Example sentences of "a [adv] [verb] [noun sg] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Groves , John & Westrup ( Underwriting ) Limited is a wholly owned specialist subsidiary of Sphere Drake Insurance Group plc , which has shareholders funds of just under £60 million . |
| 2 | A widely held common-sense view of science |
| 3 | Now he 's back with a furiously reworked ragga version of the Beatles B-side ‘ She 's A Woman ’ , heading straight for the Top 40 as we speak and featuring top toasting from ragga megastar Shabba Ranks . |
| 4 | Now the suits get into our very parlours in Capital City , a long running television saga of banking folk . |
| 5 | The Royal Institute of British Architects has a highly finished perspective view of the same front , and an elevation and perspective of the east front of the India Office . |
| 6 | His first sale is a deliberately mixed bag affair of mainly Belgian provenance , including eighteenth-to nineteenth-century objets d'art , tapestries , tribal art and furniture with a number of Belgian items sent up from Paris and one hundred pieces of Far Eastern porcelain from a Belgian collection . |
| 7 | The competition was staged in a specially converted showjumping village of Millstreet thanks to the persuasive powers of owner and local businessman Noel C Duggan . |
| 8 | Aristide addressed a specially convened emergency session of foreign ministers of the OAS member countries on Oct. 2 and an extraordinary session of the UN Security Council on Oct. 3 . |
| 9 | Its origins go back to 1970 when a specially commissioned task force of the National Heart and Lung Institute ( as it then was ) , was asked to look into the feasibility of a trial which would settle , once and for all , the question of whether dietary change could , on its own , reduce the frequency of heart attacks in the American population . |
| 10 | The president was well informed on both the oil industry in Colombia and LASMO 's involvement in it , but it was rock and roll which provided a high point at the end of the meeting when Lord Rees presented him with a specially acquired gold disc of his favourite group , the Rolling Stones . |
| 11 | The 5- and 6-string models in the range have a slightly extended scale length of 35″ to help the response of the low ‘ B ’ by increasing string tension . |
| 12 | There is agreement , certainly in the mental health field ( Huxley , 1991a ) that case management works best when its purpose is clearly articulated in the form of service goals ; the outcome measures used actually assess progress in these target areas ; the theoretical model and content of the programme are consistent with the service goals ; and case management is focused on a narrowly defined target group of those most in need . |
| 13 | There is also a well stocked reference library of books , newspapers , posters and ephemera . |
| 14 | Similarly , he performed at various locations in the States , reading his poetry to the accompaniment of Maury Kay , a well known jazz musician of the time . |
| 15 | The bar here is a major meeting point for 18–30 's and many an early evening drink has developed into a fully blown party night of the spontaneous kind . |
| 16 | For £9.4m a sensible organisation would expect to buy a fully completed office development of up to 90,000 square feet , equating to £100 a foot completed . |
| 17 | Four days later the Military Council , which had ruled in Georgia since the flight of Zviad Gamsakhurdia in January [ see pp. 38731-32 ] , transferred its legislative and executive powers to a newly created State Council of which Shevardnadze was to be the chair . |
| 18 | Also on Feb. 19 Mohammad Hassan Sharq resigned as Prime Minister , and on Feb. 21 Sultan Ali Keshtmand ( Sharq 's predecessor as Prime Minister ) was appointed Chairman of a newly created Executive Committee of the Council of Ministers [ ibid . ] . |
| 19 | Following the withdrawal of Soviet troops , completed on Feb. 15 , 1989 [ see p. 36448 ] , a state of emergency was declared and a 20-member Supreme Council for the Defence of the Homeland , headed by President Najibullah , was announced on Feb. 19 [ see pp. 36449 ; 36656 ; 37043 ] ; a newly created Executive Committee of the Council of Ministers was appointed on Feb. 21 , and in May 1990 a new Cabinet was presented [ see p. 37453 ] . |
| 20 | If there is a hive-down of the target assets and business to a newly formed Target subsidiary of the vendor , followed by a sale of shares in the new target company , as an alternative to an assets sale , these " tax assets " can be preserved in Target . |
| 21 | A US$800,000,000 trade protocol for 1990 between Jordan and Iraq signed on Dec. 28 , 1989 , represented a reduction from a previously set target figure of US$900,000,000 . |
| 22 | During the reception a beautifully made scale model of Searcher was presented to the Department for display at Headquarters alongside all the other models of cutters through the ages . |
| 23 | Now surely if you 're gon na intern the leaders and m might they include Gerry Addams and we we could talk about the other side , we could talk about the Loyalist er paramilitaries equally , surely there 's just another wave gon na come along because it 's a never ending assembly line of terrorists , so what 's the point ? |
| 24 | The highest estimate in this sale of eighteenth and nineteenth-century British drawings and watercolours is associated with a watercolour of Lake Albano in Italy by John Cozens , painted between late 1776 and early 1779 ( est. £30–40,000 ; $55–73,000 ) , but the greatest curiosity is a recently identified pencil sketch of Worcester Cathedral . |
| 25 | There was a tendency towards a lower proportion of IgG3 cells in ulcerative colitis mucosa , along with a significantly decreased serum concentration of IgG3 in ulcerative colitis twins compared with controls . |