Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [noun sg] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Put flour , ginger and bi-carbonate of soda in a bowl . |
| 2 | It was not until 1962 , when the Organisation of American States resolved that Cuba had voluntarily placed itself outside the inter-American system , that Castro — finding a temperamental and ideological disposition backed up by pressing security considerations — switched his energies to the export of revolution on a more substantial level . |
| 3 | Within an hour of arrival they were closeted with the permanent secretary , the most senior civil servant , of the Ministry of Agriculture mapping out the ground for a loan from the World Bank to Tanzania which would put $25 million into livestock production , turning ranching and the export of beef into a major national industry . |
| 4 | I yearned towards the mystical earnestness which saw through the outer facing of existence in a oneness and blinding intensity which went direct to some essence of being . |
| 5 | In this paper we report for the first time the isolation of cDNA for a zebrafish POU family gene which is ubiquitously expressed during embryogenesis . |
| 6 | The remedy of purchase from a third party , with the consequent obligation on the seller to pay the increase in the purchase price , is broadly similar to that available at common law , but , again , the express clause imports a certain amount of flexibility in the area of the price paid for third party goods ( for instance a premium might have to be paid for quick delivery to meet the buyer 's original timescales ) , and as to how closely their specification need resemble the original goods . |
| 7 | Sweet 's report cast doubts on the eventual feasibility of fusion as a viable power source and implied that the large sums of money could be better used elsewhere . |
| 8 | The cloning of the CF gene enables the association of phenotype with a specific mutation . |
| 9 | A key to this combination is the unique association of emotionality with a social intelligence which has developed along somewhat different lines in man . |
| 10 | Mental infirmity Some of the issues around mental infirmity have been unpacked in Chapter 3 , but certain aspects need further exploration when thinking of life in a residential setting . |
| 11 | Because we are conditioned to thinking of retirement as a time for settling into a new home , many people up sticks without perhaps giving enough thought to such essentials as proximity to family and friends and whether a different area would provide the same scope for pursuing their interests . |
| 12 | But that was not a pleasant thought and Erika firmly pushed it away , thinking of movement from a lower to a higher stage of development , as Marx taught , and such as was taking place now , she and her mother sitting together , no longer like mother and daughter , teacher and child , but more like sisters . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's funny , I 've spent most of my life thinking of advertising as a sort of dirty business , but in fact the same mechanisms work : you get input from someone , you get inspired and you give back . |
| 14 | The opening loomed before them , sliced into the bank , brushed relatively clean , a narrow , erect oblong of darkness with a rounded roof and pale , red and amber jambs rooted in deep green turf . |
| 15 | He distinguished five botanical zones , but went beyond Watson by suggesting that each had been established by a separate episode of migration from a different continental source . |
| 16 | The Group is rich in tradition and strong in resources offering to its employees a great deal of scope for a fulfilling and rewarding career . |
| 17 | However , we will have to cover a great deal of territory in a limited space if the cost of this book is not to become prohibitive . |
| 18 | You have to cause a great deal of damage to a Troll to stop it regenerating . |
| 19 | The review deals with undergraduate courses and manages to condense a great deal of material into a concise and readable form . |
| 20 | Also , at the end of the day there may not be a great deal of difference between a system which requires all charges subject to exceptions to be registered as opposed to the present one which requires specified charges to be registered subject to the power of the Secretary of State to add to or delete from their number . |
| 21 | I could hardly blame him here — at least his feelings ; but even if , with an earlier and exact diagnosis he could have been spared a great deal of pain over a considerable period of time , I realize that nothing could have saved him . |
| 22 | Only the Paternoster , he recalled , would have described a revival of Priestley 's An Inspector Calls as a play about a very tiresome girl who caused a great deal of trouble to a respectable family . |
| 23 | ‘ The Grey Horse ’ had enjoyed a line season , losing just once ( when conceding a great deal of weight in a handicap over two miles , a distance now too short for him to show his best ) , and winning the King George VI Rank Chase , steeplechasing 's other classic , for the third time . |
| 24 | Erm , that that that that is a point where the discovery in itself , must have given a great deal of pleasure to a a er a number of people who 've been involved in the , in the research . |
| 25 | Comics cram a great deal of information into a brief space , which makes them a potent force for more than mere storytelling . |
| 26 | A major advantage of the digital system of recording flight data , besides the ability to store a great deal of information for a comparatively small weight penalty , is the higher standard of accuracy that goes with it . |
| 27 | By interviewing people we can obviously obtain a great deal of information in a relatively short time . |
| 28 | One from the LEA was about her 8-year-old son 's transfer to middle school , an event generating a great deal of paper including a list of the available schools ; another letter from the LEA explained parents ' rights of choice and appeal , also dates of open evenings ; yet another letter from the school to which he had been allocated required the parents to sign the tear-off slip and return it to their present school . |
| 29 | Her perception of physics as a discipline is one that is about ideas and concepts ; she said that she 'd always found physics much more ‘ dynamic ’ than ‘ static ’ subjects like chemistry and geography . |
| 30 | This is rooted in the perception of society as a collection of disparate and even conflicting interests — such as those of the rich and poor — with a democratic system of government being one in which these different interests are recognized as legitimate and therefore have a voice . |