Example sentences of "[noun] of a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His rearrest was upon the recommendation of an independent doctors ' commission . |
| 2 | The brutality and unprovoked nature of the attacks , together with the fact that the victims were white and middle class — the jogger was a vice president of a leading securities firm — whilst the assailants were black or Hispanic , meant that the case received a massive degree of publicity and became symbolic of US racial tension and urban violence . |
| 3 | Way back in December , when we were first rehearsing erm the problems erm we were facing a hundred and seventy compulsory redundancies , the closure of an adult training centre , the closure of an elderly persons ' home , erm the closure of a hostel and a whole range of other quite draconian measures . |
| 4 | Many readers will have noticed the absence of any mention of a forthcoming Careers Forum . |
| 5 | Cross-examined by Donald Macfadyen , QC , for the defence , Mr Malcolm read from a note he had written for the firm 's compliance director which said Mackie had asserted he had made no mention of an impending profits warning . |
| 6 | As a result of a recent Monopolies and Mergers Commission decision , we are now allowed to sell proprietary contact lens solutions . |
| 7 | Elevations , a response to dance by Glasgow-based Richard Learoyd , the result of a Scottish Arts Council commission in 1990 ( until 16 Feb ) . |
| 8 | In stressing the ubiquity of the differential principle in all aspects of Russian Formalist thought one runs the risk of implying that the coherence of the theory is the result of an intellectual parti pris , and that the intention on the part of the Formalists was to establish a fixed dogmatic system . |
| 9 | In November 1990 the government removed the power of arrest from the military police following the August murder of a senior police chief who was investigating army officers thought to be involved in criminal activities . |
| 10 | In my respectful submission there could be A , no question that the jury would be discharged and B , in the submission er some er judicial displeasure of an experienced police officer volunteering what any police officer must know is A inadmissible and B not an answer to the question . |
| 11 | A study of a small savings bank in Massachusetts found that its branch-based salesmen sold more than three times as many policies as agents hired by the bank to do the same job , and five times as many as agents working directly for an insurer . |
| 12 | The PSI report is the most detailed study of a British police force yet produced , and Section Four of the report , entitled ‘ The police and people in London ’ , examines the relationship between the police and the public in some depth . |
| 13 | It also examines a recent case study of a British police operation which exemplifies current trends . |
| 14 | Option 6 allows the librarian to have overdue reminders printed out by the microcomputer and in terms of time saved , this is one of the attractions of a computerized loans system . |
| 15 | In another reinterpretation , in 1874 , the Rev. Sedley Taylor of Cambridge talked of the trial of Galileo , drawing attention to the possibility of a forged Inquisition minute , and the probability therefore that Galileo ought to have been acquitted whatever one thought of the general merits of his theories ; his condemnation was the fault of a dirty tricks brigade rather than of the Church . |
| 16 | As she lay in the water , she heard the soft brisk heels of a female Scarabae pass along the corridor outside . |
| 17 | Poet and visionary climber Edwin Drummond is about to achieve his ambition of a United Nations Climb for the World , now sponsored by the Sheffield firm Fretwell-Downing Datasystems . |
| 18 | Benetton 's past publicity stunts have included images of a dying Aids sufferer , a victim of a Mafia shooting and a new-born baby with blood and the umbilical cord . |
| 19 | The paper will be processed from pineapple and banana leaves , under the initial guidance of a Canadian crafts specialist . |
| 20 | Is it feasible to imagine using personal computing for all aspects of a computerised personnel information system ? |
| 21 | The following case history of a family with many problems is expressed in the words of a social services case conference report . |
| 22 | The remaining locations should be using the new system by October this year which will then see the completion of a major personnel and data processing project which will have taken two and a half years to plan and implement . |
| 23 | A joint statement on Dec. 12 announced " good progress " on the completion of a strategic arms reduction treaty ( START ) [ see also p. 37518 ] , and expressed the hope that a treaty would be ready for signing during a Bush-Gorbachev summit meeting , scheduled for Feb. 11-13 , 1991 . |
| 24 | Negotiations between the government and the opposition , which disputed the November presidential election results [ see p. 39180 ] , failed after the government refused to concede the principal demand — the completion of a new voters ' register . |
| 25 | Upper-class objectors worried about traditional civil liberties , central government encroachment on the delicate network of power relations in local parishes , and the expense of a public police . |
| 26 | WINNERS of a unique schools arts competition will be going on board a gigantic new accommodation block for the North Sea oilfields being built in Middlesbrough . |
| 27 | The Harewood House charity auction , hosted by the Queen 's cousin the Earl of Harewood , is in aid of a new children 's day hospital in Leeds . |
| 28 | So at one end of the scale , the courts upheld a restrictive covenant in the contract of an employee of an international armaments manufacturer called Maxim Nordenfeldt , which extended throughout the world for the whole of the man 's life . |
| 29 | The pull of a triple demands 80kg ( 2001b ) breaking strain line . |
| 30 | The Rev. John Warton , who was himself chairman of a small savings bank , recounts one of his parochial visits : |