Example sentences of "a [noun] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We worked out a route of cafés , all the way down the Boulevard St. Michel to the river , velvet in the dark , and then up the Rue Saint Jacques to our home ground near the Pantheon . |
| 2 | If trustees make a payment of monies to a beneficiary this may comprise income in the hands of the beneficiary thus giving rise to a tax charge . |
| 3 | He died on December 17 , 1907 , and was buried in Westminster Abbey with the honours due to a prince of men … |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The natural chemistry , complicated by run-off of sediments from a variety of lands , is correspondingly complex . |
| 6 | The widespread acceptance of the invariance proposition with which the rational expectations hypothesis was so closely associated was met with a variety of reactions : glacial disdain ; head scratching incredulity ; stony , deafening silence ; deep shock . |
| 7 | Though theoretically any discharger is subject to the scrutiny of field men , enforcement activity is focused further and patterned to reflect a variety of assumptions held by agency staff about the likely location of pollution . |
| 8 | However , it has been shown that , under a variety of assumptions about information conditions , collusive outcomes are supportable as Nash perfect equilibria in repeated games ( see Tirole , 1989 , ch. 6 for a convenient summary ) . |
| 9 | Expectations will be identified explicitly , making it easier to simulate alternative policies under a variety of assumptions about the way expectations are formed , and the way investigations are formed , and the investigation of the robustness of different policies . |
| 10 | Thus , a variety of initiatives could exist , co-operate and interact to everyone 's gain , on a fair and equal footing . |
| 11 | The remaining nine chapters cover a variety of topics . |
| 12 | • interesting discussions on a variety of topics with a visiting ‘ expert ’ ( eg Reflexology , Speech Therapy , Colour Analysis , Chiropractic , Music for Children , Assertiveness , Wills ) |
| 13 | More particularly , pupils should compile a folder of coursework containing writing of a range of types on a variety of topics for different and clearly specified audiences . |
| 14 | A couple of recent collections which bring together a range of articles on a variety of topics are 'Femininity' , ‘ Masculinity ’ and ‘ Androgyny ’ : A Modern Philosophical Analysis , edited by Mary Vetterling-Braggin ( 1982b ) and the special issue of Radical Philosophy ( 1983 ) on ‘ Women , Gender and Philosophy ’ . |
| 15 | It can also carry out research through the Central Statistical Office and the Government Social Survey into a variety of topics . |
| 16 | Later , he turned to a variety of topics within logic and philosophy : modal and many-valued logic ; the logic of entailment and of questions ; the paradoxes ; the Polish school of reism ; action theory ; ontology ; and intentionality . |
| 17 | The comprehensive course covered a variety of topics including a cut-down EPOS system — as used by the Company 's retail division . |
| 18 | This nationwide annual survey collects attitudinal information on a variety of topics including health and welfare , education , housing , morality , economic expectations and political beliefs . |
| 19 | To pass the time , the conversation had ranged over a variety of topics , from sport to current affairs , then had finally settled after some time on shop-talk — inevitable when any group of cops got together anywhere in the world . |
| 20 | A number of seminars on a variety of topics have been arranged during the year . |
| 21 | The Ayrshire Tory MP is well known for his un-compromising attitude on a variety of topics — nows our chance to find out what he 's got to say about child-care provision and your chance to tackle him on the governments record to date . |
| 22 | Like birds , fish produce a variety of calls to attract a mate . |
| 23 | Alida had need of company , a variety of faces , after the years of being shut up alone with her mother . |
| 24 | Finally , with respect to language issues , a variety of debates are still in progress and it is premature to draw firm conclusions ; however , there is some evidence to suggest that bilingualism may actually enhance educational performance ( Houlton , 1986 ) , that in the case of Afro-Caribbean pupils there may well be ‘ dialect interference ’ , although it is clear too that some of the problems here may derive from the negative attitudes of teachers towards Creole ( Edwards , 1979 ) , and that in the case of some Bangladeshi pupils lack of familiarity with English may be an obstacle to academic achievement ( House of Commons Home Affairs Committee , 1986 ) . |
| 25 | She had kept her looks and her health , and had spent her free time productively with a variety of projects and committees . |
| 26 | I am not suggesting that on occasions it is not totally appropriate to go and help someone — children particularly appreciate a parent 's involvement in a variety of projects . |
| 27 | Fulcrum Communications , a joint venture between Fujitsu ( 75% ) and British Telecom ( 25% ) , is using leasing to fund a variety of projects . |
| 28 | A focus for contact on all issues related to the evaluation and promotion of major new resource proposals , you will co-ordinate with consultants and other departments within the Authority on a variety of projects . |
| 29 | In fact , if the social sciences are really to explain the social world , would it not be wiser to retreat from the demand that they must conform to a single standard of explanation , and allow instead that they may encompass a variety of projects ? |
| 30 | It was explained that it was hoped that they would ‘ befriend ’ a life preparation student for craft sessions , working alongside each other on a variety of projects . |