Example sentences of "of a [noun pl] [noun] [prep] [noun] " 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 | My hon. Friend may have noticed that the Opposition have been floating a similar idea among themselves and discussing again in an internal memorandum the possibility of a luxuries rate of VAT . |
5 | The extras will be appearing in the stage version of a childrens tale by Roald Dahl . |
6 | For example , in one case there was an important issue concerning the redefining of the catchment area for the school , whilst , in another instance , discussions were continuing on the design of a sports area for evening use by the community . |
7 | The reunion will take the format of a drinks reception at Merchiston followed by dinner in an Edinburgh restaurant or hotel . |
8 | A Vietnamese was said to have attacked a taxi driver in a black market-related dispute , although other reports spoke of a police operation against black-marketeers . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | Not long ago we reported a case where a child died of fright caused by the approach of a Police officer in Uniform . |
11 | 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 ) . |
12 | He was attending a conference which had been called to discuss the formation of a police force in Oxfordshire . |
13 | There is something of a double-values system at work here . |
14 | In School A , this took the form of a plan to relocate the library , but in other project schools plans focused on such things as the development of a video network , the creation of display areas and the development of a careers room as part of the library complex . |
15 | But economic success may not be the only benefit of a martial-arts way of life : Yukiso Yamamoto , a famous aikidoist , found it helped his marriage too . |