Example sentences of "[vb past] a [noun sg] of [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | In its Memorandum , circulated at the start of the revision process , the United States Government argued that ‘ Letters rogatory are a useful but scarcely perfect technique for securing evidence from persons abroad ’ and listed a number of limitations of the technique , limitations which were especially important where the two legal systems involved differed in their practice . |
| 2 | Instead , he promised a halving of imports of rolled steel products , chemicals , pipes and paper , which the Soviet Union could produce itself . |
| 3 | This extension of provision , encouraged by central government paying fees through supplementary benefit , drew a number of people of modest or no private means into the private sector . |
| 4 | I went outside quietly and found a length of driftwood of the appropriate shape , came back to the Bunker , caught the snake by the neck with the piece of wood and bundled it into the first rusty can I could find which still had a lid . |
| 5 | In 1963 , Roy Kerr , a New Zealander , found a set of solutions of the equations of general relativity that described rotating black holes . |
| 6 | A study of the earnings of children in York in the 1970s compared with their fathers ' earnings in the 1950s found a coefficient of earnings of nearly 0.5 . |
| 7 | These encouraging results were confirmed by Bayerdörffer et al , but other authors reported a lack of efficacy of the combined amoxicillin/omeprazole treatment , probably because of different dosage regimens , the kind of amoxicillin preparation used , or omeprazole pretreatment . |
| 8 | As at February 1992 , the Commission reported a level of implementation of the directives for creation of the single market of 72% . |
| 9 | On the self-administered General Health Questionnaire ( GHQ ) at initial interview , about one-third of the supporters reported a number of symptoms of acute stress sufficient to suggest a need for psychiatric attention ’ . |
| 10 | One method was simply to set fire to a ‘ train' of gunpowder leading to the charge itself , the length of the train corresponding roughly to the time delay before the charge exploded ; a later method involved a kind of fuse of goose quills filled with gunpowder . |
| 11 | Luckily I knew how many there were of them ( 53 if I remember correctly ) so I could count them out again — something which involved a lot of shaking of the shell into a bucket of tank water . |
| 12 | In the context of post-exilic Judaism , therefore , natural birth gave rise to an intergenerational line of blood ; cultural rebirth created a network of brotherhood of blood which transcended generations and was superior to biological and socio-biological kinship ties . |
| 13 | It found an increase of symptoms of sewage pollution among the 455 children who had swum in the sea . |
| 14 | Mr Braithwaite drained off his lime squash and added a couple of jiggers of rum to his empty glass . |
| 15 | First of all , increased interest in the female spectator has in recent years spawned a number of collections of film criticism which ask important new questions of feminist film theorists . |
| 16 | He granted a number of remissions of tolls on ships in the port of London — to the bishop of London ( S 1788 ) , for example , to the bishop of Rochester ( CS 152 : S 88 ) , to the abbess of Minster-in-Thanet ( CS 149 : S 86 ; CS 150 : S 87 ; CS 177 : S 91 ) and to the bishop of Worcester ( CS 171 : S 98 ) . |
| 17 | Contemporary observers , including radicals like Friedrich Engels , painted a picture of destruction of working-class family life . |
| 18 | They did some dreadful damage and caused a lot of loss of life . |
| 19 | Mrs V Hawkins mounted a display of photographs of Juniper Green past and present and hopes that others may add to what she would like to form a permanent record of the village . |
| 20 | While there were more opportunities for lesbians and gays to meet one another , to make friendships , to form relationships , to have sex , this attracted a number of forms of hostility . |
| 21 | He also directed a number of episodes of various T V series , but then the same old story , little work . |
| 22 | After the dramatic crowning of Charles — the first and last time that a pope paid homage to the new Emperors of the West — came a period of reinforcement of his new status . |
| 23 | At the end he played a couple of sets of variations as an encore . |
| 24 | I just brought my guitar , played a couple of minutes of each song and Mike Rutherford said , ‘ That will be fine . |
| 25 | I just brought my guitar , played a couple of minutes of each song and Mike Rutherford said , ‘ That will be fine . |
| 26 | Early in this chapter it was pointed out that at the beginning of the century British governments adopted an approach of relief of unemployment that largely ruled out the creation of specific employment opportunities . |
| 27 | Under Charles , the monasteries developed as centres of learning , but he also instigated a programme of reforms of literature , particularly in preservation and copying . |
| 28 | Belloucif , who had left his post as secretary of the Minister of Defence in 1987 , had already in 1989 faced a commission of inquiry of six generals , although this hearing had not been made public until now . |
| 29 | Fabia poured a couple of cups of tea and handed Ven his . |
| 30 | Prof Cockburn , head of one of seven university departments involved at Yorkhill , added that Mr Lang 's decision showed a lack of understanding of how a major teaching hospital works . |