Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [noun pl] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | On top of the hill was a wood of beech trees surrounded by a stone wall ; I climbed the wall and found that underneath the trees were hundreds of moss-covered gravestones of soldiers from Napoleon 's Imperial Army who had died of disease while waiting to invade England . |
| 2 | Readers require from librarians a knowledge of user needs allied to a knowledge of books . |
| 3 | IN the post-war years when a shortage of building materials led to a virtual moratorium on construction , the young lions of the architectural scene moved into exhibition design . |
| 4 | This is approximately measured by the number of index terms assigned to a document ( although it is possible that more than one index term may be necessary to represent some themes ) . |
| 5 | Contemporary bargaining structures are to some degree a reflection of bargaining patterns established at a fairly early stage of industrial development . |
| 6 | Annie Wolinsky , who superintended Board 9 in the Bronx , left behind $13,000 worth of postage stamps hidden in a drawer , a warehouse stuffed with unreported supplies , eight staff members whose only job was to videotape board members on request , and a phone bill into the thousands of dollars which consisted mostly of calls to the various city porn lines . |
| 7 | The question of whether operator-initiated or computer initiated communication resulted in better design was one aspect of CAD systems investigated in a set of experiments . |
| 8 | The non-linear relationship has two asymptotes : ( a ) as the unemployment rate falls towards 0.8% , the rate of change of money wages tends to infinity ; ( b ) as the unemployment rate rises towards 100% , the rate of change of money wages tends to a lower bound of — 1.0% . |
| 9 | Thus the normal 3:1 mixture of chlorine isotopes leads to a characteristic isotope pattern for a single M-Cl bond stretch , with a stronger higher-frequency band due to 35 Cl and a weaker , lower-frequency band due to 37 CI . |
| 10 | It was too late in the year for daffodils and tulips but there were a few cardboard boxes of cut flowers stacked on a trolley waiting for the Peterborough train . |
| 11 | It is mere speculation on my part — and probably an oversimplification — that the confusing post-war crop of art styles in America grew out of refugee Europeans reacting to a strange land . |
| 12 | The National Co-ordination Committee of Opposition Groups called for a day of civil disobedience on April 15 and for a general strike — " Operation dead cities " — on April 18 and 19 , which appeared to be widely observed . |
| 13 | A ginger group , the Washington-based United Shareholders Association plans this month to start soliciting shareholder proxies for a motion that if approved would force IBM 's non-executive directors to call in a firm of investment bankers to advise on a plan to maximise shareholder value by spinning off or selling one or more units of the company . |
| 14 | On the spot news from all over the world and this country — weekly programmes tackling a wide range of issues and stories with originality — and a wide range of programme formats to appeal to a wider audience . |
| 15 | In addition , the ESRC has funded studies of liaison committees established upon a recommendation from the Scarman Report into the Brixton disturbances as forums for consultation between the police and representatives of the local community , and also funded Fielding 's study of community policing in South London . |
| 16 | After completing the first circle of fabric tufts repeat with a second row about 1 cm away towards the centre . |
| 17 | Mr Powell emerged from a field of museum professionals assembled by a search committee consisting of four of the gallery 's five general trustees : President John R. Stevenson , Robert H. Smith , Ruth Carter Stevenson , and Alexander M. Laughlin . |
| 18 | Cheryl slapped home a series of circuit breakers mounted on a plinth beside the AVR chamber monitor station . |
| 19 | Other nationalist movements in Europe had the character rather of independence movements directed against a dominant empire , such as that of the Habsburgs or of the Russian Tsars ; and as Seton-Watson ( 1964 ) observed , some of them — for example , those of the Slovaks and the Ukrainians — began as cultural movements resulting from the creation of a standardized literary language . |
| 20 | A comparison can be made to a group of marble figures recovered from a brothel in Pompeii . |
| 21 | Q3 The answer is certainly No since there is a free market of specialist suppliers operating on a much larger scale . |
| 22 | We will retain the right of council tenants to opt for a change of landlord , but only after a fair ballot . |
| 23 | This little band of Medau enthusiasts decided on a little fund-raising of their own for the team and on 18 May held a sponsored ball bounce . |
| 24 | STOCK and currency markets are braced for a knife edge finish to the election campaign with a new batch of opinion polls pointing towards a hung parliament . |
| 25 | Owners of transport companies called off a nation-wide strike on Nov. 13 after six days of widespread disruption affecting bus , train and taxi services . |
| 26 | A startling illustration of another educator 's naive understanding of the work of drama teachers occurs in a recent publication by David Hargreaves ( 1982 ) who recommends that the arts and drama in particular should be given a place at the centre of the curriculum . |
| 27 | Prices of leisure goods eased by a modest 0.2 per cent , as did the average cost of fuel and light , helped by the last round of the recent phased cuts in gas prices . |
| 28 | The Council 's permission for many priests to share in a single concelebration was again , initially , limited to a very few occasions , but before the end of the 1960s the absurdity of the former practice had become rather obvious and concelebration was rapidly becoming the norm for all circumstances where the number of priests exceeded the number of community Masses needed for a pastoral purpose . |
| 29 | At home , I mooched about in a pair of basketball boots mended with a bicycle repair kit , eating ketchup on bread , and staring at a wart on my finger the size and texture of a tiny cauliflower . |
| 30 | Indeed the long-term success of free-market policies depends on a change in public mood . |