Example sentences of "an [noun sg] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first it will be a matter of trial and error , but an advantage of ribbon weaving is that it is so easy to undo and start again . |
| 2 | An advantage of wind is that it at least partially kills sound . |
| 3 | But er , there 's also an advantage of passing and receiving areas as there is before . |
| 4 | It was an amulet of Ishtar . |
| 5 | One of the skeletons has an Amulet of Coal about its neck . |
| 6 | To avoid the necessity for the provision of a special supply of unsoftened water , an addition of magnesium sulphate can be made to the soft supply , and this gives the desired stability . |
| 7 | When first imported they are often in almost freshwater , but will appreciate an addition of salt as they are really a marine fish that can exist in freshwater for a while . |
| 8 | I have an instant of panic — what has my face been doing ? |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | Felled in an instant of nightspace |
| 11 | If Deffenbacher is correct in his conclusion that effective arousal manipulations result in an impairment of memory , how is it possible for Heuer and Reisberg ( 1990 ) to conclude just the opposite , both from their experimental results and a review of previous research ? |
| 12 | I take the view myself that when one has a person in advancing years , in some respects an impairment of movement may perhaps be more serious than it is with a younger person . |
| 13 | All three are part of one pattern , defined by Christ , but experienced within the penitential life of the meditator : no resurrection without death , no joy without sorrow , no feeling of the presence of love without sometimes consciousness of its absence , and all three comings relate to an overcoming of sin . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Formal monitoring should commence with an inspection of cleaning/disinfection standards , immediately preceding the trial , a record of which should be kept . |
| 16 | Making an excuse of illness in the family , he quit DPR , and returned to his hometown in Nigeria . |
| 17 | Barth suggests that in pointing to the delusional nature of ideology he is indulging in an idolatry of science characteristic of his time but equally delusional ( Barth 1977 : 110 ) . |
| 18 | We must not accept an ‘ equilibrium of stagnation ’ — an inability of government or institutions to deliver anything but an unsatisfactory re-hashing of what already inadequately exists . |
| 19 | The curators ' muse here is Diana Vreeland , whose ‘ editorial verve ’ , the curators say , took the Costume Institute ( made part of the Met in 1946 ) from an assemblage of theatre costumes to one of the world 's largest collections . |
| 20 | Chateau de Noirieux ( 26 Route du Moulin , Briollay , tel : 010-33-41 42 50 05 ) offers a 10 per cent discount for TODAY readers , plus an up-grade of room and glass of champagne . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | They noted that the latter was now seen as a " junior partner in an orbit of power predominantly under American aegis " . |
| 23 | Aha ! said Mr Clarke 's critics ( and there are a few around ) , a clear betrayal of Labour 's commitment , an act of treachery , an exposure of Labour 's essential hypocrisy , etc . |
| 24 | Many artists and ecological scientists hold the view that both practical and aesthetic fulfilment are conditional upon an interaction of animal , vegetable and mineral properties . |
| 25 | Communication is so complex an interaction of mind , language , and the physical world that it can be disconcerting to try to deal with it all at once . |
| 26 | Curiously , while ( 64 ) can only be used as a greeting ( at least in British English ) , ( 65 ) can only be used as a parting : ( 65 ) Good night so that we have here an interaction of time and discourse deixis . |
| 27 | This algorithm is an instance of bottom up clustering . |
| 28 | Training with a list of stimulus words was regarded as an instance of discrimination learning in which each S comes to evoke an R different from those evoked by other stimuli . |
| 29 | The umpire procedure has often been relied on as an argument for a reference being an arbitration rather than an instance of expert determination ( or , in the older cases , a " valuation " ) but the courts have not seen the umpire procedure as an important factor , and the involvement of an umpire does not turn a reference to an expert into an arbitration . |
| 30 | Desertification is of course , at least in part , an instance of drought as an earth hazard . |