Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun sg] [subord] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If such mutations should occur in the CAG cluster of the N-Oct 3 gene it might easily lead to loss of function by aberrantly expanding the bona fide transcription activation domain , or to loss of DNA-binding if a frame shift is introduced . |
| 2 | Stuck behind Patrese , Berger had to cope with high water temperatures and a loss of power until a fuel pump failure caused retirement on lap 37 . |
| 3 | So it was a stroke of luck when a friend scrapping an old Volvo car gave him a complete system to fit to his tractor . |
| 4 | He felt like some programmed thing with a piece of its instructions missing , battering itself repeatedly against the same piece of wall while a door stood open only a few feet away . |
| 5 | He was in the middle of smoothing one piece of earth when a shadow fell across his hands . |
| 6 | Those who argue that rape should be viewed as more a crime of violence than a crime of sex might also prefer the scope of rape to be confined in this way . |
| 7 | A fortnight ago two men were killed and eight injured on the same stretch of road when a minibus and a car crashed . |
| 8 | He told a senior colleague there was only one place on that particular fifteen-mile stretch of road where a lorry might be expected to run off it , at a bend where the camber of the road sloped to a ditch . |
| 9 | If the king-duke decided to alienate the fief , the king of France 's permission ( as sovereign ) was technically required , because he was entitled to exact the feudal payment of relief when a fief changed hands . |
| 10 | General Accident is supporting this request and have taken the decision to continue with payment of benefit when a claimant attends such a course . |
| 11 | It is the cast of mind which decrees that Henry Cotton , the most successful British golfer of the last fifty years should get an MBE rather than a knighthood , the same level of honour as a shorthand note-taker in the House of Commons or the draftsman of regulations governing haddock quotas . |
| 12 | The other event that I remember well was when my Uncle Ned could have made himself a bit of money when a bird was shot down in mistake for a grouse . |
| 13 | The time I was supposed to be going through this a lot of schools were getting a bit of stick because a lot of parents did n't like it . |
| 14 | A large number of preference pairs gives the same kind of information as a rank ordering . |
| 15 | For instance , IVF embryos can be used for a kind of surrogacy where a woman bears a child for a couple with the embryo created from their egg and sperm . |
| 16 | Graham the guitarist is still dry to the point of death , only showing signs of life when a football appears . |
| 17 | In designing a course of study where a choice has to be made between two items , how available are they ? |
| 18 | These pass on tips about jobs or lodgings , or can give a firm base of support once a migrant has crossed the border . |
| 19 | The very sky smelt of frost though a sun bigger than she had ever seen on Mars still shone remote between gold-fringed clouds . |
| 20 | One possible reason could be that in addition to a general sense of guilt associated with the organs of sex and reproduction , there is the added fact that most surrogate mothers belong to the economically disadvantaged classes ; and it is arguably a case of exploitation if a woman is driven to use her reproductive organs to escape from a state of poverty . |
| 21 | The expert clause is a clause in a contract and it will therefore be subject to the same rules of interpretation as a contract . |
| 22 | There are a number of different forms of entertainment where a licence of some sort or other is required by law . |
| 23 | A researcher sent to report back to the Jane Goodall Institute kept hearing of captive chimps under sentence of death unless a place was found for them . |
| 24 | Yet there could be no more symbolic act of defiance than a currency with a separate exchange rate against the rouble . |
| 25 | All Irish landladies , however pleasant , seemed to breathe a sigh of relief when a visitor left , and they were able to get on with the intense business of family life without interruption . |
| 26 | It all came back to that greatest of Italian national defects , which is less an attitude of xenophobia than a reflection of its people 's belief that Italy is God 's country and Italians God 's chosen . |
| 27 | To prevent uncertainty about the ownership of property when a person dies without having made a will , Parliament has decided how the property is to be dealt with . |
| 28 | Certainly , an oil engine and clutch system would not have had the same degree of flexibility as a steam engine , even if a suitable engine had been available . |
| 29 | Although it is dangerous to generalise about matters of fact , it may be asserted that it will require a considerable degree of intoxication before a defendant can plausibly make such claims . |
| 30 | Three farmsteads were nothing but black , glittering wood and a column of smoke where a vat of fish-oil had overturned into a brazier , or a roasting-fire got out of hand , or a guttering candle caught hangings . |