Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] of a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has decided that the reason Iago proffers for his villainy ( especially the absurd idea that both Casio and Othello have slept with his wife ) are genuine , if deranged convictions , rather than the dispassionately improvised rationalisations of a mind that can not even account to itself for its limitless evil . |
| 2 | The interpretation became part of a person 's experience . |
| 3 | A Steamship Owners ' Mutual Protection and Indemnity Association had been formed as early as 1874 which later became part of a North of England Protecting and Indemnity Association , and as early as 1878 shipowners of the north-east were complaining of the " tyrannical " attempts of a " dictatorial body of unionists " ' to impose demands on the industry , establishing in 1885 a Central Association of Shipowners of Sunderland , Glasgow and Newcastle to put their views to the Royal Commission of 1886 on Chamberlain 's proposed Shipping Bill . |
| 4 | Education became part of an act of political will . |
| 5 | It was to have formed part of a site with Yorkshire-based Morrisons supermarket storage centre and general industrial area . |
| 6 | Since the Russian Revolution did not spread to the West , Communists became prisoners of a state with pretensions to a universal mission , and their identification with the foreign policy needs of the Soviet Union represented little advance over the subordination of an older generation of radicals to the interests of the City of London . |
| 7 | This Report has already pointed out that something more than singing and playing may lie needed if boys and girls are to remain part of a choir or music group . |
| 8 | And I mean it is your sort of second home , and the guys that you work with every every week , I mean sort of become , I mean it 's a bit of a cliche to say , but I mean part of a family that you living out there that you live with out there and it is a real I mean when you think of the number that was lost , I mean there were a lot of close friends involved in it . |
| 9 | ( Just as unlikely as eating part of a dieffenbachia leaf . ) |
| 10 | She had a divinity degree from London University and had completed part of a law course at Lagos University when she was admitted to the faculty in 1983 as an entrant preparing to sit her bar exams . |
| 11 | Section 743(5) states that in any case where an individual has for the purposes of s739 power to enjoy income of a person abroad by reason of his receiving a benefit from the trust ( hence giving rise to a tax charge under TA 1988 , s742(2) ( c ) ) , the individual shall be chargeable to income tax under s739 for the year of assessment in which the benefit is received . |
| 12 | When accepting settlement of a bill by credit card the cashier should : |
| 13 | As taxpayers we are entitled to know why intelligence services failed to spot signs of an end to the Cold War . |
| 14 | As chairman of this group , I obviously have financial people , accountants , treasury people , lawyers , personnel people , property people and so on who all make part of a team . |
| 15 | That is because a winding-up petition is not a legitimate means of seeking to enforce payment of a debt which is bona fide disputed . |
| 16 | Carry over : Try not to carry part of a sentence over to the next page and if at all possible leave paragraphs intact as well . |
| 17 | The start of this session was one of the very few occasions when we specifically told the pupils how to conduct part of an activity . |
| 18 | The court heard the police investigation began last Summer when divers recovered part of a body from a lake in Surrey . |
| 19 | Just a few days later they recovered part of a body from a lake in surrey . |
| 20 | But after seeing signs of a pick-up in American demand , he says the hotel industry might get a boost around September , on the basis that recovery here lags America by about four months . |
| 21 | It prints at 300dpi , and produces text of a quality similar to that of the Canon , albeit a little more slowly . |
| 22 | Apple is still expected to proceed with the tattered case on the few elements that were not thrown out , including the idea of using a picture of a dustbin to signify deletion of a file and the way Windows handles type fonts . |
| 23 | It came to include the policy for polytechnics , that is — a measure of concentration — announced in the 1966 White Paper , and more or less finalized in a Parliamentary statement in April 1967 , when Crosland announced confirmation of a list of twenty-eight polytechnics in England and Wales , leaving open the possibility of two more . |
| 24 | There were some handy ones around — Charlie Gillett and Simon Frith 's Rock File series and Dafydd Rees ' Star-File were among those that first made waves of a sort — but it was n't until Guinness published their initial British Hit Singles , in 1977 , that the genre became part of the UK 's list of best-sellers . |
| 25 | In the autumn of 1330 Mortimer got wind of a plot being hatched in the king 's immediate circle and he interrogated Montague and others . |
| 26 | The Greek Cypriots got wind of an idea by Mr Hurd to meet Rauf Denktash on his own and they say that would be an unfriendly act . |
| 27 | A Raman spectrum is normally excited using light of a frequency that is not absorbed by the sample . |
| 28 | William was given command of a schooner and spent the next 6 years trading on Lake Erie . |
| 29 | This unbalanced , choleric individual is a mad dog who should be shot and not given command of a kingdom . |
| 30 | Once or twice Barbara Coleman sought corroboration of a point from Rain or Cobalt but otherwise not one of the onlookers dared to speak . |