Example sentences of "[noun sg] of a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can do this by various systems of moving averages , whereby an observation is replaced by the mean of a number of observations centred on the one in question . |
| 2 | It is arrived at by calculating the mean of a set of values and measuring the deviation between this and each value . |
| 3 | It is arrived at by calculating the mean of a set of values and measuring the deviation between this and each value . |
| 4 | Outside , there were the usual hospital sounds — ambulant patients moving about the ward in slippers , nurses talking at the nurses ' station , the distant squeaking wheel of a cleaner 's trolley — but in here it was very quiet . |
| 5 | The hardened wheel of a pipe cutter will give a much neater cut : the adjusting handle is progressively tightened as the cutter is rotated around the pipe . |
| 6 | No one was hurt , but he had n't ventured behind the wheel of a vehicle since that day , ’ Andrew says . |
| 7 | She was tied to the wheel of a chariot and sent down the steep sides of one of the great hills . |
| 8 | THE managing director of David McLean Homes will get behind the wheel of a limousine to help raise money for St Mary 's primary school , in Wrexham , at an auction of ‘ promises ’ at St Mary 's church hall tonight . |
| 9 | On the other hand I was afraid that if I made the driver sound too important he might end up under the wheel of a bus instead of behind one . |
| 10 | Using the jet nozzle head , unsightly black marks in tile grouting just dissolved away , and the oily deposits on the back wheel of a motorbike , which usually took hours to shift , disappeared in no time . |
| 11 | But replacing the front wheel of a motorbike ? |
| 12 | And the result is that more motorists than ever are opting for life behind the wheel of a diesel vehicle . |
| 13 | Like a child in an eighteenth-century aristocratic portrait , Xanthe , now eleven verging on twelve , was not dressed in children 's clothes , but in doll-like versions of her mother 's couture style : a sage-green fitted jacket with narrow lapels and a large and fancy button at the nipped-in waist , a wheel of a skirt , the hem hanging straight , over strong legs in pale seamed stockings . |
| 14 | Behind the wheel of a formula one racing car … |
| 15 | Anyway , there are bogeymen much closer to home : true Brits who drink too much lager and then get behind the wheel of a car . |
| 16 | However , he first gained recognition behind the wheel of a car in his native country in 1976 , when he swept the board in the Formula Renault Championship , winning 12 of the 13 rounds . |
| 17 | Soon as he gets behind the wheel of a car he 's an absolute dickhead . |
| 18 | Something happens to people when they get behind the wheel of a car . |
| 19 | IT IS a sad fact that some people seem to change in personality immediately they get behind the wheel of a car adopting an aggressive and impatient approach where every second seems to count . |
| 20 | I believe that if somebody kills another person while drunk and at the wheel of a car , then that person should be disqualified for life . |
| 21 | James Clamp , 23 , who was at the wheel of a car which struck a bridge parapet then burst into flames last June , was a disqualified driver . |
| 22 | He is now healthy enough to get behind the wheel of a car . |
| 23 | A line of girls sits at the bar , ready at the jerk of a head or the flick of a finger to minister to the solitary Somerset Maughams at every table with drinks , smiles and conversation in carefully-broken Americanisms . |
| 24 | The religion of a culture can give insights into its members ' behaviour . |
| 25 | They were also aware of an even deeper change in the texture of Christianity : it had become the religion of a warrior nobility whose values and culture it had necessarily to absorb in the process of Christianizing them . |
| 26 | Neither the religion of the school chapel , nor the religion of a puritan church , satisfied . |
| 27 | He realised that the religion of a rival would be the last consideration on Jessica 's agenda . |
| 28 | Gloucester has always been an important centre for the water-borne movement of goods , its quays dating back many centuries , and as far back as anyone can trace , the Severn has been used for both the import and export of a multitude of commodities . |
| 29 | This research is undertaken on the premise that language is an important factor in the self-image of a nation . |
| 30 | Once or twice Barbara Coleman sought corroboration of a point from Rain or Cobalt but otherwise not one of the onlookers dared to speak . |