Example sentences of "[noun] of an [noun] [adv] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Louisa had been skidding unsteadily about the ice for the best part of an hour when a carriage came round the rear drive of the Hall and , after a moment 's debate , Edwin Frere sprang down to give a helping hand to his well-muffled wife .
2 One is led to the conclusion therefore that the husband should convey as beneficial owner ; he is very often conveying the former matrimonial home as part of an agreement whereby the wife releases her rights to further claims for capital , and as such he could be said to be receiving valuable consideration from her and it is established that a vendor selling under compulsion should stand in the same position as a contractual purchaser under an open contract ( see Re King [ 1962 ] 1 WLR 632 and Emmet on Title above ) .
3 Nevertheless , the year 1961 , in which Molly Sheavyn and Mark Frame assumed office , is historically very significant for it marks the beginning of an era when the BDDA was no longer tun by part-time volunteers from their homes , but became an organisation with its own office and full-time paid staff .
4 And in the vineries built against a south facing wall are peach trees … the last remnants of an era when every large house expected to grow its own peaches , grapes and figs .
5 If this hypothesis is true then the enormous international coalition against Iraq , under American leadership , is the end of an epoch not the beginning of a new one .
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