Example sentences of "a [noun] of [art] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's a bit of a ladies ' man , ’ he said , adding ‘ Nigella Lawson — she 's very tasty , nicer than in her picture . |
| 2 | By contrast requiring a case to be stated , just like the appeal by way of case stated from a decision of a magistrates ' court or the Crown Court described in chapter 7 , obliges the tribunal to set out its decision and the reasons for it together with a formulation of the questions to be considered by the High Court . |
| 3 | A division of the property of State Television and Radio ( Gosteleradio ) , announced on Sept. 13 , involved transferring to Russian television ( launched in May — see p. 38206 ) the second all-union television channel and a part of the correspondents ' network . |
| 4 | Thus the Declaration confirmed the illegality of the suspending power and dispensing power , it abolished the Commission for Ecclesiastical Causes , and it defended the right of subjects to petition the Crown ( a defence of the bishops ' action in opposition to the second Declaration of Indulgence ) . |
| 5 | A majority of the islands ' councillors — 11 out of the 21 with seats on the local authority — have signed a letter calling for Ron Gilbert 's position to be fully examined . |
| 6 | A Kentish farm-labourer , writing from New Zealand , thanked the farmers for having driven him out by a lockout of the labourers ' union , since he now found himself so much better off : he would not have thought of going otherwise . |
| 7 | Cardinal Jozef Glemp , the primate of Poland , claimed that the 1987 agreement under which the nuns at the Carmelite convent would be re-located to an inter-faith centre nearby , had been negotiated by " incompetent " people and was a violation of the nuns ' rights . |
| 8 | an accident to a pupil ( including children ) as a result of the teachers ' negligence . |
| 9 | The problems of temperature control are a result of the engineers ' own success . |
| 10 | But by August 1958 both sides realized that world opinion was turning against them , partly as a result of the scientists ' warnings , partly out of revulsion and fear , partly because nuclear disarmament had begun to be a popular political issue — and nothing makes a politician have second thoughts faster than the awareness that he might be losing votes . |
| 11 | Executive members of one of the party 's most active branches , Mossend , confirmed yesterday they had written to Mr Salmond asking him to stand down as a result of the MPs ' decision to strike a deal with the Conservatives in exchange for their votes on the Maastricht bill . |
| 12 | Start a review of the GPs ' contract to cut paperwork and remove financial pressures to lengthen patient lists . |
| 13 | Havelock Wilson 's later reputation in the trade union movement as a " bosses " man " , an imperialist , an anti-democrat riding roughshod over his members ' wishes and a betrayer of the miners ' cause during the 1926 General Strike diverges strangely from his earlier image as a militant , a rabble-rouser , a fearless advocate of the seafarer , " stumping the country agitating , organising and inciting " , and as an advocate , even an originator , of the " new unionism " which shook the trade union establishment to its foundations in the late 1880s and early 1890s . |
| 14 | He was a Warden of the Goldsmiths ' Company in 1467 and 1471 , becoming Prime Warden in 1476 . |
| 15 | But in 1943 the Italian scholar Maria F. Squarciapino painstakingly collected and analysed the material , recognised its quality , labelled it as the output of a " school " , and urged a re-evaluation of the artists ' contribution to the history of ancient sculpture . |
| 16 | The Act required societies to hold a minimum 90 per cent of commercial assets as class 1 assets , thereby ensuring a continuation of the societies ' traditional role , and a maximum of 10 per cent of class 2 plus class 3 , subject to a maximum of 5 per cent for class 3 assets . |
| 17 | It seems to me that this is largely a reflection of the consumers ' need for information . |
| 18 | Scotland could n't manage more than a tweak of the giants ' noses , but showed that there 's still such a thing as going down with honour . |
| 19 | Certain of the magistrates were nominated to a special inner group , some of whom had to be present if a session of the magistrates ' court was to be lawful . |
| 20 | Deploring Cromwell 's Protectorate as a betrayal of the saints ' quest for a godly commonwealth , Moyer lost his lucrative customs post and ceased to be publicly employed , except as ( nominally ) a JP and ( from 1655 ) a master of Trinity House . |
| 21 | The press officer , Barbara Bloomfield , complained at a meeting of the Greens ' council in January 1990 that if she wanted to step out of the office she had to get a volunteer to take her place , possibly an overseas student who knew next to nothing about the press or the party . |
| 22 | A vice-principal of a teachers ' university probably spoke on behalf of many party members in positions of responsibility when he said that some young comrades lacked the ‘ backbone of Marxism-Leninism ’ , especially those studying liberal arts subjects . |
| 23 | Stefan Campeanu , forty years old and a leader of the Peasants ' Party , made his way home on foot to his apartment by his usual route , at his normal time . |
| 24 | Broadly speaking , the assessors , divided into MPs , industrialists , and senior party volunteers do not mark a score card ; their task is to build up a profile of the applicants ' intellectual and practical potential . |
| 25 | As the material for the ‘ radio programme ’ was sifted and sorted , a picture of the pupils ' intentions emerged . |
| 26 | ‘ A sign of the times ' as 20 jobs are axed at two firms |
| 27 | The other goal was scored by stand-in left-back Peter Murray — a sign of the Ports ' superiority in the second-half . |
| 28 | Road maintenance now takes a quarter of the roads ' budget , compared with roughly 10 per cent as recently as the middle 1970s . |
| 29 | More than a quarter of the islands ' adults have signed a petition calling for a sheriff 's inquiry into the incident , claiming that the Department of Transport 's private marine accident investigation and Lord Donaldson 's general investigation do not go far enough . |
| 30 | The fees for sending a child to school can come to a quarter of the parents ' cash income . |