Example sentences of "an [noun] [prep] [noun] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Iranian news media reported an offensive on May 10 by " mercenary tribesmen in Amarah , Basra and Nasiriyah " against " local Arabs " . |
| 2 | This was likely to produce an income of £16 million on the deposits advanced by customers . |
| 3 | A juror 's duty is to make an assessment on evidence available at the time . |
| 4 | Under the present scheme the Foundation will receive an endowment of £3.5 million from the National Heritage Memorial Fund . |
| 5 | Perhaps the most striking indication of how cloth overtook wool as the country 's major export is an action of Henry VII in 1493 : in order to apply economic sanctions to the Low Countries , he banned cloth exports , but not those of wool ( 84 , p.283 ) . |
| 6 | If the customer can demonstrate that the critical aspects were not brought to his attention or were " hidden in the small print " , he may be able to demonstrate a breach of this rule and ( in the case of a private customer ) sustain an action under s 62 of the FSA . |
| 7 | These are normally the only customers who can bring an action under s 62 of the FSA for loss resulting from breach of the COB Rules . |
| 8 | Once an associate of criminals such as the Krays and Richardsons , he has a number of convictions for violent crime . |
| 9 | They think that you 've only got to feed in your data and out pops an Identikit of sonny complete with prints , collar-size and taste in pop music . ’ |
| 10 | For most purposes comparison of bonds is in terms of gross redemption yields as these best reflect the expected return on an investment in terms both of coupon payments and capital gain or loss . |
| 11 | It is perhaps not by chance that the first Greek book to speak extensively about the Jews was written by an adviser of Ptolemy I in the years in which he was campaigning for the conquest of Palestine . |
| 12 | The minimum length of notice an employer must give an employee under Section 49 of the Employment Protection Act 1978 is one week when the employee has been employed between one month and two years . |
| 13 | schemes restricted to an association of topics such as might be encountered in local collections in an industrial library or an archive . |
| 14 | The IFC badly wants to double its capital with an injection of $1.3 billion from its government shareholders . |
| 15 | There would be an injection of £300 million into the Somerset economy . |
| 16 | Negotiators for the European Communities ( EC ) and the USA reached an accord on Nov. 20 on a long-running dispute over farm subsidies , thus seemingly opening the way for the conclusion of a worldwide free-trade accord to bring to an end the six-year negotiations in the Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) [ see pp. 38888-89 ; 38939 ; 39170 ] , although bitter divisions within the EC threatened to persist , with France denouncing the deal and warning of its intention to block its final approval . |
| 17 | Simplesse does not offer an alternative for people allergic to dairy products because it is made from milk whey and eggs , although tests have shown that the microparticulated proteins in Simplesse cause no greater allergic reaction than the component proteins . |
| 18 | On 29 November 1990 the joint administrators of Paramount Airways Ltd. , Roger Arthur Powdrill and Joseph Beaumont Atkinson , issued an originating application against the respondent , Hambros Bank ( Jersey ) Ltd. , seeking , inter alia , ( 1 ) a declaration that the payment of £346,800 made on or about 31 July 1989 into the account of Anser General Investments S.A. held with the bank , effectively reducing the indebtedness of Anser General Investments S.A. to the bank , constituted a transaction at an undervalue within section 238 of the Insolvency Act 1986 ; ( 2 ) an order that the bank pay to the administrators the sum of £346,800 ; ( 3 ) a declaration that the payment of £1,300,000 made on or about 4 July 1989 into the account of Anser General Investments S.A. with the bank , effectively reducing the indebtedness of Anser General Investments S.A. to the bank , constituted a transaction at an undervalue within section 238 of the Act of 1986 ; and ( 4 ) an order that the bank pay to the administrators the sum of £1,300,000 . |
| 19 | On 29 November 1990 the joint administrators of Paramount Airways Ltd. , Roger Arthur Powdrill and Joseph Beaumont Atkinson , issued an originating application against the respondent , Hambros Bank ( Jersey ) Ltd. , seeking , inter alia , ( 1 ) a declaration that the payment of £346,800 made on or about 31 July 1989 into the account of Anser General Investments S.A. held with the bank , effectively reducing the indebtedness of Anser General Investments S.A. to the bank , constituted a transaction at an undervalue within section 238 of the Insolvency Act 1986 ; ( 2 ) an order that the bank pay to the administrators the sum of £346,800 ; ( 3 ) a declaration that the payment of £1,300,000 made on or about 4 July 1989 into the account of Anser General Investments S.A. with the bank , effectively reducing the indebtedness of Anser General Investments S.A. to the bank , constituted a transaction at an undervalue within section 238 of the Act of 1986 ; and ( 4 ) an order that the bank pay to the administrators the sum of £1,300,000 . |
| 20 | Even the Tech , which has trumpeted the fact that it has pushed hard for a greater training element , has only been enabl able to include such elements as health and safety , job search , an enhancement of skills relevant to the job that is being done . |
| 21 | The Treasury had been so close to running out of money prior to the passage of legislation that it had postponed an auction of $40,000 million in government securities . |
| 22 | The bungalow huddles , one might even say broods , above an outcrop of ground high above the main road beside which it was built . |
| 23 | Having reached an ebb of spirits comparable to that which , a year before , had followed his breach with Southey , Coleridge was suddenly filled again with hopes and plans , and at the beginning of November wrote to Tom Poole with a sense of joyful liberation : |
| 24 | But in an interview with police one of the defendants claimed the men were just crouching down by the boards because they were trying to shelter from a strong wind . |
| 25 | In an interview on Oct. 5 with French journalists at the Franco-African summit in Libreville , Gabon [ see p. 39134 ] , President Idriss Déby said that a promised Sovereign National Conference could be held in early 1993 ; on Oct. 15 it was announced that the conference would start on Jan. 15 , 1993 . |
| 26 | The deep divisions within the party over the abortion issue were illustrated by Bush in an interview on Aug. 12 in which he appeared to have softened his own stance of opposition to abortion under almost all circumstances , by recognising the importance of a woman 's personal choice in the matter . |
| 27 | In an interview on Feb. 21 in Pravda , the organ of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ) , Gorbachev reiterated that " the Germans should themselves decide on the ways , forms and time-frame of their unification " . |
| 28 | In an interview on Nov. 18 with The Independent newspaper , the leader of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan ( PUK — the other main anti-government Kurdish guerrilla grouping ) , Jalal Talabani , declared that the PUK was to adopt a new strategy of taking " our urban guerrilla war to Arab cities " . |
| 29 | Lord Templeman , in an interview on Radio 4 with Hugo Young on 13 April 1988 . |
| 30 | Lord Templeman , in an interview on Radio 4 with Hugo Young on 13 April 1988 . |