Example sentences of "of a [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the consequences of a latter approach could lead to accumulative change in the appearance and nature and character of the countryside so that you get something rather different than most people 's perception of a countryside being there for its own sake . |
| 2 | The ‘ community ’ or comprehensive-type schools which are beginning to replace vocational and local church schools have a more religious flavour , as they may include the interests of a former convent , which the new school is in part replacing , a former vocational school , and possibly a former diocesan boys ' school as well . |
| 3 | The sitting Bharatpur MP , K. Natwar Singh , is the grandson of the brother of a former Maharajah 's wife . |
| 4 | Grandson of a former palace minister in Cambodia under the French , Thiounn Prasith studied with Ieng Sary in Paris and was adviser on foreign policy from 1975-78 . |
| 5 | But the death was a ‘ terrible blow ’ , as he said , in the affection and gratitude of a former disciple . |
| 6 | Number 10 Downing Street , in the words of a former Political Secretary of Mr Heath is ‘ a house not an office ’ . |
| 7 | This was followed by the Company Commander of B Company being asked to organise a barbecue around the swimming pool ( the legacy of a former Commanding Officer who had discovered an under-used JCB in the grounds of the base ) . |
| 8 | Some of the most formidable kingmakers in the National Front movement were keen on the post , including Mr Devi Lal , the deputy prime minister , Mr Arun Nehru , the party 's leading strategist , and Mr Ajit Singh , the ambitious son of a former prime minister , Mr Charan Singh . |
| 9 | A maze of low stone walls bounded the twisting paths of the front lawn , and one wall of a former next-door cottage had been left standing as an ornament , with glassless windows . |
| 10 | This is the setting of an election incontro ( encounter ) for Mario Segni , parliamentary candidate for the Christian Democrats , radical reformer , and son of a former president . |
| 11 | The separatist Northern League , which wants to secede from Rome , is now the strongest party of the wealthy north , and in Sicily the anti-Mafia movement of a former mayor , Leoluca Orlando , has taken nearly half the vote of the capital , Palermo . |
| 12 | He strode into cafes , schools and churches to meet and greet by name — all with the relentless energy of a former Balkans decathlon champion . |
| 13 | Paul Hopkinson was born on June 29 1906 , the son of a former professor of archaeology who became a clergyman and eventually retired as Archdeacon of West Morland . |
| 14 | The principal counter-argument has been that Essex has enjoyed the benefit of a former tutor-organiser as Federation chairman and that , in the absence of an equivalent person to give a lead elsewhere , tutor-organisers have continued to be essential . |
| 15 | When The Gentleman 's Magazine published the remarks of a former employer on Mary Leapor , much was made of the length of her neck and the shortness of her body . |
| 16 | It occupies the site of a former school that was razed by fire . |
| 17 | Between relentless , disjointed images of everything from cowboys and Indians to real-life Vietnam clips and even an off-colour star of a former age , Victor Mature as the Jolly Green Giant , he managed to write the obituary for that totally plastic group , created from nothing as NBC 's teenybop answer to the Beatles and who were a pale shadow in terms of comparative talent . |
| 18 | When self-regard is so shatteringly undermined , the symbols of a former shaky greatness become almost an affront . |
| 19 | The road to the fell leaves the A65 at Cowan Bridge , a small village where a tablet on the gable of a former school proudly proclaims that the Brontë sisters were educated there in 1824–25 before the transfer of the school to Casterton . |
| 20 | The tall engine house of a former lead mine remains west of the village . |
| 21 | The furniture factories and timber yards in and around High Wycombe are the modern industrial outcome of a former woodland craft of the Chiltern beechwoods , when independent workers commonly known as ‘ chair-bodgers ’ made chair-legs , stools , tent pegs and spokes for wagon wheels , among other things . |
| 22 | At Kelston , north-west of the village centre , the buildings of a former brass mill remain , with the distinctive stone tapering chimneys of annealing furnaces beside the River Avon . |
| 23 | Despite the immense amount of effort and money that went into this new Atlas aniline dye factory , the business was sold barely three years later , to a partnership between the wealthy drysalter , Edward Brooke ; a former employee , William Spiller ; and the brother of a former partner , Richard Simpson . |
| 24 | The story of a former pupil who becomes a master at the school ; his affection for the place survives ill-treatment , for after inheriting money , retiring , and marrying the ‘ wardrobe-woman ’ , he continues to take a kindly interest in the boys . |
| 25 | This is the reason why a new coalification map for the top surface of the Carboniferous ( 1:500 000 ) is presented as a supplement and revision of a former map published in 1979 by the same authors . |
| 26 | Alterations to a building not materially affecting the external appearance of the building , agricultural operations and the resumption of a former lawful planning use at the end of a temporary planning consent are excluded from the definition of the 1971 Act . |
| 27 | These are the Comyns and the Bruces who can both reckon amongst their members males of the royal blood , for each claim the throne by descent from David , Earl of Huntingdon , great-uncle of Alexander III and grandson of a former king . |
| 28 | 200 acres of a former ironstone workings , now afforested . |
| 29 | With the characteristic shrewdness of a former student of Chris Blackwell at Island , Ashley Newton finds a maxim to resolve the dilemma : ‘ there is no necessary contradiction between commercialism and quality ’ . |
| 30 | Was it mere petulance on the part of a former leader who remains unreconciled to her overthrow ? |