Example sentences of "a [noun] of the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Therefore the effect of Rule 4.90 in reducing Mr Sawar 's liability to BCCI from £600,000 to £300,000 corresponded to a payment of the same amount by Mr Sawar to BCCI , thus reducing the total indebtedness of Fashions , Wholesale and Mr Sawar to £300,000 . |
| 2 | However the link was not lost , and the hope grew in Israel that one day God would raise up a prince of the Davidic line for whom the Spirit would be no passing enduement , to be bestowed and with drawn as he joined his predecessors in disobedience . |
| 3 | In Kent a prince of the native line emerged in Oswine , a descendant , so it would seem , of Eormenred , brother of King Eorcenberht . |
| 4 | I have this day killed rather an extraordinary Bird , and one that you will recollect , at least there is every probability of its being the same ; you will remember the large Snow White Petrel ( a variety of the black species ) which followed us nearly all the way from the Cape to Tasman 's Head and which I was so desirous of procuring without effecting my purpose . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Figure 8 shows the Utilities Screen and from here you can choose and run a variety of the helpful programs available in DOS5 . |
| 7 | Six Damasks were included and Rosa Mundi as a variety of the Red Rose . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | As the week-long election campaign got under way , a base of the exiled opposition movement , the Mojahedin-e Khalq ( " People 's Combatants " ) , at Ashraf , Iraq , was attacked by some 10 Iranian airforce bombers on the morning of April 5 . |
| 10 | In a rare night-time raid early on June 5 , Israel air force jets attacked a base of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine — General Command ( PFLP -GC ) , killing three guerrillas and wounding four others . |
| 11 | The left-wing opposition was unhappy with a provision of the new law which would work against electoral alliances in the third stage of the distribution of seats [ for 1989 system see p. 36738 ] . |
| 12 | When any of its provisions conflict with a provision of the ordinary law , it prevails and the ordinary law must give way . ’ |
| 13 | ( 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 ) . |
| 14 | The issue of sterling CDs in the UK was made possible under a provision of the 1968 Finance Act . |
| 15 | The seventy-eight wafers of liquid crystal formed a chart of the human Imperium , its champions and its foes . |
| 16 | First , paste a tracing of the complete outline on to ‘ A ’ and tape this piece on top of ‘ C ’ , then cut out the centre of the motif and edge-glue the portion obtained from ‘ C ’ into place . |
| 17 | The book 's chief interest lies in the fact that Caroline Capel was a sister of the 1st Marquess of Anglesey and that she and her family , for financial reasons , were living in Brussels at the time of Waterloo . |
| 18 | Duke William , essentially a warrior of the European mainland , found himself in a quandary : he must either renounce the claim or mount a once-for-all amphibious operation which would stretch his resources to the absolute limits . |
| 19 | Happens to be a reversion of the two numbers which is neat . |
| 20 | Engines are their trays of components are then brought together into the assembly area and a reversion of the tear-down process commences . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The city , then , is a complex creation and at street level is a revamping of the old New York street set at Warner Bros into a sort of cosmopolitan Chinatown . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Now , the economic costs attributable to the adversary system are not just seen as a function of the frequent reversals of ideologically motivated policies . |
| 25 | As the temperature drops from T m , the melt viscosity , which is a function of the molar mass , increases and the diffusion rate decreases , thereby giving the chains greater opportunity to rearrange themselves to form a nucleus . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | I do n't believe that this city of ours was preordained , or was entirely a function of the recent past . |
| 28 | He constantly affirms the effectiveness of order embodied in details such as dress , body movement and manners , and argues that it is a function of the mundane artefact almost always to be regarded as an example of mere ‘ trivia ’ unworthy of systematic academic study . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Improvements in performance with increasing arousal at low levels are taken to be a function of the increasing speed on information transfer . |