Example sentences of "of a [adj] [noun] [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Affairs of the heart are not unknown to travel agents in the 1990s either : in the middle of a recent travel consultation a young man proposed to his girlfriend and the travel consultant was asked to arrange the wedding in Mauritius . |
| 2 | After admitting to an extramarital affair with the niece of a former Cabinet minister the Rev. Allan Boesak , President of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches , on July 25 resigned as minister of his local church , outside Cape Town , and as Moderator of the Dutch Reformed Mission Church . |
| 3 | Before the site became part of a private country park the building was lived in by a local tenant farmer named Mrs Hollington . |
| 4 | In the ornate portal of a mansion-block department store an old man with buttoned overcoat and brown burnished shoes stood talking at the rain . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , Roosevelt would give two agents several hundred thousand dollars out of a substantial slush fund the CIA had established in Teheran . |
| 6 | In the event of a future oil shortage the LDCs were to receive priority supplies to meet basic economic needs . |
| 7 | If an electron is removed from a p-orbital of a rare gas atom the interaction of the electron spin angular momentum ( quantum number s ) with the orbital angular momentum ( quantum number l ) generates two possible states for the ion , depending on whether the angular momenta add or subtract . |
| 8 | Not only that , but all regions will have a direct say in European affairs at E C level , thanks to the creation of a new community institution the Committee of the Regions . |
| 9 | Until that fatal weakness is overcome , I fear that the understandably-depressed Dr David Marsh will continue to find chairmanship of a professional football club a far less rewarding pastime than captaincy of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club . |
| 10 | Top traffic officer Walter Girven , Wiltshire 's Chief Constable accuses those found positive of a blatant disregard foir the law . |
| 11 | As only three episodes of acid reflux were seen in the absence of a common cavity episode no statement could be made about the effects of acidification alone . |
| 12 | The latter was notably reticent in opening its armouries to UN inspection in July and undergoing the anxiety of a further UN deadline the following month , provoking problems which have yet to be resolved . |
| 13 | Prisoner is a puzzle game and computerisation of a little plastic puzzle the author bought in an airport lounge . |
| 14 | In a recent case involving a driver of a heavy goods vehicle an oral promise was made by one of the driver 's managers that the driver , a Mr Rump , would not be required to work anywhere in the UK , as mentioned in his contract of employment , but only in the south of England because of special family ties . |
| 15 | Without probing too deeply into the reasons for the emergence of that national consensus — and the cogency of the Munn report 's argument and the compactness of Scotland as an educational entity , can not be disregarded in this connection — the existence of that consensus is beyond question and it undoubtedly made the introduction of a national curriculum framework a relatively unproblematic matter . |