Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [prep] a [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Freddie poured a measure of whisky into a coronation mug . |
2 | Ash and I levered our way through the press of people while I undid my jacket and struggled to extricate my half-bottle of whisky from a side pocket . |
3 | PROPOSALS to form a Premier League second division were thrown out as England 's top clubs achieved a rare showing of unity at a London meeting yesterday . |
4 | Generally speaking , lateral water hazards run parallel with the line of play of a golf hole and they should be clearly marked with either red stakes or red lines . |
5 | A proper discussion of a football match can not occur if one of the participants is quite ignorant of the rules of the game ; and the kind of assessment of a restaurant meal that would involve the possible insertion of the establishment into a good food guide ( or perhaps its deletion from it ) will not get very far if one of the diners does not care for the meal because his idea of a gastronomic treat is a cheeseburger and french fries ( though within the order of the burger discriminations are possible ) . |
6 | The USA had been withholding agreement to the guarantees to indicate its displeasure with the absence of progress towards a peace settlement . |
7 | Mr Clerides takes over at a time when the international community is showing impatience with lack of progress towards a Cyprus settlement . |
8 | Czechoslovakia is in the process of change towards a market economy . |
9 | Proposals made by way of change to a deposit copy have a relatively stronger affect against emergence , owing to the lesser public consultation which attends them prior to the enquiry stage . |
10 | I could imagine institutions , for example , being told to be in a different position perhaps in five years ' time or ten years ' time , and being able to do this by a variety of means , working towards it , whereas , it seems to me it 's a very much harder problem , although it 's , it 's understandable as I said in the , in the present circumstances , to actually be able to take on this properly and do a proper job of change in a time scale of perhaps one year or maybe even less than that in some cases . |
11 | He told her she was a fool , and wished her luck — then he gave her a gold sovereign and a bottle of champagne as a farewell present . |
12 | Levin makes a special case for Debord as a film-maker whose aim was to contribute to the ultimate destruction of cinema as a spectacularist medium . |
13 | Loss of self-control in cricket is on a par with evasion of payment for a television licence . |
14 | In measuring temperature , for instance , one uses a thermometer , in which temperature is reflected in the length of a column of mercury in a glass tube ; the length of the mercury column , in turn , is estimated by lining up the mercury meniscus with one of a set of lines engraved on the glass . |
15 | Like the development of the original version of Illustrator from a font creation tool , Aldus 's recently introduced FreeHand product was developed by Altsys from a similar background , in this case their Fontographer product . |
16 | " Buy a pound of choucroûte from a village charcutier . |
17 | DETECTIVES were yesterday investigating a blaze which caused hundreds of pounds of damage to a building firm 's storage base . |
18 | An investigation is underway into a fire which caused thousands of pounds of damage to a plastics factory . |
19 | A fire has caused thousands of pounds worth of damage at a car factory . |
20 | That 's going to do a lot of damage in a soup bowl the size of Wembley stadium , I do n't think . |
21 | ABOVE As long as the circumference of part of a pottery vessel can be established , it is possible to do reconstruction drawings . |
22 | 9.2 left A schematic impression of part of a computer database of axe shapes , structured as an inverted ‘ tree ’ . |
23 | The case was pleaded and argued before the Sheriff , and on appeal , on the basis that in addition to establishing the defenders ' breach of contract as a material breach , the pursuers also required to show that they were entitled to rescind the contract , leaving the system in an incomplete state . |
24 | The common language here is ‘ ASCII , comma-delimited ’ which simply means that the data fields in each record have commas stuck between them and are sent out as a long line of text with a carriage return indicating the end of the record . |
25 | Professor Freeman has produced an excellent guide to this massive and complex piece of legislation from his wealth of experience as a law lecturer and commentator on the legal context of child care practice . |
26 | Both shifting the timing of the sleep period from the habitual 12 p.m. to 8 a.m. and either increasing or decreasing the total amount of sleep had similar effects in reducing accuracy and speed of response on a vigilance task . |
27 | Domestic work provides an important source of income for a campesino family and the earnings of many domestic workers are sent home . |
28 | This is the more important part of the capital/income confusion in public sector organizations : agreement on the irrelevance of income as a performance measure can often be readily obtained because service provision may have nothing to do with the profit motive ; on the other hand , all organizations have capital of some sort . |
29 | Do you have to give the capital sum to create this income , or is there ways of income from a set sum of money to the other person ? |
30 | Andrew stavanger was beginning to emerge in my mind with a shadowy personality — as the vest sort of successor to a family business , with a high sense of responsibility reinforced by his disciplined training at sea . |