Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] an [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The net result of Honderich 's weakness as an historian of ideas is that his book slips into confusion . |
| 2 | The first of these summit meetings took place at Geneva in November 1985 ; it provided an opportunity for an exchange of views on the progress made at the arms talks and on regional issues . |
| 3 | This gives him an opportunity of bringing his appointed representatives together to discuss sales opportunities , the marketplace , and provides an ideal opportunity for an exchange of ideas . |
| 4 | 3.2 THE HOTELIER 'S LIABILITY AS AN OCCUPIER OF PREMISES |
| 5 | The decretal letter " Solite " , addressed to Alexis , the emperor of Constantinople , outlined the pope 's function as an adviser of monarchs . |
| 6 | And once again I would propose that the language of indeterminism is preferable : it portrays human action as an expression of motives , reasons and purposes open to the influence of incentives and disincentives in a way that ‘ makes sense ’ to us as potential offenders ourselves . |
| 7 | The growth of towns was in large measure the result of an influx of migrants from the villages . |
| 8 | Phenylketonuria ( persistent hyperphenylalaninaemia >240 µmol/l , relative tyrosine deficiency , and excretion of an excess of phenylketones ) occurs in approximately one in 10 000 births in the United Kingdom . |
| 9 | The danger of this is that the fear of an award of damages against it would unduly encourage the authority to reach the same decision again , thus creating an appearance of bias . |
| 10 | Mujaheddin sources said that the soldiers were returned on humanitarian grounds ; there was no indication of an exchange of prisoners despite earlier reports that the Kabul government was prepared to exchange 73 mujaheddin prisoners for the two Soviet servicemen . |
| 11 | Advocates of the reliance theory approve Aristotle 's view that the purpose of justice is the maintenance of an equilibrium of goods among members of society . |
| 12 | ‘ Railway milk ’ had received its first boost with an outbreak of cattle plague in the mid 1860S which had seriously restricted urban milk production . |
| 13 | They covered her nakedness with an apron of figleaves , and punished her sexuality with pain and oppression : ‘ In sorrow thou shalt bring forth children ; and thy desire shall be to thy husband , and he shall rule over thee ’ . |
| 14 | They require a missionary team , which , in addition to having a gifted leader , comprises a task force with an allocation of funds . |
| 15 | ( So committed has Kandel been to reductionism as philosophy as well as methodology that he once gave a talk to an audience of psychiatrists with the theme of ‘ Psychotherapy and the single synapse ’ . ) |
| 16 | and invite the hearer to an exchange of views in which he will agree with him or otherwise in belief or attitude . |
| 17 | They evolved rapidly and spread widely , and with a little experience a glance at an assemblage of graptolites on a shale surface can be used to determine the approximate age of deposition of the rock . |
| 18 | The elderly Chas Varley was peering in some confusion at an arc of screens which pulsed with read-outs and rippling waveforms . |
| 19 | The theory of integrative levels emerged , the essence being that the world of entities evolves from the simple towards the complex by an accumulation of properties or influences from the environment . |
| 20 | They are part of an armoury of concepts , conventions and practices that give meaning to and protect the writer 's own social formation and specifically their own place within it . |
| 21 | The second deals with the relation of Russia to the rest of the world , and includes the existence of an elite of Russians , exiled by the czar , who had become sophisticated socialists , as well as those aspects of foreign policy which played into the hands of the revolutionaries . |
| 22 | There was an incident at the Albany Empire one December when I was doing a Solidarity benefit for an audience of worthies , like Sting . |
| 23 | One head of English in a comprehensive school described the compilation of an anthology of students ' writing which had included writing in languages other than English . |
| 24 | The two men said nothing at the time to their wives , but a day or two later , the question of an evening of cards cropped up . |
| 25 | THE custom of formalising marriage with an exchange of rings has a fairly basic origin — the finger represents the male side of the bargain and the ring the female . |
| 26 | Around a corner , next to the shop where the key had been cut , she reached a gallery with an exhibition of ceramics . |
| 27 | The reasonably incidental powers doctrine provides no basis for an extension of powers beyond the express or implied purposes of the organisation . |
| 28 | If this were so we would not find the genuine uneasiness about an influx of strangers ( or outside influences ) that can not in any realistic sense threaten the members of the group as individuals , for instance , the insistence by sections of the US citizens that English — of all languages — has to be given protection against immigrant languages by the grant of an official monopoly of public use . |
| 29 | In many ways Warner 's chapter may be used as a starting point for an exploration of points of contact between the two exhibitions at Stoke-on-Trent . |
| 30 | Both systems stressed the need for an analysis of objectives and outputs . |