Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun pl] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Restrictions on footballers in Eastern Europe playing abroad have gradually been eased as Poles , Soviets and others have come to regard the export of players as a useful means of acquiring hard currency . |
| 2 | Not only are our brains equipped by nature to assess risks of things in a short time ; they are also equipped to assess risks of things happening to us personally , or to a narrow circle of people that we know . |
| 3 | For our purposes it will be sufficient to draw attention to two fairly general and constant characteristics of words across a wide range of languages . |
| 4 | People are trying to make sense of the bad news they have received , and are asking all sorts of questions as a way of regaining control of a situation that has frightened and disturbed them . |
| 5 | erm I do n't know if you remember the Esther Rantzen programme , I think three months ago , where they uncovered all sorts of misdeeds at a school in I think it was Cuckham Grange or somewhere in Berkshire . |
| 6 | Trumpet players in dance bands possess many different sorts of mutes with a corresponding number of resultant timbres . |
| 7 | ‘ If you have a row of garish shirts in all sorts of colours on a rack in a sports shop and one in just black , which one is going to stick out ? |
| 8 | Surely it is an association of women with a shared experience who enjoy meeting each other . |
| 9 | Stirling envisaged a much larger force of raiders with a permanent base deep in the desert , supplied by air , which could descend at will on the coastal lifeline of the Axis forces . |
| 10 | Gaveston rose and went across to an old , ironbound chest , taking a ring of keys from a gold chain which hung around his neck . |
| 11 | The tower told him which way to taxi , and he finally stopped in a bright ring of lights inside a hangar whose doors closed the moment he shut down his engines . |
| 12 | In Glasgow a fortuitous coalition of interests between a new Convenor or Housing Committee , a principal housing officer and a flamboyant local designer produced a remarkable decade of high-rise building , which included the highest blocks in Europe at Red Road . |
| 13 | The thing that worried many people about task allocation was that each client was descended upon for a succession of tasks by a succession of nurses . |
| 14 | The official peace negotiations in Rome had been blocked by a succession of differences over a wide range of political and constitutional issues . |
| 15 | Domke , the German captain , converted a penalty corner after 50 minutes and England 's weary defenders held out against a succession of corners for a special victory . |
| 16 | He was joined there by a succession of members of a group of young Viennese associates , fellow exiles from Europe , who were attracted by König 's vision of therapeutic residential communities where children with learning difficulties and behaviour problems arising from organic disorders and emotional disturbances could receive a broad education to the fullest extent their individual capabilities would allow , within a caring , sharing , self-governing , Christian ‘ family ’ setting . |
| 17 | These statistics can be used by non-expert readers of accounts as a basis for asking questions of councils , but in themselves provide little clue as to performance . |
| 18 | This will again be our aim in the current year along with the enhancement of profits from a greater pooling of resources between businesses . |
| 19 | The increased closure of brothels as a result of this drive forced poorer women to solicit in the open , where they were subjected to police harassment . |
| 20 | He accused the Labour Party of ‘ using the closure of pits as a political football ’ and added : ‘ It is a totally serious business , particularly for this area . ’ |
| 21 | From somewhere in the house came the rattle of teacups on a tray . |
| 22 | This is one of the reasons why anyone who works for himself should make sure that he is fully covered by insurance providing for loss of earnings during a long-term illness , as well as insurance against the possibility that he might not be able to work again after such an illness . |
| 23 | In Mustard v Morris , a decision of the Court of Appeal on 21 July 1981 it was argued that the award of damages for loss of amenities to a man who was already quite seriously disabled should be less than that to a previously fit person who had suffered equivalent injuries . |
| 24 | As a result of complaints by a group of students that Ebussu'ud Efendi 's colleague , Civizade , the Anadolu kazasker , was preventing them from becoming mulazims , Sultan Suleyman charged Ebussu'ud Efendi with looking into the matter . |
| 25 | His two sons had already been educated at Pocklington when Yarm opened as a result of efforts by a handful of parents whose enterprise he describes as ‘ the boldest thing I have ever known . ’ |
| 26 | It warns that no concessions detrimental to the environment should be made as a result of moves towards a market-orientated economy . |
| 27 | As a result of workshops at a Westminster conference ( described in Chapter 2 ) , wide-ranging recommendations for bureau development were put together for further assessment and implementation . |
| 28 | But had the minister read the introduction to that paper he would have found the following : ‘ The metabolism and excretion of compounds with a prolonged half-life , however , may be slower in old age as a result of impaired renal function commonly seen in this age group . |
| 29 | Preincubation of neutrophils with a mouse monoclonal ( IgG1 k ) anti myeloperoxidase ( Dr D Y Mason , University of Oxford ) did not affect the staining of PSC sera . |
| 30 | Such societies usually offer a programme of lectures on a range of archaeological subjects , excursions to archaeological sites , and sometimes other activities such as the chance to participate in fieldwork or excavation . |