Example sentences of "[adv] of a [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Comic Les , 59 , collapsed and died yesterday , apparently of a heart attack , shortly after arriving at a Manchester BUPA hospital for a check-up . |
| 2 | ACE 3000 consists basically of a power unit and support unit . |
| 3 | And though we know also that in early periods , and especially and persistently in certain forms — drama , dance , choral song — production was not even in this manifest sense individual but was necessarily of a group kind , still the emphasis on ‘ the producer ’ , ‘ the author ’ , remains predominant , because it corresponds quite directly to the manifest conditions of production in writing and in print , and to certain oral forms which directly preceded them . |
| 4 | She believes that Hewlett-Packard has now carved itself enough of a breathing space to be able to consider various options at both ends of the market . |
| 5 | She believes HP has now carved itself enough of a breathing space to be able to consider various options at both ends of the market . |
| 6 | Among the projects carried out were the creation of two folk museums , the laying out of public parks and gardens ; a nature trail ; a children 's playground ; the restoration of an old ‘ Norse ’ mill , and the laying down of a car park for a small craft shop . |
| 7 | Fifteen years was quite adequate for the necessary stages of component research , reduction of options , testing of prototypes , laying down of a production line , through to full-scale manufacture . |
| 8 | When the 60-strong Troop was reduced through casualties to the 38 or so of an infantry platoon , their handling was very similar . |
| 9 | It was always five o'clock of a winter evening there and all the tempting boxes gave it a night-before-Christmas look , a richly expectant atmosphere of surprise packages . |
| 10 | Eleven o'clock of a hurricane morning , Trent thought wryly . |
| 11 | A reduction in interest rates will result in a fall in the size of this subsidy , and the phasing in of a cash ceiling approach ought to be timed to such a favourable point in time . |
| 12 | Charlie Mears emerges as the reincarnation not only of a galley slave from ancient Egypt , but also of a seaman from the Vinland Sagas . |
| 13 | He thought only of a water pipe , a narrow metal pipe that carried water away from the compound and under the wire and the high wooden fence and on towards the two-storey barracks and the kitchens and dormitories of the guards . |
| 14 | For free sheets , of course , the direct cost to the reader was nil ; and for ITV programmes , the viewer paid directly for the cost only of a TV set and electricity . |
| 15 | It is to set up an ancillary file with the records in sequential key order and each record consisting only of a count field . |
| 16 | It will be seen that binary arithmetic and logical instructions need no explicit operands , and consist only of an operation code field ; such an instruction therefore has a zero — address format . |
| 17 | One middle-aged woman whose husband died suddenly of a heart attack reacted with a storm of sexual behaviour with a succession of younger men . |
| 18 | He died suddenly of a heart attack in St Charles Hospital , Kensington , 3 November 1964 . |
| 19 | Herne died suddenly of a brain haemorrhage 26 February 1699 worth ‘ near £200,000 ’ and received a sumptuous funeral . |
| 20 | And Lexandro 's spirit swelled , as he conceived hazily of an initiation rite far beyond that of any Necromundan gang , and infinitely more potent . |
| 21 | He had died in his cell , the memo claimed , ‘ presumably of a heart attack ’ . |
| 22 | Let us think rather of a twin track approach , in which custody is reserved for those who commit serious offences . |
| 23 | ‘ Belonging to another ’ is proved by showing that the property was appropriated from someone having possession or control of it , e.g. the owner or tenant etc. of a dwelling house would have possession and control of all the personal property in the house , and the owner or driver of a car would have possession or control of the contents of the car . |
| 24 | Footballers are seen simultaneously as representatives of a club and its traditions , of a community and its collective sensibility and most importantly of a sport beloved by young and impressionable people . |
| 25 | Generally no stamp duty will be payable unless the conveyance is one on sale ( or taking over of a mortgage liability ) not resulting from a court order or agreement made in connection with the divorce ( see Chapter 2 ) . |
| 26 | Provisions for obsolete and slow moving stock will be determined by the directors based on physical and recorded stock levels but the presence or not of a part number on an item of stock or the recording or not of the item on the stock records will not of itself be any be any form of guide as to obsolescence . |
| 27 | Experience at home and abroad shows it to be the responsibility of the governor of an independent central bank , not of a party hack . |
| 28 | Aesthetes among the novices will by now be thoroughly irritable and complaining that gardens should have as much to do with the soul as with the necessity or not of a washing line or a barbecue pit . |
| 29 | When a deputy demanded that each medieval law revived should be cited , Calatrava called such conduct worthy of a court of law , not of a constituent assembly . |
| 30 | not of a subsection leader Roger but |