Example sentences of "a [noun] [letter] " in BNC.

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1 I am just about to tell you Q A P U quan quango , it 's a Q U A N G O semi public body with financial support from and senior appointments made by government .
2 C A P U L E T
3 C A P U L E T .
4 There it is H A P P Y , you 've got the pen ready ?
5 We maybe on different sides , but we want to make sure that the O A P s and the people that do have to er er present th pay these bills , I mean if you consider if you think of Calor , Calor Gas , Calor Gas , the way that I actually heat my I pay V A T on that , Calor Gas is is is V A T ed
6 Each component has been announced as part of the System Ten announcement and in fact A P T and Gain Multimedia are available in production today .
7 First is A P T which is essentially a heads down data entry facility .
8 If I can explain inflation which included in the budget at this stage is inflation between November ninety two and November ninety three , so inflation from today if you like er or last November , through to the end of the year , that is provided for in the central contingency of the authority and as pay awards are awarded the money we drawn down from that into the planning committee so the amount there would one point five percent of pay and four point two percent from general commission , that 's reflecting inflation that 's already happening and is up last year 's budget to the position today if you like so one point five percent of pay was the A P T C award for July ninety two , sorry ninety three and we 're not anticipating here what the pay award will be for the coming year , that is dealt with centrally .
9 We 're concerned that the that the Local Authorities of this land , including should have received a demand of twelve a twelve percent minimum for A P T and C , and a minimum wage of nine thousand three hundred and thirty , a level much higher than the Labour Party 's own national minimum wage , and indeed higher than the T U C's definition .
10 A P O T H E C A R Y
11 A P O T H E C A R Y fifteen and pass then back please .
12 Which I think they call the A P O annual public .
13 C L A P H A M
14 I 've got A P C.
15 You you can tell loan sharks , straight away , because the A P R's about twenty seven per cent .
16 Twenty three percent A P R.
17 Well I do want to come back in fact an and reassure er you that er in fact er we are very concerned about that and we spend a great deal of time talking about the A P C's erm statement policy of intent because it was intended to be modified in the way which we thought would and we spent quite a lot of time erm discussing and am re-amending the importance .
18 The notion that an English-man will cross the Channel to France to obtain credit in Calais because the formula under which French finance houses are allowed to quote the A p R enables them to advertise a cheaper rate than their English counterparts , and that the Common Market is thereby distorted , is too ludicrous to warrant a moment 's consideration .
19 The other thing is , you 're probably getting L A P R , that 's life assurance premium relief , on any contracts that were taken out prior to nineteen eighty four .
20 And L A P R is half of the current tax rate , so you 'll be earning twelve and a half percent on your , has anyo any pre-eighty four contracts ?
21 A P L O statement says , A series of meetings have taken place with the personal blessing of it 's leader Yassa Arafat .
22 Er , first of all on the comment from Dave in relation to British Gas and the minimum achieved performance level or M A P L er the initials that I 've come to er know and love over the past few months , never having heard of them before .
23 I had a most interesting meeting in Scotland with all of our lay delegates there , erm on Friday and some of you within British Gas will know that in Scotland they 've even more problems with the M A P L than any of the other regions because they were operating a different system to start with in the first place .
24 This relationship is n't just common to product relationships it 's the same in cost revenue relationships as well Okay , so so what that diagram is saying in symbolic terms is that if the slope of the ideal product of labour curve , right , if D L P D A P L by D L positive , then the marginal product of labour must be greater than the average product of labour .
25 Let's rewrite that slightly differently and just say l over L open brackets into D T P L over D L minus T P over L , alright , what 's that in economic terms , well that 's simply , right , marginal product of labour in the brackets , right , minus the average product of labour , okay , so if if the marginal product of labour here is greater than the average product right , the righthand side is going to be positive right , therefore , average product is going to be positive okay , the marginal product is greater than the average product ah change the slope of the average product curve is going to be er positive therefore average product itself is positive and rising let's write that down as the marginal product of labour is greater than the average product of labour that implies changing slope of the er average product curve right , is positive implying that average product is positive itself and rising Okay , if the marginal product of labour , right , is less than the average product right , that implies the slope of the average product curve is positive therefore the average product itself , right , is positive and falling sorry right , so we can rewrite that somewhat succinctly , using the following D A P L over D L , right , is greater than equal to or less than zero if D T P L over D L , right , is greater than , equal to , less than right T P L over L the average product .
26 Three point five A P V reg .
27 So we 're very committed to O D B C. It is one standard which we 're following , it is an alternative A P I for the desktop which is obviously strong because of the Microsoft relationship , erm but we will also foth follow other standards in terms of A P Is for the desktop as well .
28 Right erm I would just like to mention that it does n't say here that the A P C have set up er a separate er lobby group erm on which I have the honour to be a member with Patrick er to try and influence the MPs because one of the things which er is coming out and it 's it 's actually shown in paragraph three point three A at the bottom , the questioning whether the demand should be necessarily met or whether in fact , and this links to the government 's present erm reluctance to direct airlines to work from current unused capacity for example at , at erm at Luton and I think that there may well be some pressure put that er we should try and change that .
29 Erm it 's A P C erm they moved their , their erm business out from erm er Liverpool , decided to come back here cos it was cheaper .
30 I had knocked on the wall in code , one knock for a , two for b , and I knocked Dave Jacobsen , A U B , and the response came back , Frank Reed , I C.
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