Example sentences of "a [noun] of [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Formalists maintained that there are a variety of devices in poetry which have the effect of ‘ roughening ’ or ‘ impeding ’ pronunciation . |
| 2 | Lord Bridge then outlined a series of cases , in particular the Court of Appeal decision in Crancour v da Silvaesa ( 1986 ) 18 HLR 265 , in which landlords used a variety of devices in their " licence " agreements to avoid the rigours of Street v Mountford , for example ensuring that the " Licensee " was only allowed to occupy the premises for 22 out of 24 hours a day , or the provision of " attendance " by the " Licensor " , such as window cleaning , laundering of bed-linen , or boxes of cornflakes left at the licensee 's door with a bottle of milk as " breakfast " . |
| 3 | Coupons , contained within the pack , may be collected over time and exchanged for a variety of products in a catalogue . |
| 4 | The board of management , led by Newcastle man Dermott Killip , organised a variety of programmes in a bid to stimulate interest in the arts . |
| 5 | Entitled PZ092 part III , this collaboration between Phantasmagoria , Lighthouse and Brighton Polytechnic will provide video installations at a variety of venues in Brighton like Video Box , Ritz , Comet , Vision Hire and Blockbuster . |
| 6 | The course was well received and will be offered a variety of venues in the coming year . |
| 7 | It draws on authentic texts from a variety of disciplines in the social sciences such as economics , sociology , and political history . |
| 8 | Hence the need to explore any avenue that will provide a variety of services in order to allay the second fear about specialism — that the service will become labelled as one for the poor only . |
| 9 | The WRVS was founded during the Second World War and has around 150,000 volunteers ( 13% of whom are men ) providing a variety of services in the community . |
| 10 | Experiment with a variety of drills in natural situations until you find the combination which is the most productive for you . |
| 11 | In South-west England tin , copper and other metals have been mined for at least 2000 years from deposits related to Variscan granites ; in the Pennine range of central and northern England over a similar period , lead , and lately fluorite and baryte , have been extracted from vein and replacement deposits in Carboniferous sediments ; in Central Wales , the Isle of Man and the Southern Uplands of Scotland lead and zinc have been mined from vein deposits in Lower Palaeozoic greywackes and in the Lake District copper , lead and zinc have been recovered from a variety of deposits in Lower Palaeozoic sedimentary and volcanic rocks underlain by Caledonian granites . |
| 12 | Mundanity is a variety of realism in so far as familiar and recurrent experiences are those which the mind most readily conceives of as " real " . |
| 13 | In the simplest terms , the daily timing system consists of a body clock that is synchronized by external time-cues and that sends information to a variety of systems in the body and so produces daily rhythms in them . |
| 14 | I will select from a variety of cases in order to illustrate the ability of the fifty millesimal potencies to act favorably on all levels — mental , emotional , and physical . |
| 15 | More research using the new data can be useful , however , in exploring the sensitivity of the model to a variety of changes in assumptions and included factors . |
| 16 | These data suggest that post transplant HBV infection is accompanied by a variety of changes in the liver allograft , some of which are unique to the transplanted liver and may result in impaired allograft function . |
| 17 | The SAC issued a critical review , recommending a variety of changes in the way the RSNO — then known as the Royal Scottish Orchestra — was run . |
| 18 | For all forms of tenure , black families are more likely to be in property that is older , more crowded and in areas that are likely to suffer from a variety of disadvantages in relation to environmental and other conditions ( Brown , 1984 , pp. 66–127 ) . |
| 19 | Practical classes and laboratory work are part of this training , with opportunities to use all the tools of the social scientist as well as a variety of equipment in surveying and photogrammetry , computing and Geographical Information Systems ( GIS ) , and physical geography . |
| 20 | This should promote the co-ordinated and ‘ consumer-led ’ development of a variety of provision in every area , especially since financial incentives favour projects which show evidence of user participation at the planning stage . |
| 21 | A variety of factors in the stimuli presented have been found to influence selection . |
| 22 | The evidence suggests that a variety of factors in our modern Western environment — cigarette smoking , diet , sedentary living , soft water , stress — may be involved . |
| 23 | As the processes become more complex , the water usage increases , particularly when each treatment is followed by one or more washes , and , because of this , works carrying out a variety of treatments in sequence . |
| 24 | Newbigin cites the evidence of not one but a variety of Christologies in the New Testament reflecting ‘ the attempts of that community to say who Jesus is in terms of the different cultures within which they bore witness to him . ’ |
| 25 | There would be a variety of variations in the order that the circumstances of a particular transaction might require . |
| 26 | A variety of actors in different towns — Whigs , Tories , Liberals , Conservatives , Radicals , Chartists , Improvers , Economisers , Independents , and a bevy of personal cliques and factions — argued over whether to expand , or to economise on , the provision of public services , ( 1985a , p. 79 ) . |
| 27 | She has suffered poor health from time to time , but has fought back to establish a variety of activities in her retirement including stewarding at a National Trust property and giving practice interviews to pupils from Tiverton school . |
| 28 | Glass vessels appear in a variety of forms in graves and were classified by Harden ( 1956b ) into eleven types divided into three chronological groups , which have since been extended and reviewed ( Harden 1978 ) . |
| 29 | Frequent use of search was often marked by a period of experimentation with a variety of firms in the first instance , followed by a settling down to regular work with a smaller number of firms with whom the client had achieved a modus vivendi . |
| 30 | These new democracies face a variety of problems in their attempts at consolidation , largely stemming from the heavy levels of external indebtedness , which places serious constraints on their ability to resume economic growth . |