Example sentences of "[noun] of a [noun prp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a windy , cold field in Cambridgeshire , green with winter wheat , half a mile away from where Angela Morgan 's body had been found , a small man with a narrow , turned-down mouth sat smoking his twentieth cigarette of the day at the wheel of a Land Rover . |
| 2 | The man had spent about thirty minutes behind the wheel of a Land Rover Discovery like this one … they 'd followed Geoff 's normal route from Banbury to the village of Mollington , onto Cropredy , then back into Banbury . |
| 3 | ENVIRONMENT Minister Sir George Young was taking the wheel of a JCB digger to launch work on a new £6 million wholesale fruit and vegetable market in Nottingham today . |
| 4 | Deploying all of the ritual tactics of a US bid battle , Chevron , founded by the Rockefeller family , filed a lawsuit to remove Pennzoil as a shareholder claiming it had violated anti-trust laws with its share purchases . |
| 5 | Then there was the Auckland Rugby Union combining with TVNZ to produce a delayed-telecast of a Friday night match featuring two Auckland club championship sides . |
| 6 | DETECTIVES have raided a house in their hunt for the brutal killer of a Hartlepool man . |
| 7 | MESSAGES left by the kidnapper of a Birmingham estate agent and the killer of a Leeds teenager had similarities , a murder trial jury was told today . |
| 8 | On Tuesday , Stuart James Spicer of Bonhams Close , Holybourne , pleaded guilty at Alton magistrates court to the theft of a Sony Walkman personal stereo and four audio tapes , damage to a car window and a stone flowerpot , and an attempt to steal a motor vehicle . |
| 9 | They were charged with burglary and the theft of a Ford Sierra Cosworth , and remanded in custody for seven days . |
| 10 | One was about a new initiative to help people dying of AIDS ; another about the closure of a London theatre ; a third about a motorway pile-up on the M25 . |
| 11 | THE father of a two-year-old boy suffering from a rare genetic disorder must wait to learn whether he has won his High Court battle over the controversial closure of a London hospital 's bone marrow transplant unit . |
| 12 | Within the inn at Anoch , walled with thick turves of earth , wainscotted with wicker , and by its chimney distinguished from the other two huts nearby , the landlord and his daughter — no mention of a Mrs McQueen — served them a meal of eggs , chicken , sausage and mutton , with rum . |
| 13 | Save for one mention of a PLO official in Beirut — the spokesman slugging champagne at the diplomatic reception — Yassir Arafat 's organisation did not receive a single reference in the thousands of words I wrote . |
| 14 | Lord Lane , referring to members of the public who attended court regularly to follow cases , made special mention of a Mr Maurice Mahoney . |
| 15 | The high basicity of 2'-deoxy-3-deazaadenosine ( pk a 6.80 ) in comparison to that of 2'-deoxyadenosine ( pk a 3.62 ) ( 13 ) may lead to destabilisation of the helix through protonation of the 3-deazaadenine base at N -1 and the resultant loss of a Watson-Crick hydrogen bonding interaction . |
| 16 | In the USA a truck system has already performed a feat comparable with the arrest , in the earlier days of radio , of the murderer Dr. Crippen in an Atlantic liner as the result of a Morse message . |
| 17 | I hope the drivel which appeared in the Sunday Times was not the result of a Vatican briefing , because it would be a terrible thing if the Holy See went the way of Westminster and Liverpool . |
| 18 | Later on , in the episode ‘ The Ambush ’ both Inlay and the extermination effect were blended to show the devastating result of a Dalek blaster on full power . |
| 19 | Maurice Davies Turner and Perspective : the artist and linear perspective ( Tate Gallery Publications , London , 1992 ) 128pp. 134b/w and col. ills p/b £17.95 Result of a Volkswagen Turner Scholarship at the Tate Gallery . |
| 20 | Final approval had been delayed as a result of a Spanish-UK disagreement on the rate of tax to be applied to Spanish and British sherry in the UK . |
| 21 | Also excluded was anyone who received poor relief after 1 January 1908 , although , as a result of a Commons Amendment , this clause was to be reviewed after two years and was removed in 1911 . |
| 22 | A formal party vote might not be necessary to remove him : senior members of his party might make it clear to the Prime Minister that he no longer had the confidence of the parliamentary party ( as , in a sense , happened with Churchill in 1955 ) , or the lack of support might become clear as the result of a Commons vote ( as in 1940 , when Chamberlain obtained a drastically-reduced majority in a vote of confidence ) . |
| 23 | Lovebite has the body of an Olympic athlete , the eyes of a Caroline libertine and the countenance of a dedicated erotomane . |
| 24 | Difficult enough in a car park , never mind under the eagle eyes of a Thames Valley traffic officer . |
| 25 | By Caroline Storah crime reporter THE search for a man police want to interview in connection with the murder of a Liverpool pub landlady today switched back to Merseyside . |
| 26 | He was accused of the murder of a Mrs Hessler . |
| 27 | On Oct. 14 it was reported that a UN investigating team had flown into southern Sudan from Nairobi following the murder of a UN official and a Norwegian journalist ; two other UN staff members were missing . |
| 28 | Meanwhile two people are being questioned in connection with the murder of a Northampton man . |
| 29 | Detectives say the murder of a Glasgow man outside his home this morning was a one-off killing . |
| 30 | Detectives say the murder of a Glasgow man outside his home was a one-off killing . |