Example sentences of "a [noun sg] of [noun] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The course was well received and will be offered a variety of venues in the coming year . |
| 2 | It draws on authentic texts from a variety of disciplines in the social sciences such as economics , sociology , and political history . |
| 3 | The WRVS was founded during the Second World War and has around 150,000 volunteers ( 13% of whom are men ) providing a variety of services in the community . |
| 4 | In the simplest terms , the daily timing system consists of a body clock that is synchronized by external time-cues and that sends information to a variety of systems in the body and so produces daily rhythms in them . |
| 5 | These data suggest that post transplant HBV infection is accompanied by a variety of changes in the liver allograft , some of which are unique to the transplanted liver and may result in impaired allograft function . |
| 6 | The SAC issued a critical review , recommending a variety of changes in the way the RSNO — then known as the Royal Scottish Orchestra — was run . |
| 7 | A variety of factors in the stimuli presented have been found to influence selection . |
| 8 | Newbigin cites the evidence of not one but a variety of Christologies in the New Testament reflecting ‘ the attempts of that community to say who Jesus is in terms of the different cultures within which they bore witness to him . ’ |
| 9 | There would be a variety of variations in the order that the circumstances of a particular transaction might require . |
| 10 | Frequent use of search was often marked by a period of experimentation with a variety of firms in the first instance , followed by a settling down to regular work with a smaller number of firms with whom the client had achieved a modus vivendi . |
| 11 | The most radical thinkers in the Religionsgeschichtliche Schule — such as Richard Reitzenstein ( 1861 — 1931 ) and Wilhelm Bousset ( 1865–1920 ) — inclined to treat Christianity itself as an eclectic synthesis of religious and philosophical ideas flowing in from a variety of sources in the ancient world . |
| 12 | The scheme faced criticism from orthodox Liberals , who objected to compulsion , and from a variety of sources in the trade union movement . |
| 13 | The presence of a variety of concepts in the statement of one subject area has been referred to in Chapter 12 as a means of defining syntactic relationships . |
| 14 | In these , well known actors and comedians plugged a variety of goods in the familiar setting of a shop or pub . |
| 15 | A typical career path might be a young European starting in the hotel industry as a management trainee , gaining experience in a variety of establishments in the far East and Europe , then progressing from , say , a major hotel chain through the food and beverage side to a management position at the top end of the leisure market . |
| 16 | Figure 14.4 shows a number of entries concerned with ‘ land ’ and its variants and located at a variety of places in the main sequence . |
| 17 | ‘ Katherine , I spent yesterday ringing round a variety of schools in the New England region . ’ |
| 18 | They were used in a variety of combinations in the different schemes . |
| 19 | Certificates were awarded to the 63 girls who all passed at a variety of levels in the recent exams . |
| 20 | The guest speaker was Mrs. J. Atkinson who demonstrated decorating Easter cakes and gave a variety of tips in the use of soft icing . |
| 21 | This attitude is reflected in a variety of ways in the popular press . |
| 22 | As a later report on the prisons was to claim : ‘ In a variety of ways in the inter-war period , Britain became the centre of the prison reform movement ’ . |
| 23 | Increasing further the proportion of owner-occupiers could be achieved by giving substantial inducements to potential owners , or by making the public rented sector less attractive , as is being done in a variety of ways in the late 1980s by the Conservative administration . |
| 24 | This interpretation is confirmed by correlation measurements of which an example is given in Fig. 21.20 ; this shows the correlation of x-components of the velocity as a function of separation in the x-direction , and we consider curve B for which there is also a ( fixed ) separation in the y-direction : the asymmetry of this curve about r x =0 illustrates the tendency for the large eddies to be tilted downstream . |
| 25 | In these rural parts it was usually a case of potter in the garden , or off to church or chapel . |
| 26 | In March of 1983 , of the 4155 households visited by the programme monitors , 51.4% scored grade A , 46.4% scored grade B , 2.0% scored grade C and 0.2% scored grade D. The programme monitors also determined usage rates for LGS in the villages by asking the mothers whether or not there had been a case of diarrhoea in the household within the past 15 days , and if so , what treatment ( if any ) had been used . |
| 27 | But the captain has informed me that there is a case of smallpox in the steerage . |
| 28 | A CASE OF CASTLES IN THE AIR OF BRITTANY |
| 29 | Still a bit of diarrhoea in the mornings . |
| 30 | The students give it liveliness : motorbikes in the market square and a bit of noise in the bars . |