Example sentences of "of the [noun sg] of a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As well as evidence of the selection of a strategy , there should be evidence of the justification for selection eg the student explains why graphical techniques were used to investigate the phasing of traffic lights . |
| 2 | With these data , the analysis of the selection of a project size can proceed . |
| 3 | She reached out across the street and tried to get an idea of the shape of a building she could dimly see . |
| 4 | It was this that led to the first hints of how the theories of quantum mechanics and general relativity might affect each other — a glimpse of the shape of a quantum theory of gravity yet to come . |
| 5 | The weight , wt , given in Formula 1.1 is simply a count of the frequency of a tag sequence in the corpus , T1-T2 ; 1.2 is a modification of Bayes formula and 1.3 is suggested by Marshall ( 1983 ) . |
| 6 | It was unusual for a chief super to have to give evidence of the discovery of a body . |
| 7 | The Wildlife and Countryside Act of 1981 stipulates that prosecutions must be brought within six months of the discovery of a carcass . |
| 8 | This begins with her Tasso and diverges into immense variety : from poems ( manuscript and printed , by herself and many others ) , mementoes , statistics , portraits ( many of women writers ) , and data on Hindu and Arabic languages , to diagrams of the hold of a slave ship . |
| 9 | The operation had been far from easy , the cable being ‘ … manhandled out of the hold of a steamer , over a pulley and round a drum which measured the speed , and then several times round a brake drum before passing into the sea ’ .5 |
| 10 | The family spent their first night in the large attic , in the bedroom that was completely timbered , reminding him of the hold of a ship . |
| 11 | Lying , both with Annie and to the world at large , is one of the underlying themes of this intensely touching and often searing account of the shameful treatment by a prince of the Church of a woman whose only sin was to fall hopelessly in love with him . |
| 12 | In evaluating the market as a mechanism for disciplining management , however , it is necessary to take account of its wider impact , both in terms of the results of consummated mergers and of the overall effects of the threat of a change in control on management behaviour . |
| 13 | Such views are held by economists who consider the beneficial effects of the threat of a takeover to be minimal when compared with the damaging effects of short termism . |
| 14 | Well it was just their own The the found of the thing was just built of big stones round about the size of the bottom of a stack . |
| 15 | Mr MacGregor 's expected announcement of the route of a railway between London and the Channel Tunnel has been postponed because it could not be fitted into the parliamentary timetable yesterday . |
| 16 | The concession agreement between the Anglo-Iranian oil company and the government of Iran was concluded in 1933 as part of the settlement of a dispute between that government and the United Kingdom . |
| 17 | A record of the settlement of a dispute involving the bishop of Worcester in 789 , which refers to Offa as then in his thirty-first year as king ( CS 256 : S 1430 ) , means that Offa can not have become king before 758 . |
| 18 | Then she was aware of the coolness of a shadow falling across her back , the presence of two men behind her . |
| 19 | The word ‘ new ’ actually means opportunity , the possibility of the removal of a constraint , the possibility of achieving competitive advantage , the possibility of moving faster in the direction which we have set . |
| 20 | comparison of the stability of a product made by a modified method with that of the original product |
| 21 | comparison of the stability of a product made to a modified formula with that of the original product |
| 22 | comparison of the stability of a product made on new manufacturing equipment with that of the original product |
| 23 | We saw earlier in this chapter that the enthalpy change of formation was a measure of the stability of a compound . |
| 24 | A tale , which could and probably will be repeated a thousand times , of the fate of a work of art shaken loose from its context by the tempest of World War II |
| 25 | The organisers claim they were dissuaded from going ahead with the event because of the tone of a letter from the DTI which said it would not grant an import licence if one were needed . |
| 26 | In National Pari-Mutuel Association Ltd. v. The King ( 1930 ) 46 T.L.R. 594 ; 47 T.L.R. 110 the suppliant company claimed repayment of betting duty which they had paid for three years in respect of the operation of a totalisator . |
| 27 | The theory of the operation of a Pitot tube is contained essentially in eqn ( 10.19 ) , Bernoulli 's equation applied to the streamline that ends at the forward stagnation point of an obstacle placed in a stream . |
| 28 | How can that possibly be cost-effective in terms of the operation of a paratroop battalion ? |
| 29 | The evaluation of the operation of a centre 's current level of devolved responsibility and its readiness to accept additional devolution will take the form of a quality audit conducted by SCOTVEC . |
| 30 | Resources enabled a choice to be made as to whose activities were to be curtailed , even ( certainly in the case of the operation of a blanket turn-back policy ) whose lawful activities were to be curtailed . |