Example sentences of "[noun] of [adj] [noun sg] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the driver 's seat of this car a member of the public found the body of a man , in his 40s . |
| 2 | If you have worries of this kind a visit to the local office of the Department of health and Social Security , plus an interview with a social worker at the local authority social services department , is a very wise move . |
| 3 | Due to the brevity of this period a neurone can send action potentials at a rate of up to 1000 per second . |
| 4 | Most will need two injections of intermediate-acting insulin a day with some short-acting to cover breakfast , a mid-morning snack and lunch . |
| 5 | In addition to working closely with Government to ensure that fiscal and other financial policies do not create competition barriers for UK industry , he is making harmonisation of financial reporting a priority . |
| 6 | Taplin Green and Keeley — or their ghosts since none of those names now survived in the list of partners — had offices on the south side of New Square a corridor with an uneven floor under the carpeting and doorways that had subsided to odd angles . |
| 7 | The National Eisteddfod in Aberystwyth in the first week of August saw on the Monday to Friday of that week a Class 31 hauling Regional Railways coaches on the 11.00 and 17.25 departures . |
| 8 | In 1976 won the Queen 's Award to Industry and in recognition of this achievement a reception was held at Buckingham Palace . |
| 9 | During the final five minutes of this sequence a period of intense activity was obvious and coincided with the emptying of water from the stomach and duodenal bulb . |
| 10 | We now know too that in the later part of that time a form of Greek was widely spoken there . |
| 11 | In the early part of this century a calendar of the Abbey muniments was produced . |
| 12 | In the first part of this century a shepherd , returning from his upland pasture near Rennes-le-Chateaux , stumbled and fell into a fissure in the limestone escarpment , breaking his leg . |
| 13 | ( 4 ) On renewing a licence under this Part of this Act a licensing board may by order , to be served on the holder , direct that , within a time fixed by the order , such structural alterations shall be made in the premises comprising the canteen as the board thinks reasonably necessary to secure the proper conduct of the canteen ; and if , when application for renewal of the licence is next made after the time fixed by the order has expired , it is not shown to the satisfaction of the licensing board that the order has been complied with , the licensing board may refuse to renew the licence . |
| 14 | Coming from the same background as those on the front line gives Tony Davidson of Provincial Insurance a mission to explain all the business 's activities , says Neil Fitzgerald . |
| 15 | At the height of the troubles the hospital was seeing 100 cases of major trauma a day . |
| 16 | In March of this year a meeting was held to again decide the fate of the elephant . |
| 17 | In March of this year a meeting was held to again decide the fate of the elephant . |
| 18 | Last year the general assembly gave to the Board of Social Responsibility a task of coordinating the work of the church in this field and we are proud now to be able to report to the general assembly that the work done by the assembly 's various Boards and by numerous local initiatives make the Church of Scotland the nation 's leading provider of services to the victims of H I V and to their families delivering both the most extensive and the most comprehensive service to these people within Scotland . |
| 19 | Futurists call this kind of fundamental transformation a paradigm shift , although the term is now a misused buzzword for any change . |
| 20 | For those in the middle of these events , there was in addition to the tension and the menace , a certain air of unreality ; this raises the part played by drugs , not merely in the emergence of a forceful counter-culture , but in the attitudes of plain straightforward young people to whom any kind of illicit substance a couple of years earlier would have been a complete mystery . |
| 21 | It was the kind of loose description a teacher might hand out to a class of pupils and ask for drawings based on its inspiration . |
| 22 | A year later and they had all been given a rise of one penny a day . |
| 23 | Right , it 's just that we had this issue in support of other research a questionnaire and in support key divisions , sorry , key departments have lists of named individuals who can authorise questionnaires . |
| 24 | Three days before he died , in a master stroke of irony , the emperor confirmed his appointment as kapellmeister at St Stephen 's — a post which would have brought him a steady income of 2,000 gulden a year . |
| 25 | ( c ) Court order and completion of the abstract In the case of unregistered land a copy of the court order or abstract thereof , marked as examined against the original , should be placed with the title documents . |
| 26 | I had figures which actually showed what people were watching what they would do if you gave them five to seven more hours of spare time a week , all the things they would like to learn about that they have n't already learned about . |
| 27 | For reasons of national security a law of 1837 and a decree-law of 1851 conferred on the state a monopoly of transmissions by telegraph , and the policing of the airwaves . |
| 28 | In February of this year a resolution calling for its enactment was passed by the Liberal Party Council , and it has also been supported by many individuals and groups in both the Labour and Conservative parties . |
| 29 | Prior to the sado-masochism case at the Old Bailey , the law on what type of physical harm a person might consent to was , at the very least , uncertain . |
| 30 | Now that again suggests for this strategic type of inward investment a location away from existing built-up areas . |