Example sentences of "[noun] of a [noun] [noun sg] " 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 | And the result is that more motorists than ever are opting for life behind the wheel of a diesel vehicle . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They show their immaturity as soon as they get behind the wheel of a sports car . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Neither the religion of the school chapel , nor the religion of a puritan church , satisfied . |
| 10 | The risks of a court case also have to be in the forefront of your mind . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The dregs of a flu virus resulted in the usual effervescence of soprano Lorna Anderson , being clouded over . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The orbiting platforms which maintained the isolation of a quarantine world were a Navy responsibility . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It has all the ugliest characteristics of a state institution , a prison perhaps . |
| 18 | Characteristics of a user interface |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | This port , founded as late as 1 130 , very quickly came to enjoy all the characteristics of a boom town . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | For example , thinking of a power station as a way of translating energy from fuel into electric power enables the designer to consider various options . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | In a recent episode of a Music Television cartoon called Beavis and Butthead , the characters play with fire . |
| 29 | The experiment involved secretly filming a group of children , ranged in age groups of ten to thirteen , watching a never-before-seen episode of a science fiction serial . |
| 30 | DETECTIVES have raided a house in their hunt for the brutal killer of a Hartlepool man . |