Example sentences of "a [noun] of [noun] [noun sg] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | A trial of lens implantation on 40 patients with extreme short sight was reported yesterday to the UK Intra-ocular Implant Society by Mr Peter Choyce , a private opthalmic surgeon in London . |
| 2 | FIG. 1 Calorimetric heats of adsorption , given as the negative value of the enthalpy change , as a function of CO coverage on Ni 100 . |
| 3 | Put a bit of kitchen roll on the table . |
| 4 | ‘ You want to put a bit of boot polish on your face , mate . |
| 5 | Especially when you have to have a bit of salad cream on |
| 6 | I 'll force a bit of Christmas spirit on you , whether you like it or not . |
| 7 | Even the useless dowelling with a bit of tin can on the end might come in handy one day ! . |
| 8 | And she was wearing a grubby red dress with a kind of paisley pattern on it . |
| 9 | although on one level Balzac 's story is ‘ about ’ castration ( one of the characters is a castrato singer ) , in Barthes 's reading the theme of castration is seen as a pretext for a kind of reflexive anxiety on the part of the text itself concerning the very possibility of representation . |
| 10 | The Mad Scene feature an ex-Ex Lion Tamer and experience in said Wire covers band is what makes them a sort of glum The Might Be Giants with guitars on the title track and a kind of Beatle Fall on the rest . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , whereas the rest of the passengers were basically gearing up to tear my girlfriend and me to bits if we continued to go the way we were going — you get a kind of cabin fever on these flights between Australia and England — this Christian and his wife decided to adopt us , I guess as a kind of test for themselves . |
| 12 | The incorporation of a long passage from a Board of Education memo on evening schools indicates that the Committee feels itself to be in consonance with the Board " s thinking , not only on the inadequacies of vocational education , but also on the value of English as a force for cultural nationalization . |
| 13 | Derry followed last Sunday 's disappointing defeat by Shelbourne at Tolka Park by restoring a measure of self belief on Thursday night with a 1–0 victory over Monaghan United in the second round of the League Cup . |
| 14 | HMI Baker , who had been a Ministry of Education assessor on the Crick Committee , commented in 1968 : |
| 15 | It was by her own choice that she had married Cliff , not Steve : it was she herself that had seduced Cliff , in a field of cow parsley on a May evening . |
| 16 | It is interesting that the Secretary of State does not claim that he has a majority of public opinion on his side but merely that the very large majority against trust status was ill informed and listened to Labour propaganda . |
| 17 | If all road deaths , including pedestrians , are assessed , only three countries have a better record than the UK , according to a Department of Transport report on road deaths in 1990 . |
| 18 | I know that he feels great distress at what is happening as a result of Government inaction on this matter . |
| 19 | ‘ … and it is with regret we must inform you that your husband Gerald Patrick McKeown has been reported missing , believed lost at sea as a result of enemy action on the night of 23rd/24th April , 1941 … ’ |
| 20 | When turning the ends to be jointed , it is worth having a piece of scrap wood on hand with the appropriate holes bored into it to check for a snug fit . |
| 21 | A piece of bread flake on a muddy bottom may need a foot or more , and the indication allowed to yo-yo several times before we can be anywhere near sure of hitting them . |
| 22 | Put a piece of kitchen foil on the plate and then the mould on top of that . |
| 23 | This time it was a piece of wire mesh on a metal rod . |
| 24 | The aftermath of the war did oblige Mrs Thatcher to engage in a piece of Cabinet reform on a small but important scale . |
| 25 | It seemed out of proportion to its surroundings , like a piece of pop sculpture on a deliberately provoking scale . |
| 26 | Apart from the detailed maps and walking instructions , the guide provides a wealth of background information on the geology , history and archaeology of the area . |
| 27 | One µl of extract was injected into a column of 20% neopentenyl-glycolsuccinate on Gaschrom Q 80–100 mesh , and SCFA concentrations calculated using internal standards . |
| 28 | A Council of Europe convention on minority languages in Europe was opened for signature on Nov. 5 , when it was signed by 11 of the 27 member states . |
| 29 | A report by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ) in late July 1991 maintained that fears voiced at a Council of Europe conference on east-west migration in January 1991 of a massive influx of immigrants from eastern Europe [ see p. 37969 ] were proving not to be well-founded . |
| 30 | This dilemma was referred to in a Council of Europe paper on Permanent Education . |