Example sentences of "an [noun sg] of [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | He asked the Queen to appoint an Archbishop of York without first asking the Archbishop of Canterbury . |
2 | The latter seemed to hold the view that , if there had to be an Archbishop of Canterbury at all , it were best that he should be a socialist . |
3 | Ramsey was sure that this was a first in history ; the settlement of the choice of an Archbishop of Canterbury by telephone . |
4 | Heron ( 1957 ) found that unilaterally presented words were better recognised from the right visual field but that with bilateral presentation there was an advantage of words to the left of fixation . |
5 | One of the skeletons has an Amulet of Coal about its neck . |
6 | How can we draw valid conclusions from such an instant of time in our planet 's history about mountains and weather which were here long before and will be long after us ? |
7 | When making an inspection of work in progress the surveyor should not hesitate to obtain the services of the contractor to satisfy himself that the work is done correctly , e.g. to check fixings by applying leverage or loading or to ascertain that screeds or pavings are correctly laid with a site level . |
8 | If this form of construction can not be identified from an inspection of voids in the roof surface made from the exterior , it may be possible to deduce whether or not it applies by noting the pattern of nails which have penetrated into the roof-space through the boarding . |
9 | 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 ) . |
10 | Following an inspection of facilities for visitors , the Association of Scottish Visitor Attractions has ratified the Library 's application for membership . |
11 | Making an excuse of illness in the family , he quit DPR , and returned to his hometown in Nigeria . |
12 | They evolved rapidly and spread widely , and with a little experience a glance at an assemblage of graptolites on a shale surface can be used to determine the approximate age of deposition of the rock . |
13 | It is an assemblage of books of a diversity and fascination almost as great as its maker , and a memorial to his Greatness . |
14 | This is illustrated in Fig. 1 where a household , which at first is paid an income of £100 per week , is assumed to spend all of its income in a steady stream until , at the end of each week , it has nothing left until it receives its next £100 . |
15 | This represents an income of £10 for the farmer . |
16 | For example , a family with four dependent children on gross earnings of £75 per week , paying average rent and local authority rates , would gain an income of £123.25 per week , after taking into account means-tested assistance . |
17 | The Chancellor complains that people with an income of £500 per week will pay more tax under Labour . |
18 | She has an income of £65 per week . |
19 | The goal of ‘ achieving wealth ’ , has the objective , ‘ to be achieving an income of £20,000 as head of my own department , within the next three years ’ . |
20 | The East Coast of America is dominated by the big cities : Boston , New York , Philadelphia , Baltimore , Washington all exert such a gravitational pull that the smaller towns are sucked into an orbit of dependency on the nearest city sun . |
21 | A task force within BCCI was set up to investigate : on the basis of its report , PW told the BCCI directors that it could not sign the 1989 accounts because of a number of uncertainties , including increasing CCAH loans , an exposure of $700m to the Gulf Group , and ‘ certain accounting transactions principally booked in Cayman and other offshore centres ’ that ‘ have been either false or deceitful ’ . |
22 | This algorithm is an instance of bottom up clustering . |
23 | Desertification is of course , at least in part , an instance of drought as an earth hazard . |
24 | Following Brown and Yule , text is defined here as ‘ the verbal record of a communicative event ’ ; it is an instance of language in use rather than language as an abstract system of meanings and relations . |
25 | Twenty mls of whole blood was also collected into empty vacutainers before and at the end of the one month trial period for analysis of serum vitamins , as an assessment of compliance to the supplementation . |
26 | There is , however , a difference between making an assessment of conduct in a professional negligence case and evaluating a business decision . |
27 | It also involves an assessment of progress in the related field of expert systems , in particular , possible applications to strategic and other company planning problems . |
28 | ( While , on the other hand , an assessment of identification with the housewife role by the interviewer is relatively free of these complications . ) |
29 | Work by Tebby ( 1980 and 1982 ) supports an assessment of mosaicists as craftsmen of limited geometrical ability . |
30 | An assessment of commissions in international bond markets in the early 1980s shown in Davis ( 1988 ) suggests that in general , commissions in the eurobond market ( 2% ) were higher than in the US domestic market ( 1% ) , but rather lower than in the various European domestic markets ( 2.5% ) . |