Example sentences of "layer of [noun sg] [vb pp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 The doorway is a very rare specimen , its arch a double layer of brick separated by a thin layer of Angera stone .
2 Tall stacks ( Drax is 259 metres tall ) can take emissions above a layer of air trapped near the ground into smooth air streams .
3 It is therefore important to protect the face with a layer of paper placed on the pasting paper during pasting .
4 This version had provision for the hot gases of combustion to be passed round and over a layer of slurry spread upon a drying floor .
5 The sea bed between Dover and Sangatte consists of a largely uninterrupted thick layer of chalk separated from the underlying cretaceous chalk by a layer of Gault clay .
6 In Champagne , Patrick Forbes categorically states the gospel as held in Champagne : ‘ Now , it so happened that most of the top layer of chalk found on the Falaises is of a type known as Belemnita quadrata , which is markedly different from the Micraster chalk found on the plain below .
7 Had the top layer of chalk found on the surface soil of the Falaises been mostly of the Micraster type , it is extremely improbable that there would ever have been champagne .
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