Example sentences of "[coord] [noun sg] of a [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most common example of breaches of this duty are the use or disclosure of a former employer 's client list or of a secret process belonging to him . |
| 2 | For a girl used to the noise and chaos of an all girls ' apartment , Buckingham Palace felt like anywhere but home . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | One arrived at the bedside of a total stranger , and inside of a few hours that stranger became not merely the most important person in the world , but one 's entire world . |
| 6 | But the death was a ‘ terrible blow ’ , as he said , in the affection and gratitude of a former disciple . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The number of tree species with high proportions of ‘ barked ’ trees is low , but bark of a few species is pulled off in strips up to 10m long as seen in Bombax brevicuspe ( Bombacaceae ) and Lannea welwitschii ( Anacardiaceae ) . |