Example sentences of "[noun] of a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He indicates that he is looking for £150m.The defence division had appeared as a ‘ blot on our copy books ’ , he said — pre-tax profits at the business plunged to £1.5m from £13.2m , and turnover slipped to £425m from the £436.5m of a year ago . |
| 2 | His hair and skin are dark , like a gipsy 's , but he has the manners of a gentleman . |
| 3 | He came into the carriage in his khaki uniform , this great English bear with the manners of a gentleman , and asked if he could smoke . |
| 4 | ‘ Apart from arrogance , bad temper , selfishness , and the manners of a dictator ? ’ |
| 5 | He seemed a courtly gentleman with the inbred manners of a diplomat . |
| 6 | In the streets they affect the manners of a pantomime dame to gain attention : they pinch men 's buttocks , purposely make buffoons of themselves , but are quick to take offence . |
| 7 | You 've got the manners of a pig . |
| 8 | His capacity for controversy in such social encounters had gained Johnson a great deal of his divinity in English letters , but in Scotland , with the good manners of a visitor necessarily prevailing , such intercourse invariably proved pleasant , Lord Monboddo 's house typically thus . |
| 9 | ‘ The manners of a bull elephant , ’ was Monica 's elegant description . |
| 10 | Miraculously cured of back pains just before he had joined the NSC , he had joined a charismatic Episcopal congregation , in which he kept the church manners of a Catholic ; and where appeals for the contras were concerned he could take either voice , as necessary . |
| 11 | We can do this by various systems of moving averages , whereby an observation is replaced by the mean of a number of observations centred on the one in question . |
| 12 | It is arrived at by calculating the mean of a set of values and measuring the deviation between this and each value . |
| 13 | It is arrived at by calculating the mean of a set of values and measuring the deviation between this and each value . |
| 14 | Outside , there were the usual hospital sounds — ambulant patients moving about the ward in slippers , nurses talking at the nurses ' station , the distant squeaking wheel of a cleaner 's trolley — but in here it was very quiet . |
| 15 | It 's an all British car erm except for the Japanese tape deck , and the makers believe there are enough people around who still want to drive with the top down and the wind in their hair , people who are prepared to risk the weather , as well as an overdraft , to get behind the wheel of a Healey again . |
| 16 | The hardened wheel of a pipe cutter will give a much neater cut : the adjusting handle is progressively tightened as the cutter is rotated around the pipe . |
| 17 | His first race was at Oulton Park in 1962 when he was behind the wheel of a Porsche . |
| 18 | In a windy , cold field in Cambridgeshire , green with winter wheat , half a mile away from where Angela Morgan 's body had been found , a small man with a narrow , turned-down mouth sat smoking his twentieth cigarette of the day at the wheel of a Land Rover . |
| 19 | The man had spent about thirty minutes behind the wheel of a Land Rover Discovery like this one … they 'd followed Geoff 's normal route from Banbury to the village of Mollington , onto Cropredy , then back into Banbury . |
| 20 | No one was hurt , but he had n't ventured behind the wheel of a vehicle since that day , ’ Andrew says . |
| 21 | She was tied to the wheel of a chariot and sent down the steep sides of one of the great hills . |
| 22 | Some of the great names of motor racing were seen behind the wheel of a Bugatti , one being Malcolm Campbell , who finished second in the inaugural British Grand Prix in 1926 ( surprisingly , that was the best finish by a Bugatti in the race ) . |
| 23 | THE managing director of David McLean Homes will get behind the wheel of a limousine to help raise money for St Mary 's primary school , in Wrexham , at an auction of ‘ promises ’ at St Mary 's church hall tonight . |
| 24 | The apples are pulped by the scratting mill , a giant mincing machine attached by a belt to the drive wheel of a Lister single-cylinder stationary engine , cooled by a little pond in the recess provided in the top of its cylinder block . |
| 25 | On the other hand I was afraid that if I made the driver sound too important he might end up under the wheel of a bus instead of behind one . |
| 26 | Perhaps that 's what W O meant : it 's not that there are no faults , just that from behind the wheel of a Bentley you do n't give a damn . |
| 27 | Using the jet nozzle head , unsightly black marks in tile grouting just dissolved away , and the oily deposits on the back wheel of a motorbike , which usually took hours to shift , disappeared in no time . |
| 28 | But replacing the front wheel of a motorbike ? |
| 29 | AN RAF man told a court yesterday how he had fallen asleep at the wheel of a Land-Rover before his friend died in a head-on crash with a lorry on the A1 . |
| 30 | And the result is that more motorists than ever are opting for life behind the wheel of a diesel vehicle . |