Example sentences of "of a [noun] of [noun pl] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some changed their paper-types , and others were persistent readers of a myriad of papers with individual readerships too small for us to analyse ( the Scotsman , the Glasgow Herald , and regional English papers , for example ) . |
| 2 | The key reform would be the introduction of a Bill of Rights with a free speech guarantee of the sort enjoyed by America and most European countries . |
| 3 | We should remember , too , that " emphasis " has an insidious tendency to become an all-purpose cause credited for a whole variety of syntactic and phonological variations where intuition suggests that there is a difference to be explained but where no other cause can immediately be brought to light ; all that is needed , apparently , is that a speaker ( or even a linguist ) should be able to imagine himself uttering one of a pair of variants with a certain emphasis on some occasion , while at the same time feeling that he could have said the other without any emphasis being implied . |
| 4 | To maintain that the content of literature is part of a system of signs with a structure of its own , independent of the ‘ real ’ world , is clearly to maintain that it is in theory analyzable in the same way as its language ; but in practice a ready-made set of conceptual tools is simply not available . |
| 5 | The present exhibition is the first of a series of selections with prices starting at around £2,000 . |
| 6 | Then , with the notion of what a girl with such a name must be like firm in her mind , she made this heroine of hers arrive somewhere and without delay put her into the first of a series of conflicts with , behind them , a gradually increasing aura of mystery . |
| 7 | It was handwritten on fine lined paper in a series of dated entries , and somebody — presumably Reynolds — had marked the locations of a series of entries with folded slips . |
| 8 | The Sunday Express has begun to reap the rewards of a series of promotions with its largest circulation increase since it was relaunched under the editorship of Eve Pollard in May last year . |
| 9 | The Prince 's speech was understood to have arisen in part out of a series of consultations with leading environmentalists , including Jonathon Porritt , Professor David Pearce , Richard Sandbrook — Director of the International Institute for Environment and Development — and Economist environment editor Frances Cairncross . |
| 10 | In practice , unlike the example of a collection of objects with randomly assigned characteristics , we reach the same classification by using different sets of characters . |
| 11 | Assault on a constable is one of a group of offences with a somewhat complicated family connection . |
| 12 | In many ways the most interesting aspect of the present sale was the inclusion of a group of artists with established reputations but fresh to the auction market . |
| 13 | Three sources of attitude change have been identified by researchers : compliance ( new attitude is adopted for ulterior motives ) , identification ( peer group membership requires a change ) and internalization ( the new attitude is accepted as one of a group of attitudes with which the individual can live ) . |
| 14 | Meadows and Wood ( 1991 ) conducted some small scale research into the attitudes of a group of parents with primary aged children in LEA schools and a group with children in independent schools . |
| 15 | Many of the verses on the subject of Growltiger or Macavity had in fact originally been written for the children of the Fabers and the Morleys ; Eliot 's own affection for small rather than large animals is sufficiently well known , and he was the owner ( or patron ) of a succession of cats with names like Pettipaws , Wiscus and George Pushdragon — he used the latter name when entering crossword competitions in Time and Tide . |
| 16 | For a composite material consisting of a concentration of particles with orientation described by and elastic constants of a second phase , which may also be of general elastic properties , the Voigt scheme would lead to sums such as |
| 17 | Baker 's unproductive visit to Geneva came in the middle of a week of meetings with leaders in allied countries . |
| 18 | Some processes involving simple treatment of yarn or fabric with an aqueous solution , such as yarn-sizing or back-filling , require very little water , whereas others , composed of a sequence of operations with many rinses , demand large quantities . |
| 19 | Others , like sponges , consisted of a colony of cells with a porous skeleton . |
| 20 | Alternatively they may effect a leveraged buy-out of a number of businesses with a view to later reconstruction to realise " hidden " reserves which will effectively finance the acquisition of the core business they wish to retain , and enable the borrowings to be redeemed . |
| 21 | You may be one of a number of employees with a roughly comparable job . |
| 22 | Standing Orders govern a wide range of activities from the daily programme of each House to the structure , membership and procedure of a host of committees with various functions . |