Example sentences of "[adj] of a [noun] with [art] " in BNC.

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1 The impact of this slavering beast on an enemy formation is just as effective as that of a Knight with a lance .
2 The principle of the instrument is that of a liquidiser with an impeller that emulsifies stones .
3 The most obvious structural interpretation of this morphology is that of a graben with the rift floor being formed on a downthrown block bounded by normal faults which create the steep escarpments ( Fig. 4.9(A) ) .
4 The form in which , however , the tension still emerges in the in-service education of teachers and in such training as is provided for education management in the period after the 1988 Education Reform Act is that of a preoccupation with the separate skills and tasks of management .
5 These changes would have made the touch more like that of a piano with a Viennese action .
6 None of these three new flying Spitfires has much of a History with the RAF .
7 This was not too much of a problem with a 1200-mm tube filled with argon .
8 The cloakroom was all of a gossip with the ‘ ooh 's ’ and ‘ aah 's ’ of it .
9 This is all of a piece with the way some men assume they may stare at women , stand close to them and invade their physical space by touching .
10 This is easy enough with record sheets and drawings , which can simply be photocopied or put on to microfilm , but is far more of a problem with a photographic record comprising hundreds or thousands of slides and photographs .
11 Even just the memories of 1988 Winter Olympics folk hero Eddie ‘ the Eagle ’ Edwards , the British ski jumper who put himself in the Calgary Games regardless of a lack of skill or training , made more of an impact with the American sporting public than super-fit and talented rugby players such as David Campese , Jeremy Guscott or Wade Dooley .
12 This latter aspect of regional data becomes less of a problem with the progress of time and the development of administrative mechanisms directed at greater accuracy , but does indicate caution when comparisons are made with early Community regional statistics .
13 Merely refusing to shop in Smiths , gives us even less of a voice with the stocklists than previously .
14 Make sex discussions much less of a trial with the Family Planning Association 's new Growing Up series of leaflets : Answering Your Child 's Questions , for parents ; How Your Body Changes , for teenagers .
15 The question , therefore , is nakedly raised by this appeal , whether your Lordships are now prepared , not only to overrule , as contrary to law , the doctrine stated by Sir Edward Coke to have been laid down by all the judges of the Common Pleas in Pinnel 's Case ( 1602 ) 5 Co.Rep. 117a , in 1602 , and repeated in his note to Littleton , 344 , Co.Litt. 212b , but to treat a prospective agreement , not under seal , for satisfaction of a debt by a series of payments on account to a total amount less than the whole debt , as binding in law , provided these payments are regularly made ; the case not being one of a composition with a common debtor , agreed to , inter se , by several creditors …
16 It is better to control them during this ‘ in-ground ’ period , the best control being achieved by watering down a solution of a chemical , one of a group with the long name ‘ chlorinated hydrocarbons ’ , and used primarily in this case on lawns as a wormkiller .
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