for private use or consumption and it has been held ( for the purpose of the Trade Descriptions Act 1968 ) that a private members ' club is not a business , John v. Matthews ( 1910 D.C. ) , see paragraph 16 — 04 below . |
| 13 | Because of disquiet among ordinary members there , George Devlin , Vice-Chairman of the company , says that they wish to retain the atmosphere of a private members ' club , while delightful Chairman Michael Broke , told me that the plan is to raise standards even higher . |
| 14 | Then a Private Members ' Bill established a trust to protect it , consisting of representatives from five local councils . |
| 15 | After MPs sat all night to defeat a private members ' bill to enable building of the Cardiff Barrage , the government announced that it would introduce its own bill to ensure that the measure passed into law . |
| 16 | The magnificent fight which the Spanish workers have waged against the Fascist … has been the wonder of the world … . the Council organized a Mass Meeting in Bradford to place the true facts before the public , and also opened a Spanish workers ' Relief Fund in conjunction with the TUC Solidarity Fund … . |
| 17 | While there existed a small women 's civil rights organization , the Liga Femenina Salvadorena , whose members were from the impatient middle classes , it could not be described as a broad women 's suffrage movement . |
| 18 | That might help undo memories of living in or around Lucca in a displaced persons ' camp when they left Trieste ; a little cosseted security makes up for the times when there were seventeen families in one room . |
| 19 | Next day , in a classic Boys ' Own move , Neame and two other Britons — Jonathan Tinker and Harry Taylor — set the Sherpas an example by trudging off up the mountain , loaded with supplies . |
| 20 | The native ( adult ! ) speaker takes the simple collocation of three words as simultaneously the name of a character and a classic children 's television programme . |
| 21 | The position of the master craftsmen was maintained through a strong steelworkers ' union . |
| 22 | In Sweden , for instance , a strong employers ' confederation enforced managerial prerogatives from the early years of the present century , prerogatives which were also supported by the legal framework until the law was changed in 1977 ( see Chapter 7 ) . |
| 23 | I must admit that we ourselves started out with a strong women 's following , but I think that 's because of society and the way men are brought up not to be so immediately emotional . |
| 24 | On Jan. 30 the Agence France-Presse news agency reported that some 20 Moslem clerics had been arrested in recent weeks and that a 40-year-old preacher had been sacked and condemned to 80 lashes in December after he had used his Friday sermon to insult the leaders of a Saudi women 's association . |
| 25 | Among the projects carried out by ERA-WACC during the year were : a colloquium held in Moscow on the MacBride Report , entitled ‘ Europe speaks to Europe ’ ; a conference on communication ethics ( also held in Moscow ) ; a worship workshop for TV producers in western and eastern Europe ; and the setting up of a European Women 's network . |
| 26 | The tournament is again a Belfast Telegraph copyright , and one of 12 in a European Seniors ' calendar now worth over £800,000 in prize-money . |
| 27 | We are proposing a European Residents ' Charter , guaranteeing equal rights and equal duties to every European resident . |
| 28 | A European consumers ' pressure group is angry at the chaotic state of control on such potentially-lethal products . |
| 29 | His greatest successes came on the cup front , scoring the goal that took the FA Cup to the Bridge in 1970 ( the only time Chelsea have won it ) , and the following season sharing in a European Cup-Winners ' Cup replay triumph over Real Madrid . |
| 30 | The parade converges on Place St Maur des Fosses to hear a few words from the local Euro-MP , because the EC has stumped up a bit of money to make it a European clowns ' convention this year . |