Example sentences of "[adj] of a [noun] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is Part 2 of a list of documents deposited at the County Records Office , Shirehall , Shrewsbury . |
| 2 | The Enterprise Centre 's ‘ local ’ LEC — LEEL has been supportive of a number of areas of the centre 's activities and sponsored the 1993 Napier Enterprise Lecture . |
| 3 | Although Lawrence 's original ( 1949 ) experiment has not been replicated exactly , the work of his successors ( conducted both with animal subjects and with humans ) has confirmed the validity of his central contention — discrimination training , in which each of a pair of cues becomes associated with a different outcome , enhances performance on a further discriminative task involving the same cues . |
| 4 | Examples of search instructions are the " table look-up " ( TALU ) instruction on the University of Manchester MUS computer , which performs a masked equality comparison between the contents of one store location and the contents of each of a vector of elements , the similar " masked search for equal " ( SRCH ) instruction on the Burroughs B6700 computer , and the " linked list look-up " ( LLLU ) instruction , also on the B6700 , which performs a " greater than or equal " comparison between an argument value and each of a linked list of elements . |
| 5 | In some problems we require to obtain x for each of a set of values for p ; e.g. the elements of p may be functions of an independent variable , and we require x for each of a number of values of the variable . |
| 6 | In some problems we require to obtain x for each of a set of values for p ; e.g. the elements of p may be functions of an independent variable , and we require x for each of a number of values of the variable . |
| 7 | Multiple aptitude batteries are able to provide a measure of the individual 's standing in each of a number of traits , producing a profile on which job decisions can be made . |
| 8 | It was decided instead to select a few films from each of a number of categories ( i.e. types of driving situation ) and thus ensure that within each category there was enough similarity to create sufficient potential distractors for each target . |
| 9 | The paintwork was black , the walls covered in silver foil ; each of a line of doorways blazed with about a thousand watts of brilliance and there was a smell of greasepaint and cleansing cream that she had n't encountered since having a couple of bit parts in school plays . |
| 10 | These developments could avoid the present difficulties of having to go from one service to another in search for a solution to each of a multitude of problems . |
| 11 | The three-man commission — League president Gordon McKeag , Bury chairman Terry Robinson and Lincoln chairman John Reames — said in a statement : ‘ Barnet have been found guilty of a number of breaches of Football League regulations , mainly in connection with the keeping of proper books of account and players ' contracts . |
| 12 | The government announced on Dec. 2 , 1989 , that the value of the metical would in future be linked to that of a basket of currencies , of undisclosed content , rather than to the US dollar as had been the case since Jan. 31 , 1987 . |
| 13 | The difference of level now would be that of a hierarchy of functions and sub-functions within a single language , though one might still plausibly maintain that the above sequence beginning LIFT-RIGHT-LEG was the translation of WALK in that system . |
| 14 | Moreover , Dudek 's scholarship was of a more penetrating kind than anything under which Leonard had yet sat , or was to sit , as became that of a Doctor of Letters from Columbia University . |
| 15 | Another common form of deliberate burial is that of a hoard of objects , such as coins , scrap metal or jewellery . |
| 16 | One of the first ideas towards understanding number is accordingly that of a set of objects ( cars or people , etc . ) . |
| 17 | Perhaps wisely , Robert Fullerton did not insist on that particular post , and offered the politician an easier alternative , though one considerably inferior in value to that of an inspector of customs , by suggesting that a lieutenancy of marines might be had through political interest . |
| 18 | No , I think that erm you 'll be relieved of a lot of duties that took a lot of time and this will give you more leisure time to have your personal contacts and sport and other pleasure activities . |
| 19 | Erm , I am tentatively erm provisionally very hopeful , but I am fearful of a number of things , I three observations in respect , observations in respect of them . |
| 20 | However , the difference , in practice , is that whereas human understanding involves the identification of the most consistent of a number of interpretations , computer recognition usually involves the identification ( and hence elimination ) of the least consistent ones . |
| 21 | Declamation , not coloratura , distinguishes the three upper parts in ‘ O Primavera ’ , the second of a set of pieces on Guarini 's Pastor fido in his Eleventh Book . |
| 22 | Please turn to page 366 of the Old Testament section of the Bibles ; today we have the second of a series of sermons about the life of Elisha . |
| 23 | He had exhibited work every year since 1847 , and had given about three of a series of lectures on mediaeval architecture to students at the Academy , which he had started the previous year . |
| 24 | Then the road swung left of a forest of palms , where man-made trenches flanked the road and cradled young trees , and on past a mud-brick cafe , and the village of Sbaa , with its pyramid tower and mosque . |
| 25 | Last year , attendances slumped as fans tired of a proliferation of championships , chaotic organisation , rocketing ticket prices and punch-ups on the pitch . |
| 26 | For example , the familiar red triangular sign picturing two running children , internationally accepted as a warning to motorists that they are approaching a school , was interpreted by almost all of a sample of children as being a sign for them to observe , not one for cautioning drivers . |
| 27 | Or the barking of an excited dog , the purring of a cat , the bellow of an angry bull , the insistent buzzing of a hive of bees when disturbed . |
| 28 | How many of a set of points at which rainfall is measured lie within 50 km of Cambridge ( relative location ) or in the rectangle defined by the lines of latitude 55°N and 58°N and the lines of longitude 1°W and 3°W ( absolute location ) ! |
| 29 | This paper , entitled The molecular theory of chemical valency : the significance of equivalent orbitals , was part IV of a series of dissertations published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society , and was written in collaboration with Lennard-Jones . |
| 30 | Short of a series of studies which is designed directly to compare regional patterns , holding other variables constant , we can not be certain that any observed variations can be attributed to , say , people 's views about family responsibilities being different in the north-east of England from the prevailing norms in the south-west . |