Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [prep] a [noun prp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Mr Clerides takes over at a time when the international community is showing impatience with lack of progress towards a Cyprus settlement . |
| 3 | David Burleigh was a retired professor of literature at a New England university , quietly spoken and witty . |
| 4 | Then , as the planes roar down the flightpath to Heathrow , the one designed to prevent the ultimate nightmare of exposure in a Sunday tabloid . |
| 5 | Doing it his way , he can make lots of money as a New York dentist , and buy a few nice icon things for himself . |
| 6 | A second limitation , at least if the joint profit maximizing ( cartel ) allocation is thought to be a likely objective of the collusion , is that this allocation may not be sustainable by threats of reversion to a Cournot-Nash equilibrium . |
| 7 | And , believe us , before three cups of tea on a Monday morning , we are not very easily impressed . |
| 8 | The 25 pictures on temporary show in Glasgow 's Converse Gallery are a sample of about 200 photographs and instruments of torture from a Belgrade exhibition countering what sympathisers describe as Western censorship of the horror and cruelty suffered by Serbian minorities in the civil war . |
| 9 | The four , believed to be Mexicans and described as major drug dealers , were arrested on Friday after police seized 20 tons of cocaine from a Los Angeles warehouse . |
| 10 | He quickly collapsed from loss of blood near a Cheltenham nightclub and died later in hospital . |
| 11 | The trouble began in November 1978 when Docherty attempted to sue the Scottish international winger Willie Morgan over remarks the player made about his style of management on a Granada TV sports programme called Kick Off . |
| 12 | The resolution called for the resumption of negotiations and transfer of sovereignty to a United States of Indonesia before 1 July 1950 . |
| 13 | Cases included 7,000 tons of ash from a Berlin power plant which was sent to be mixed with cement but found to be radioactive . |
| 14 | Well they have erm three bottles of lager on a Saturday night and they 're them big bottles like that , you know them plastic bottles ? |
| 15 | On one occasion , when Sarah Bernhardt was the guest of honour at a Savoy dinner , he cooked the greater part of the meal at a side table under her very eyes ; his carving of the duck was a flamboyant display of swordsmanship ; when asked if he ever went to the theatre he replied that he would rather see six gourmets eating a perfectly cooked meal than watch the finest performance of Bernhardt or of Coquelin . |
| 16 | Meanwhile the noisy , more drunken and flagrantly homosexual Guy Burgess arrived to join the Washington embassy with a record of indiscretions which included loudly pointing out the local head of intelligence in a Gibraltar restaurant . |
| 17 | The absence of distinction between a Lieutenant Colonel 's comparative wealth and a newly joined Ensign on a pittance , made him sorrowfully aware that he alone in this very superior mess , was unendowed with private means . |
| 18 | There is no doubt that the corporate lungs of the BBC would have heaved a not so silent sigh of contentment at a Lib-Lab coalition , as would the equally capacious lungs of the Health Service , Education , and others . |
| 19 | While Roy Archer snoozed , workmen tipped him into a 60ft bin with tons of waste from a Wolverhampton market . |
| 20 | Raiders escaped with more than £3,000 worth of meat from a Thirsk butchers . |
| 21 | DUNDEE UNITED 'S internationalist striker , Duncan Ferguson , has denied a charge of assault at a Fife hotel . |
| 22 | Mosley , speaking after a meeting of the Formula One commission of FISA at a Heathrow hotel , said he had taken action to sort out the confusion after weeks of chaos . |
| 23 | Even her father , Scarlet had gathered , had sometimes talked to his children , offering words of advice on a Saturday evening . |
| 24 | a bit of arson on a Sunday night never went down badly |
| 25 | Then , in a light haze of vodka in a Toronto hotel room , came the moment that would finally lead to recognition for Nicholson as an actor . |
| 26 | For companies in countries such as the UK , where the tax treaty with the US does not prohibit the imposition of such a tax , the costs of disposal of a US business would certainly mount . |
| 27 | When , sometimes , I think back on the beauty of life on a South Seas island , I start to wonder how fate could possibly have propelled me from the rain and bedraggled leafless winter trees of England to such distant enchantment . |
| 28 | Mascis plays a rowdy party-goer in Alison Anders ' semi-autobiographical story of life in a New Mexico trailer park . |
| 29 | It is , however , worth noting that the number of public companies , and their proportion of the total number of companies , is significantly higher in other member states , so that this may in time be of concern to a UK company with a subsidiary in another member state . |
| 30 | The mission of mercy to a US jail . |