Example sentences of "an [noun] of [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Making an excuse of illness in the family , he quit DPR , and returned to his hometown in Nigeria . |
| 2 | The East Coast of America is dominated by the big cities : Boston , New York , Philadelphia , Baltimore , Washington all exert such a gravitational pull that the smaller towns are sucked into an orbit of dependency on the nearest city sun . |
| 3 | Twenty mls of whole blood was also collected into empty vacutainers before and at the end of the one month trial period for analysis of serum vitamins , as an assessment of compliance to the supplementation . |
| 4 | It also involves an assessment of progress in the related field of expert systems , in particular , possible applications to strategic and other company planning problems . |
| 5 | ( While , on the other hand , an assessment of identification with the housewife role by the interviewer is relatively free of these complications . ) |
| 6 | Staff in the West Midlands agreed yesterday to restrict radio use — the central issue in London — from Wednesday as part of an intensification of action around the country . |
| 7 | More than any other wartime figure he addressed himself to the conscience of middle-class radicalism , arguing that the only worthwhile victory possible was one based on the common ownership of the means of production and a moral revolution in which selfishness and the profit motive would give way to an ethic of service to the community . |
| 8 | Or is Bailey merely articulating an ideology of Bohemianism for the arts and of undirected radicalism for social and political thought in general ? |
| 9 | Frith also comments on the importance of an ideology of bohemianism within the appeal of rock in general ( 1983a : 75–84 ) . |
| 10 | This primarily Marxist ideology argues that there is an inequality of power between the controllers of economic resources ( ie. shareholders , managers etc ) and those who depend on access to those resources ( ie. wage earners ) . |
| 11 | It is this conflict which leads increasingly to the urge to treat people as groups rather than as individuals — but it is an abnegation of responsibility on the part of the leaders and for the future it will not do . |
| 12 | Order 9 , r 6 applies if the defendant in a default action : ( 1 ) does not within 14 days after service of the summons on him , pay to the plaintiff the total amount of the claim and costs on the summons ; or ( 2 ) delivers an admission of the whole of the plaintiff 's claim unaccompanied by a counterclaim or a request for time for payment , or ( 3 ) does not deliver an admission of part of the plaintiff 's claim , a defence or counterclaim , the plaintiff may on filing a request for judgment , and certifying that defendant has not sent any reply to the summons , and stating what payments , if any , have been made , have judgment entered , either for payment forthwith or at such times as plaintiff may specify . |
| 13 | Where the action is for unliquidated damages and the defendant delivers an admission of liability for the claim but disputes or does not admit the amount of the plaintiff 's dam ages , then : ( 1 ) if the defendant offers to pay in satisfaction of the claim a specific sum which the plaintiff accepts , the provisions of this rule shall apply as if the defendant had admitted part of the plaintiff 's claim ; and ( 2 ) in any other case , the plaintiff may apply to the court for such judgment as he may be entitled to upon the admission , and the court may give such judgment , including interlocutory judgment for damages to be assessed and costs , or make such other order on the application as it thinks just . |
| 14 | Overall , the money markets saw an ebbing of confidence in the United States dollar and a slight improvement in prospects for the German mark , while sterling ended the year close to where it had started . |
| 15 | Four men of different ages , all wearing medium-cost suits in bad taste , a lunchtime ritual to pass an hour of freedom from the office . |
| 16 | PT-gliadin can not be detected in relation to the intercellular space in the controls in the current study and an uptake of PT-gliadin via the tight junctions/lateral membranes therefore seems unlikely in healthy individuals . |
| 17 | When computing uplift from a Marie-type graph such situations would give rise to an overestimate of uplift for the Carboniferous . |
| 18 | Sarella could n't stifle an exclamation of pleasure at the transformation . |
| 19 | If a breach of public law also amounts to a breach of the European Convention on Human Rights it may be possible to obtain an award of compensation under the Convention from the European Court of Human Rights , but not from an English Court . |
| 20 | I also like the look of their new Cos lettuce , ‘ Corsair ’ , which keeps well in the ground , has excellent disease resistance and received an Award of Merit from the RHS . |
| 21 | from BNFL 's films , Video and Advertising section also collected an Award of Excellence at the awards for Over The Fells , a video which promotes the attractions of West Cumbria and the Sellafield Visitors Centre . |
| 22 | COURTAULD NEWS has won an award of excellence from the British Association of Industrial Editors . |
| 23 | Thus you might arrive at an attribution of intention in the warning SQUASHED INSECTS DO NT BITE and the straight assertion MAD MENTAL RULE — without the OK tag , which might be taken to invite assent on the part of the addressee . ) |
| 24 | If A Song to David , in which he attempted a new and regular form of the ode , was written on an upswing of creativity at the beginning of a psychotic episode , and the psalms translation made during convalescence afterwards , Jubilate Agno is particularly important because its internal dates strongly suggest it was composed during his confinement , and from day to day of his illness , during the period 27 July to 30 January 1763 , just before his release . |
| 25 | Though these clubs grew and become more formalised , supporters were still able to maintain an illusion of participation in the team 's affairs . |
| 26 | Far from being an instrument of struggle against the prerogatives of private capital , and the multinationals in particular , the contract was to provide a means of national reconciliation . |
| 27 | Our study of 245 patients randomised to receive octreotide or placebo failed to show an effect of octreotide on the biochemical and clinical parameters of ERCP induced pancreatitis . |
| 28 | The modern procedure in the action is for the plaintiff to apply to the registrar of the county court , who will see that the goods alleged to have been wrongfully taken are restored to the plaintiff on his giving security to prosecute an action of replevin in the county court or in the High Court . |
| 29 | Trover began as an action of trespass upon the case in which it was alleged that the defendant had converted the plaintiff 's goods to his own use . |
| 30 | ( ante 1249–1301 ) , judge , makes his first appearance in surviving records in 1270 , bringing an action of trespass in the Common Bench as rector of Shotley in Suffolk . |