Example sentences of "of a [adj] [adj] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the holder of a coveted Swiss resident 's permit , the former premier 's son is taxed at just 12 per cent . |
| 2 | I do n't know it may be that I 'll be the only member er that talks in terms of a specific Euro seat er in any detail but it does matter in our area and we have a long history of arguing that case . |
| 3 | She was paying attention to the men 's talk , to the discussion of money , the fall in the price of wool , and the cunning of a certain local landowner 's brutal conditions . |
| 4 | An examination of some of the reasons may provide an insight into the sources of a modern Prime Minister 's power . |
| 5 | We 're marking the release on video this week of the Dustin Hoffman movie Accidental Hero , which tells the story of a small-time petty thief 's rise from sleazy obscurity to fortitude and heroic deeds . |
| 6 | These vehicles , or ‘ rigs ’ as they are normally called , were just some of those in use with 28 Amphibious Engineer Regiment on that stifling June afternoon , and the troop was nearing the end of a three-week Commanding Officer 's Exercise . |
| 7 | A crowd of more than 10,000 ethnic Albanians gathered outside the provincial LC headquarters in the capital , Pristina , on Jan. 24 , and a representative of a new independent students ' group read out a list of demands . |
| 8 | Consider this text of the beginning of a sixteen-year-old Scottish pupil 's account of a Sempé cartoon : |
| 9 | Should relieve the tedium of a long hot summer 's afternoon , do n't you think ? ’ |
| 10 | At a casual glance , Connections appears to possess all the erotic aesthetics of the Adam and Eve , and , therefore , all the erotic aesthetics of a mid-Seventies young offenders ' institute situated on the outskirts of Cardiff . |
| 11 | There 's also the smooth effortless power of a refined 3 litre V6 , and the sheer excitement of its 24 valve counterpart . |
| 12 | They were all sat on the floor of one of the sparsely-furnished bedrooms , the curtains drawn , watching East Enders on a black-and-white telly , and they were eating Greek yoghurt out of a communal family-sized Sainsbury 's tub . |
| 13 | He at least had the consolation of a third round loser 's cheque for £5,355 pounds almost doubling his prize money for the year and of picking up valuable ranking points . |
| 14 | This option gave a married woman the right to a dependent wife 's retirement pension at 60 per cent of a full single person 's rate , once her husband had retired . |
| 15 | Was it right at the end of a distinguished public servant 's long career to reduce him to such misery ? |
| 16 | This valuable example of a local non-teacher specialist 's advice will show the many different ways in which work can arise from one study focus . |
| 17 | This range of tasks is within the capacity of a large secondary school 's staff . |
| 18 | Any support for the shares from the possibility of a British Labour government 's public expenditure on infrastructure has evaporated and hopes of an interest rate cut on either side of the Channel are also fading . |
| 19 | To assist the reader , a simplified version of a British commercial bank 's balance sheet is shown below . |
| 20 | The most popular announcement — from the boys ' point of view at least — was that of an extra two days ' holiday to mark the Anniversary . |
| 21 | I had somehow landed myself in the centre of an extraordinary old man 's fantasies . |
| 22 | Comic account of an impoverished middle-aged bachelor 's attempt , initiated and organized by his prosperous friend , Gabriel Parsons , to capture the affections of a prim , well-to-do spinster , Miss Lillerton . |
| 23 | Thus was an It still smelling of an earlier American decade 's cultural anarchy unattractive to him , and the new Oz appealing . |
| 24 | The chances of an unskilled manual worker 's child being a poor reader are six times greater than those of a professional worker 's child . ’ |