Example sentences of "[pos pn] [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 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 .
3 ( 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 .
4 She broke her vow of silence a bit desperately , though , after a few more minutes .
5 But like Out and Such , Between takes as its principle of organization a network of associations formed in the verbal consciousness of the protagonist .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 ‘ 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 .
9 Meanwhile he draws his salary of £63,047 a year — and is worth every penny of it .
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