Example sentences of "a [noun sg] of [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The terms were a payment of £325 and a ground rent of £1 a year . |
| 2 | If a family of , say , five could in years of normal food prices be almost supported on 4s 6d a week , then a payment of 6d or 1s , either to a single pauper or as a supplement to the earnings of a large family , was indeed significant , especially if it was combined with occasional relief payments for tools , clothing , towards rent or for medicine . |
| 3 | Jean Rhys , in Good Morning , Midnight ( 1939 ) , transcribes a mind strangely unstrung by loneliness , through a mixture of thoughts and memories recorded in a variety of tenses and stream-of-consciousness and interior-monologue styles . |
| 4 | The emphasis is on interpretation and evaluation of a variety of primary and secondary source material . |
| 5 | The aim of the research is to examine and evaluate a variety of projects that have been established to increase the uptake of energy conservation measures . |
| 6 | She had kept her looks and her health , and had spent her free time productively with a variety of projects and committees . |
| 7 | Pluralist approaches argue , in contrast to Marxist approaches , that political power can and should be regarded as analytically distinct from economic power and that , in contrast to both elite and Marxist approaches , power is not concentrated in the hands of a single group , but relatively widely dispersed among a variety of groups and actors . |
| 8 | This had ‘ spawned a variety of groups and caused confusion , ’ he said . |
| 9 | Salespeople must be able to work and communicate with people in a variety of positions and be prepared to tailor their selling approaches to satisfy individual needs , e.g. specifiers will need to be convinced of the technical merits of the product , production people will want to be assured of guaranteed deliveries and buyers will be looking for value for money . |
| 10 | Describing herself as the unrepentant collector , Mrs. Vernon Smith showed a variety of garments and artefacts . |
| 11 | The children of the school regularly prepare and sing the Sunday Mass ; parents and school unite in preparing children for First Communion ; the Mothers and the Men have a variety of fund-raising and other tasks not least supporting each other ; the S.V.P. look after the elderly , and the senior citizens , particularly those who are housebound , pray for us all . |
| 12 | Before the advent of swimfeeders and the preoccupation with maggots , casters and hempseed , anglers used a variety of baits and methods to make their catches . |
| 13 | The Blue Arrows and Michael pages of the recruitment world have found it much easier because they have had a variety of products and services , and encompass a number of sectors . |
| 14 | Separate the individual flowers since , as they are trumpet-shaped , they can either be pressed whole or cut in half : this gives a variety of colour and thickness . |
| 15 | Besides the Women 's Institute , there are over a dozen other active groups in the village , which cater for a variety of ages and interests . |
| 16 | Thus W.H. Smith 's shops offer a wide range of magazines , books and records as well as fairly standard ranges of stationery and similar items , in order to meet the needs of a wide range of tastes from a variety of ages and social classes . |
| 17 | These have been labelled by a variety of writers as career launch ( early thirties ) , crisis ( late thirties to early forties ) , achieving and mellowing ( forties/fifties ) , and retirement ( sixties ) . |
| 18 | On one Jules Verne edition I have counted nearly forty different objects including a submarine , a balloon , a camera , an elephant , a variety of telescopes and other navigational instruments , a ship 's wheel , enough spears to equip a Zulu regiment and sufficient chains to furnish a galleyful of slaves . |
| 19 | He takes the idea of " culture " and disassembles it into its constituent parts ; he then goes on to argue , or assert , that it depends upon a class system , upon a variety of regionalism and upon the family . |
| 20 | Many of New Historicism 's endeavours are shared by the wider questioning of practice that is taking place in a variety of disciplines and theoretical approaches . |
| 21 | Each issue contains authentic reading texts , a variety of listening and speaking activities , and carefully structured writing exercises . |
| 22 | Here she created opportunities for social workers to train in more advanced skills and set up a variety of support and counselling groups . |
| 23 | In recounting the story of his life , he assumes a variety of identities and gives multiple conflicting versions of events in a contradictory attempt to acquire the sense of identity he has always lacked and to conceal himself from a world by which he has always felt persecuted . |
| 24 | Words derived from a verb stem by means of the suffix -ing may be used in a variety of meanings and functions according to the context in which they occur . |
| 25 | Instead , the emphasis is on efficiency rather than excitement , with a colour scheme dominated by a variety of blacks and greys . |
| 26 | If it 's diagnosed as erm leaving treatment there 's a variety of splints that frames that you lie the baby on , strap them in and they remain in that position with their legs |
| 27 | Exhibitions of a variety of paintings and decorative art collections are a regular feature , with an on-going programme to suit all tastes . |
| 28 | Expert comes with an RS232 lead and a disk of utilities , so you can connect the box to your PC 's serial port and run a variety of configuration and diagnostic tools . |
| 29 | I think it matters in a broad sense , in that the ability to master a variety of skills and express oneself through a variety of media ( including language , music and the visual arts ) is important to any well-rounded and educated person . |
| 30 | Choose a task requiring a variety of skills and experience , not those of an expert ( often an expert alone is much more competent than a group ) . |