Example sentences of "an [noun sg] [prep] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is not invariable however ; the case of the distracted driver or that of my seeing an Archbishop in ignorance of such phenomena are both problematical . |
| 2 | This puts them at an advantage in terms of trading within the EC , and within a Europe whose centre of gravity is shifting steadily eastwards . |
| 3 | So there is an administrative advantage and an advantage in terms of comprehensibility in having a single system . |
| 4 | In March 1925 he beat a Conservative mediocrity in an election for secretary of the Union , in Michaelmas 1925 he was vice-president , in Lent 1926 president . |
| 5 | Last September , Which ? published the results of an inspection of standards of garage servicing at 30 garages , including 12 members of the RMI and the Scottish Motor Trade Association ( which also has an OFT-approved Code of Conduct ) . |
| 6 | Self help groups may also be used as an excuse for lack of government support , and a general philosophy of self help may lead to deprived people being blamed for their plight . |
| 7 | It is an assemblage of books of a diversity and fascination almost as great as its maker , and a memorial to his Greatness . |
| 8 | The island 's 20m people now have an income per head of well over $7,000 a year . |
| 9 | During 1993/94 the PFR is expected to generate an income in excess of 14M . |
| 10 | Such an undertaking can appear to be a matter of stating the obvious — that speaker J , in his first contribution , for example , is answering the ‘ what ’ question in terms of an understood-to-be-known location and a time which is known from an interaction between knowledge of J's age ( context ) and knowledge that J was at least fourteen ( domain ) . |
| 11 | It has demonstrated an interaction between types of software and types of classroom context . |
| 12 | Our theory is based on the idea that human social life is a product of an interaction between sequences of actions and talk about those actions . |
| 13 | An aspirant to membership of the developed club is likely to be accommodating about rainforests , the welfare of Amazonian Indians , the ozone layer and a climate convention . |
| 14 | Most of the papers unashamedly promote commercial products and intermediates to the market and while that , in itself , is not without interest , there is an over-abundance of claims of performance advantages which the reader will judge against weakness in supportive fact or convincing argument . |
| 15 | ( Johnson was an apothecary in search of medicinal plants , and Welsh plant names often reflect their medicinal usage . ) |
| 16 | For the last twenty years or so the State has pursued a ‘ large is beautiful ’ policy but this has now been replaced by an ideology in favour of the small . |
| 17 | Order 9 , r 6 applies if the defendant in a default action : ( 1 ) does not within 14 days after service of the summons on him , pay to the plaintiff the total amount of the claim and costs on the summons ; or ( 2 ) delivers an admission of the whole of the plaintiff 's claim unaccompanied by a counterclaim or a request for time for payment , or ( 3 ) does not deliver an admission of part of the plaintiff 's claim , a defence or counterclaim , the plaintiff may on filing a request for judgment , and certifying that defendant has not sent any reply to the summons , and stating what payments , if any , have been made , have judgment entered , either for payment forthwith or at such times as plaintiff may specify . |
| 18 | Free copies of the book are to be issued to parish priests throughout the region and it includes an appendix with details of the relevant articles of Italian law which will assist them in recovering their lost items . |
| 19 | 1.25 In our first Report , we included an appendix with samples of pupils ' work which illustrated some early stages in the development of writing . |
| 20 | Well , they have a fight erm they very rarely attack us , but they very frequently fight amongst themselves , and it 's usually over something that 's happened previously , but a few stupid words can just spark something that could be ignored if everything else was all right , but it an insult on top of hundreds of insults will just tip them over . |
| 21 | But he is using them as light fixtures ( there 's a switch ! ) to illuminate an installation of photographs of previous shows at the gallery . |
| 22 | The ability to go back to a previous question in order to modify an answer/input in light of current best information is provided by Truth Maintenance . |
| 23 | This is a slow process normally taking an hour per unit of alcohol . |
| 24 | ‘ A women who 's spent half an hour in front of the mirror making herself attractive , 100 yards down the road hears a man on a building site say , ‘ Hello , beautiful ’ , and she looks shocked ! |
| 25 | Oh well no I wo n't do that I 'll just drive round at five mile an hour in front of ya . |
| 26 | Unlike Kilmarnock , who were second best to Raith the previous week , Dunfermline looked the more eager and accomplished team for an hour in front of an all-ticket crowd of 6,500 . |
| 27 | Shotwell ( 1955 ) attempted to distinguish between bones from different sources by devising an index of completeness of preservation , by which species represented by most complete remains must have been transported shorter distances and therefore have come from communities close by , while species with less well preserved remains must have come from more distant communities . |
| 28 | An index of loss of mandibles and maxillae from the predator assemblages is given by the numbers of isolated teeth in the assemblages compared with the empty alveolar spaces in the known samples of upper and lower jaws ( which is given by the figures in column 1 , Table 3.6 for molar loss , and column 4 in the same table for incisor loss ) : see Table 3.9 . |
| 29 | Editor , — I H Khan reiterates the results of our survey into the usefulness of urine transparency as an index of absence of infection in the Dundee renal clinics . |
| 30 | If the company has more than 50 members then , unless the register is kept in such form as to constitute an index of names of the members , such an index must also be kept in the same place as the register . |