Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [prep] a [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Freddie poured a measure of whisky into a coronation mug . |
| 2 | Ash and I levered our way through the press of people while I undid my jacket and struggled to extricate my half-bottle of whisky from a side pocket . |
| 3 | PROPOSALS to form a Premier League second division were thrown out as England 's top clubs achieved a rare showing of unity at a London meeting yesterday . |
| 4 | Generally speaking , lateral water hazards run parallel with the line of play of a golf hole and they should be clearly marked with either red stakes or red lines . |
| 5 | A proper discussion of a football match can not occur if one of the participants is quite ignorant of the rules of the game ; and the kind of assessment of a restaurant meal that would involve the possible insertion of the establishment into a good food guide ( or perhaps its deletion from it ) will not get very far if one of the diners does not care for the meal because his idea of a gastronomic treat is a cheeseburger and french fries ( though within the order of the burger discriminations are possible ) . |
| 6 | It is widely known that there are harmful effects from inhalation of outfall from a lead works ; for children who ingest it by licking lead-painted toys ; and for families whose drinking water is supplied through lead pipes . |
| 7 | The USA had been withholding agreement to the guarantees to indicate its displeasure with the absence of progress towards a peace settlement . |
| 8 | Mr Clerides takes over at a time when the international community is showing impatience with lack of progress towards a Cyprus settlement . |
| 9 | Czechoslovakia is in the process of change towards a market economy . |
| 10 | Proposals made by way of change to a deposit copy have a relatively stronger affect against emergence , owing to the lesser public consultation which attends them prior to the enquiry stage . |
| 11 | I could imagine institutions , for example , being told to be in a different position perhaps in five years ' time or ten years ' time , and being able to do this by a variety of means , working towards it , whereas , it seems to me it 's a very much harder problem , although it 's , it 's understandable as I said in the , in the present circumstances , to actually be able to take on this properly and do a proper job of change in a time scale of perhaps one year or maybe even less than that in some cases . |
| 12 | He told her she was a fool , and wished her luck — then he gave her a gold sovereign and a bottle of champagne as a farewell present . |
| 13 | Levin makes a special case for Debord as a film-maker whose aim was to contribute to the ultimate destruction of cinema as a spectacularist medium . |
| 14 | Loss of self-control in cricket is on a par with evasion of payment for a television licence . |
| 15 | In measuring temperature , for instance , one uses a thermometer , in which temperature is reflected in the length of a column of mercury in a glass tube ; the length of the mercury column , in turn , is estimated by lining up the mercury meniscus with one of a set of lines engraved on the glass . |
| 16 | Like the development of the original version of Illustrator from a font creation tool , Aldus 's recently introduced FreeHand product was developed by Altsys from a similar background , in this case their Fontographer product . |
| 17 | " Buy a pound of choucroûte from a village charcutier . |
| 18 | DETECTIVES were yesterday investigating a blaze which caused hundreds of pounds of damage to a building firm 's storage base . |
| 19 | An investigation is underway into a fire which caused thousands of pounds of damage to a plastics factory . |
| 20 | A fire has caused thousands of pounds worth of damage at a car factory . |
| 21 | That 's going to do a lot of damage in a soup bowl the size of Wembley stadium , I do n't think . |
| 22 | David Burleigh was a retired professor of literature at a New England university , quietly spoken and witty . |
| 23 | ABOVE As long as the circumference of part of a pottery vessel can be established , it is possible to do reconstruction drawings . |
| 24 | 9.2 left A schematic impression of part of a computer database of axe shapes , structured as an inverted ‘ tree ’ . |
| 25 | The case was pleaded and argued before the Sheriff , and on appeal , on the basis that in addition to establishing the defenders ' breach of contract as a material breach , the pursuers also required to show that they were entitled to rescind the contract , leaving the system in an incomplete state . |
| 26 | The common language here is ‘ ASCII , comma-delimited ’ which simply means that the data fields in each record have commas stuck between them and are sent out as a long line of text with a carriage return indicating the end of the record . |
| 27 | Professor Freeman has produced an excellent guide to this massive and complex piece of legislation from his wealth of experience as a law lecturer and commentator on the legal context of child care practice . |
| 28 | Both shifting the timing of the sleep period from the habitual 12 p.m. to 8 a.m. and either increasing or decreasing the total amount of sleep had similar effects in reducing accuracy and speed of response on a vigilance task . |
| 29 | Domestic work provides an important source of income for a campesino family and the earnings of many domestic workers are sent home . |
| 30 | This is the more important part of the capital/income confusion in public sector organizations : agreement on the irrelevance of income as a performance measure can often be readily obtained because service provision may have nothing to do with the profit motive ; on the other hand , all organizations have capital of some sort . |