Example sentences of "of a [noun pl] [noun] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There were some strands of a drugs story in California but the reporters could n't link it to smuggling from South America , which was the obvious line of enquiry . |
| 2 | By eschewing the obvious solution of a differential dividend payment , the group has had to fall back on the option of endowing the chemicals company with additional cash by way of a rights issue from Zeneca . |
| 3 | In any case , as John Bevan has pointed out , it would have been educationally unsound and probably physically impossible to have attempted , as at one time seemed possible , to concentrate all advanced further education provision in a limited number of institutions within the remit of a grants committee like NAB . |
| 4 | The extras will be appearing in the stage version of a childrens tale by Roald Dahl . |
| 5 | The reunion will take the format of a drinks reception at Merchiston followed by dinner in an Edinburgh restaurant or hotel . |
| 6 | PC Timms strolled into the inn , confronted the man at the bar and accused him of being Robert James , wanted for the murder of a police officer at Harwell . |
| 7 | In a counterattack the FARC claimed responsibility for the bombing of a bus in Medellín on Dec. 12 in which seven police officers were killed ; for five widely separated attacks on Dec. 13 during which an Army helicopter was badly damaged and an unspecified number of soldiers killed ; for the dynamiting of a police post in Medellín on Dec. 15 ; and the blowing up of an aircraft at the Villa Garzon airport , 482 km south of Bogotá in the south-western region of Putumayo , on Dec. 16 ( all 19 passengers having been evacuated beforehand ) . |
| 8 | He was attending a conference which had been called to discuss the formation of a police force in Oxfordshire . |