Example sentences of "a [noun] of [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Many other institutes adopted a variety of the armed services funds as their mascot and held ‘ gift sales ’ , ‘ bring and buy ’ events and so on to raise money for their special fund .
2 Figure 8 shows the Utilities Screen and from here you can choose and run a variety of the helpful programs available in DOS5 .
3 Tate Bramald supplies its clients with a variety of the leading packages , but Mr Tate finds that the UK packages are all too often weak on the currency side .
4 ( 4 ) The general rule does not apply so far as a provision of the consolidating Acts gives effect to an amendment ( in pursuance of a recommendation of the Law Commission and , in some cases , the Scottish Law Commission ) .
5 Happens to be a reversion of the two numbers which is neat .
6 Two women catechists said the progress was a bi-product of the catechetical courses which they and others organised — a two year long preparation of parents before the baptism of their children , two years before first Holy Communion and two years before Confirmation .
7 In other words , if the assumption of rational expectations is correct we would expect that a regression of the two equations in equation ( 3.43 ) , using a large sample of observations , would produce estimates of γ and δ approximately equal to the expressions on the right-hand sides of equations ( 3.48a ) and ( 3.48b ) evaluated at the estimates of α and β .
8 Now , the economic costs attributable to the adversary system are not just seen as a function of the frequent reversals of ideologically motivated policies .
9 Surface structural analyses are done by measuring the intensities of the scattered or recoiled peaks in the TOF spectra as a function of the various angles involved .
10 A more intangible barrier , partly a function of the other factors , is " franchise " or reputation of existing firms , the perceived ability in the mind of the client to deliver top quality services .
11 It varies of course as a function of time but not as a function of the spatial coordinates .
12 The performance of an individual at work is a function of the following factors :
13 Using official strike dab from Ontario for the period 1958–1967 , Grant and Wallace ( 1991 ) conclude that strike violence is a function of the following variables : ( i ) the legislative environment , ( ii ) the sociopolitical context , ( iii ) the distribution of skills among the workforce ( and its corresponding degree of participation in the strike ) , and ( iv ) the strategies employed by the strikers and their employers .
14 For we can easily imagine a legislative structure that would produce compromise statutes mechanically , as a function of the different opinions about strict liability or racial discrimination or abortion among the various legislators , without any legislator being asked or required to vote for the compromise as a package .
15 Put simply , purchase behaviour will be a function of the different variables already analysed in this and the previous chapter , but will vary in emphasis and priority according to the stage reached by individual and family .
16 Following the lines laid down there , and using Bernstein 's work on class and language codes , we could say that a language of explicit meaning ( broadly speaking , the middle-class code ) is a language in which what is expressed is ‘ a function of the psychological qualities of the person ’ .
17 Attempting to predict the changes likely to take place in practices and in the world at large and their consequences for Institutional education policy , has been a function of the educational committees of the Institution and the centres of full-time education , all of whom have been addressing the question since early 1985 .
18 This is not merely a function of the relative strengths of the HSV-1 IE-3 and VZV gene 62 promoters ( 39 ) but could be attributable to either the relative strengths of their activating domains ( unknown at present ) or alternatively multiple 140k interactions with the promoter may have an additive effect , enhancing the efficiency of activation .
19 Acne may be a case of a few spots and blackheads , or it can be a highly distressing skin disease with redness , inflammation , pimples and even scarring .
20 It 's just a case of it 's just a case of a few individuals or people with rank who think they 've go so much power they 're gon na press people
21 ‘ It was n't a case of the other children letting her win — they were really trying to beat her and they could n't . ’
22 A case of the old domestics
23 A case of the old domestics
24 A case of the old domestics
25 No , a bit of a shaggy dogs story
26 He found a branch of the dangerous Cenomani among the Volcae not far from Marseilles .
27 In January 1987 a branch of the Young Women 's Association was formed with Mrs Averil Capper as president , Mrs Norma Burke as vice-president , Mrs Sylvia Courtney as secretary and Mrs Gale Davison as treasurer .
28 In 1914 he enlisted in the Pembroke Yeomanry but two years later was seconded to Signals , then a branch of the Royal Engineers .
29 On March 30 a branch of the human rights organization Amnesty International was set up in East Berlin .
30 The call offered by Lewis for a revaluation of the fundamental principles of one element of social work practice finds echoes in other areas .
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