Example sentences of "[noun] of a [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | In the streets they affect the manners of a pantomime dame to gain attention : they pinch men 's buttocks , purposely make buffoons of themselves , but are quick to take offence . |
2 | ‘ The manners of a bull elephant , ’ was Monica 's elegant description . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | And the result is that more motorists than ever are opting for life behind the wheel of a diesel vehicle . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | They show their immaturity as soon as they get behind the wheel of a sports car . |
9 | He was just as at home behind the wheel of a Sports Car as he was in a Grand Prix car , and his passion for all branches of the sport possible hindered his quest for the world title . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | Neither the religion of the school chapel , nor the religion of a puritan church , satisfied . |
12 | The risks of a court case also have to be in the forefront of your mind . |
13 | The main threats to the group are political , including the risks of a trade war , selective US taxes on foreign companies , and VAT on UK food . |
14 | The dregs of a flu virus resulted in the usual effervescence of soprano Lorna Anderson , being clouded over . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | The orbiting platforms which maintained the isolation of a quarantine world were a Navy responsibility . |
17 | The isolation of a cDNA clone from testis of S. macroura and the long open reading frame in the M. eugenii genome suggest that these marsupial genes are not pseudogenes . |
18 | Even though this is a DOS program is has many of the characteristics of a Windows user-interface — drop down lists , dialog boxes and so on — and it is very easy to use with a mouse . |
19 | But , of course , others insist that it could never be humane in practice because the essence of the cruelty is not only in causing a painful and prolonged death but , rather , in the harrowing chase of the animal , and moreover , of an animal which has not evolved with the typical biological characteristics of a prey species . |
20 | It has all the ugliest characteristics of a state institution , a prison perhaps . |
21 | Characteristics of a user interface |
22 | Thus while the change in a physical property can be used to locate T g , the transition bears many of the characteristics of a relaxation process and the precise value of T g can depend on the method used and the rate of the measurement . |
23 | This port , founded as late as 1 130 , very quickly came to enjoy all the characteristics of a boom town . |
24 | It is well known that the personal characteristics of a participant observer affect their research practice ( see Hunt 1984 ; Warren 1988 ; Warren and Rasmussen 1977 ; Wax 1979 ) , and that being female brings its own problems in the field . |
25 | According to Kuhn , an analysis of the characteristics of a crisis period in science demands the competence of the psychologist as much as that of an historian . |
26 | Support for experimentation , innovation , resource-based learning activities and other desirable or interesting ventures can involve anything from a reorganization of a school timetable to a series of local education authority decisions on staffing and materials provision . |
27 | Debate among those legislators will begin this summer or autumn , once a report on the feasibility of a droit de suite is submitted to Congress by the Library of Congress Copyright Office . |
28 | In the United States the US Registry of Copyrights began hearings in San Francisco on 23 January as part of a study on the feasibility of a droit de suite system . |
29 | Morais and Bertelson therefore carried out an experiment in which the apparent spatial localisation of a sound source was achieved by manipulating either the time or the intensity difference of the same stimulus heard at the two ears . |
30 | You can do some simple calc calculations by thinking of a number line , for example , two , minus two , plus five means start at minus two then go up five so you 'll finish at three . |