Example sentences of "an [noun sg] of [noun] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If this form of construction can not be identified from an inspection of voids in the roof surface made from the exterior , it may be possible to deduce whether or not it applies by noting the pattern of nails which have penetrated into the roof-space through the boarding . |
| 2 | Making an excuse of illness in the family , he quit DPR , and returned to his hometown in Nigeria . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It 's not clear that new institutions are needed rather than simply an intensification of activities in the republics . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The first of these is arrestment on the dependence which is an attachment of funds in the hands of a third party pending resolution of the matter in dispute . |
| 7 | It is not open to the promisor to go back and undo the loss ; he is able only to make it good , and this can be done only by an award of damages in the amount of the promisee 's interest . |
| 8 | 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 . ) |
| 9 | Though these clubs grew and become more formalised , supporters were still able to maintain an illusion of participation in the team 's affairs . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ( 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 . |
| 12 | AN INVESTMENT of £20m in the North 's health was approved yesterday . |
| 13 | The knowledge of linguistics referred to here would of course be that acquired during the academic course , but may be an indication of priorities in the PGCE course itself . |
| 14 | Bell , as noted above , takes the figures for service growth as an indication of growth in the production of final services . |
| 15 | She is in shock and in pain and requires an immediate transfusion of love and an injection of strength in the form of your quiet sympathy and understanding , and practical help with all the arrangements she has to make , as well as assistance with the simple routines of daily living ; for even these may be too much for her to cope with alone while she is engaged in the important and necessary task of grieving . |
| 16 | A long experience of management problems with a child , for instance , increased the chance that a crisis such as the child 's arrest for a criminal offence would provoke an episode of depression in the mother . |
| 17 | Their confusion was illustrated by an outbreak of schizophrenia in the mind of Stuart Barlow when put through with only Alan Kelly to beat . |
| 18 | The talks , originally due to be held in Pyongyang on Aug. 27-30 , were postponed after the North expressed health concerns after an outbreak of cholera in the South . |
| 19 | An outbreak of cholera in the Zambian copper-belt town of Kitwe , first detected in late October , was reported on Nov. 10-11 to have killed an estimated 350 people [ see also p . |
| 20 | Critique is replaced by commentary , and by an act of faith in the capacity of consumers to do surprising and amazing things with what they daily receive . |
| 21 | Non-cooperation , as Gandhi understands it , does not always have to be an act of love in the same way as satyāgraha has to be , but it is in act of love and consequently a branch of satyāgraha when it seeks to promote the good of a wrongdoer . |
| 22 | Assuming that the Commission makes recommendations acceptable to the Government , then there will not necessarily be a delay before the legislation is introduced as it is accepted that sentencing bargaining can be introduced in England and Wales simply by a Practice Direction from the Lord Chief Justice , or in Scotland by an Act of Adjournal in the High Court by the Lord Justice General . |
| 23 | ( There was an Act of Parliament in the reign of George I , just when this house was being built , which decreed that their measurements should not be less than 13½in by 9½in by ½in ; , and these dimensions are still more or less adhered to today . ) |
| 24 | Is it possible to challenge the validity of an Act of Parliament in the courts ? |
| 25 | Patients move between these two subtypes , although chronicity leads to an accumulation of patients in the binge-eating/purging subgroup . |
| 26 | Writing in 1946 , Knights , an editor of Scrutiny in the 19305 , is anxious that English should not avoid " controversial questions " in the name of " disinterested knowledge " , The discipline should attempt to provide an education which produces men and women who are not afraid to ask awkward questions , particularly when it comes to matters relating to the " quality of living " , rather than being content to simply fit people into " the machinery of society as it exists at present . |
| 27 | In an exchange of views in the weekly popular magazine Ogonek in November and December Kharchev accused officials from the CPSU and the State Security Committee ( Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti--KGB ) and Orthodox Church leaders of punishing him for his liberal stance on Soviet religious observance , and particularly on the status of the Uniate Church [ see below ] . |
| 28 | Working links were established with institutions in France , Germany and Spain , leading to an exchange of students in the forthcoming session 1992/93 . |
| 29 | When in May 1940 the Commons divided on an issue of confidence in the Chamberlain government 's handling of the war , and the normal government majority was seen to have dropped significantly , Chamberlain decided to resign and to make way for Churchill , a leader more acceptable to the opposition parties . |
| 30 | The termly payment from this scholarship was an evening of joy in the family , and when at sixteen the scholarship money was increased to twenty pounds per annum , it was enough to avert the danger of becoming a clerk on the Great Western Railway , a temptation which my struggling parents generously resisted . |