Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] of a [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A quick spin of his ‘ Sweet Freedom — The Best Of ’ compilation album of a few years back is proof enough that he has had many hits in his home patch without making similar in-roads here . |
| 2 | The boys could see that in reception classes , as in the all-in village school of a few generations ago , only one teacher taught all subjects to children between twelve and sixteen . |
| 3 | The tall engine house of a former lead mine remains west of the village . |
| 4 | It is probably significant that our own body size of a few feet is roughly in the middle of the range of sizes we can imagine . |
| 5 | The Supreme Court trial of a former President , Gen. Luis García Meza , which had begun on July 12 , 1989 , proceeded despite his absence . |
| 6 | It was proposed that , the putative reverse transcriptase ( e.g. encoded by group II intronic ORFs ) could produce a cDNA copy of an intron-less RNA , which , if followed by a homologous recombination event involving the cDNA and the genomic DNA , would promote intron loss ( 46 ) . |
| 7 | Among the most violent incidents during 1990-91 were the July 1990 killing of Ian Gow [ see p. 37623 ] ; the September shooting of a former Gibraltar Governor [ see p. 37720 ] ; the October IRA " human bomb " attacks [ see p. 37784 ] ; the November rocket attack on the home of a Belfast High Court judge [ see p. 37869 ] ; the February 1991 IRA mortar attack on Downing Street and attacks on mainland railway stations [ see pp. 38019-20 ] ; and the March 1991 Craigavon killings [ see p. 38112 ] . |
| 8 | The Danuese allowed to participate were few in number and rigorously selected , mostly the same ‘ chiefs ’ who had voted for assimilation into the malai republic in the show referendum of a few weeks back . |
| 9 | And the speech was indeed a frank catalogue of the state of the personal computer business today : revenues down 14% , Apple Computer Inc , IBM and DEC contemplating low margins and sinking market share , the astronomical cost of developing a new package , the failure of PCs to penetrate much beyond word processing and spreadsheets , the monopoly lock of a few software houses on the marketplace and engineering 's inability to develop an intuitive box , all conspiring to dissuade any sensible PC guy from putting any more money into research and development . |
| 10 | A quantity of dance-music for it is preserved , imperfectly , in the so-called ‘ Walsingham Consort Books ’ of approximately the same date , and the combination is depicted accompanying the wedding masque in the Henry Unton memorial painting of a few years later . |
| 11 | The trigger effect of a few schools opting out could lead to an avalanche of applications . |
| 12 | ft. conversion of a former paint factory into managed offices and workshops . |