Example sentences of "the [noun sg] of [noun] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | A friend and I were driving in spring to Crarae gardens near Inveraray so I could salivate over the rhododendrons , but we grew tired of travelling at seven miles an hour behind clods in caravans and on reaching the Rest And Be Thankful pulled into the side to wander about at the base of Beinn an Lochain . |
| 2 | We quoted this to show that Bruner , the doyen of discovery learning , thought the teaching of grammar an essential part of the learning process . |
| 3 | But it was the glory of Sgurr an Lochain , faceted and sculpted in ice and snow and with golden light gleaming from its snowfields and cornices that entranced me . |
| 4 | The University of Essex has a multidisciplinary first year , and the University of Sussex an initial two-term preliminary course . |
| 5 | It was n't the kind of sound an engine made — or a dishwasher or a television or any of the things I was used to seeing round the house . |
| 6 | In order to estimate the level of violence an average woman would experience in the course of her life , this figure would need to be multiplied by the number of years the average woman lives . |
| 7 | This hidden wonderland , sculptured in darkness absolute , remained unseen and unsuspected through the ages until the present century when men first ventured into rifts in the ground and beheld in the light of torches an amazing display of sculptured limestone in patterns both incredibly delicate and massive , a living museum of art in many forms . |
| 8 | From Achintree Farm , the path winds its way up the side of Meall an t-Suidhe towards Loch Meall an t-Suidhe . |
| 9 | Russian Formalism represents one of the earliest systematic attempts to put literary studies on an independent footing , and to make the study of literature an autonomous and specific discipline . |
| 10 | In the confusion of battle an accident might decide the issue one way or another and the fortunes of a single day might undo the patient work of months or years . |
| 11 | GaAs is an outstanding semiconductor by virtue of its electronic bands ( or energy level separations ) which govern the range of energies an electron is allowed in an individual atom . |
| 12 | of a school leaver will be almost entirely about educational achievements and any pastimes , experiences or interests which indicate the type of person an employer will be looking for . |
| 13 | In Scotland these include a special campaign to make the carrying of knives an offence ; the use of bullet-proof video cameras as a method of town centre surveillance ; and , most widely applied of all , a curb on late-night licences . |
| 14 | In the jargon of finance an annuity is just a regular flow of cash into or out of an account . |
| 15 | The BMA called a press conference on the emigration of doctors an hour beforehand , half the journalists went off to that , and the fierce women sent along by the pressure groups whom I had invited to liven up the occasion terrorised the few press men who remained into almost complete silence . |
| 16 | Another major block of duchy land lay along the Aire , from the soke of Snaith in the east , through Pontefract to Leeds and Bradford , with the forest of Knaresborough an outrider further north . |
| 17 | Another major block of duchy land lay along the Aire , from the soke of Snaith in the east , through Pontefract to Leeds and Bradford , with the forest of Knaresborough an outrider further north . |
| 18 | In one , Ackroyd interviews himself about his own book , dispensing the sort of reflections an author normally puts in the preface : only Ackroyd , the teasing narrative juggler , would insert them on page 892 . |
| 19 | At 10 am on the day of admission an indwelling cannula was placed into an antecubital vein . |
| 20 | After that period has elapsed , however , shortage of funds may make the charging of fees an attractive proposition , and there will be a double incentive if fee paying permits a reduction of government expenditure . |
| 21 | In the absence of particles an electrical current across the aperture remains constant , but when particles of low electrical conductivity , such as quartz , pass the aperture they cause current fluctuations , depending upon their volume . |
| 22 | Additionally , the exchange value of the dollar was pegged in terms of gold at the rate of $35 an ounce . |
| 23 | There was no sign of this Devil 's Ridge and by the time we reached the summit of Sgor an Iubhair I was imagining a knife edge of rock , hanging above an abyss full of red scaly demons , holding pitch forks and hissing to one another , ‘ She has n't got the security of a rope . ’ |
| 24 | I , Duclos , am responsible for the plantation of Vi An and I will not tolerate lazy , idle , work-shy " yellows " here . |
| 25 | The vision was in fact the peak of Sgurr an Lochain , the penultimate top along a ridge traversing the crest of the southern wall of Kintail in a westerly direction , and incorporating the wonderful heights of . |
| 26 | Subject to these constraints , the wording of the section gives the Secretary of State an unfettered discretion in deciding whether to release any particular prisoner and , if so , when . |
| 27 | The fact that the defendant might not himself have called the state of affairs an obstruction is , to my mind , immaterial . |
| 28 | In the centre of Cardigan an earth mover used to try to reach a trapped mother and child overturned , and the occupiers eventually scrambled to safety . |
| 29 | Regional policy did not emerge in the EC until 1975 , but nevertheless , prior to this time there was embodied in the Treaty of Rome an implicit concern for regional disparities . |
| 30 | the means within a program to reduce or enlarge the amount of space an image will occupy . |