Example sentences of "[noun] of a [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The shell has a mathematically simple form , and , roughly speaking , its shape can be understood as the result of a that organ , the mantle , which itself grows at a variable rate but secretes minerals at a rate proportional to the length of its periphery . |
| 2 | The old pubs evoke images of a former time when Horncastle was famous throughout the land for its Horse Fairs and when hostelries were packed with horse dealers . |
| 3 | 200 acres of a former ironstone workings , now afforested . |
| 4 | In the words of a former chairman of a British nationalized industry , when the economy fluctuates , ‘ ministers find it difficult to resist varying the targets or borrowing limits of the industries , frequently at very short notice , and these imposed fluctuations in general management direction produce severe strains on the efficient operation of the industry ’ ( Tombs 1980 : 5 ) . |
| 5 | The principle of including words of a former age in a modern rite is well established through the use of anthems . |
| 6 | The sequence of eighth-century Northumbrian annals is lost after 801 but the sparse fragments of a former continuation which are preserved in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle terminate in 806 with a note of the expulsion of King Eardwulf ( ASC D , s.a. 806 ) . |
| 7 | And the speech was indeed a frank catalogue of the state of the personal computer business today : revenues down 14% , Apple Computer Inc , IBM and DEC contemplating low margins and sinking market share , the astronomical cost of developing a new package , the failure of PCs to penetrate much beyond word processing and spreadsheets , the monopoly lock of a few software houses on the marketplace and engineering 's inability to develop an intuitive box , all conspiring to dissuade any sensible PC guy from putting any more money into research and development . |
| 8 | They emerged from the entrance of a former iron mine in the Forest of Dean , exhausted . |
| 9 | ‘ Quarterly or half-yearly , it is a good plan for the housekeeper to make an inventory of everything she has under her care , and compare this with the lists of a former period . ’ |
| 10 | Was it mere petulance on the part of a former leader who remains unreconciled to her overthrow ? |
| 11 | It added that control of inflation was necessary , but it was important that ‘ a reduction of a few percentage points in the headline inflation rate should not be achieved at a disproportionate cost in terms of income creation and employment ’ . |
| 12 | The Supreme Court trial of a former President , Gen. Luis García Meza , which had begun on July 12 , 1989 , proceeded despite his absence . |
| 13 | In the area of competition and canvassing there are three general headings under which the courts will examine the existence of reasonableness of a restraint : 4.1 Restricted activities If the employer seeks by contractual restraint to restrict the activities of a former employee by proscribing the types of business in which the employee may become engaged once employment is over then he can only do so if he can establish a close connection betwee the restriction and the work done by the employee prior to leaving . |
| 14 | And that , and that was a bit of a all year so that 's , that passed . |
| 15 | Yet Northern Ireland is like Italian politics used to be : dominated by its partyocracy and political blocs , shifts of a few percentage points represent an earthquake . |
| 16 | In all the many pages of that novel , it is the sole interior to be described at any length , and in such detail that Richardson even mentions the rusty heads of tacks retaining scraps of a former wallpaper . |
| 17 | For the amateur , however , this is your creation , and you wo n't want it to fail at this stage for the want of a little time and thought . |
| 18 | For the simplest case of an all carbon backbone chain such as polyethylene , and so that equation ( 10.5 ) reduces |
| 19 | The story of a former pupil who becomes a master at the school ; his affection for the place survives ill-treatment , for after inheriting money , retiring , and marrying the ‘ wardrobe-woman ’ , he continues to take a kindly interest in the boys . |
| 20 | Staff at Merseyside 's Whiston Hospital said temperature dropped to icy cold whenever the ghost of a former patient , known as The Grey Lady , was spotted . |
| 21 | Apparently they 're the offspring of a few cabbage white butterflies which were blown across the channel , have hatched , and are currently munching their way through the garden of England . |
| 22 | The principal counter-argument has been that Essex has enjoyed the benefit of a former tutor-organiser as Federation chairman and that , in the absence of an equivalent person to give a lead elsewhere , tutor-organisers have continued to be essential . |
| 23 | the income consists of annual payments made under a partnership agreement to or for the benefit of a former partner , or the widow or dependants of a deceased former partner , of the partnership , being payments made under a liability incurred for full consideration ; 2. the income is payable in connection with the acquisition of a partnership ; 3. the income arises under a settlement made by one party to a marriage by way of provision for the other after the dissolution or annulment of the marriage , or while they are separated under an Order of the Court or under a separation agreement or in such circumstances that the separation is likely to be permanent , being income payable to or applicable for the benefit of the other party ; 4. the income is from property of which the settlor has divested himself absolutely by the settlement ; 5. the income is income which under other provisions of the tax legislation is treated for the purposes of the Taxes Acts as that of the settlor . |
| 24 | The most common example of breaches of this duty are the use or disclosure of a former employer 's client list or of a secret process belonging to him . |
| 25 | This is the reason why a new coalification map for the top surface of the Carboniferous ( 1:500 000 ) is presented as a supplement and revision of a former map published in 1979 by the same authors . |
| 26 | As far as the eye could see was desert and the only break in the horizon was the pitiful silhouette of a few mud shelters . |
| 27 | In many cases the professional certainties of a former generation of town planners were overridden by strident political voices and the activity fell increasingly into some disrepute . |
| 28 | ‘ Merymose is a braver man than I thought , if he is going to Kenamun of all people for the help of a former scribe of the Great Criminal ! ’ |
| 29 | Here the path defeats the contours by zigzagging up to a final easy incline along the edge of cliffs to the Ordnance Survey column among the ruins of a former observatory . |
| 30 | Another foresees a more conservative role for the middle class , expressing itself in active opposition to socialism as a process of increasing public ownership or control of industry and expanding welfare services , and in a reassertion of the desirability of a more laissez-faire type of economy . |