Example sentences of "of a [adj] [noun sg] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On occasions the courts have gone further and disqualified a member of a tribunal or board " if there are circumstances so affecting a person acting in a judicial capacity as to be calculated to create in the mind of a reasonable man a suspicion of that person 's impartiality , those circumstances are sufficient to disqualify although in fact no bias exists " ; see Law v. Chartered Institute of Patent Agents [ 1919 ] 2 Chapter 276 ; Metropolitan Properties Co . |
| 2 | After all the excitement of a major event a time of exhaustion and deflation tends to set in when it is over . |
| 3 | The murder of a Finnish student a decade ago has remained unsolved despite the use of revolutionary techniques to identify her . |
| 4 | Over the whole of a key stage a teacher or group of teachers will assess a pupil 's progress through a variety of methods and reach a judgement . |
| 5 | In a nineteenth-century printed version of a fourteenth-century document a family was called de Farbereshaye , a form which seemed reasonable and could conceivably have been a version of Fabro = Smith and ( ge ) haeg = enclosure . |
| 6 | Or the courts could call the application of a statutory term a question of law , but accept that it does not have to have only one meaning . |
| 7 | Then I remembered the location of a luxurious caravan a relative has near Perpignan , so I looked up the guide , and found that there are a number of crags nearby — even better . |
| 8 | He took out of a thick envelope a sheet of thick paper . |
| 9 | The case aroused much interest and reminded people of the similar murder of a local woman a year earlier . |
| 10 | It booked their place at Wembley on Sunday May 10 and brought the club 's dreams of a non-League double a step closer . |
| 11 | The words , spoken in a high , rather forced voice , had the repressive authority of a nurse-receptionist greeting a patient from whom she expects nothing but trouble . |
| 12 | An interim regime could reduce the role of the PDPA but the USSR has not made the establishment of an interim government a precondition of a settlement . |
| 13 | After completion of an 18-month inquiry a report was released by the United Kingdom Defence Ministry in October concluding that the Austrian President , Kurt Waldheim , was not involved in the execution of six British prisoners of war in Greece in 1944 , while a junior officer in the German Army , although he knew of their capture and probable fate [ see pp. 34691-92 ; 35790-91 ; 36560 ] . |
| 14 | Under the surface of an everyday conversation a duel of two astute minds was taking place . |