Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Bailiffs of Dunwich v. Sterry , the plaintiffs had the right to wrecks at Dunwich and the defendant took a cask of whisky from a wreck before the plaintiffs could get it . |
| 2 | When he came home , he took a bottle of whisky from a cupboard and began to drink . |
| 3 | There was a lot of tooth-sucking for a while as he tried to get me to say more and that was almost funny , given that it was the tooth-sucking that made me think of it in the first place , suddenly thinking . |
| 4 | It might just be the voice of support at a meeting or the follow-up on a personal problem mentioned a few days ago . |
| 5 | There was a half-bottle of champagne in an ice-bucket and two glasses . |
| 6 | One pointer was the way that a growing percentage of the work-force was employed in the various activities of tourism , much of it of necessity on a shortterm or seasonal basis . |
| 7 | The relation between an obligation concretized in the form of presence on a list and the realization of the action called for by this presence is obviously one of subsequence , whence the use of the to infinitive . |
| 8 | The Court 's use in the Expenses case of the internal management rule provides third parties with some degree of protection against a representative or organ of an organisation acting beyond its powers . |
| 9 | A crucial distinction turned out to be whether the stimuli were presented only to one side of fixation at a time or simultaneously to both sides . |
| 10 | He coins the term ‘ victimism ’ to label a community 's groans of discontent at a society that endlessly places the individual ahead of all else . |
| 11 | These words sum up her intention and feelings , expressing the result of two years of preparation for a show that came to mean so much for the many artists participating in the event . |
| 12 | In virtually equating doubt and unbelief they make doubt the opposite of faith in a way that is true neither to the Bible nor to what we know of human knowledge . |
| 13 | The implications of this theory are so powerful that the impact of modern linguistics on literary studies has not been limited to problems of literary language alone , but has produced new theories of the nature and organization of literature as a whole and indeed of all social and cultural life . |
| 14 | However , permission may be given by the publisher for the reproduction of part of a work or the whole of one from a collected edition , such as an anthology of carols . |
| 15 | For these reasons I shall make a declaration to the effect that for the purposes of Part II of the Act of 1987 , an assignee of part of a deposit as defined in section 5 is to be treated as entitled to the assigned part of the deposit and as having made a deposit of an amount equal to that part . |
| 16 | Chairman can I er suggest to these results of course over a period and I 'd like to see |
| 17 | Of course as a plane that could happily take half a dozen buses on board , it 's going to be something of a new experience . |
| 18 | Furthermore , a strong correlation between the mean concentration of cholesterol in a population and the incidence of coronary heart disease has been noted . |
| 19 | The experiment consisted of presenting an unseen passage of text to a person and asking her to guess one letter at a time . |
| 20 | the alignment of text along a margin or both margins . |
| 21 | CONDITIONS OF AWARD OF A CERTIFICATE OR A DIPLOMA OR A RECORD OF ACHIEVEMENT FOR A SINGLE AREA OF STUDY |
| 22 | We began our meal with , for me , a Fan of Melon with a Fruit Coulis , beautifully presented and very high , and for my partner , Slices of Avocado with a Yoghurt and Mint Dressing . |
| 23 | I yearned towards the mystical earnestness which saw through the outer facing of existence in a oneness and blinding intensity which went direct to some essence of being . |
| 24 | But Tory leader on the council , Reg Hales , said : ‘ I can see no reason for spending this type of money on a problem that does not exist in Birmingham . ' ’ |
| 25 | As I have mentioned in previous chapters , at the time of a death complicated practical issues need to be decided : to bury or cremate ; was there a will and if not how do you organize probate ; how do you get hold of money from an account that is not in your name ; how do you register a death . |
| 26 | I do believe that it is a case of think of a number and double it . |
| 27 | He was a Conservative Member of Parliament for a while and then humiliatingly lost his seat to a Socialist . |
| 28 | A rent action is any action where a landlord claims arrears of rent from a tenant or former tenant who is still in occupation of the land to which the claim relates . |
| 29 | She polished the chrome , and wiped sand away from the stained-glass frontage , but it was finally useless , just another piece of garbage from a past that could have happened to someone else for all the trace it had left on her . |
| 30 | ‘ You can park here and see a good deal of stock in an hour or two , ’ claims Barbara Humble , who moved out from Bath two years ago . |