Example sentences of "of [pos pn] [noun] [subord] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since linguistic change and rapid dialect mixing appear to be a general characteristic of urban dialects ( Labov 1972b : 300 ) , it seems reasonable to assume that insight can be gained into the processes of their formation if a set of data from a city is compared with a set from a surrounding area . |
| 2 | Unemployed Wisdom Smith , 19 , and student Daniel Winter , 19 , were released from the dock at Bristol Crown Court on the seventh day of their trial after a jury returned formal verdicts on the judge 's direction . |
| 3 | Unemployed Wisdom Smith , 19 , and student Daniel Winter , 19 , were released from the dock at Bristol Crown Court on the seventh day of their trial after a jury returned formal not guilty verdicts on the direction of the judge . |
| 4 | Unemployed Wisdom Smith , 19 , and student Daniel Winter , 19 , were released from the dock at Bristol Crown Court on the seventh day of their trial after a jury returned formal verdicts on the direction of the judge . |
| 5 | Some of the first of these were made by a pupil of McConnell 's , Allan Jacobson , in Los Angeles , who announced in 1965 that if he trained rats to approach the food dispenser of their cage when a light flashed or a clicking sound was made , then killed the animals , extracted the RNA from their brains and injected it into the gut cavity of untrained animals , these now tended to approach the dispenser when the appropriate stimulus — click or light — was given , even though the dispenser was now empty of food and the animals received no reward . |
| 6 | HARLAND Simon , the process controls group whose shares have lost over 80 p.c. of their value since a profit warning in February , yesterday confirmed that it has put all its mechanical engineering operations up for sale . |
| 7 | Sorry was on the tip of her tongue when a thought struck her with such force she lay back to fathom its meaning . |
| 8 | The Agen loose-head , who has never had a reputation for being a hothead , is refereeing junior and children 's games unaware that an old regulation of the French Federation — which used to automatically reduce the length of his ban if a player could show repentance by taking up refereeing — is no longer valid . |
| 9 | ‘ It was much more a celebration of his life than a mourning of his death . |
| 10 | Two or three boys stood round him as he sat on the floor nursing the side of his head where a lump was rising under his probing fingers . |
| 11 | He was at the end of his patience when a message came from Merymose . |
| 12 | Robert Moleyns , Lord Hungerford , captured at Castillon in 1453 , was valued for ransom at £6,000 , a sum inflated to almost £10,000 by the cost of his maintenance while a prisoner till his release in 1459 and by the charges of the merchants who negotiated the exchange of the money . |
| 13 | Huitzilopochtli was born of the goddess COATLIQUE , and she was made aware of his conception when a wreath of blue humming-bird feathers fell from the sky . |
| 14 | It does no harm to let them know of your interest while a course is in preparation . |