Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] of [noun] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Retail Credit Group agreed to fund the service when in 1990 the DoE withdrew its grant of £32,500 a year . |
| 2 | The good news is that you can usually tell which type of value a keyname experts by looking at the value that is already there before you start . |
| 3 | If an individual peasant family was for one reason or another unable to produce its share of tax a peasant might borrow , do additional work as a paid labourer or craftsman or forfeit his land rights to another . |
| 4 | ( e ) If , as is normal , the regulations merely give the directors power to refuse to register , as opposed to making their passing of transfers a condition precedent to registration , the transferee is entitled to be registered unless the directors resolve as a board to reject . |
| 5 | It does not matter on which style of dance a choreographer bases his design . |
| 6 | She broke her vow of silence a bit desperately , though , after a few more minutes . |
| 7 | But like Out and Such , Between takes as its principle of organization a network of associations formed in the verbal consciousness of the protagonist . |
| 8 | Dell Computer Corp is blaming problems with its notebook computers for a shock halving of first quarter profits ( figures , page five ) , and warns that the second quarter will be no better , and that its target of $3.30 a share for the year is now out of reach : the shares plunged $10 to $22.125 before the market opened yesterday : ‘ Basically , the notebooks are going to have a negative effect on earnings per share in the next two quarters , ’ chairman Michael Dell told Reuter — adding that Dell is taking steps to improve its notebook business by setting up joint development opportunities with new partners and that a partnership with an ‘ electronics and communications provider ’ was already in place , although he did not name it . |
| 9 | He was followed by Richard Pratt in 1677 , whose salary of £30 a year warranted an experienced gardener . |
| 10 | John Clarke of Swinden , for one , must have been a gentleman , with his income of £10 a year , yet his moveables were valued at no more than 30s. , with which he only just scraped into the top 20 per cent . |
| 11 | ‘ Michael 's been reading his book of Things a Director 's Supposed to Say again , ’ a voice murmured somewhere above her ear , and Shannon turned with a grin to the tall blonde woman at her side . |
| 12 | Meanwhile he draws his salary of £63,047 a year — and is worth every penny of it . |
| 13 | You can find out what kind of speller a pupil is firstly , by the very simple checklist above and secondly , by detailed analysis which pinpoints the weak points . |
| 14 | I guarantee I can tell what kind of actor a person is if I hear them do ‘ Three Blind Mice ’ . ’ |
| 15 | I wonder what kind of trouble a wig gives on a night like this . |
| 16 | Certainly , we might be justified in assuming that whatever kind of superego a person had it might have some controlling , drive-inhibiting aspects , and consequently that anarchy , which is equivalent to a more or less complete absence of controls , is an unlikely outcome . |
| 17 | Graphological conventions are exploited impressionistically , in a way which suggests what sort of pronunciation a reader should adopt in reading aloud . |
| 18 | This encouraged Angel to ask his father what sort of wife a farmer needed . |
| 19 | Clearly , though , doing this in any ‘ limited ’ particular case requires some background idea of what sort of thing a cause is , and how causes can be composed or combined . |