Example sentences of "[noun pl] of a [noun] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Kaye v Alfa Romeo ( GB ) ( 1984 ) 134 NLJ 126 the plaintiff 's damages in an action against the manufacturers of a seat belt which failed were reduced by one-third because of his own negligent driving . |
| 2 | The description ‘ Big , Black but Slim ’ could be misconstrued but as dedicated readers of a computer magazine I 'm sure you 'll realise that I 'm talking about the keyboard ! |
| 3 | A former bus driver is staging an all night sit in outside the offices of a training organisation he claims forced him out of a job . |
| 4 | Britain 's top golf club stewards will be the beneficiaries of a £20,000 sponsorship which aims to find the 1990 Golf Club Steward of the Year . |
| 5 | Adair ( Effective Leadership , 1983 ) identified three aspects of a leadership situation which overlap , but are distinct , ie : |
| 6 | In the words of a Harvard director they want something " a little bit sexy ! " |
| 7 | But the long-term solution to piracy will remain elusive , unless , in the words of an Atari engineer there is ‘ an improvement in public morals ’ . |
| 8 | L t Watts hopes to return to Bosnia where he experienced the most stimulating six months of an army career he embarked on at just 18years-old . |
| 9 | On the other hand , an active market in the offeror 's shares may help persuade shareholders of a target company which has a less liquid market in its shares to accept a share exchange offer . |
| 10 | For many years I , along with everyone else who takes an interest in jazz both here and further afield , have read and respected the forthright and honest views of a jazz critic who is without equal in our community . |
| 11 | Considering literary texts not as autonomous utterances out of history , but as illustrations of a Renaissance culture whose forms of representation are conditioned by the social , political world they participate in has prompted readings of texts which seek to restore their former agencies and original discursive energies . |
| 12 | Hox-B2 response to RA. g-i , Normal staining patterns of a Hox-B2/lacZ transgene which is primarily expressed in r4 and neural crest migrating into the second branchial arch . |
| 13 | SHELL is sending a top financial professional to Japan to take charge temporarily of treasury operations of an affiliate company which has lost huge amounts on currency speculation . |
| 14 | The entire school 's Christian input restricted to two Bible verses on a Friday morning and the opinions of an RE teacher who does n't even believe in God ? |
| 15 | It is an aid to guide the reviewer of a contract towards those areas of an acquisition contract which are of accounting significance and which might be sources of dispute in the future — it is not a comprehensive guide to analysing every acquisition contract . |
| 16 | Mrs Notley was indeed at her post , tapping at the keys of a word processor which appeared to represent Breakspear 's one concession to modernity . |
| 17 | The international system is often conceived along the lines of a market system whose moving force is maximization . |
| 18 | FIG. 2 Translocation of 11 C-labelled photosynthate out of one of the cotyledons of a tomato seedling which had been pulse-labelled with 11 CO 2 at time zero . |
| 19 | Workmates of a computer technician who 's thought to have have killed his wife and children before committing suicide have held a memorial service to pay their last respects . |
| 20 | It is clear that the directors of a haulage company who are not in the ‘ really wealthy ’ category need very sound tax planning advice on the likely impact of the inheritance tax legislation . |
| 21 | THE parents of a baby boy who died from injuries suffered before birth won a historic legal victory yesterday when three judges allowed their damages action against a health board to go ahead . |
| 22 | The parents of an Oxford haemophiliac who recently died after contracting the H I V virus from contaminated blood , have written to the Prime Minister calling for a quick , out of court compensation deal . |
| 23 | The parents of an art student who disappeared in the middle of his exams , have made an emotional plea for him to come home . |
| 24 | On the day of the party her lodger was busy tending to the needs of a Mrs Brown whom he felt he had nothing to offer but was obliged to visit anyway . |
| 25 | For the wider economic and political interests of a country may be in complete conflict with the wishes and needs of a constituent community which an anthropologist happens to have studied . |
| 26 | The instructions for binary arithmetic refer to these accumulators and to the contents of a 32-bit word whose left-hand byte is specified in the instruction . |
| 27 | Viewing familiar issues in an unfamiliar setting was like fitting together pieces of a jig-saw puzzle which separates individual details and personalities from the root causes and effects of the problems . |
| 28 | And felt the beginnings of a smile curve her lips . |
| 29 | Another day I observed the antics of a sea bird who had found a small crab in one of those rock pools on the beach below the house . |
| 30 | That when you expose great portions of the roof , unsupported , then you increase the possibilities of a roof fall which comes back on through to the supported area of the roof and then injures or kills someone . |