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

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1 I actually believe that one of the areas where the Catholic Church did a lot of damage , is that because of a celibate clergy this obsession with sex has exaggerated it too much .
2 However , the richness as a cultural object of a deteriorated Windows 1.0 disc pack is cold comfort to an archivist or historian preoccupied with preserving or regenerating the operational environment of the product .
3 Two hundred and fifty British troops are preparing to fly to war-torn Croatia as part of a United Nations peace-keeping force .
4 A few governments say that they own weapons to provide a part of a United Nations peace-keeping force .
5 I was to perform two of Joyce 's pieces , the first being ‘ Committee ’ , a deadly accurate re-creation of a Northern Ladies Choral Committee meeting convened to axe one of its founder members : ‘ Now , we do n't want any unpleasantness , friendly is what we are and friendly is how we mean to go on … but I think we all know there is one voice in the altos that did not ought to be there .
6 1987 ; Reiner 1985 ; for an earlier and related argument see van Maanen 1973 , 1975 ) , and thus to the existence of a generalized police occupational culture .
7 At the heart of this is the introduction of an Integrated Services Digital Network ( ISDN ) system which not only allows fast , cheap transfer of data along lines that are free of interference but also voice and data transmission at the same time rather than using two separate lines .
8 Almost two years of acrimonious disputes between the Indian Government and the European aircraft manufacturer Airbus Industrie came to an end on Jan. 11 , when a court of inquiry in New Delhi ruled that the crash of an Indian Airlines A-320 Airbus in February 1990 , in which 92 people had died , had been due to pilot error , and not to technical failure , as the Indian authorities had maintained [ see p. 37268 ] .
9 The scandal also increased calls for the creation of an independent securities regulatory body similar to the Securities Exchange Commission in the USA .
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