Example sentences of "[noun] of a [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was tied to the wheel of a chariot and sent down the steep sides of one of the great hills . |
| 2 | A line of girls sits at the bar , ready at the jerk of a head or the flick of a finger to minister to the solitary Somerset Maughams at every table with drinks , smiles and conversation in carefully-broken Americanisms . |
| 3 | They will also consider the risks of a habit that could lead to their own early illness or death . |
| 4 | If it is the simple physical characteristics of a stimulus that play the key role in generalizations about behaviour , then we might expect to find patients who have lost the ability to lip-read and lost the ability to judge expression , but not patients who have lost only one of these two abilities while retaining the other . |
| 5 | This may be able to identify some sort of ‘ fit ’ between the social and economic characteristics of a city and its public policy , but this in no sense explains that policy . |
| 6 | Dulles combined the most austere characteristics of a lawyer and a Presbyterian minister . |
| 7 | Rather , my concern is to identify the salient characteristics of a place that might be called upon , singly or together , in any analyses which seek — like those in chapters 4 and 5 — to understand the nature of spatial variability and spatial change . |
| 8 | It bears all the characteristics of a tax and is called a social security tax in other countries . |
| 9 | The pairing family was an uninstitutionalized de facto long-term association of a man and a woman . |
| 10 | It is common for the articles of association of a company that is a management buy-out vehicle , a joint venture company , or which is owned by multiple shareholders to provide that the sale of the assets and undertaking of the company requires the consent of specified individuals . |
| 11 | With hindsight , however , I consider that I spend far too long thinking of a circuit or turn . |
| 12 | ‘ Tell her to try thinking of a hat and a cheap suit ! ’ |
| 13 | The position can be illustrated simply by thinking of a study that is to take place of the social workings of a youth club to test out some hypothesis about the manifest and latent functions of this association . |
| 14 | One of Lewis 's more ambitious poems , ‘ The Jungle ’ , ends with a question — ‘ does the will 's long struggle end / With the last kindness of a foe or friend ? ’ — a question answered on 5 March 1944 when , hours before the start of his first patrol against the Japanese on the north Burma coast , he did himself that kindness with a shot from his own revolver . |
| 15 | The BT–13 could be reworked as the Val with major modifications , while Canary cleverly envisioned mating the forward fuselage section of the AT–6 with the aft fuselage of a BT–13 and splicing in two fuselage plugs to create the elongated Kate fuselage . |
| 16 | Victoria Chaplin has the persona of a grave and beautiful young girl , performing astonishing feats of illusion and imagination with inanimate objects . |
| 17 | But I do not even have a vocabulary to describe the distinctive tang of a pear or a peach . |
| 18 | Police hunting the killer of a mother and her two children have discovered a body which may be that of the missing father Dennis Garvey . |
| 19 | There are obvious advantages to this method , especially for those inclined to use no more effort with a mallet than is absolutely necessary , The downside to this is that rhythmic tapping is replaced with the screaming of a drill and the rattle of the reciprocating mechanism . |
| 20 | ‘ We were taught to design an experiment of a size that was best suited to what you wanted to measure . ’ |
| 21 | Perry 's foray to the Orient marked the true beginning of America 's global role ; it marked the emergence on the world stage of Japan , after two centuries of a xenophobia that almost bordered on paranoia ; and it allowed the creation — nervous at first , but gradually becoming more and more pronounced — of a trans-Pacific axis between , put at its most basic , California and Honshu — an axis around which the fortunes of today 's Ocean , and much of today 's world , revolves . |
| 22 | The sentences above evoke a silence which was so absolute that the perception of a pin or a dead mosquito dropping to the floor was possible . |
| 23 | It is likely to be not just shoes or slippers which are chewed : the legs of a table or chair , a bed or other furniture are equally vulnerable . |
| 24 | He came to be identified with the Greek PAN and was depicted with horns and the legs of a goat or wolf . |
| 25 | Pipeline is a hollow left-hander which , with its right-handed twin brother , Backdoor Pipeline , turns into a double-barrelled shotgun of a wave that blasts its victims over a shallow , razor-sharp reef . |
| 26 | If it is legitimate to speak of a gene as affecting the wrinkliness of a pea or the nervous system of an animal ( all geneticists think it is ) then it must also be legitimate to speak of a gene as affecting the hardness of the stones in a caddis house . |
| 27 | Herr Nordern heaved on the steering-wheel and swung the Lada into the relative safety of a narrow street shadowed by the bulk of a church where he pulled up , although wisely keeping the engine running . |
| 28 | Given the assertiveness and self-advertisement of modernization in Italian life across all forms of culture , from literature to political and social theory , during the 1960s and early 1970s , this return assumes something of the force of a revenge or , at any rate , a restitution . |
| 29 | It could not explain the most prominent feature of adjudication in hard cases like our samples : the constant and relentless concern judges show for explicating the " true " force of a statute or precedent decision when that force is problematical . |
| 30 | When you have thought about all these things , when you have fully absorbed into the darkest parts of your mind the sub-human horror of them , you will realize , must realize , with the blinding force of a revelation that I could not by the very nature of my soul be so implicated in such a maze of lust and filth . |