Example sentences of "of a [noun] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The acquisition of a stereotype by a subgroup of the population usually works to its detriment , and although perhaps preserving a grain of truth in relation to the subgroup 's activities , it is also misleading for members of the whole population who use the stereotype . |
| 2 | What are the rights of a minority in a democracy ? |
| 3 | For example , consider the pieces of a jigsaw in a box . |
| 4 | The current concern with concepts of ‘ function ’ and ‘ notion ’ contrasting with syntactic and morphological analysis of language highlight the necessity for teachers to understand the nature of a description of a language . |
| 5 | PAMELA : If that is the answer of a gentleman to such a one as I , it would not , I dare say , be the answer of a gentleman to a gentleman . |
| 6 | I was reading an article ( Echoes , March 3 ) by David Isaacs about an old soldier 's experience in Singapore and it reminded me of a conversation with a friend in Carlisle . |
| 7 | Wipe the rim of a goblet with a piece of lemon and dip it in brown sugar . |
| 8 | The technological breakthrough allowing primitive versions of such chips to be made came in the 1960s , and it was in 1969 that M. E. Hoff at the Intel Corp. in California developed the idea of a computer on a chip . |
| 9 | A typical CSC workstation consists of a computer with a microphone and video camera . |
| 10 | The presence of a school in a community has symbolic meaning . |
| 11 | The very poor even sold the combings of their hair , to hawkers who came by crying for it , and passed it on to the dollmakers in Naples where it would stuff the turban of a king or tassel the tail of a donkey for a Nativity crib at Christmas . |
| 12 | He 'd heard of a buyer with a hunger that was not being satisfied through conventional markets , and Klein had allowed it to be known that he might be able to lay his hands on something attractive . |
| 13 | Tap Right with the Scroll Lock ON to scroll right 1/3 Of a window at a time |
| 14 | Tap Left with the Scroll Lock ON to scroll left 1/3 Of a window at a time |
| 15 | He says all they know is that he fell out of a window at a party . |
| 16 | The decision to relinquish the lease may have been forced upon them : story has it that their landlord , Colonel Lindsay , had been angered by tales of a young man spitting out of a window into a frying pan held by Minton in the garden below . |
| 17 | She was looking out of a window towards a view of the park . |
| 18 | And last month an 18-year-old student at Lady Margaret Hall college broke a leg and injured her spine when she fell out of a window after a pub crawl . |
| 19 | The first ring was thrown out of a window after a row . |
| 20 | The second ring was also slung out of a window after a row . |
| 21 | The obvious way to resolve the dispute was to call a Council to decide among them — though such a course of action might be taken to imply the supremacy of a Council over a pope . |
| 22 | Lavier continues to reflect on paradoxes , with such examples as the superimposition of a safe on a refrigerator , both objects having been covered with paint of precisely the same colour as the original . |
| 23 | On May 7 a woman protester was killed by a ricochet bullet shot from the gun of a gendarme in a demonstration at an arms factory ( Poudreries Réunies de Belgique ) alleged to be connected with the Iraqi supergun affair . |
| 24 | Although you can only work on one piece of a garment at a time , you can have up to sixteen separate pieces in each garment file , as long as they will all be knitted to the same stitch and row tension . |
| 25 | For example , the representation of a temple on a coin may show a gap in the middle of the columns which is filled with an image of the relevant god ( fig. 12 ) . |
| 26 | The idea of a correlation between a latitudinarian and a scientific mentality can be appealing . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's best to have one yearly , after forty , and quite frankly — your breasts are a bit of a nightmare to a doctor . ’ |
| 28 | What of a marriage of a male severely disfigured and without genitalia as a result of war or an accident ? |
| 29 | The fundamental question in these cases is whether the taking of a benefit by a person through his or her crime would be unconscionable as representing an unjust enrichment of that person . |
| 30 | First , the fairly simple trick of separating two component parts of a clue by a number of pages . |