Example sentences of "[noun] of a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1973 the Fair Trading Act brought these together within the purview of a single body , the newly created Office of Fair Trading , to be overseen by a civil servant , the Director General of Fair Trading . |
| 2 | Integral Durations : An integral mean of a primary measure is computed . |
| 3 | Her boyfriend John Champion , 19 , died at the wheel of a stolen Sierra which smashed into a wall at Bristol during a 100mph chase early yesterday . |
| 4 | The incident happened late last night and was less than forty eight hours after fourteen year old Sally Cattell died at the wheel of a stolen car in a crash in Erdington , Birmingham . |
| 5 | Anyone who is not relaxed and glowing with a sense of well-being at the wheel of a good Stag should keep their money in the building society . |
| 6 | SKY-HIGH insurance premiums mean few people can now afford the luxury of a ‘ hot hatch ’ but that does n't mean you will never be able to get behind the wheel of a sporty performance car . |
| 7 | They think he is a PERFUME … while others suspect they 've seen clothes he designed , or clocked him behind the wheel of a racing car . |
| 8 | Freelance cameraman Andy Styczynski , 32 , spotted the elusive bachelor at the wheel of a white Rover Montego — and chased after him in a VW Golf GTi . |
| 9 | Small took the wheel of a dilapidated pick-up , while two men knelt behind the cab with shotguns . |
| 10 | Moreover , since there is no irreducible kernel of class interest which in the last analysis guides all else , the ideas , the culture , the religion of a given society may well play a critical role in explaining social and political development . |
| 11 | Akhenaten either died or was murdered , we 're not , we do n't know , we do n't know how er he was a very peculiar man as I 'll explain in the lectures er physically , very strange probably as a result of inbreeding and erm the old religion re-established itself there was never a return to monotheistic sun worship , but er all its hypothesis is that , that since we know the exodus occurred round about this time and since we know that Judaism too is a religion of a single-minded monotheist you know I 'm the law by God I shall have no other gods before me , it says in the Bible full stop . |
| 12 | The new berth will also be used for the import and export of a wide range of other cargoes . |
| 13 | The national data computed for Japan ( 1979–1980 ) and that combined for the German Democratic Republic ( GDR ) and Hungary ( 1976–80 ) show minimum risks of a still birth at the second birth order for women aged 25–44 years . |
| 14 | He believes that the report will be recognised internationally as a major step forward in assessing the risks of a large scale disaster arising from the transport of dangerous substances near centres of population . |
| 15 | Thus the risks of a particular strategy can be evaluated in a relatively safe manner before being put to the test in a real life context . |
| 16 | The special isolation of a naval captain means that an author looking for a confidant for his hero as an essential device of character-drawing is debarred from using a member of the ship 's company . |
| 17 | They are three friends who have put their heads together to discuss the merits of a teacher , so they do n't need the splendid isolation of a separate line each . |
| 18 | The independent isolation of a murine homolog with RSS sequences suggests that recombination mechanisms may also play a role in processing of cisplatin-DNA adducts and thus in anticancer activity . |
| 19 | En route the 41 club exchanges news and views and puts the world to rights once a day before we take our individual paths into the isolation of a busy office . |
| 20 | Here we report the isolation of a complementary DNA encoding DRTF1-polypeptide-1 ( DP-1 ) , a major sequence-specific binding protein that is present in DRTF1/E2F , including Rb- and p107-associated DRTF1/E2F . |
| 21 | This means that your solution may differ , quite legitimately , from your neighbour 's ( in fact it is one of the characteristics of a good case study that it can give rise to equally valid alternative solutions ) . |
| 22 | Characteristics of a good exhibitor were deemed to be : |
| 23 | Characteristics of a good exhibition were deemed to be : |
| 24 | Above a temperature of 450 K , in the section E to F , there is little evidence of any elastic recovery in the polymer and all the characteristics of a viscous liquid become evident ( figure 12.1(d) ) . |
| 25 | To construct a mathematical model , the designer must translate the essential characteristics of a real world phenomenon , such as air flow around the wings of a fighter aircraft , into a set of mathematical equations . |
| 26 | Inevitably the League began to acquire the characteristics of a political party rejecting the " self-denying ordinance " which prevented the Fabians from submitting political resolutions to the Party . |
| 27 | Much of this writing , however , remained essentially the same as in earlier generations — inevitably so , since most of the characteristics of a successful diplomat have not changed over centuries . |
| 28 | The principal operating characteristics of a virtual machine are : |
| 29 | It will assess the internal characteristics of a selected group of enterprises , including the skills and capacities of their owners and managers . |
| 30 | The ErgoClient takes on the characteristics of a personal computer by means of a similar personality module , which incorporates an Intel Corp 80486 processor and simply slots into the machine . |