Example sentences of "[prep] an [noun sg] of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Cooper is also keen to refute the claim , occasionally made by unionists , that the pendulum is swinging towards an under-representation of Protestants in the workforce . |
| 2 | Reports of an abundance of whales in the Southern Ocean brought European whalers south during the late 19th century , when scientific exploration of the continent also began ( Hayes , 1932 ) . |
| 3 | Roy Lacey returns from holiday just in time to foil the advance of an army of weeds on his hour-a-week garden larder . |
| 4 | Cormac , O hound of feats , you 'll have to steal those horsemen away the equal of an army of angels for silence . ’ |
| 5 | Last September , Which ? published the results of an inspection of standards of garage servicing at 30 garages , including 12 members of the RMI and the Scottish Motor Trade Association ( which also has an OFT-approved Code of Conduct ) . |
| 6 | 2.17 This exercise has been described in a different way by Lord Diplock in Mallett v McMonagle [ 1970 ] AC 166 at p174 : The purpose of an award of damages under the Fatal Accidents Act is to provide the widow and other dependants of the deceased with a capital sum , which , with prudent management , will be sufficient to supply them with material benefits of the same standards and duration as would have been provided for them out of the earnings of the deceased had he not been killed by the tortious act of the defendant , credit being given for the value of any material benefits which will accrue to them ( otherwise than as the fruits of insurance ) as a result of his death . |
| 7 | The danger of this is that the fear of an award of damages against it would unduly encourage the authority to reach the same decision again , thus creating an appearance of bias . |
| 8 | One thing about the book 's apparatus does irritate : the absence of an index of titles in addition to the index of first lines . |
| 9 | Such a circumstance could arise , for example , where a group raises finance by way of an issue of shares of a special purpose subsidiary with a pre-determined life . |
| 10 | As economic pressure has been tightened up against Serbia , the French and the Russians have argued for carrot as well as stick : the prospect of an easing of sanctions in return for Serbian pressure on their Bosnian brothers to make peace . |
| 11 | Almost all societies have elements of an exchange of objects in which persons are directly implicated , market exchange in which they are not implicated , and separate spheres of exchange which constrain the equivalences between things ( e.g. Douglas 1967 ; Miller 1986 ) . |
| 12 | He suggested that Eisenhower " flattered the Shah with the prospect of an exchange of views with you on modern military problems " . |
| 13 | Mujaheddin sources said that the soldiers were returned on humanitarian grounds ; there was no indication of an exchange of prisoners despite earlier reports that the Kabul government was prepared to exchange 73 mujaheddin prisoners for the two Soviet servicemen . |
| 14 | An attempt to break the blockade by land across the Russian zone was rejected in favour of an airlift of supplies to West Berlin . |
| 15 | Advocates of the reliance theory approve Aristotle 's view that the purpose of justice is the maintenance of an equilibrium of goods among members of society . |
| 16 | If the financial statements of an issuer of securities to the public fail to comply with an applicable accounting standard , the issuer and its directors will be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $NZ100,000 . |
| 17 | The growth of towns was in large measure the result of an influx of migrants from the villages . |
| 18 | April 1 sees the arrival at the Accademia Italiana of an exhibition of artefacts from Pompeii that has already toured Houston , New York and Malmö . |
| 19 | The first publication will be the catalogue of an exhibition of paintings from the Bowes Museum in Country Durham which opens at the National Gallery on 28 April . |
| 20 | Experiments typically start with the excitation of an ensemble of molecules by a femtosecond laser pulse . |
| 21 | The following year Brando and Clift were just two of an array of stars in the big-scale war film The Young Lions , but did not appear together . |
| 22 | I two dimensions the problem of an array of elements of one material embedded in another has attracted attention because of its relevance to fibre reinforcement . |
| 23 | He could sit in his palace like the sun at the nodal point of an array of beams of light . |
| 24 | The study , commissioned by the Association of County Councils ( ACC ) , discussed the implications of an allocation of responsibilities within a county that varies from district to district depending on its size . |
| 25 | Poetry has often been a form of self-pity and a means of self-advancement , and it has often pretended otherwise : Kundera 's book rumbles such pretence , as in the comedy he stages of an embassy of poets to a college of policemen and a debate there about the aesthetic of the socialist love-poem . |
| 26 | All through the hours of dusk he crouched beneath an overhang of bushes under the broken edge of the plateau on which the church stood , and listened to the comings and goings above his head , where the garrison of Parfois boiled with agitated preparations for its lord 's home-coming . |
| 27 | Geoffrey Marshall , commenting on the bureaucracy of the system says that " it comes to a climax with an exchange of reports between practically all parties capable of exchanging them . " |
| 28 | The day concluded with an exchange of ideas on the ways in which branches and colleges could achieve better publicity , and thus increase the number of students even further in the coming years . |
| 29 | In the whole population , the genotype characterized by two short alleles ( genotype DD ) was associated with an excess of cases with myocardial infarction compared with the two other genotypes ( ID and II ) ( P=0.007 ) . |
| 30 | A YOUNG mother suffering from post-natal depression killed herself with an overdose of drugs after leaving her baby daughter alone in their home . |