Example sentences of "an [noun sg] of [noun] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Second , the title suggests an assessment of multimedia spanning the decade , examining developments as far ahead as the year 2000 . |
| 2 | When they started out , Yorkshire women clearly thought it was an admission of defeat to get the caterers in , but no longer . |
| 3 | One — extreme — interpretation is that governments suspected communications that they did not control : many an allegation of phone-tapping marked the politics of the Fourth and ( early ) Fifth Republics . |
| 4 | By an originating summons dated 18 December 1991 the plaintiffs , the Halifax Building Society , the Woolwich Equitable Building Society , the Leeds Permanent Building Society , and the Alliance and Leicester Building Society , sought ( 1 ) a declaration that , upon the true construction of the ombudsman scheme recognised under Part IX of the Building Societies Act 1986 , the first defendant Stephen Bristow Edell , the ombudsman appointed under the scheme , was not entitled to investigate or determine ( a ) the complaint against the first plaintiff received by him from Michael Robert Allen and Christine Allen , the second and third defendants respectively , alleging that the report and valuation for mortgage assessment prepared for the first plaintiff had been negligently prepared , ( b ) the complaint against the second plaintiff received by him from Jeffrey Leonard Brommage and Heather Maureen Brommage , the fourth and fifth defendants respectively , alleging that the report and valuation prepared for the second plaintiff had been negligently prepared , ( c ) the complaint against the third plaintiff received by him from Lawrence Frederick West and Christa West , the sixth and seventh defendants respectively , alleging that the report and valuation prepared for the third plaintiff had been negligently prepared , and ( d ) the complaint against the fourth plaintiff received by him from Joseph Paul Hardcastle and Astrid Marie Hardcastle , the eighth and ninth defendants respectively , alleging that the report and valuation prepared for them had been negligently prepared ; and ( 2 ) a determination , upon the true construction of the scheme , whether and if so in what circumstances the first defendant was entitled to investigate and determine a complaint relating to an allegation of failure to exercise the requisite degree of professional skill and care on the part of a valuer or surveyor employed by the building society against which the complaint was made in relation to a report by him on the condition or value of any property where the report in question consisted of : ( a ) a written report prepared pursuant to section 13 of the Building Societies Act 1986 for a building society on the value of the land which was proposed as security for an advance to be made by the society and on any factors likely materially to affect its value made by a person who is competent to value and is not disqualified under section 13 from making a report on the land in question , ( b ) a written valuers ' report and valuation for mortgage prepared for the first plaintiff , ( c ) such a report prepared for the second plaintiff , ( d ) such a report prepared for the third plaintiff , ( e ) such a report prepared for the fourth plaintiff , ( f ) a house buyer 's report and valuation prepared by a chartered surveyor subject to the standard conditions of engagement of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors , ( g ) a flat buyer 's report and valuation prepared by a chartered surveyor , ( h ) a home buyer 's standard valuation and survey report prepared by an incorporated valuer and auctioneer subject to the standard terms of engagement of the Incorporated Society of Valuers and Auctioneers , ( i ) a written report known as a ‘ home purchase report ’ prepared by a chartered surveyor or an incorporated valuer and auctioneer subject to the standard conditions of engagement of the second plaintiff , ( j ) a written report known as a ‘ house buyer 's report ’ prepared by a chartered surveyor or an incorporated valuer and auctioneer subject to the standard conditions of engagement of the third plaintiff , or ( k ) a structural survey report . |
| 5 | Create this easy-to-make blind by cutting an oblong of fabric to fit the window and hemming all its edges . |
| 6 | They have an album of photos showing the house at different stages of completion over a period of 18 months . |
| 7 | However , the vendor company may prefer a share sale preceded by an extraction of dividends to depress the value of Target down to the net value of its assets less liabilities . |
| 8 | What 's more , as soon as he heard of your problem , Direct Delivery 's manager immediately visited your home and , although it was agreed that the damage was purely accidental , as an act of goodwill toured the shops in Lisburn to try and find you a replacement . |
| 9 | Such an act of statesmanship appears the only way to avoid an outbreak of fighting between the two giants of the Commonwealth . |
| 10 | It is an act of love to roll the toothpaste tube if we know that squeezing it in the middle irritates our partner . |
| 11 | He announced that if ‘ the House would sanction such a plan ’ , he would give notice in the Autumn for the preparation of an Act of Parliament to acquire the necessary property . |
| 12 | An Act of Parliament abolished the very surname and ordained that the property outside Perth should henceforth be called Huntingtower . |
| 13 | I think the Court of Bank of Ireland has come up with the greatest riddle since 1782 , when an Act of Parliament established the Bank . |
| 14 | In 1926 an Act of Parliament gave the Survey powers of access to the logs and specimens of all boreholes and sinkings over 100 feet deep . |
| 15 | but … today the Conservators who under an act of Parliament manage the land … say the travellers have broken their by laws and have started legal action to get them removed … |
| 16 | These sensitive issues were dealt with in an exchange of letters accompanying the treaty , stating that with German support for Czechoslovakia 's integration into the EC , it would become easier for Germans to return to their homeland in Czechoslovakia . |
| 17 | The English king — ( An exchange of headgear creates the ENGLISH KING from the remaining player — that is , the PLAYER who played the original murdered king . ) |
| 18 | For it was precisely this idea that he promoted when he exhibited the drawings at his Gallery 291 , beginning in late May 1916 , and when he wrote about them in an issue of Camera Work the following October . |
| 19 | Were it not for the single inconvenient occurrence in the data ( example 22 ) of they as the subject of a singular verb , we could set up an initial list of ‘ invariant ’ environments , which themselves are characteristic of this vernacular system , prior to an investigation of patterns underlying the variability in the many environments which permitted it . |
| 20 | Withdrawal should be over an period of time to allow the Northern Irish time to establish a new form of government . |
| 21 | An explosion of sound ruptured the moment . |
| 22 | There was about an inch of water covering the floor that she was certain had n't been there when they 'd stopped at the cupboard . |
| 23 | Propagation is normally done by seed , which should be sown in a container consisting of mud or loam with about an inch of water covering the surface . |
| 24 | France has also provided an array of measures to assist the establishment of farming groups to increase productivity , to stem depopulation and support small farms . |
| 25 | An absence of information to aid the identification of those about to face a stressful event who would as a consequence be particularly susceptible to psychiatric disorder is obviously a good enough reason for not considering preventive intervention . |
| 26 | Here 's an example of people making the same request in the three different styles . |
| 27 | The US also received the right to govern an area of land called the Panama Canal Zone on both sides of the canal . |
| 28 | An extension of time relieves the contractor of liability for liquidated damages for delays up to the new completion date caused by the occurrence of risks which are outside the contractor 's responsibility . |
| 29 | They had been set up in the Heumensoord Camp for several days , but today an air of excitement pervaded the squadron . |
| 30 | Serene , beautiful , and home AN air of serenity surrounds the place . |