Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] of [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The efforts of the management and the work force now in the shipyards on the Clyde and in Yarrow 's have done a great deal to restore that badge of quality , which was in danger of slipping away .
2 He constantly fiddled with that badge of office , a ready-made , multicoloured , bow tie , as he talked to Jane .
3 Diana admits that she was n't easy to handle during that baptism of fire .
4 Given the current arrangements in primary and secondary care , it is hardly surprising that there has been so little assessment of efficiency to date .
5 Any substance that tends to re-awaken the craving for the primary addictive " drug of choice " is cross-addictive with that drug of choice .
6 Adverse events were noted a at each installation of B G C and at the time of the first cystoscopy and were scored for severity and the highest score was then re recorded and appears on this erm histogram which relates to frequency as a symptom .
7 The Central Statistical Office has confirmed that census of production data collected under the 1992 Standard Industrial Classification survey will show separate employee statistics for the book publishing sector .
8 Thus , for example , the accounts and budget might be presented in detail but only total net expenditure of each division of service is compared with budget , showing the over-/under-spending and explaining broadly the reasons for any variance .
9 Standard groupings — for each division of service , these groupings represent the main areas of expenditure and income , e.g. employees , premises , transport , etc .
10 But then , for each division of service , a subjective analysis is provided , e.g. salaries , premises , etc .
11 The hierarchy of cycles for each division of time led the Maya to devote more attention to the past than to the future .
12 Each division of CCG will be in charge of its own quality control programme , setting up Quality Improvement Teams who will come up with ideas to improve various aspects of their particular areas .
13 To describe a process ' first step behaviour we will thus use three levels of syntax : essentially one for each variety of choice .
14 He suspects that a black mark went firmly down against his name for turning down the job and when he was later asked to become personnel manager for that division of ICI he was left in no doubt that it was an offer he should not refuse .
15 In other words , far from having lessened , uneven development has changed its nature as the geography of the division of labour in society , and the dimensions of that division of labour itself , have evolved .
16 Being asked how he knew this he says that each carucate of land by the custom of the district contains one hundred and four score acres of arable land , which quantity there is not in that Manor .
17 The average weight of cows is 400–450kg and the average milk yields , with very little feeding of concentrates , are about 4,000kg .
18 As it came away from the cold flesh , so she cut it into strips , and she wrapped each strip of skin around a piece of bone .
19 Brush each strip of pastry with a little melted butter and then sandwich together in threes .
20 Nor does National Pari-Mutuel Association Ltd. v. The King , 47 T.L.R. 110 in which it was held that payment of betting duty under a statutory provision thought by the plaintiffs to be applicable but later held by this House in a similar case to be inapplicable , was made under a mistake of law and not of fact and was therefore irrecoverable .
21 The Finance Ministry announced on March 1 that payment of interest arrears to the " London Club " of creditor banks would be frozen until the banks agreed to reduce its debt of US$11,000 million .
22 The expedient adopted by Trudgill is to deal with each component of soil and vegetation in turn and then to build up a sequential picture of the whole system .
23 So , if I pass my er printed overheads for this one an allowance er , is , and you were talking about it really , you were using this as though it were going to be er , your money that you 'd got to spend for doing each one of those activities or each bit of work within the , the project .
24 In the room each bit of furniture seemed to be too far away from the others , as if they had been dropped there as markers , but the space was eroding them .
25 While I am a very experienced walker in the rest of the UK , I have little experience of Scotland .
26 I knew very little about boats , and had hated what little experience of sailing I had had , but it seemed unlikely that any boat would shut down its engine until it was safely round into the bay , or even then .
27 Lucien had had little experience of female-kind in his life , and it was the women of Mandru 's household who were the most kind to him during the first traumatic days of his life there .
28 In Britain , to date , there has been little experience of union influence over selection amongst the technical and social options for information technology .
29 I always take a shower so have little experience of bath taps .
30 Alan has little experience of family life and is inquisitive about what it means to have a mummy and daddy .
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