Example sentences of "[noun] of a [adj] [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Ladies of Scotland League was holding its fall tea in the auditorium of a large store on Tollemarche Avenue . |
| 2 | Hagglers seeking a better rise are therefore advised to ‘ accidentally ’ drop the business card of a rival firm on the negotiating table . |
| 3 | The Economics Ministry on Nov. 22 announced the lifting of a 40-year ban on free direct trade with North Korea . |
| 4 | This is well enough attested by the existence of a Hornblower Club in which aspects of his life could be canvassed seriously and by C. Northcote Parkinson 's ‘ biography ’ , The Life and Times of Horatio Hornblower , with its elaborate statement of provenance ( the lifting of a hundred-year-old embargo on three boxes of family papers ) . |
| 5 | This produced a flood of letters to Downing Street , which were kept from Baldwin during his long holiday , but which hit him with the force of a tidal wave on his return . |
| 6 | ERC endorsed the recommendation of a Working Group on Distinguished Chemists that no video-taped interviews should be produced . |
| 7 | A few Village respondents included broad ideological statements along with their other arguments , but all respondents concentrated mainly on statements about the anticipated effects of the loss of a particular school on life in a particular community . |
| 8 | The absurdity of the " Spycatcher " ban was the result of a dogged insistence on viewing the memoirs of a former MI5 employee as the " property " of government , and conducting the litigation as if he had stolen the office furniture . |
| 9 | The ability to call a strike without a ballot was provided by the result of a 1981 ballot on the principle of fighting pit closures ( where the grounds were economic ; the NUM was prepared to accept closures if they agreed that the pits were ‘ worked out ’ ) . |
| 10 | Right on cue a Brazilian goal arrived in the 54th minute and was largely the result of a surging run on the right and inspired cross from Jorginho , Careca rising to meet it with a firm header down past Van Breukelen . |
| 11 | For example , Zambian government officials claimed that a story ( in the Times of Zambia , June 23rd 1970 ) to the effect that clothing factory workers believed they might lose their jobs as the result of a new duty on imported cloth , was the work of clever lobbying by clothing manufacturers and retailers . |
| 12 | As the result of a general election on Sept. 6 , 1989 [ see p. 36900 ] , the outgoing coalition government comprising the centrist Christian Democratic Appeal ( Christen-Democratisch Appel — CDA ) and the liberal People 's Party for Freedom and Democracy ( Volkspartij voor Vrijheid en Democratie — VVD ) was replaced on Nov. 2 by a new coalition comprising the CDA and the Labour Party ( Partij van de Arbeid — PvdA ) [ see p. 37050 ] . |
| 13 | The opposition Centre Party ( KESK or K-C ) became the largest party in the 200-member Eduskunta as a result of a general election on March 17 ; it overtook the Social Democratic Party ( SSDP ) and the right-wing National Coalition Party ( Kokoomus or KOK ) , the senior partners in the 1987-91 coalition government . |
| 14 | More recently the prize , a silver medal , is awarded on the result of a written examination on some aspect of veterinary science relating to the horse in health and disease . |
| 15 | In some cases , certainly , it is the result of a free choice on the part of individuals , most of whom are concentrated in the higher social classes where financial security , other than through earned income , is common . |
| 16 | Yet the actual entry of the USA into the war came as the result of a direct attack on the other side of the world . |
| 17 | And of course , as we know only too well , it could be the result of a particular action on the part of the pilot . |
| 18 | Attempts to provoke adverse judgements on canonical works tend to be resented as ‘ finding fault with ’ or ‘ picking holes in ’ these works of established merit , the result of a tiresome foible on the part of the teacher , and leading to disorientation if persisted in . |
| 19 | This should not only be expected to happen as a natural consequence of ‘ the Church 's active , sympathetic presence within the world of communications ’ ( ibid. ) , but also as the result of a precise commitment on the part of communicators . |
| 20 | ‘ Coffee , ’ he replied , then , as she gave the order , leaned forward to look more closely at a framed photograph of a freckle-faced boy on her desk . |
| 21 | Luckily , after a while , I noticed a framed photograph of a young man on the sideboard and diverted the flow by asking if it was of his son — ’ |
| 22 | For example , the historian who is studying a parish in the Sussex Weald might get more enlightenment from an analysis of the economy and social structure of a wood-pasture community in the Forest of Arden than from a comparable study of a nearby parish on the South Downs , which might offer some rewarding contrasts but few points of similarity . |
| 23 | To his wife , mother-in-law 's offer can mean a devastating indictment of her cooking abilities , or , worse , a demonstration of a prior claim on her husband . |
| 24 | Many years ago , at a race relations meeting held in the church hall of a Black church in the American South , I saw a striking picture of the head and shoulders of a Black man on the cross , simply called ‘ Black Christ ’ . |
| 25 | And , with the purposeful stride of a great barrister on his way to a confrontation in the Old Bailey , he went out into the hall . |
| 26 | Determined to achieve his ambition of a modern building on the site , the developer went to a second architect , James Stirling , for a new design . |
| 27 | Among the immediate beneficiaries of a green light on young cattle would be pedigree breeders — particularly those from the South-west offering Galloways . |
| 28 | Burden plodded through the rain from estate agent to estate agent and he at last found Moat Hall , listed in the books of a small firm on the outskirts of the town . |
| 29 | The Supreme Council of the armed forces on Jan. 8 sentenced Mohamed Ali Seineldin , Luis Baraldini , Oscar Ricardo Vega and four other officers to indefinite imprisonment and discharged them from the army as the ringleaders of a military rebellion on Dec. 3 [ see p. 37913 ] . |
| 30 | The effect of a specific sequence on gene expression was therefore assessed by cloning it into the Bam HI site at -105 in this promoter . |