Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [noun sg] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 Chris Hook claims that it takes expert knowledge and a great deal of patience to hack into a computer system .
2 Weight is the gravitational force of attraction exerted on a body .
3 The size of the state in the early days of the administration of justice led to a remarkable form of attempted committal to prison .
4 These rings could be the result of surface waves spreading out from the impact through the solid surface , or the result of a succession of wall slumps in a once deeper basin .
5 This room successfully combined the old and the new , betraying an appreciation of quality spiced with a stark , functional modernity .
6 ‘ The case is of importance both because of its possible effect on Mr Anderson and also because an allegation of murder made in a civil action , particularly after an acquittal , is a matter of justifiable public concern and interest .
7 They have suggested that the loss of associability suffered by a pre-exposed stimulus is determined not by the extent to which it is predicted by its antecedents but by the relationship it bears to subsequent events .
8 There is every reason to suppose that this loss of predictability occurs as a property of the Navier-Stokes and continuity equations , although these equations contain the determinism of classical mechanics .
9 The reconstruction of all the objects could not be completed ( this was later achieved by Bernard Rice and Ahmed Youssef Moustafa ) because of Stewart 's appointment as supervisor of technical education in Palestine in 1930 , but his name remains connected with the first attempt in Egyptian archaeology to restore objects which the loss of wood reduced to a mass of precious metal and faience components .
10 In several ways this loss of hope acts as a self-fulfilling prophecy .
11 Next , there is no reason to suppose that the loss of effectiveness suffered by a cue as a result of non-reinforced pre-exposure will be restricted to the case in which that cue is subsequently required to function as a CS ; no doubt the development of an occasion-setting function will also be retarded by exposure to the cue in question .
12 In addition , the Board of Inland Revenue must be indemnified by the people who were partners immediately before the first change , and by anyone joining the partnership on that or a later change , against any loss of tax arising on a partner 's claim that the election does not strictly comply with the provisions of s 113(2) and that the cessation basis should have been applied .
13 It is only possible to assert that work begun with a lifting of the heart is likely to go on for longer than work begun with a contracting of the stomach , that work done with a lifting of the heart will develop further than work done with a contracting of the stomach , but there is nothing to indicate that the small amount of work which is the result of a contracting of the stomach will not be better than the large amount of work done with a lifting of the heart , than the rich development which is the likely result of work undertaken with a lifting of the heart , always bearing in mind , wrote Harsnet , and Goldberg , poring over the pages covered in his friend 's tiny handwriting , wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve , glanced up at the sheet in his typewriter , always bearing in mind , he typed ( as Harsnet had written ) , that better and worse are relative terms , and that one man 's better is another man 's worse , one age 's better is another age 's worse , one civilization 's better is another civilization 's worse , better , worse , relative values , scribbled Goldberg in the margin , always bearing in mind , wrote Harsnet , that in the long run it all comes to the same thing , long run , scribbled Goldberg in the margin , same thing .
14 People 's cavalier attitude towards word boundaries can be seen in the derivation of the word tawdry , the result of syllable merging across a word boundary in St. Audrey .
15 Spy fever gripped the country and a couple seen sketching the Royal Albert Bridge were , as a result of information given by a boy scout to a sergeant of the Royal Scots , arrested in the nearby tea gardens and escorted to Devonport by the police .
16 For Leavis the study of literature led to a growth of intelligence and sensibility .
17 These were either the study of technology integrated within a general study of human adaption to the environment , which presupposed a particularly immediate relationship between society and the environment , or alternatively an anthropology of art which , by contrast , emphasized the greatest possible distance between people and their environment , in order to focus upon exotic and esoteric practices .
18 Its message was iconoclastic , even radical and certainly not at all the type of thing that one would expect to see emanating from a government department , with the seal of approval provided by a preface over the minister 's signature .
19 The revelation comes as Thames Water is trying to isolate the cause of contamination that led to an outbreak of illness caused by a germ called cryptosporidium .
20 During the mela a slight outbreak of cholera occurred at a small station called Manickpore on the Jubbulpore line .
21 More recently work from the Boiron Laboratories in Lyon has suggested that a 7C potency of Arsenicum album caused a significant excretion of arsenic by arsenic-poisoned rats as compared with a 7C potency of water used as a control , thus confirming the earlier observations with the guinea-pigs .
22 Of course , you can always refer to books but this is rarely convenient if you have a piece of work to do for a deadline .
23 If the final grade is largely determined by course-work marks , how are you to mark a piece of work completed in a pupil 's first term of his introduction to a subject , compared with what he can do after five or six terms ?
24 He hanged himself from a piece of sheet attached to a ventilation grille .
25 The sundial looks expensive — the metal part was a Christmas present from his brother , and it sits on a piece of balustrade given by a friend .
26 But a Visionware official said ‘ there does n't seem to be much point shipping a 32-bit designed piece of software to run in a 16-bit environment .
27 Eventually , some land was found , and the lady who finds it psychologically impossible for the moment to afford a piece of meat parted with a substantial sum without demur .
28 All you need for a marker is a Fishing Gazette pike bung or a piece of polystyrene tied to a stone with a length of line about 12 inches longer than the depth of swim .
29 All you need for each one is a piece of knitting beginning with a hem at the wrist , wide enough to go round the hand and long enough to reach easily to the base of the fingers .
30 I repeat the action with the other rod , only this time there is a large piece of flake pulled from a new loaf on the size 2 hook .
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