Example sentences of "[noun sg] of a [noun] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were also aware of an even deeper change in the texture of Christianity : it had become the religion of a warrior nobility whose values and culture it had necessarily to absorb in the process of Christianizing them . |
| 2 | Sir Anthony Barrowclough was told that police had wanted to interview Mrs Elizabeth Barlow in 1981 over the collapse of a stockbroking firm which had links with another investment company , Farrington Stead , a similar operation to Barlow Clowes . |
| 3 | And not least among his endowments is the command of a prose style which makes what he writes a pleasure to read . |
| 4 | It 's just a twelve page document , but it 's it 's the result of a customer survey which was carried out . |
| 5 | If an employee decides to accept the transfer as a result of a counselling session which gave a misleading impression , it can only spell trouble for his or her future happiness in the job . |
| 6 | Three men and a woman are being questioned by police in connection with the murder of a car dealer whose remains were found in a lake . |
| 7 | In the spot-light of an Anglepoise lamp which crouched on a chair like a big , black praying mantis , Finn worked quietly so as not to disturb Francie . |
| 8 | In some cases , the returning officer is such ex officio , as being , e.g. , the sheriff of a county compromising a single constituency , or the mayor of a London borough which comprises a single constituency . |
| 9 | At one stage in the lineage , for example , there is a cell which can produce either granulocytes or macrophages , and the decision to follow a macrophage or granulocyte pathway can be controlled by the concentration of a protein factor which , if the concentration is high enough , will direct differentiation exclusively along the macrophage pathway . |
| 10 | Although the government has gone to great lengths ( £1 million spent on marketing the proposals ( in an attempt to convince us that the NHS will still remain a National Health Service and will still be free to those requiring health care the proposals clearly spell the future of a health service which will move away from being a public tax funded service to a two tier service , with those who ca n't afford to pay on the bottom level receiving inadequate and cash starved services . |
| 11 | Even as I put my talons down I pulled them away , for I sensed something was wrong , but it was quicker than I and with a loud metal sound like the closing of a cage gate it sprang shut . |
| 12 | Portage is a method of working with pre-school children whose development is delayed : parents teach their children at home under the guidance of a Portage worker who visits the family once a week . |
| 13 | Molloy and Carroll suggest that while Access courses equip students with whatever is necessary for the completion of a degree course they may be less successful in preparing them for the higher levels of academic performance . |
| 14 | With my back against the stout trunk of an oak tree I crouched still , hoping that my green anorak was blending nicely with the surround , and trying to ignore the gnats which promptly and itchily invaded my scalp . |
| 15 | Here it ran between quiet green glades , the remnant of an oak wood which had been stripped to build ships for the navy and then , in a last plundering , to make charcoal for the insatiable furnaces and foundries down at Carron forge . |
| 16 | This is illustrated by the response of the CSEU to the 1980 action of a GMWU official who blacked the BIAKH at the request of the International Transport Workers Federation when the ship came into Jar row Mercantile Dock . |
| 17 | With just the aid of a walking stick he had made his way to the Blue Boar followed by most of the kids in the village , who must have thought he was some sort of God . |
| 18 | A motorist who went to the aid of a lorry driver whose vehicle was on fire has been killed by another vehicle which hit them from behind . |
| 19 | The Redcar offshore lifeboat was called to the aid of a fishing vessel which broke down off the coast yesterday . |
| 20 | He made policy with the aid of an Executive Council which was composed entirely of senior officials . |
| 21 | From the Communist point of view the witch-hunts and loyalty tests of the United States must have looked like the little puffs of smoke and flame of a stage dragon which fooled nobody . |
| 22 | He also made for the grotto at Stourhead in Wiltshire the figure of a river god which , painted white to resemble marble , glows splendidly in the cavernous gloom . |
| 23 | THE condition of an RIR soldier who lost both legs in a booby trap bomb blast in Lurgan is described as ‘ stable ’ . |
| 24 | Part of the revision will be the preparation of a microcomputer version which could be used as a reference and teaching resource in colleges , libraries and museums . |
| 25 | After all , the chairman of a transport conglomerate which had tipped hundreds of thousands into party funds would not thank a prime minister who gave him the same reward as a Blackpool entertainer . |
| 26 | If a bill of lading was issued either by a carrier or by its employee or agent whose authority included receiving goods and issuing bills of lading , the carrier was liable for damages : a ) to the owner of the goods covered by a straight bill of lading ; or b ) to the holder of an order bill who gave value in good faith , and who relied upon the description of the goods or upon their shipment on the date shown . |
| 27 | The computer will point you in the right direction of a fuel pod which can be scooped up at close range . |
| 28 | 2 In phonology , the head is that part of a word group which either beings with the stressed syllable of the first accented word , not being the nucleus , and which ends with the syllable immediately preceding the nucleus ; or it may be the pitch pattern associated with that part of a word group . |
| 29 | FORD , rejected as sponsors by the Premier League , yesterday became part of a £1.2m package which will ensure ITV recoup almost a third of the £4m they paid for exclusive coverage of Rangers ' European Cup ties . |
| 30 | The former Scottish RU international , listed at £230,000 , joins his former Widnes boss Doug Laughton as part of a swap deal which will take scrum-half Bobby Goulding and prop Steve Molloy to Naughton Park . |