Example sentences of "an [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus a Dean of Durham , and an ex-Bishop of Durham , and a complicated patronage secretary who popped out of holes like a rabbit , and a doctrine of apostolic authority , and an Archbishop of York , and a desire to follow the calling of God even if it looked unlikely , winkled a professor out of a career to which he seemed to have been born . |
| 2 | Fisher objected that an Archbishop of York ought not to encourage illegality by being present at the requiem ; and , painfully for himself , felt under a duty of conscience not to attend the memorial service . |
| 3 | He knew that he could be accused of acting like some less satisfactory prime ministers in this constitutional field , that is , choosing an archbishop of his own lay power without the approval of the Church ; and he disliked that situation . |
| 4 | Ramsey was sure that this was a first in history ; the settlement of the choice of an Archbishop of Canterbury by telephone . |
| 5 | He asked the Queen to appoint an Archbishop of York without first asking the Archbishop of Canterbury . |
| 6 | All too briefly , until his untimely death in 1944 , there was an Archbishop of Canterbury who was not only a learned philosopher and theologian but was also able , in such writings as his Readings in St John 's Gospel to speak to people at a simple devotional level . |
| 7 | But to show how ecumenical they were , they also once burnt an Archbishop of Canterbury ; several Prime Ministers ; Enoch Powell ; Richard Nixon ; Stalin ; all sorts of people , even poor Mr Heath , not so much because he was a villain but because it is so easy to make a guy in the semblance of Mr Heath . |
| 8 | As leader of the Church Edward the Confessor played his part , though not perhaps very adequately , since he left on his death an archbishop of Canterbury who was not recognized as such by the pope . |
| 9 | 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 ’ ? |
| 10 | This was the first time that an archbishop of Canterbury had taken disciplinary action against a Welsh bishop . |
| 11 | The pallium gave Hygeberht no jurisdiction in Saxon territories or in Kent but it did afford him metropolitan rights over all the Anglian peoples north of the Thames and south of the Humber , which may suggest that Offa was seeking not just an archbishop of the Mercians but a new ecclesiastical order for the Angles of midland and eastern England . |
| 12 | The latter seemed to hold the view that , if there had to be an Archbishop of Canterbury at all , it were best that he should be a socialist . |
| 13 | It is an embedding of the graph in the plane of the page . |
| 14 | The Tayside men hold an advantage of a single point over their well-heeled Glaswegian rivals , and they traditionally fare well on visits to Govan . |
| 15 | It is an advantage of the analysis offered in the last chapter that it is capable of accounting for authority over a group on the basis of authority relations between individuals . |
| 16 | An advantage of this slender branch byway , which runs at a higher level than the main road , is the splendid panorama it affords of the encircling hills : across the valley the distant double-topped Frostrow merges in the long whaleback skyline of Rise Hill ; at the head is Great Knoutberry Hill carrying the railway ; rising to the left are the lower slopes of Whernside , succeeded by Great Coum beyond the gap of Deepdale , and finally Middleton Fell closes the horizon . |
| 17 | An advantage of this technique is that , with glass LC cell walls and transparent electrodes , the displays can be lit from behind to create a luminous image more like the TV we all know and love . |
| 18 | An advantage of this system is that work can commence much earlier than in the traditional system because much of the design work will take place at the same time as the actual construction . |
| 19 | An advantage of wind is that it at least partially kills sound . |
| 20 | Temple could write with perfect confidence in his audience that though he would not ‘ strain the reader 's capacity by asking him to imagine a native Governor of a Colony or Protectorate ’ or even a native Colonial Secretary of Nigeria — a proposal which ‘ does not come within the bounds of practical politics ’ — he counted it an advantage of Indirect Rule that under it ‘ the native can and does fill not only positions of great responsibility but the highest positions , positions which place him on the social scale on an equality with the King 's representative himself ’ . |
| 21 | An advantage of electronic coursework is that recording mechanisms are easy to install , and we shall dwell on this aspect as it is a vital one , not only in our own institution but also in many others . |
| 22 | An advantage of this use of directories is that it caters naturally for cases where a student 's work involves several different files . |
| 23 | It also has an advantage of being very labour-saving at this time of year . |
| 24 | Cos that is an advantage of it . |
| 25 | At first it will be a matter of trial and error , but an advantage of ribbon weaving is that it is so easy to undo and start again . |
| 26 | An advantage of the first point was that it allowed Galileo to say that the sacred scribes had intentionally refrained from imparting complex scientific knowledge , despite having it at their disposal . |
| 27 | An advantage of this technique is that the teacher can decide while using the program what level of exercises to generate — the computer program offers a great deal more flexibility in this respect than an ordinary textbook . |
| 28 | An advantage of the modular form is the flexibility it gives to both staff and student in organising a suitable degree course . |
| 29 | Heron ( 1957 ) found that unilaterally presented words were better recognised from the right visual field but that with bilateral presentation there was an advantage of words to the left of fixation . |
| 30 | An advantage of an analysis which accommodates phonetically detailed information is that it allows phonetically detailed generalizations , some of which are of considerable theoretical interest . |