Example sentences of "of [det] [noun pl] [subord] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 An articulate Inspector of Accidents who has personal experience of these matters is possibly better able to make an assessment of such things than a lawyer who has little more experience than turbulence in flight spilling some of the champagne in the first class section of the cabin .
2 However , there were others , more distinctively local in their orientation : the gradual demise of the traditional two-tier model of primary school management and its replacement by three-tier and matrix models ; the desirability of building on the diversification of staff management roles which PNP has produced , avoiding any contraction of such roles as a consequence of LMS ; the need to acknowledge the pivotal role , for good or ill , played by primary heads , and to work with and through rather than round or against them ; the need to expand the focus of management training courses to encompass the roles and needs of all staff ( not just those of the ‘ managers ’ as conventionally defined ) , to locate management strategies in whole-school analysis , and generally to broaden the concept of ‘ management ’ which currently informs such courses ; the importance of training , support and INSET for heads , and of ensuring that these give close attention to the broader aspects of the expertise needed for headship , such as professional knowledge and personal relationships as well as the more obvious tasks , roles and strategies .
3 They were closely integrated into the emerging central paradigm of social evolution , according to which the level of sophistication of these objects was held to symbolize the place of such peoples as a kind of fossil record of social development from the primitive to the civilized ( Steadman 1979 ; Chapman 1985 ) .
4 The agreement declares that the member is admitted to clearing membership ; this requires the member to notify LCH of such events as a petition for liquidation , loss of authorisation under the 1986 Act , the imposition of any disciplinary measure by a regulatory authority or a change of control of the member .
5 As a consequence of the technical complexities of reprocessing highly irradiated oxide fuel from AGR and PWR , the Board expects to pay more for the reprocessing of a tonne of these fuels than a tonne of magnox fuel .
6 The police on the British mainland do not attend many of these incidents unless a crime has been committed , but the RUC do so in order , as one said in relation to domestic disputes , to prevent crime .
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