Example sentences of "a [noun] of [noun pl] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They carried on an extensive trade in a variety of products such as cattle cake , seed corn , manure and farm fertilisers . |
| 2 | Joint training sessions give an opportunity to focus on fundamentals away from an unyielding agenda and an opportunity to develop a variety of skills such as interviewing or meeting management . |
| 3 | Council Tax Demands are due on a variety of dates each month in order to spread the workload on Council staff and our agents . |
| 4 | We offer a variety of pensions all within five minutes walk of the Sporthotel . |
| 5 | This can be covered by the skirting board at the walls , or by a variety of mouldings such as stair-nose ( for edging the top stair ) , T-profile ( for where two wood floors join at the same level ) , and quadrant ( where you 've left the original skirting in place , or at a wall where there is no skirting ) . |
| 6 | The unit 's findings are based on a variety of factors such as : *more travel is likely to be for leisure purposes , with people taking greater advantage of greater access to the countryside *there simply is n't enough space in the cities to accommodate the predicted number of privately owned cars . |
| 7 | Their participation hinged on a variety of factors such as personal situation at the time of receiving the response sheet ; feelings of obligation towards the two agencies involved in the sampling ; perception that being interviewed might help them in the future ; boredom with prison life ; and simple curiosity . |
| 8 | It is known that such patients may have one of a variety of conditions such as arteriovenous malformations in the small intestine or colon ( including angiodysplasia and telangiectasia ) , Meckel 's diverticulum , Crohn 's disease , and small bowel smooth muscle tumours . |
| 9 | These firms had either splintered off from American companies — as in the case of Norman Broadbent — or they had been set up on their own from scratch , in a variety of forms such as MSL , EAL , Tyzack , Alexander Hughes , Goddard Kay Rogers , John Stork , Merton and Whitehead Mann , to name but a few . |
| 10 | Cell switching , which minimises the amount of processing in each switch , is geared to systems that handle information in a variety of forms such as data and video , while frame switching is efficient at handling burst data . |
| 11 | Again this generic theory of legal obligations is expressed in a variety of forms such as a duty of care , rules about fair competition , and the protection of the reliance interest . |
| 12 | They have also been associated with a variety of approaches such as self-build schemes , renovations and housing trusts . |
| 13 | On the other hand , unlike their predecessors , they were not advocates of single causes , such as temperance or even religious instruction , but instead sought to attract members with a varied programme which consciously mixed recreation with education , welfare , and sometimes church attendance , for a variety of reasons all of which rested on the specificity of youth in relation to age and to class . |
| 14 | The principal method is the study of hoards , since coins have frequently been deposited in hoards for safe-keeping and their owners have often been prevented from recovering them for a variety of reasons such as death or forgetfulness . |
| 15 | However , for a variety of reasons such agreements are unlikely to require registration , as matters stand . |
| 16 | Later , it will be shown that for a variety of reasons such students within these departments produce theses which are seldom published , cited , or consulted . |
| 17 | For a variety of reasons this type of explanation must be rejected today and the explosive diversification of Metazoa across the Precambrian-Cambrian boundary , as recorded in the strata , is now generally accepted as being a true reflection of what actually happened ( Stanley , 1976 ; Seilacher , 1977 ) . |
| 18 | The government or political executive has as its instrument for the business of governing , the administration or bureaucracy , which extends through the ministries and departments , to a variety of institutions such as public corporations , banks , and others ( particularly the institutions of education and the media ) . |
| 19 | Rather than use a variety of notions such as recoverability , predictability , and saliency to explain givenness , Chafe suggests that the key to givenness lies in the notion of consciousness : |
| 20 | Particularly in complex , internally differentiated societies , musical styles are assemblages of elements from a variety of sources each with a variety of histories and connotations , and these assemblages can , in appropriate circumstances , be prised open and the elements rearticulated in different contexts . |
| 21 | The reading texts have been carefully selected from a variety of sources such as newspapers , magazines , and short stories — and are graded where appropriate . |
| 22 | hardware — from a variety of suppliers/manufacturers such as ACER ; |
| 23 | Dummy cigarettes , which consist of a plastic tube containing a variety of substances such as menthol or eucalyptus , may help those smokers who have problems overcoming the ritual of handling cigarettes . |
| 24 | They work on the principle of a pantograph which can operate in three dimensions to carve a variety of materials such as marble , plastic and wood . |
| 25 | An introduction to construction , modelling and carving sculpture , using a variety of materials such as wood , clay , plaster and ciment fondu . |
| 26 | We are destroying the site as a long-term study on a supposedly stable system by introducing a variety of perturbations such as transplant experiments , the creation of islands for invasion and further perturbations are planned . |
| 27 | ADF transmissions can be used for a variety of purposes such as : |
| 28 | Kestrels nest in a variety of places such as cliffs or crevices in buildings , or holes in trees . |
| 29 | Does my right hon. and learned Friend agree that in a variety of spheres such as banking , pensions and building societies , ombudsmen have been enormously successful ? |
| 30 | close integration of skills work provides practice in a variety of combinations such as listening and speaking , reading and discussion , listening and reading |