Example sentences of "an [noun] [prep] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Employers also launched an offensive on working practices and plant-level bargaining machinery . |
| 2 | Formal monitoring should commence with an inspection of cleaning/disinfection standards , immediately preceding the trial , a record of which should be kept . |
| 3 | The curators ' muse here is Diana Vreeland , whose ‘ editorial verve ’ , the curators say , took the Costume Institute ( made part of the Met in 1946 ) from an assemblage of theatre costumes to one of the world 's largest collections . |
| 4 | It has been argued that corporate efficiency in privatised industries has improved , not just by an exposure to market forces and an acceptance of the profit motive , but by the extra freedom given to managers . |
| 5 | The form of the text , together with the information about place , may suggest to you , if you have previous experience of such texts , that this text derives from an interaction between street gangs . |
| 6 | Each patient area manager is asked to make an assessment of manpower needs and required to justify this assessment to other nurses . |
| 7 | An assessment of management tools , institutional adaptation and policy integration in regard to global environmental change ; |
| 8 | An assessment by energy analysts published in the International Atomic Energy Agency 's Bulletin Vol. 32 , No. 1 ( 1990 ) calculated that OPEC oil had not only lost a portion of its share of existing markets , but had failed to make any penetration into new energy markets created by economic growth . |
| 9 | Mabbut as chairman and the aim was to ‘ collect evidence on the nature and causes of environmental changes constituting extension of deserts into marginal regions or an intensification of desert conditions within desert regions ’ ( Mabbut , 1976 ) . |
| 10 | Okay , you can use a P S P as an endowment for mortgage purposes , and it works virtually the same if you 're arranging a mortgage now for a new client , for a new property , the chance are you want the Mortgage Master Policy , because that does the whole thing for you , okay , that 's what its ideal purpose is . |
| 11 | The experience confirmed Tanzania as a society in which key decisions were made by the president , sometimes in consultation with a few individuals and sometimes not , for implementation by an elite of party workers and civil servants . |
| 12 | " Only in the 1840 's and later did the situation begin to improve markedly ; and the class which now emerged into comparative prosperity was not an elite of labour aristocrats but a more homogenous class of factory workers … " ( p.47 ) |
| 13 | An experience of health workers in Ireland |
| 14 | Because travelling at walking pace is so rare an experience for car drivers , the Woonerf must be well designed to ensure that the need for low speeds is made very clear . |
| 15 | If the position of power that comes about when shareholders combine their property in a company is damaging in either of these ways , then an invocation of ownership rights will not constitute a conclusive justification . |
| 16 | There has been an overestimation of property prices in the Government 's thinking . |
| 17 | A one-day blitz through the Belgian Viertel would include the following highlights : at Tanja Grunert , Peter Weibel 's installation , ‘ On justifying the hypothetical character of art and the non-identical nature of objects ’ ; Rudolf Kicken 's exhibition of sixty vintage photographs by Man Ray ; and Kubinski Köln 's presentation of an installation of steel sculptures by Viennese artist Heimo Zobernig . |
| 18 | Rail : Travellers with a fear of flying or an abhorrence of airline meals may prefer a 45-day unlimited rail pass , available from Amtrak ( 2 Cinnamon Row , Plantation Wharf , London SW11 3TW : 01-978 5222 ) for only $299 ( about £185 ) . |
| 19 | The Southern Centre has successfully sued both Mississippi and Florida on this basis and they now have to pay $25 an hour to defence lawyers . |
| 20 | The measures will be even tighter than those instituted for all flights from French airports a week ago — which include the X-raying of all hold baggage , new controls on hand baggage , and body searches — that have added up to an hour to flight checks-ins . |
| 21 | We 've beefed up popular entertainment at six-thirty with an hour of comedy strands , which helps the news readers and boosts our share . |
| 22 | Will the right hon. Gentleman arrange for the Secretary of State for Defence to make a statement about the way in which contractors are paid £10 an hour for security guards at some of our vital establishments when security guards in my constituency are being paid £1.80 an hour ? |
| 23 | By 1998 a simple change of platforms in airport style comfort will offer passengers a full range of destinations and , together with the new rail link to the coast , lop an hour off journey times to the continent . |
| 24 | The metro is the first full-scale railway system to have driverless trains and it can run up to 60 two-car trains an hour during peak periods ( New Scientist . |
| 25 | The plane took off an hour behind time thanks to EC president Jacques Delors ' late arrival . |
| 26 | Thus , the rent of a shop might be determined by reference to the Index of Retail Prices , the rent of a warehouse by reference to the Index of Wholesale Prices , and the rent of a builder 's merchant 's yard by reference to an index of construction costs . |
| 27 | This is not found directly in the USA and Japan but , if the product of per cent of employees in R&D and expenditure per head in R&D is taken as an index of R&D resources , the figures are : |
| 28 | An index of living standards will be derived and related to income to assess whether there is a poverty ‘ threshold'--a point on the income distribution where living standards decline sharply . |
| 29 | There is an Index to Government Orders in force in 1979 , arranged alphabetically under subject-headings , and continued by annual volumes . |
| 30 | There is also an Index to Periodical Articles Relating to Law which is supplementary to the Index to Legal Periodicals . |