Example sentences of "an [noun sg] of [noun] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In the event of an assessment of stress the purchase would be aborted . ’ |
| 2 | In April 1050 he and Bishop Hermann [ q.v. ] of Ramsbury visited Rome on an errand of Edward the Confessor [ q.v. ] ; according to later and possibly unreliable sources it was to secure the king 's release from a vow of pilgrimage made before his accession . |
| 3 | The supporters do not consistently play some of the Club 's best players out of position to accommodate players so far past their sell-by date that if they were a tin of fish paste there 's be an outbreak of salmonella the length and breadth of Mersey Street ! |
| 4 | 10.1 Where an employee has been absent from work as a result of an act of violence the Director of Social Work will give due consideration to referring the employee to the medical adviser either prior to or immediately following their return to work . |
| 5 | So , similarly , in the First World War , we assumed proudly as an accolade of honour the Kaiser 's ridicule of the first British Expeditionary Force as that ‘ contemptible little army ’ . |
| 6 | The desire for quality is an attitude of mind the Profitboss cultivates throughout the whole organization . |
| 7 | On Dec. 10 , 1991 , in an exchange of letters the Republic of Byelarus resumed active participation as a fully-fledged WHO member . |
| 8 | Chairman , I believe that this is just the sort of motion that can only bring local government into disrepute It 's an abuse of power the council holds lands in the county farms estate for purposes set out in the nineteen sixty agriculture act . |
| 9 | he kept going on and on and on and he said do you think it was an error of judgment and he was trying to get Kinnock to say yes and he said yes it was an error of judgment the way he , he 'd sort of said I think he must of said in the mid seventies , that if he got in power he 'd get rid of all nuclear weapons |
| 10 | His conversion led to an upsurge of praise the pressure of which could not be denied . |
| 11 | Using an example of e-mail the paper demonstrates the sorts of data that are lost to history . |
| 12 | The army occupies an area of land the size of Torness turbine hall with each soldier standing stiffly to attention a few inches from his neighbours . |
| 13 | Here we use results from the Rosat all-sky survey , which increases by an order of magnitude the number of X-ray stars , to show that the dividing line is not an artefact of poor sampling . |