Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun sg] [conj] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The relationship between the scope and substantive provisions of a Convention and rules of private international law is highly complex and can be treated only briefly here . |
| 2 | They had made him their leader and Nuadu , cynical and bitter against his own kind , had thought that for all he was a base-born prince , still he had a Court of a kind and subjects of a sort . |
| 3 | Simple application of a culture or scrapings of a mould to an exposed wound was an unsatisfactory business , and some sort of concentration of an active principle was needed . |
| 4 | The aesthetic construction of a part or parts of the body as the site of all that is socially unacceptable , a flaw , began life within classical Greek theatre ( Boal , 1989 ) and has continued today . |
| 5 | The registration requirements include a constitution , made up of a memorandum and articles of association , specifying what the company is formed to do , and how its internal affairs are to be regulated . |
| 6 | The highlight of the sale was a Louis XVI ormolu-mounted sycamore , satinwood and mahogany commode , designed by Etienne-Louis Boullée and signed by Joseph Baunhauer with extraordinary painted decoration by Jean-Louis Prevost of a still-life and bouquets of flowers , encircled by ribbon-tied laurel garlands . |
| 7 | This can be effected by the use of a leitmotif or phrases of music . |
| 8 | A good djinn often takes the form of a lovely woman , while a bad one appears as a monster with the head of a hyena and hind-quarters of a wolf . |
| 9 | He is entitled to reject a nomination only if the nomination paper does not conform to requirements ( 1983 Act , sch.1 , paras.12,15 ) or if a candidate is disqualified by reason of having been ordered to be detained or imprisoned for more than one year in the British Islands or the Republic of Ireland in respect of an offence or offences of which he has been found guilty ( Representation of the People Act 1981 , s.1 ) . |
| 10 | The answer I believe continues to be that our economic and monetary authorities have less of an appreciation than others of the lags in the economy in particular between changes in interest policy and business investment . |
| 11 | Neighbours would come in for a drink and boxes of chocolates and handkerchiefs would be exchanged . |
| 12 | Pause for a moment and scores of butterflies will settle to feed off your perspiration . |
| 13 | The most productive tree in a village or orchard is chosen for a party and pieces of toast are hung in the branches to attract robins which are supposed to be good spirits . |
| 14 | • See Page 3 for a report and pictures of the election line-up . |
| 15 | One programme , which I will call the action at a distance theory , regarded electricity as a fluid or particles of some kind residing in electrically charged bodies and flowing through electrical circuits . |
| 16 | Equally importantly , it would be wasteful to industry as a whole if questions of economy and efficiency were not identified in the course of audit work . |
| 17 | anyw anyway erm I was talking to her on the bus not too long ago and , I do n't know how it came up but she was talking about Egypt , and er she 'd been apparently oh some a year or two back cos she did a , an evening course on Egyptology and she went through that , but she was telling me about a friend or friends of hers who 'd been er and told me about the trip . |
| 18 | Recovery takes about a month but bouts of fever and liverishness can keep returning for some while . |
| 19 | The pigs will be at sea for about a month and Cobbledicks of Torrington has supplied enough of their Supersow feed to last them until they reach their new home . |
| 20 | An exchange between a finisher and members of the 1888 House of Lords Select Committee on Sweating showed the difficulties of politicians and policy makers in understanding the nature of homework and their tendency to assume that such a worker did her work by hand only because she was too inefficient to do otherwise : |
| 21 | It 's certainly worth a try but reactions of the viewing audience should be carefully monitored . |
| 22 | Before conversion , the building had a simple plan with a nave and aisles of six bays terminated by a shallow semi-octagonal apse at the east end . |
| 23 | Faced with a film that shouts of class society , poverty and history , mainstream criticism reaches for Art to apply a gloss of universal values . |
| 24 | Outside the town is an inviting introduction to pousadas — the hillside Pousada de São Tiago , an art deco villa with a pool and views of Moorish ramparts . |
| 25 | Welshman Bryan Webb is one of those rare individuals with a mind and tastes of his own . |
| 26 | It seemed that the hallway itself was going to be the disco area , with a glitterball and nets of balloons overhead and several of those special-effects lights that would make the walls appear to be dripping with coloured slime . |
| 27 | ‘ I do n't think I 'll have time to yet , not till we get Dolly fixed up with a job and lodgings of her own . ’ |
| 28 | Despite an initially hostile atmosphere , with demonstrations organized by the regime , the talks concluded on Nov. 13 with an agreement that representatives of the National Assembly should meet for direct talks with Aristide . |
| 29 | In 1963 the Robbins Report on Higher Education enunciated the following principle : ‘ Throughout our Report we have assumed as an axiom that courses of higher education should be available for all those who are qualified by ability and attainment to pursue them and who wish to do so . ’ |
| 30 | After spells in a wheelchair and weeks of lying in bed , Claire 's just had an operation . |