Example sentences of "the [noun sg] of [noun] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Council of Economic Advisers produced startling figures : 9.3 million ( 20% ) of Americans were living below a poverty line drawn at the income of $3000 a year . |
| 2 | However , in the majority of studies a high prevalence rate of hypercholesterolaemia has been found ( New et al , 1963 ; Wilson et al , 1970b ; Chase & Glasgow , 1976 ; Mancini et al , 1980 ; Sosenko et al , 1980 ; Yano et al , 1982 ; Pacy et al , 1985 ) . |
| 3 | The left suffered further defeats including the rejection of its attempt to make the reduction of unemployment a greater priority than the control of inflation . |
| 4 | BRITISH troops yesterday gave the Prince of Wales a rousing three cheers for his morale-boosting mission to war-ravaged Bosnia . |
| 5 | AMERICAN university students gave the Prince of Wales a rousing welcome at the weekend as he continued his first overseas trip since the December announcement of the collapse of his marriage . |
| 6 | THE president of the Court of Governors of the University College of Wales , Aberystwyth , Sir Melvyn Rosser , has joined the board of Menter a Busnes , the agency that aims to make Welsh speakers more enterprising in business . |
| 7 | Gene Nocon introduced me to the technique of pre-flash a few years ago and it altered the way I approach printing . |
| 8 | Gene Nocon introduced me to the technique of pre-flash a few years ago and it altered the way I approach printing . |
| 9 | I 'm certain that those of us who heard Mike Save The Children 's overseas director on the Today programme or our field director in Angola on the evening television news yesterday , can have hold nothing but pride , what they had to say of Save The Children 's work in that country , a country described as the heart of darkness a country with the world 's worse infant mortality rate . |
| 10 | In the case of Turkey a further objective was a weakening of Turkish commitment to NATO membership . |
| 11 | Other plants , though not cultivated , may be encouraged as in the case of Madhuc a longiJolia ( Sapotaceae ) with edible flowers and valuable oilseeds , owing its persistence and wide distribution in India to human activity . |
| 12 | Alkalinity , though tolerated rather better than acidity , increases the toxicity of ammonia and reduces the availability to fish of essential mineral elements such as iron and copper ( in the case of iron a deficiency could produce anaemia ) . |
| 13 | In the case of foodstuffs a whole host of additives have been used to flavour , colour , emulsify and preserve the products in question . |
| 14 | Calling the most important political movement since the rise of Socialism a load of eco-freaks does n't give you any credit and just gets me annoyed . |
| 15 | When being assessed for the Certificate of Eligibility a student must provide the following documents : |
| 16 | Hydroxyl-radical cleavage of the lac UV5 promoter ( upper strand ) with wild-type or α-235 RNA polymerases in the absence and in the presence of CRP. a : autoradiogram of the gel . |
| 17 | In the presence of actinomycin a clear footprint is evident around the central GpC with enhanced DNase I cleavage on both sides within the A n and T n tracts as previously reported [ 23 ] . |
| 18 | The scripture readings and prayers used by the Church call us to make the presence of Christ a reality in our lives week by week . |
| 19 | Having cost the University of Bristol a lot of money over the previous months , I thought I ought to try to put something back , so I got myself sponsored : part of the money was to go to the Arthritis and Rheumatism Council , and half to the newly-formed Bristol University Arthritis Research Group . |
| 20 | Recently , there has been a moving together again , but in the 1930s there developed at the University of Chicago a tradition of social research that is now known as the ‘ Chicago School ’ . |
| 21 | To the west of York a 3,000 house development has been mooted for Acaster Malbis , a disused airfield . |
| 22 | It looked to the children more like the kind of grin a tiger might give before it pounced on its prey . |
| 23 | Do they understand the significance of a certain uniform for instance , or the kind of case a character is carrying ? |
| 24 | The kind of smile a snake makes before it unhinges its jaws and swallows an egg . |
| 25 | ‘ Precisely , ’ he said , giving her the kind of look a great thespian might give an impish soubrette who had just delivered his punchline . |
| 26 | In keeping with this thesis , Lodge is prepared to see no difference between the kind of choice a writer makes in deciding to call a character dark or fair , and the choice between synonyms such as dark and swarthy . |
| 27 | Hardly the kind of man a wife dreams about , she told herself . |
| 28 | In ‘ Barchester Towers ’ though it is actually Dr. Proudie who takes the position wanted by Dr. Grantly , he is made out to be a rather insignificant and weak person whereas Mrs. Proudie is seen at once to be strong and authoritative , too much so , and Trollope makes of her the kind of character a reader loves to hate . |
| 29 | It was , she reflected , exactly the kind of place a high-flier like Luke would choose . |
| 30 | If the object reflecting the echoes were not a static tree but a moving insect , the Doppler consequences would be more complicated , but the bat could still calculate the velocity of relative motion between itself and its target , obviously just the kind of information a sophisticated guided missile like a hunting bat needs . |