Example sentences of "of a [adj] [noun prp] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jack Schofield on a company feeling more than the pinch of a weak US economy IBM in a downsizing squeeze . |
| 2 | Today , Orpington , home of a thousand Fleet Street sub-editors , is represented for the Conservatives by John Horam . |
| 3 | More specifically , it is the site of a redundant Electricité de France ( coal-powered ) power station , which will be decommissioned by mid-1992 . |
| 4 | I have therefore enclosed copies of a recent CBF press release , plus some correspondence which should be self-explanatory . |
| 5 | Constitutional provisions for the rights of Romanies , the subject of a recent Helsinki Watch report alleging discrimination and said to be Slovakia 's second-largest minority after Hungarians , were welcomed by Alojz Pompa , chairman of the League of Romany Unity , in a radio interview on Sept. 4 . |
| 6 | Also on March 25 parties of the so-called " pro-democracy " alliance ( New Aspirations Party , Palang Dharma , Ekkaparb and the Democrats ) held a joint press conference and called into question the credibility of Narong as Prime Minister , in the light of a recent US State Department allegation that he had been denied a visa in mid-1991 because of his suspected ties with drug trafficking . |
| 7 | ‘ She 's neatly switched to the life of a successful New York hostess — she 's on every charity committee in town . ’ |
| 8 | The England Under-21 midfielder , a talented graduate of the FA School of Excellence , steered a clever header past Neville Southall 13 minutes from time to rob Everton of a much-needed Coca-Cola Cup boost . |
| 9 | Chairman Carlo De Benedetti told Olivetti shareholders that DEC would also subscribe to its part of a planned Olivetti capital increase ‘ entirely in shares , ’ rather than the convertible bonds option . |
| 10 | Perhaps hindered by the unflattering acoustic of the concert hall , the result was all too often lost in a welter of sound and over-stressed consonants with all the control of a recalcitrant Sunday school outing . |
| 11 | The terrified youngster — daughter of a former Soho club owner — was grabbed at gunpoint in Marbella three years before Mellor 's freebie break there with PLO chief 's daughter Mona Bauwens . |
| 12 | Cairns hit two fours and a six in his forthright 42 , while Harris , like his partner the son of a former NZ Test player , stayed 73 balls , hitting a solitary four . |
| 13 | The inquest heard that on 30 August , 1988 , the security forces had become aware of a threat to the life of a former Ulster Defence Regiment soldier , and the shoot-out had been a result of the actions taken by the security forces because of the threat . |
| 14 | He strode into cafes , schools and churches to meet and greet by name — all with the relentless energy of a former Balkans decathlon champion . |
| 15 | A mistrial was declared on Aug. 26 in the trial of a former CIA deputy director of covert operations , Clair George . |
| 16 | Minister tour : Housing Minister Sir George Young is to be shown the transformation of a former Merseyside slum area in Marsh Lane , Bootle . |
| 17 | The trial ended in November 1990 in Siegen ( Germany ) of a former SS officer Ernst August König , 71 , who was accused of killing eight gypsies and assisting in the murder of 1,067 others at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp . |
| 18 | THE FATHER of a former Miss Scotland beauty queen was jailed for 18 months yesterday after being convicted of conspiring to defraud an insurance company and setting fire to his partly-completed house in Argyll . |
| 19 | No matter how paranoid he felt from time to time about the DIA , Coleman could not conceive that Control would have told him to get hold of a legitimate Thomas Leavy passport for Operation Shakespeare knowing in advance that it would blow the mission and lead to his arrest . |
| 20 | They are also interested in the movements of a maroon-coloured Vauxhall Astra estate car , registration D978 XMO . |
| 21 | In an age when a symphony orchestra can appear in uniforms designed to advertise tobacco industry sponsors , conflating music and cigarettes into a single narcotic ( Guardian , 26 March 1984 : 13 ) ; when in Japan the record companies and the large industrial corporations co-operate to produce ‘ image-songs ’ which both advertise the corporations and play an important role in the hit parade ; ’ when a small selection of endlessly per mutated pop songs provides the background for almost every social activity ; when rhythm tracks on disco records can be behaviouristic ally planned and electronically produced , for maximum precision and control : one can not , at this time , avoid the feeling that if Orwell 's ‘ 1984 ’ ever arrives , it might well consist of a continuous Eurovision Song Contest ; that the ideal of the music industry would be to turn everything into muzak ( Philip Tagg 's entertaining account of the way muzak is used to ‘ programme ’ a Swedish office worker 's day gives an idea of what this would be like ( Tags 1984 ) ) . |
| 22 | I felt I had strayed into the workshop of a latter-day Anton von Leeuwenhoek , the pioneer microscopist who was noted for his high-performance single lenses . |
| 23 | A WOMAN living in Belgium is undertaking a comprehensive study of a tiny North Yorkshire village . |
| 24 | The EuroEDI project was co-ordinated by the Level-7 consultancy , and included the installation of a central EDI relay server developed by Infonet Services Corp on the EDI system provided by the Belgium Rapid Access Information Network Services , BRAINS , organisation , the Brussels-based Alcatel Bell-Belgacom joint venture . |
| 25 | Instead of a freeze-dried New England accent , Phillips gives us a combination of weird sister , deranged Southern matron and Mary Martin on a bad day . |
| 26 | GIBSON 'S VIRTUAL reality- noir best seller was optioned in 1985 by Cabanas Roy Productions , set up by two kids at the Beverly Hills Hilton Hotel who , with backing from the bored wife of a prominent New York plastic surgeon , decided to become movie producers . |
| 27 | London-based scion of a prominent Hong Kong business family . |
| 28 | A public exhibition showing artists ' impressions of a pedestrianised Stockton High Street with new shops , car parks and a bus station , waterfront development and a major facelift on two housing estates goes on show in the town 's Castle Centre for five days from Tuesday . |
| 29 | But the word ‘ school ’ only leads to the word ‘ group ’ and , ultimately , only individual works are produced , such as the works of a certain Leonardo da Vinci . |
| 30 | A BRIEF word for this welcome reissue of a 1955 Ingmar Bergman classic which stars Ulla Jacobsson , Eva Dahl-Beck , Harriet Anderson , Margit Carlquist and Jarl Kulle as a series of mismatched couples struggling to sort out their troubles . |