Example sentences of "an [noun] of [noun] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The United Kingdom , which at the 1989 conference in Malaysia had been isolated because of its opposition to a declaration calling for an intensification of sanctions against South Africa , took a lead in Harare on several issues . |
| 2 | The context is different , especially for an exporter of manufactures like Britain , but there 's a basic common question which arises at the root of the problems of erm technology choice in Africa , in Asia , Latin America and in a European country like Britain . |
| 3 | 7.4 There are a number of reasons for the decision to use Personal Interviews as an Instrument of Assessment in PSD : |
| 4 | Holomisa had ended Transkei 's state of emergency on Nov. 7 , 1989 [ see p. 37033 ] , freed ANC and PAC prisoners , and encouraged contact with the ANC ; during a visit to the United States at the end of January 1990 he said that these measures showed a commitment to change and to unity on the part of all black people , and that he wanted to make Transkei 's independence an instrument of liberation for South Africa . |
| 5 | In the 1920s , commercial bills , both international and domestic , were nearly as important an instrument of finance in England as bank advances . |
| 6 | The companies involved are all foreign : at Ballymoney the Australian Meekatharra Minerals Ltd ; at Loughbeg , Anglo United Development Corporation , an associate of Northgate of Canada and Grenmore Holdings Ltd ( a British company which later changed its name to the more local-sounding Tyrone Lignite Ltd ) ; in the Coagh and Washing bay areas BP Coal Ltd , a subsidiary of the giant BP oil company . |
| 7 | President Lech Walesa was said to have been astonished and upset by Kolodziejczyk 's retirement which was seen by observers as an indication of tension between Olszewski and Walesa , who had initially opposed the formation of the Olszewski government . |
| 8 | The Institute was founded in 1982 by an association of members including Oxford University , the EC , the Organization of Arab Oil Exporting Countries ( OAPEC ) and government departments or public institutions of the UK , France , Sweden Norway , Mexico , Kuwait , Saudi Arabia , Canada and Japan . |
| 9 | The Universiade GB board also announced that the immediate cash-flow problems , revealed a week ago , had now been resolved by an injection of funds by Sheffield City Council and that further offers of financial support are to be followed up immediately . |
| 10 | The programme selected for this experiment was an episode of Pathfinders to Venus , a series already demonstrated as the main forerunner of Doctor Who . |
| 11 | Until the 1930's , apart from the water being screened nothing was added to it , but with an outbreak of typhoid in Croydon , chlorine was added . |
| 12 | The five-part Mass Fera Pessima — as its mutilated manuscript superscription should probably be read , though certain scholars have tried to dub it A Pessinuntia ( on account of its saturation in the dark Phrygian mode ) or even A Pestilentia ( speculatively linking it with an outbreak of plague in Stirling , where Carver might , or then again might not , have been living , in the 1940s ) — seems freely based on a plainsong of the Sarum rite derived from Chapter 37 of the Book of Genesis : ‘ Jacob … rent his garments . … |
| 13 | The Grand Old Duke of York did lead his men ; Dick Whittington was a 15th century Lord Mayor of London ; Ring-A-Ring-O'-Roses is said to relate to an outbreak of plague in London in the 17th century ; and Bluebeard is based on a psychopathic French murderer of the 15th century . |
| 14 | Serious attempts to gauge the likelihood of an outbreak of Frownie-wearing in London 's health clubs have been greeted only by hoots of laughter . |
| 15 | In 1871 there was an outbreak of smallpox in Bedfordshire , as elsewhere . |
| 16 | An outbreak of strife in Northumbria would suit Harold very well , I imagine , especially if Siward got himself killed in the course of it . |
| 17 | The government was seriously alarmed by an outbreak of unrest in April in the western Autonomous Region of Xinjiang Uygur . |
| 18 | Public discontent with the government 's economic policies [ see p. 38363 ] reportedly provoked an outbreak of arson at Tehran 's main bazaar and 15 others across the country in late July and August . |
| 19 | This fact is an indictment of Bank of Ireland , an indictment of the Court of Bank of Ireland , and an indictment of the Banking industry in Ireland . |
| 20 | Operational controls : over communications and command and control centres ( an ingredient of success in Poland in 1980–81 ) ; over fuel and munitions stocks ( run down before the invasions of Hungary and Czechoslovakia ) . |
| 21 | I look upon it as an act of spite by Durham County Council ‘ You stopped our inner ring road scheme . |
| 22 | In another , linked , case , a Belfast man was charged with allowing a house to be used to commit an act of terrorism on May 17 . |
| 23 | Mr Ramaphosa said that the prisoners ' release should not be construed as an act of goodwill by Mr de Klerk , but as a reflection of the ‘ dismal ’ failure of ‘ the apartheid regime ’ to emasculate the will of the black majority . |
| 24 | The House of Industry was established by an Act of Parliament of George III , 1794 , ‘ … for the better regulation and employment of the poor in the town of Bedford ’ . |
| 25 | It brought the spectators to their feet in an act of remembrance for Beryl who did so much and gave so much to the Society . |
| 26 | The naming from the dock of John Cameron ( alias Sergeant Mor ) , a vindictive Jacobite soldier of fortune , can not be written off as an act of desperation by James Stewart , who was promptly marked out as accessory once the actual murder occurred in Appin . |
| 27 | An Act of Terror by André Brink ( Secker , £14.99 ) . |
| 28 | When Jordana informed Ambassador Hayes in November 1942 that an Allied landing in French North Africa would be considered an act of aggression against Spain , he was undoubtedly expressing Franco 's , not his own , view . |
| 29 | However , our relationship with God is comprised of our own personal devotional life , both prayer and Bible meditation , our willingness to live life in an attitude of communion with God and certainly in obedience to him and his priorities . |
| 30 | an Inn of Chancery in Chancery Lane , west London . |