Example sentences of "[noun] of a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Many readers will have noticed the absence of any mention of a forthcoming Careers Forum . |
| 3 | As a result of a recent Monopolies and Mergers Commission decision , we are now allowed to sell proprietary contact lens solutions . |
| 4 | Elevations , a response to dance by Glasgow-based Richard Learoyd , the result of a Scottish Arts Council commission in 1990 ( until 16 Feb ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It also examines a recent case study of a British police operation which exemplifies current trends . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | As she lay in the water , she heard the soft brisk heels of a female Scarabae pass along the corridor outside . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The paper will be processed from pineapple and banana leaves , under the initial guidance of a Canadian crafts specialist . |
| 15 | Is it feasible to imagine using personal computing for all aspects of a computerised personnel information system ? |
| 16 | The following case history of a family with many problems is expressed in the words of a social services case conference report . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The pull of a triple demands 80kg ( 2001b ) breaking strain line . |
| 24 | The Rev. John Warton , who was himself chairman of a small savings bank , recounts one of his parochial visits : |
| 25 | I 'm part of a major police operation . |
| 26 | Photographer Beth Davidson , a Darlington artist , is showing pupils how to print and develop pictures as part of a major arts initiative in the county . |
| 27 | US Commerce Secretary Ron Brown presented a $500,000 grant to Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International as part of a three-year matching-funds agreement to create market opportunities for the US semiconductor industry in the Commonwealth of Independent States by establishing a Microelectronics Technology Centre to aid training and technology interchange between the US semiconductor industry , its suppliers , and the former Soviets . |
| 28 | Linguistics may be studied either as a single honours degree or as part of a joint honours degree . |
| 29 | Students specialise in either Danish , Norwegian or Swedish and the chosen area may then be studied as a single honours course or part of a joint honours course in Modern European Languages and with Scottish Ethnology or Linguistics . |
| 30 | Accounting can only be studied in depth at Edinburgh as part of a joint honours degree : MA honours in Economics and Accounting ; BCom honours in Business Studies and Accounting ; or LLB honours ( Law and Accounting ) . |