Example sentences of "[vb base] of a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | FOLLOWING his triumphant rookie win in his Indycar debut at Surfers Paradise in Australia , Nigel Mansell will now be the spearhead of a campaign to help his new formula displace Formula One as the world 's most popular motorsport . |
| 2 | Building for fun Eurodisney is the spearhead of a movement that aims to turn architecture into a branch of show-business . |
| 3 | People expect of a theory of origins that in some way or other it gives them some quite privileged and special position , and they feel undermined and threatened by a theory of origin which does n't say something really rather special about them . |
| 4 | Where it is required to find the inverse Laplace transform of a function G(s) which may be expressed as the ratio of two polynomials , the problem is readily solved if the function can be split into partial fractions . |
| 5 | Defining the relative fluctuations in mass density as where is the mean mass density of the Universe , we can relate the variance , , of mass-density fluctuations on a scale R to the power spectrum by Rayleigh 's theorem where is the Fourier transform of a window function on a scale R . |
| 6 | In section 11.3 it was stressed that the Laplace transform of a signal is pertinent to practical situations in which the signal is switched on at some instant . |
| 7 | Slavish conformity is not what we want of a child . |
| 8 | " This Meeting having with much regret felt the Inconveniences arising to the Island for the Want of a Jail , wherein Disturbers of the Peace and other Transgressors of the Law might be Confined … are of the opinion that Shawfield should be apply 'd to , and these Grievances Stated , that he may of course procure the Sherriff 's warrant to have a Jail Established … " |
| 9 | Apart from the obvious disadvantage of not being able to view your slide without a projector or viewer , the problem arises when one wants an extra set of slides or prints , say of a spawning sequence . |
| 10 | In extreme cases , say of a family from the remote rural areas of Azad Kashmir , if the mother has just had a baby , it is known for daughters of twelve to stay at home from school for weeks , do all the cooking , look after the younger children and generally run the home . |
| 11 | THE MAKEOVER OF A LIFETIME FROM BOOTS |
| 12 | ‘ In the ‘ eat of a battle , it 's ‘ ard to remember every detail , sir , but I will never forget Prescott overtakin' me . ’ |
| 13 | Sometimes fear of a heart attack inhibits sexual performance . |
| 14 | The social worker helps clients become aware of information processing biases that can distort the sense they make of a situation . |
| 15 | Now this space and a terrace of standard Great Northern Railway Company houses are all that remain of a venture which attempted to turn Mundesley from a tiny fishing village to a major seaside resort in the early years of this century . |
| 16 | In the more remote part of the Country Park the foundations remain of a signal station used during the Napoleonic wars as a look-out for the approach of ‘ Boney ’ — a real threat in those days . |
| 17 | More than 600 people a day die of a heart attack in the UK and many lives are lost because no-one knows what to do in an emergency . |
| 18 | I shall go mad or die of a decline . |
| 19 | ‘ I shall lose my reason , or die of a decline . |
| 20 | Administratively , the Auvergne constitutes one of France 's 22 planning Regions ; it is divided into 4 Departments ( Allier , Cantal , Haute-Loire and Puy-de-Dome ) which are organised into Cantons and ultimately consist of a total of 1,308 Communes . |
| 21 | The rhythms we shall consider in this book all consist of a mixture of internal and external causes . |
| 22 | The Garden 's computer facilities consist of a mixture of stand-alone and networked PCs . |
| 23 | Weaving tools consist of a knife , a beating comb and shears . |
| 24 | They consist of a copper core , which carries the signal , surrounded by a braided mesh of fine copper wire . |
| 25 | Then , there are eight models in the ErgoPro range — these consist of a range of personal computers and notebooks , aimed at the professional and large corporate user . |
| 26 | Thus , a consideration of earlier work on DMVs has led us to the conclusion that the settlement patterns we actually see on the maps and in the landscape consist of a range of settlements , at various stages of development at all periods ; everything , in fact , from surviving medieval villages to totally abandoned farm sites . |
| 27 | Case studies consist of a description of an event concerning a real life or simulated situation , usually in the form of a paragraph of text , a video , a picture or a role play exercise which is then followed by a series of instructions which prompt the student into analysing the situation presented , drawing conclusions and making decisions or suggested courses of action . |
| 28 | They usually consist of a small , leatherbound pocked-book containing page after page of diagrams drawn on gridded paper to show the heights and gradients of hills Edwardian cyclists might have encountered during their travels . |
| 29 | Market loans consist of a variety of different loans from a few hours to a few weeks , mainly to other banks or to financial institutions such as the discount houses which specialize in short-term lending and borrowing . |
| 30 | Variable parts consist of a base component and variable component , in this case the head and shank of a rivet , the variability being the shank length . |