Example sentences of "[noun] of a [adj] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The incident happened late last night and was less than forty eight hours after fourteen year old Sally Cattell died at the wheel of a stolen car in a crash in Erdington , Birmingham . |
| 2 | At talks on Feb. 26 , 1990 , in Madrid , the Spanish capital , Francisco Fernández Ordóñez , the Spanish Foreign Minister , warned that his government would study the feasibility of a second airport in the area . |
| 3 | A reward of six hundred and fifty pounds is being offered to anyone who can help police track down the killer of a seventy-six-year-old man in Northampton . |
| 4 | More significant than feminist campaigns in raising the profile of women in the NHS was the perception of a developing crisis in staff recruitment and retention , particularly in nursing , which is discussed in more detail in Chapter 3 . |
| 5 | But the conflict between the grotesque and the melancholy never obscures humour : Surrealist objects like a tea-cup made useless by fur ; and a pair of white shoes , presented on a platter with heels bound like the legs of a roast chicken in frilly paper . |
| 6 | Ranulf Rayner first skied as a child between the legs of a Bavarian guide in 1939 . |
| 7 | Then followed a story about the ineptitude of a young policeman in handling a domestic dispute , who was only rescued from his incompetence by a wise reserve man . |
| 8 | The annihilation of the Baltic fleet a few days later in the Straits of Tsushima was almost unbelievable and was the first defeat of a great power in modern history by an Asian state and for that reason alone Japan 's success might have been an example for Vietnam . |
| 9 | Who needs luxury and the glories of Ancient Rome or Greece when you can visit the mediocrity of a lack-of-civilisation past in the drizzle and the wind ? |
| 10 | It remains to mention the evidence for harbours and quays in the small towns , as indicators of a possible role in the distribution of goods . |
| 11 | Goria , a former prime minister , resigned over persistent rumours he played a part in the 1976 collapse of a small bank in the northern town of Asti . |
| 12 | Some 200,000 members were expected to lose most of their savings in what was described as the worst collapse of a deposit-taking institution in Australia since 1990 . |
| 13 | Rabbi Klinitsky-Klein and his family had escaped to Canada through the good offices of a Jewish agency in 1923 — the sort movingly described by Norman Glimotsky in his My Life , My Destiny . |
| 14 | Pollen 's instruments in their final forms were in themselves significant scientific and technical achievements — the incorporation of a differential analyser in his gunnery computer ( known as the Argo clock ) , for example , anticipated by nearly twenty years the work in this important area of both D. R. Hartree [ q.v. ] and Vannevar Bush . |
| 15 | And 14 were in trades of a newer kind in which apprenticeships were served : plumber , fitter or engineer . |
| 16 | In other cases of benefiting non-shareholder interests , for example installing more effective anti-pollution equipment than is consistent with maximum profits or required by law , or delaying closure of a redundant factory in order to preserve jobs , the conduct , as with growth-motivated behaviour , is an integral part of business activity and so not susceptible to this kind of attack . |
| 17 | Rumour and the recent closure of a similar sanctuary in Hereford a week ago has given rise to closure fears . |
| 18 | As I have said , we are facing the closure of a world-famous company in Scotland . |
| 19 | mention of a tall Human in a metal mask having been seen in the catacombs and passages not long before the adventurers . |
| 20 | Whether or not one feels that , by modern standards , Mrs Sherwood 's attitude was a healthy one , the fact remains that , despite the loss of a second child in India , she and her husband were able to return to England with their faith unimpaired , and settled down to live useful and active lives . |
| 21 | The loss of a top person in an executive search firm can radically alter the business and their fortunes . |
| 22 | He went to an auction of a big house in Cambridge and bought a lot of cheap carpets . |
| 23 | As a result of a recent upgrade in Sanga-Sanga 's reserves , LASMO 's share in the Package IV sales agreements will increase from the current 25 per cent . |
| 24 | The application of pressure to nominally dry carbon-free samples reduces the electrical conductivity as a result of a progressive reduction in pore connectivity , whereas the carbon-bearing samples show an increase in conductivity under the same conditions — an effect that we ascribe to reconnection of carbon conduction pathways during compaction . |
| 25 | Constipation develops gradually in some children as a result of a progressive decrease in the frequency of bowel movements and a progressive increase in the difficulties in passing an excessively firm stool . |
| 26 | Dowty Aerospace is making three hundred workers redundant — the company says it 's the result of a worldwide slump in the aircraft industry . |
| 27 | Ershad , 60 , first came to power as the result of a bloodless coup in 1982 [ see pp. 31501-02 ] ; he assumed the presidency the following year [ see pp. 32919-20 ] , and in November 1986 he was elected to the post for a five-year term [ see p. 34813 ] . |
| 28 | Nevertheless Salah 's achievement was the result of a complex exercise in oasis politics : first , he had to establish the general principle that women are worthy of education . |
| 29 | It seems unlikely from this work that ulcerative colitis is a result of a primary defect in butyrate metabolism . |
| 30 | So his self-image , as well as his confidence , took a mauling in the late Eighties , when his muscles started to degenerate as a result of a lingering disease in his knee . |