Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [conj] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thirdly , there is a group of institutions where only a minority of students are on advanced courses . |
| 2 | In Norfolk she picked Timothy Colman ; in Aberdeenshire , Captain Colin Farquharson , formerly of the Brigade of Guards and subsequently a land agent ; and in Gloucestershire , Colonel Martin Gibbs , another military Old Etonian . |
| 3 | One fourteenth-century manuscript contains information about four : those of Catherine of Siena , the fourteenth-century Italian girl who became a Dominican tertiary and whose teaching based on mystical certainty of the reality of her union with Christ , with whom she experienced a spiritual visionary marriage , was given official Dominican patronage ; and three thirteenth-century Belgian mystics : Christina called Mirabilis from St Truden ; Elizabeth of Spalbeck , a Belgian recluse patronised by the Cistercians ; and the prototypical Beguine , Mary of Oignies , championed by Jacques de Vitry , the Bishop of Acres and later a Cardinal Legate at the court of Gregory IX who protected her and wrote her biography . |
| 4 | Cos Grant 's got lots and lots of books and quite a lot now but she loves books and she takes care of them as well . |
| 5 | Appealing to the " test of truth " , to objects in their natural state unmediated by consciousness , is an interference between these two sets of relationships and therefore a disruption of the opposition advanced by the text between metaphor and metonymy . |
| 6 | At the same time the general level of wealth in this unremarkable corner of the East Midlands , peopled entirely by peasant farmers , with a leavening of yeomen and only a handful of rich squires , was lower only than on the fertile cornlands of Norfolk and in the opulent Stour Valley manufacturing district — higher not only than in other , similar regions but also Berkshire , which the yield of the loans , 1522 — 3 , placed fifth jointly with Suffolk , and Gloucestershire which shared fourteenth place with Rutland itself . |
| 7 | I I think the the the point I would I wish to make is that in whilst er its multi role capability would have enabled it to replace a number of roles and possibly a number of er aircraft and er as Mr Evans said earlier , that 's still being looked at . |
| 8 | It was the listeners up in the loggioni of whom the singers were most afraid : if the performance did not reach a sufficiently high standard in the opinion of the audience , the most vocal members of which were in the loggioni , they would be treated to il fichio , an outburst of whistling accompanied by the stamping of feet and sometimes a barrage of tomatoes or fruit . |
| 9 | He had plenty of acquaintances but just a couple of friends — Swayne , the stamp man , and Doble , the wine merchant . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm a major shareholder in a number of companies and consequently a director of them . |
| 11 | The author was John Hull , a secret sustainer of contras and allegedly a facilitator of drug runs ; he kept a ranch on the Costa Rican-Nicaraguan border , where his favourite sport was to shoot alligators from his veranda . |
| 12 | Oh yeah , it 's got a group of pleats and then a gap and then a group of pleats , mm . |
| 13 | The examination is a collection of questions and individually a question goes some way to satisfying the requirements of the examination . |
| 14 | Trustees comprise a body of persons and therefore a person for the purposes of the income tax code ( see the Interpretation Act 1978 , Sched 1 ( person ) , Reid 's Trustees v IRC ( 1929 ) 14 TC 512 , Luke v South Kensington Hotel Co [ 1879 ] 11 Ch 121 , Kelly v Rogers ( 1935 ) 19 TC 692 and ITC for London v Gibbs ( 1942 ) 24 TC 221 at 247 and Dawson v IRC ( 1989 ) STC 473 ) . |
| 15 | This international campaign , aimed at increasing the productivity of land by means of the introduction of science-based technology had , as its goals , freedom from hunger for the populations of LDCs and also a freedom from food dependence . |
| 16 | you can make use of exemptions and just a charity . |
| 17 | This wording is defective because it ignores the fact that the register is not just a register of members but also a register of shareholdings and that a likely error is in the amount of a member 's shareholding . |
| 18 | We had eaten a good dinner — among other things a golden bolster of an omelette bursting its seams with truffles — and drunk some excellent red wine of Cahors and afterwards a glass of that remarkable eau-de-vie of plums called Vieille Prune which is one of the great Dordogne products — another is the odd and delicious walnut oil with which , if you are lucky , you may get your salad dressed . |
| 19 | A poor Provençal family might find their great son 's version of a familiar dish lacking in savour , although in its original form it would have made , with a saucerful of olives and perhaps a dish of fresh figs , an entire meal . |
| 20 | There , as we shall see , the judges wriggled furiously to avoid applying the principles outlined above in order to restrain the press from revealing the very serious iniquities disclosed by Mr Peter Wright , which included not only the bugging of embassies but also a conspiracy to assassinate the Egyptian President . |
| 21 | The laws of Hlothhere and Eadric appear in their extant version as a single code issued jointly by Hlothhere and Eadric as kings of Kent , but they may represent a conflation of two originally separate sets of laws or even a confirmation by Eadric of the dooms of his uncle . |
| 22 | Written as a journalistic offering without benefit of references or even a bibliography , it still manages to inform the reader on many of the internal features of Saddam Hussein 's rise to power , though it has an infuriating tendency to dart back and forth over the past 30 years , too much like a 1960s film trying to be clever . |