Example sentences of "[prep] an [noun sg] of [noun sg] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In spite of an overdose of tourism the essential spirit of Bali is still alive . |
| 2 | 10.1 Where an employee has been absent from work as a result of an act of violence the Director of Social Work will give due consideration to referring the employee to the medical adviser either prior to or immediately following their return to work . |
| 3 | ‘ In the event of an assessment of stress the purchase would be aborted . ’ |
| 4 | Although explicable as an instance of context-specificity the results of this experiment have apparently put paid to the only explanation for the phenomenon that we have so far considered . |
| 5 | So , similarly , in the First World War , we assumed proudly as an accolade of honour the Kaiser 's ridicule of the first British Expeditionary Force as that ‘ contemptible little army ’ . |
| 6 | For an aeon of time the words meant nothing . |
| 7 | His conversion led to an upsurge of praise the pressure of which could not be denied . |
| 8 | Here we use results from the Rosat all-sky survey , which increases by an order of magnitude the number of X-ray stars , to show that the dividing line is not an artefact of poor sampling . |