Example sentences of "of [noun] [noun] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , the Bishop has been fined three hundred pounds by Forest of Dean Magistrates for a speeding offence . |
| 2 | Durham captain David Graveney , whose country is likely to lose the services of Dean Jones at a crucial stage of the season , said the decision was ‘ very disappointing ’ . |
| 3 | Preparation of Assessment Instruments in a Criterion Referenced Assessment System |
| 4 | Not by the route the signposts have been urging ever since faraway Loch Carron but by way of Corran Ferry after a protracted series of diversions and deviations . |
| 5 | One the first night our dessert of a white meringue swan floating on a sea of raspberry sauce with a scoop of rum and raisin ice-cream nestling between its folded wings , gives an idea of how beautifully presented the meals were . |
| 6 | It is headed by Suresh Grover , who , like many associated with the organisation , has been active in radical Asian politics since the mid-1970s and the bitter campaign which followed the death of Blair Peach from a police truncheon blow in 1979 . |
| 7 | Some then went off to the latrines behind the back of the hall , which Charlie thought smelled worse than the middle of Whitechapel Road on a steaming summer 's day . |
| 8 | On the subject of pellet size , it is better to err on the small size anyway , so that your younger Koi can get their mouths round the food ; or feed a mixture of small and large grade pellets , with perhaps a handful of stick food as a treat . |
| 9 | Being appointed Waywarden he levelled the worst ‘ knaps ’ along the High Street , raised a part of Church Hill to a more even gradient and improved the pond below Carrants Court Farm where , as a boy , he drew water near his birth place . |
| 10 | The major cause of hair damage during a perm happens in the rinsing process . |
| 11 | Thus the Bengali perceptions of the west in the 19th century — studied from the view-point of contact between dissimilar cultures and the attitudes characteristic of elite groups in a colonial society — has a relevance to the analysis of much wider issues . |
| 12 | I did n't particularly enjoy that , but the fact that I could play a reasonable game of golf led to an offer to do a sales job for a golf manufacturer just south of Los Angeles in a place called Tustin . ’ |
| 13 | Under my leadership we have transformed the city of Los Angeles from a quiet , sleepy little town to the point where it is the second largest city in the United States . ’ |
| 14 | To head off a tantrum , try squirting a shot of washing-up liquid into a beaker , adding a bit of water and giving her a drinking straw to blow bubbles with . |
| 15 | The development of Dickson McCunn as a hero will be considered more fully later . |
| 16 | Intonation helps to produce the effect of prominence on syllables that need to be perceived as stressed , and in particular the placing of tonic stress on a particular syllable marks out the word to which it belongs as the most important in the tone-unit . |
| 17 | AN OLD couple died of heart attacks after a traffic incident in which neither suffered injury , an inquest heard . |
| 18 | On leaving her dead yes but a whiff from a cyanide gun would have brought an automatic verdict of heart failure on a stout elderly smoker . |
| 19 | Coil involves continuous high speed painting of strip metal in a dedicated automated production unit . |
| 20 | Each leaf makes contact with the air , and anyone who has been in a grove of beech trees on a windy night can have no doubt as to the elemental attribution of the tree . |
| 21 | Thus , due to the sheer complexity of spatial data and the operations available , this can only be a partial solution to the general problem of user interaction with a GIS ( Gould 1989 ) . |
| 22 | In other words , the success of user education as a continuous process between each of the educational sectors depends on the success of education itself being regarded and pursued as a continuous process . |
| 23 | { 31 } , who find ( Fig. 7.5 ) that the transverse degrees of freedom lead to a Ruelle-Takens route to chaos , via frequency locking of two incommensurate frequencies . |
| 24 | Previous page : north-east ridge of Y Cribyn with a view westwards to northern flank of Pen y Fan , Brecon Beacons . |
| 25 | This does not of necessity call for a middle way between the extremes of egalitarianism on the one hand and élitism on the other . |
| 26 | If they come to power , such institutional changes would of necessity lead to a review of the Arts Council 's role and therefore of the arm's-length principle . |
| 27 | ‘ There 's just more things to be taken care of , it seems to me , ’ he says , spitting a mouthful of sunflower shells into a cup . |
| 28 | Since Leith would be looking for an employer too — a new employer — she made enquiries , and soon secured an interview for the job of contracts officer with a small firm in London called Ardis & Co . |
| 29 | Operational experience of real systems design reinforces doubts about the allocation of function concept as a basis for a unitary systematic procedure . |
| 30 | Working for Mr Looms , his abiding memory is of the desks in the office , which consisted of brick sides with a concrete slab as a working surface . |