Example sentences of "[noun sg] of an [adj] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His rearrest was upon the recommendation of an independent doctors ' commission . |
| 2 | Way back in December , when we were first rehearsing erm the problems erm we were facing a hundred and seventy compulsory redundancies , the closure of an adult training centre , the closure of an elderly persons ' home , erm the closure of a hostel and a whole range of other quite draconian measures . |
| 3 | Now the biggest minus on the list is the closure of an elderly person 's home . |
| 4 | Unseasonable bad weather may mean a late start to breeding and the loss of an entire season 's young ; in particularly bad seasons large numbers of birds may fail even to start , and miss a breeding season altogether . |
| 5 | Although the courts do have wide powers to re-allocate property and can require an ex-husband to take out life assurance , such arrangements do not necessarily compensate for the loss of an index-linked widow 's pension in old age or a lump sum and widow 's pension payable on a husband 's death in service . |
| 6 | Cos this happens to be a camera but it could just as well be er an electric toaster , or any , any inanimate object taken er , in this fashion , and the thing you 've got to do if you take a photograph of an inanimate object er , like this , is to light it correctly , er it 's got to show all the erm , detail finely , and it 's got to have good quality in the printing . |
| 7 | After some entertainment by Scottish Mutual students the programme was completed by Messrs Mitchell and Knox with the description of the wedding of an American President 's daughter . |
| 8 | The revenue derived from taxing unemployment benefit , and the relevant part of an unemployed claimant 's supplementary benefit stood at an estimated £600 million in 1985–6 . |
| 9 | In a statement issued on Nov. 10 Worner had said in reference to the opening of borders between East and West Germany ( see p. 37024 ) that " … we see this as part of an inevitable process ' . |
| 10 | As you might expect , I did not take Mr Farraday 's suggestion at all seriously that afternoon , regarding it as just another instance of an American gentleman 's unfamiliarity with what was and what was not commonly done in England . |
| 11 | Past a house that was larger , set back from the road , beyond a lawn on which the rain made ponds , and he saw the flash of an old woman 's face at a window and then the falling of a lace curtain . |
| 12 | He says : ‘ I used to do all my own stunts , then one day I thought , ‘ Why am I depriving a stuntman of an honest day 's work ? ’ |
| 13 | For a girl used to the noise and chaos of an all girls ' apartment , Buckingham Palace felt like anywhere but home . |
| 14 | ( 2 ) Update of an individual employee 's record ( updated immediately ) . |
| 15 | Roland could think of no intelligent comments about rabbits , but Maud replied with statistics about Fenland warrens and a description of an old warrener 's tower on the Norfolk Baileys ' estate . |
| 16 | Sat 25 11.00am NFT1 Waller 's Last Walk Christian Wagner 's elegiac treatment of an eldery railway inspector 's life ; 10.45am NFT2 In Fading Light Gripping docu-drama on the dying North Shields fishing industry ; 11.00am Curzon West End Romuald and Juliette Coline Serreau 's comedy about an affair between an exec and his black cleaner ; 11.00am Screen on Green Island Paul Cox 's elegant three-hander ; 2.15 NFT1 Guardian/AIP Seminar ; 1.15 NFT2 Martha Jellneck Kai Wessell 's story of an old woman 's relationship with her meals-on-wheels deliverer ; 3.15 NFT2 I Am Living Portrait of contemporary Indian women ; 4.30 NFT1 The Thief of Bagdad Restored version of Korda 's sumptuous Arabian Knights fantasy ; 5.45 NFT2 I Went to The Dance Documentary by Les Blank on the Cajun music of Louisiana ; 7.30 LFMC Programme 7 : Interior Monologues ; 9.00 NFT1 The Kill-Off Maggie Greenwald 's look at a sleazy East Coast seaside resort ; 8.30 NFT2 Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit Beeban Kidron 's interpretation of Jeanette Winterson 's autobiographical first novel , with Geraldine McEwan ; 8.45 MOMI Smoking Mirror Funereal British comedy , with Beatie Edney ; 11.15 Rio Chicken and Duck Talk See above . |
| 17 | Second , about one-third of untrained new entrants should have the opportunity of an additional year 's training on the same scale as they receive in their first year ; together these might lead to a formal qualification . |
| 18 | Hooley 's idea became reality mainly through the efforts of Ghost Of An American Airman 's management guru Dave Sinton and Johnny Hero . |
| 19 | The opposition to Raybestos was unusual in that it involved the formation of an autonomous women 's group , in which up to 30 women became involved . |
| 20 | Observed in uncompromising midsummer light , Clytemnestra looked like something that , having lain neglected at the bottom of an old woman 's knitting basket , has finally been brought out to be mended . |
| 21 | In a decentralised legal system there can be no formal requirement for the inclusion of an international organisation 's objects , purposes , and powers in its constitutive treaty . |
| 22 | Within families , evidence for an HLA haplotype association is not convincing and therefore provides little indication of linkage of an important Crohn 's disease susceptibility gene with the major histocompatibility complex at 6p21.3 . |
| 23 | He was married to the prototype of an ideal parson 's wife , a capable and buxom physiotherapist , well able to run her part-time hospital job and the parish simultaneously and to pound Mrs McBride into shape as vigorously as , no doubt , she did her patients . |
| 24 | Following the failure of an unknown inventor 's narrow-gauge electric line at Blackpool 's Winter Gardens , Holroyd Smith used his experimental apparatus to rebuild it and produced a successful revenue-earner which was seen by Blackpool Tramways Committee . |
| 25 | But sexual jealousy of an unsatisfactory husband 's former wife — this did n't seem likely : Viola 's own love-life , Greg guessed , had been varied enough for her to ignore any previous entanglements of her second husband 's . |
| 26 | Thus resulted in a correspondence with Mr D.S.V. Fosten , who gave his opinion that is was a rare specimen of an other ranks ' jacket of the period , and that the wings and blue grenade patches were unlike any he had ever seen . |
| 27 | She is deeply involved in women 's movements , both in Rome and at a national level , and is the co-founder of an ecumenical women 's group . |
| 28 | ‘ Most of these councillors are just hangers-on in suits who do n't know the meaning of an honest day 's graft . ’ |
| 29 | It 's the sound of an unborn baby 's heartbeat . |
| 30 | However , although it can not be achieved in practice , the concept of an isolated system il important in estimating the maximum theoretical energy differences between a system and surroundings . |