Example sentences of "[noun] of a [adj] [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The brutality and unprovoked nature of the attacks , together with the fact that the victims were white and middle class — the jogger was a vice president of a leading securities firm — whilst the assailants were black or Hispanic , meant that the case received a massive degree of publicity and became symbolic of US racial tension and urban violence . |
| 2 | Many readers will have noticed the absence of any mention of a forthcoming Careers Forum . |
| 3 | Cross-examined by Donald Macfadyen , QC , for the defence , Mr Malcolm read from a note he had written for the firm 's compliance director which said Mackie had asserted he had made no mention of an impending profits warning . |
| 4 | Elevations , a response to dance by Glasgow-based Richard Learoyd , the result of a Scottish Arts Council commission in 1990 ( until 16 Feb ) . |
| 5 | In stressing the ubiquity of the differential principle in all aspects of Russian Formalist thought one runs the risk of implying that the coherence of the theory is the result of an intellectual parti pris , and that the intention on the part of the Formalists was to establish a fixed dogmatic system . |
| 6 | In November 1990 the government removed the power of arrest from the military police following the August murder of a senior police chief who was investigating army officers thought to be involved in criminal activities . |
| 7 | In my respectful submission there could be A , no question that the jury would be discharged and B , in the submission er some er judicial displeasure of an experienced police officer volunteering what any police officer must know is A inadmissible and B not an answer to the question . |
| 8 | It also examines a recent case study of a British police operation which exemplifies current trends . |
| 9 | The PSI report is the most detailed study of a British police force yet produced , and Section Four of the report , entitled ‘ The police and people in London ’ , examines the relationship between the police and the public in some depth . |
| 10 | Option 6 allows the librarian to have overdue reminders printed out by the microcomputer and in terms of time saved , this is one of the attractions of a computerized loans system . |
| 11 | In another reinterpretation , in 1874 , the Rev. Sedley Taylor of Cambridge talked of the trial of Galileo , drawing attention to the possibility of a forged Inquisition minute , and the probability therefore that Galileo ought to have been acquitted whatever one thought of the general merits of his theories ; his condemnation was the fault of a dirty tricks brigade rather than of the Church . |
| 12 | Benetton 's past publicity stunts have included images of a dying Aids sufferer , a victim of a Mafia shooting and a new-born baby with blood and the umbilical cord . |
| 13 | The paper will be processed from pineapple and banana leaves , under the initial guidance of a Canadian crafts specialist . |
| 14 | Is it feasible to imagine using personal computing for all aspects of a computerised personnel information system ? |
| 15 | The following case history of a family with many problems is expressed in the words of a social services case conference report . |
| 16 | A joint statement on Dec. 12 announced " good progress " on the completion of a strategic arms reduction treaty ( START ) [ see also p. 37518 ] , and expressed the hope that a treaty would be ready for signing during a Bush-Gorbachev summit meeting , scheduled for Feb. 11-13 , 1991 . |
| 17 | WINNERS of a unique schools arts competition will be going on board a gigantic new accommodation block for the North Sea oilfields being built in Middlesbrough . |
| 18 | So at one end of the scale , the courts upheld a restrictive covenant in the contract of an employee of an international armaments manufacturer called Maxim Nordenfeldt , which extended throughout the world for the whole of the man 's life . |
| 19 | The pull of a triple demands 80kg ( 2001b ) breaking strain line . |
| 20 | The Rev. John Warton , who was himself chairman of a small savings bank , recounts one of his parochial visits : |
| 21 | I 'm part of a major police operation . |
| 22 | Photographer Beth Davidson , a Darlington artist , is showing pupils how to print and develop pictures as part of a major arts initiative in the county . |
| 23 | US Commerce Secretary Ron Brown presented a $500,000 grant to Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International as part of a three-year matching-funds agreement to create market opportunities for the US semiconductor industry in the Commonwealth of Independent States by establishing a Microelectronics Technology Centre to aid training and technology interchange between the US semiconductor industry , its suppliers , and the former Soviets . |
| 24 | Linguistics may be studied either as a single honours degree or as part of a joint honours degree . |
| 25 | Accounting can only be studied in depth at Edinburgh as part of a joint honours degree : MA honours in Economics and Accounting ; BCom honours in Business Studies and Accounting ; or LLB honours ( Law and Accounting ) . |
| 26 | Students specialise in either Danish , Norwegian or Swedish and the chosen area may then be studied as a single honours course or part of a joint honours course in Modern European Languages and with Scottish Ethnology or Linguistics . |
| 27 | In reality , road-blocking was part of a broad police strategy , decided upon at a high level , aimed at preventing ‘ flying pickets ’ travelling from county to county lending support to striking miners . |
| 28 | As part of a dirty jobs dispute staged by NUPE , six women staged a one-day token strike to register their protest by keeping their clothes on . |
| 29 | Events lined up for the next few weeks include Indian dancer Bisakha Sarker performing as part of a Verbal Images event , a European Youth Dance Night , The Cholmondleys and V-Tol Dance Company . |
| 30 | In Moss v. McLachlan for example , the setting up of road blocks , etc. , was clearly part of a coordinated police strategy , not wholly governed by the decisions of the policeman on the spot ( although , as the quote from Moss v. McLachlan illustrates , it was the assessment of the senior police officers present that was being made the subject of review ) . |