Example sentences of "an [noun sg] of [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | This was the first time that an archbishop of Canterbury had taken disciplinary action against a Welsh bishop . |
| 2 | Which building did an Archbishop of Canterbury tell MPs would ‘ cast the blight of gritty soot and sulphurous fumes on London 's parks and noblest buildings ’ ? |
| 3 | Elsewhere in the sale four ‘ vortographs ’ — formal studies of fractured light produced by an assemblage of mirrors placed between the subject and the lens — by Alvin Langdon Coburn made £268,400 in total , nearly four times their estimate . |
| 4 | Training with a list of stimulus words was regarded as an instance of discrimination learning in which each S comes to evoke an R different from those evoked by other stimuli . |
| 5 | They are characterised by the woman who clucked her disapproval to a minister of my acquaintance about an instance of Sabbath breaking . |
| 6 | A review of the current accommodation and food and beverage operations and an assessment of changes required in the light of the proposed conversion to timeshare operation |
| 7 | The second repeated the evaluation of telephone interviewing against face-to-face interviewing and was extended to include an assessment of computer assisted telephone interviewing ( CATI ) . |
| 8 | Therefore this simple technique of counting vessels as an assessment of angiogenesis does provide us with additional prognostic information and is good for patients . |
| 9 | Second , the title suggests an assessment of multimedia spanning the decade , examining developments as far ahead as the year 2000 . |
| 10 | Like Style in Fiction , this was a coursebook which grew out of an experience of teaching shared with colleagues at the University of Lancaster . |
| 11 | It always feels like an admission of failure to come back from the Continent and have nothing to show for it . |
| 12 | When they started out , Yorkshire women clearly thought it was an admission of defeat to get the caterers in , but no longer . |
| 13 | At issue is one small , but key part of the European Commission 's plan for an alignment of Value Added Tax ( VAT ) and Excise rates in the 12 member states , which it considers essential if frontier checks on traders are to be abolished after 1992 . |
| 14 | She brought him back his drink , and then noticed with some relief that the crowd seemed to be thinning , and there was only an hour of work left . |
| 15 | It contains a huge amount of such data including amongst many other surveys and statistics , the 1981 National Census , 500 maps , 22,000 photographs , 1,500 items of text in the form of essays and published articles and , on side two of the disc , about an hour of video recording some of the events of 1986 . |
| 16 | But within an hour of play resuming on Friday , Bucknor called for a TV replay decision after Meyrick Pringle had been sent back and Sachin Tendulkar hit the stumps with a throw from square leg . |
| 17 | By this time Stirling had disappeared and they needed to find him as there was only half an hour of darkness left . |
| 18 | Maybe there was half an hour of daylight left . |
| 19 | There was still perhaps three-quarters of an hour of daylight left , but the sun was just glimpses of coppery gold between vast castles of cloud stacking up on the horizon . |
| 20 | With less than an hour of daylight remaining , he carried a flashlight — not that it would be of much help with the rain cascading down as if the Maya Rain God had corralled every raincloud in Central America and pulled the plugs out . |
| 21 | The people taking part commit themselves to half an hour of scripture based prayer each day and a half hour meeting with a ‘ Prayer Guide ’ each evening when they receive personal guidance . |
| 22 | The carvings swung , and up there an owl of wood stared at her among the leaves . |
| 23 | At the current time , all sorts of bodies and organizations can apply to have an attachment of earnings made on someone who owes money . |
| 24 | Similarly the court in Bullivant ( Roger ) Ltd v Ellis took note of the duration of a restrictive covenant in a former employee 's contract of employment in determining how long it would restrain the defendant from using an index of customers removed from his former employers . |
| 25 | Know your medicines is divided into three sections : section 1 gives general information on using medicines , and advice on questions to ask a doctor , nurse or pharmacist ; section 2 covers the actions of medicines on the body system ; section 3 is an index of medicines to enable users to check what each is for and what effects they can have . |
| 26 | In particular , BGS is seeking permission from commercial companies to publish an index of data held , though ownership will still reside with the original company . |
| 27 | Resource allocation from central to local government does take into account the a real disadvantage through the use of an index of deprivation derived by combining estimates of the proportion of the children under 17 in the local authority who were in households lacking amenities ; in one-parent households ; in households with four or more dependent children ; with a head of household in a semi-skilled , unskilled or agricultural occupation ; in families receiving supplementary benefit ; themselves born outside the United Kingdom , or in a family whose head was born abroad . |
| 28 | Meanwhile our Photographic Reconnaissance Unit had observed an armada of barges assembled along the Dutch and Belgian coasts . |
| 29 | He went from the light grey day into the gloom of a kitchen and immediately found his feet colliding with what appeared to be an armada of saucepans placed on every foot of the flagged floor . |
| 30 | Many of the greatest and most rewarding performances belong to the analogue stereo LP era , and these records can offer an illusion of realism to compare with almost anything achieved more recently … |