Example sentences of "an [noun sg] of [noun] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But we can not exclude an effect of ACE on the metabolism of other peptides in view of its wide substrate specificity , nor can we exclude the possibility that a variant of another gene , closely linked to the ACE gene , causes the observed association . |
| 5 | An engagement of sympathy on the side of the character who seems superficially to be the target figure constructs for the reader an unusual angle of vision on the events and characters of this fabliau . |
| 6 | An indication of progress on the subject of SLCMs was provided on July 14 , when the US National Security Adviser , Brent Scowcroft , commented that ( Soviet ) proposals to ban SLCMs altogether ( in the light of perceived verification problems associated with ascertaining their numbers ) were " one of the open areas in the strategic arms negotiations ' ( the USA had formerly wanted to exclude SLCMs from the talks ) . |
| 7 | They did n't loosen and begin converging around the dead buffalo cow until the first flock of ragged black vultures flopped clumsily onto an outcrop of rock on the grassland fifty yards away . |
| 8 | Afterwards , when the boys had gone up to bed , he told Josh that Mabel 's death was an act of retribution on the part of Almighty God . ’ |
| 9 | There is no continuous evolution towards it ; it requires , somewhere along the line , an act of faith on the part of management . |
| 10 | That it is here at all is an act of faith on the part of the Academy 's management , who were well aware of the political overtones the show carried in the States and has inevitably brought with it to London . |
| 11 | The European Court of Justice ( ECJ ) ruled on June 19 that UK courts were empowered to suspend an act of parliament on the grounds of its alleged incompatibility with European Community ( EC ) law . |
| 12 | Preston quailed at the thought of being caught by Brenda in an act of passion on the sofa without a box of tissues to wipe up the drips . |
| 13 | This should include an attitude of acceptance on the part of the therapist towards the patient 's problems and behaviour , while at the same time limits will need to be set in terms of what the therapist is able to provide and tolerate . |
| 14 | The report concluded that the Arrow Airlines DC-8 crashed soon after take-off from Gander because of an accumulation of ice on the wings . |
| 15 | So there will be an accumulation of electrons on the surface of one of the plates and consequently a deficiency of electrons at the other plate 's surface . |
| 16 | The first of these summit meetings took place at Geneva in November 1985 ; it provided an opportunity for an exchange of views on the progress made at the arms talks and on regional issues . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Certiorari quashes a decision which is found to be invalid because it is outside the powers granted to the court or tribunal ( ultra vires ) , or has been given in proceedings in which the principles of natural justice were not observed , or where there has been an error of law on the face of the record . |
| 19 | If a bad decision on the law was made or the court or tribunal took a view of the evidence that no reasonable tribunal could take , which does not appear as an error of law on the face of the record , that is a matter for appeal rather than judicial review . |
| 20 | Awards can usually be set aside only for an error of law on the face of the award or for misconduct on the arbitrator 's part ( Meyer v Leanse [ 1958 ] 2 QB 371 ; [ 1958 ] 3 All ER 213 ; and Leung v Garbett [ 1980 ] 2 All ER 436 ) . |
| 21 | Oh , it 's OK for you , let's have an evening of work on the exhibition , your goddam son blew that out of the window once and I was supposed to say , ‘ Yes Lucy , no Lucy , three bags full , Lucy ? ’ |
| 22 | This land did not belong to the Ikhwan , but perhaps the secretary thought to confer an aura of legitimacy on the grant by getting the consent of the erstwhile administrators of it . |
| 23 | Richard laid an armful of books on the table and strolled over to where Frank was sorting through a shelf . |
| 24 | As part of the drive to impose an appearance of order on the world , nineteenth-century science created a vast body of numerical information all carefully arranged so that geographical variations could be ascertained at a glance . |
| 25 | Settis , who was born in Southern Italy in 1941 , is by training a classical archaeologist , but his writings range beyond Antiquity and include a study on the meaning of Giorgione 's ‘ Tempesta ’ , articles on Aby Warburg , the founder of the great library now part of London University , and — very much in the Warburg tradition — an edition of papers on the classical tradition in Italian art , La memoria dell'antico nell'arte italiana ( 1984–86 ) . |
| 26 | Two men were shot by the police , triggering an escalation of violence on the following day in which four people , including a Christian and a policeman , were killed in Dayrut . |
| 27 | Leishman found an inch of space on the edge of the area and chipped his volley delightfully over the advancing ‘ keeper . |
| 28 | They make an arrangement of things on the throne and then set the pose … ’ |
| 29 | By the generosity of the Duke of Devonshire , an area of land on the southern side of Burlington Lane , not far from the Southern Railway Station , was made available to the Chiswick Parochial Charities , and a number of Memorial Homes were erected for housing ex-service men and their families . |
| 30 | Over last winter all the stud holes were drilled out and re-tapped and recently volunteers were busily repositioning support timbers to work on an area of rust on the front ring . |