Example sentences of "an [noun sg] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus a Dean of Durham , and an ex-Bishop of Durham , and a complicated patronage secretary who popped out of holes like a rabbit , and a doctrine of apostolic authority , and an Archbishop of York , and a desire to follow the calling of God even if it looked unlikely , winkled a professor out of a career to which he seemed to have been born . |
| 2 | Fisher objected that an Archbishop of York ought not to encourage illegality by being present at the requiem ; and , painfully for himself , felt under a duty of conscience not to attend the memorial service . |
| 3 | He asked the Queen to appoint an Archbishop of York without first asking the Archbishop of Canterbury . |
| 4 | Ramsey was sure that this was a first in history ; the settlement of the choice of an Archbishop of Canterbury by telephone . |
| 5 | All too briefly , until his untimely death in 1944 , there was an Archbishop of Canterbury who was not only a learned philosopher and theologian but was also able , in such writings as his Readings in St John 's Gospel to speak to people at a simple devotional level . |
| 6 | But to show how ecumenical they were , they also once burnt an Archbishop of Canterbury ; several Prime Ministers ; Enoch Powell ; Richard Nixon ; Stalin ; all sorts of people , even poor Mr Heath , not so much because he was a villain but because it is so easy to make a guy in the semblance of Mr Heath . |
| 7 | As leader of the Church Edward the Confessor played his part , though not perhaps very adequately , since he left on his death an archbishop of Canterbury who was not recognized as such by the pope . |
| 8 | Which building did an Archbishop of Canterbury tell MPs would ‘ cast the blight of gritty soot and sulphurous fumes on London 's parks and noblest buildings ’ ? |
| 9 | This was the first time that an archbishop of Canterbury had taken disciplinary action against a Welsh bishop . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | An advantage of wind is that it at least partially kills sound . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | But er , there 's also an advantage of passing and receiving areas as there is before . |
| 15 | Finally , there is a nastily cursed item : among a box of silver jewellery ( worth 150 GCs ) is what appears to be an Amulet of Righteous Silver , but in fact the making of the item was botched and anyone wearing it suffers a -20 penalty to all Cl tests to resist the fear and terror effects of certain undead . |
| 16 | It was an amulet of Ishtar . |
| 17 | One of the skeletons has an Amulet of Coal about its neck . |
| 18 | The amendment specified that " No law varying the compensation for the services of senators and representatives shall take effect , until an election of representatives shall have intervened " . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Cade is left in the baser medium , running for his life ( 55ff. ) , only to meet his nemesis in Alexander Iden , an esquire of Kent , who has inherited his land legitimately and envies no other man 's possessions . |
| 22 | I happen to know , from a friend of mine , that Robert Trivers , long before he was the great evolutionary biologist he is today , when he was an illustrator of children 's books , argued the whole thing to and fro with a friend of mine who was a Freudian analyist and he tells me that in the beginning all they talked about was Freud . |
| 23 | I have an instant of panic — what has my face been doing ? |
| 24 | 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 ? |
| 25 | Felled in an instant of nightspace |
| 26 | 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 ? |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |