Example sentences of "of a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is the record of a glory that was short lived , but makes an illustrious event in Aarau 's history . |
| 2 | In another it was said that the legitimate expectation of a prisoner that he would be allowed maximum parole if no disciplinary award of forfeiture of remission of sentence had been made against him , gave him sufficient interest to challenge the award . |
| 3 | Our relations from now on are strictly those of a prisoner and a warder . |
| 4 | They see it working and often they are given a print out of the results at the end of a spectrum or something like that that they can take back to the school with them and analyze . |
| 5 | As with many successful products there was always the possibility of a sequel and Collector 's Edition II duly appeared earlier this year . |
| 6 | All beds are made up of a mattress and a base which should ideally be bought together . |
| 7 | A catenary is the locus of the focus of a parabola as it rolls on a straight line . |
| 8 | He said : ‘ What we have seen is the devaluation not just of a currency but of a Prime Minister and an entire Government . |
| 9 | That , as Viktor Pynzenyk , the leading reformer in Mr Kuchma 's cabinet , pointed out , means yet more inflation and yet further devaluation of a currency that is falling even against the rouble . |
| 10 | What becomes the English language starts as the dialect of a minority and is imposed upon the majority , usually by force , with legal punishments for those who refuse the schooling which will induct them in the national language . |
| 11 | The relationship between the scope and substantive provisions of a Convention and rules of private international law is highly complex and can be treated only briefly here . |
| 12 | ‘ He wants nothing of a God but eternity and a Heaven to throne in , ’ he shouted at Gail Russell , frightening the girl off the street . |
| 13 | The stress on efficient or productive causes means that , though Bacon 's natural philosophy includes Divinity , Hobbes 's excludes the theological study of a God that is eternal and ingenerate . |
| 14 | The Laplace argument , many theists would conclude , simply disproves the existence of a God that theists do n't believe in anyway . |
| 15 | It seems that the atheist can never disprove the existence of a God that theists admit to believing in . |
| 16 | The question really means : What is it about the idea of a god that gives it its stability and penetrance in the cultural environment ? |
| 17 | Top lot will be an Egyptian limestone head of a god or goddess , dated to the late eighteenth Dynasty , around 1300 BC ( est. $250,000–350,000 ; £163,000–229,000 ) . |
| 18 | For others it was the handiwork of a god or gods . |
| 19 | I believe that the creation of the universe and all that that involves , is still a mystery and forms no part of the conception of a god and a corresponding religion that can fulfil the human need . |
| 20 | Many of them , for example , were supposed to have been born of a god and a virgin . |
| 21 | In the case of a bridal couple the ideology is that during the initiatory phase of their marriage the groom and his bride are playing out the roles of a god and a goddess ; when they resume their life as ordinary mortals their dangerous divinity must be removed . ) |
| 22 | The son of a furniture and domestic appliance merchant , Charles Garrett was born on 1 April 1932 in the small Texas town of Lufkin . |
| 23 | Vocational education is often thought of as the acquisition of knowledge and skills directly applicable to the job ; but in most posts what is required is not so much the acquisition of a skill as progressive development in the fields of human relations , of judgment , and of general educational standards . |
| 24 | Implicit information , or " know-how " , is that information which is an integral part of a skill and can be acquired only by apprenticeship from an expert . |
| 25 | A control account is merely an extra account inserted at the back of a ledger or kept separately to make the ledger self-balancing . |
| 26 | In the case of a walk-in or chance guest then the room status board would be checked to see if accommodation was available . |
| 27 | And by virtue of a document that purportedly ‘ came to light ’ in the eighth century , the so-called ‘ Donation of Constantine ’ , he was believed to have conferred certain of his own secular powers upon the Pope . |
| 28 | Two of Elizabeth 's Attorneys , John Price and Thomas Atkins , were certainly guilty of abusing justice : Price forged those parts of a document that had been eaten by mice and Atkins took bribes from men charged before the Council . |
| 29 | Now one of the features of Microsoft Word is that a only lets you work with text which is what is called selected and if you actually move the cursor down a bit so that it 's not at the beginning of a document and then we 'll follow our way through these various selecting text keys which are outlined in that paragraph , section three six one . |
| 30 | The first typist writes a page of a document and hands it to his neighbour . |