Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] of a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One interesting example of a GIS approach to flood damage estimation is the ANUFLOOD package which was developed in the early 1980s following detailed flood damage studies for flood-prone coastal towns in northern New South Wales , Australia ( Smith and Greenaway , 1988 ) . |
| 2 | This experience of combining special make-up with puppets or models , unusual in Smith 's career , nonetheless illustrates the peculiar calling of a special-effects make-up artist , and the variety of skills he ( occasionally she ) needs or has to call on to do the job . |
| 3 | From the church came a dual impulse strengthening this morality : the prevailing teaching on sexual abstention outside of marriage under pain of mortal sin , and the rigorous life of a clergy pledged to chastity and preaching the need for an unmarried laity to practise the same degree and kind of circumspection in sexual matters which the clergy had been taught to impose upon themselves . |
| 4 | TODAY we 're giving you the chance to sample the carefree life of a pools winner — in the fabulous West Indies . |
| 5 | It looked like a small , run-down Victorian railway hotel , which was fine , really , because that is what it had started off as , some time round the middle of the last century in an age of soaring optimism when all things seemed possible , or at least profitable , even the commercial success of a travellers ' rest beside a branch line in the middle of nowhere . |
| 6 | In general , the rigorous derivation of a savings function by this route is likely to be complex , but in Section 8–4 we consider a simple two-period life-cycle model illustrative of this line of argument . |
| 7 | It was hardly a secret that Gallieni , no admirer of Joffre ( who , among other things , had stolen much of the honour due to Gallieni for the victory of the Marne ) , wanted eventually to pull him back to Paris in the largely administrative capacity of a CIGS , while placing the executive command of the armies in the field under de Castelnau . |
| 8 | In the ordinary course of a solicitors ' practice the partners will meet at regular intervals to discuss the affairs of the firm ( Clause 17.03 ) . |
| 9 | Any such movement usually occurs in the early part of a buildings 's life but this may not always be the case depending upon the nature of the subsoil upon which the building is founded . |
| 10 | If this is so , then the issue should be formulated as one of whether the existence of corporate power is sufficiently objectionable to defeat the prima facie justificatory force of a rights ' claim . |
| 11 | A useful example is the erection in a prominent place of a parents ' notice board where details of sales , wants , baby sitters , child minders , community activities , thank you letters , etc are displayed . |
| 12 | This is the first visible sign of a shareholders ' revolt against the chairman , Sir Derek Alun-Jones , since the discovery of a £185m fraud which threatens the group 's future . |
| 13 | Katheryn Murphy ( Kelly McGillis ) , who is assigned to the case , is clearly marked out as one of the boys to begin with : her brusque manner , her determination always to win ( which leads to her plea-bargaining behind Sarah 's back to ensure a conviction of the rapists , but on a lesser charge ) and her interaction with the men from her office — discussing the case with them at the male territory of a sports match |
| 14 | You hitchhiking in my rucksack all the way up here without me knowing and then doing a perfect impression of a police loud hailer . ’ |
| 15 | We have seen charts that describe the organisational chart of a police authority and yet miss off the lowly police constable . |
| 16 | Even the screeching rasp of a police hover forcing its slow way upstream can scarcely cut the din . |
| 17 | But because he turned down an out of court settlement of £10,000 in August , his financial backers , the RCN , now face paying a large share of a costs bill of around £25,000 . |
| 18 | Danny Morrison , 38 , the former publicity director of Sinn Féin , was sentenced in Belfast on May 9 to eight years in prison for his part in the false imprisonment of a police informer , but was acquitted of conspiracy to murder Alexander " Sandy " Lynch , who had been held and interrogated by the IRA 's security department for two days in January 1990 ; seven others were given prison sentences of up to 12 years for false imprisonment in connection with this and other cases . |
| 19 | As the mud cleared away from the face of the first tile , patches of ruby-red lustre , with the rich glow of a jewels heart , appeared inch by inch , then the outlines of a delicate grotesque silver bird , standing on one leg in a circle of blue-black leaves and berries , its beak of burnished copper . |
| 20 | He had been caught lying about inside knowledge of a dirty-tricks campaign against his own party . |
| 21 | ( 2 ) The primary function of a students ' association of a college established under this paragraph shall be to represent the interests of students of such college . |
| 22 | That is unfortunately a major part of a keepers job these days . |
| 23 | If you find sheer weight a good judge of a products quality you 'll be pleased by this one ! |
| 24 | A stock index represents the market 's estimate of the present value of the subsequent cash flows expected from the constituent companies , while the current price of a futures contract on an index for delivery at time T represents the market 's estimate of the present value at time T of the subsequent cash flows . |
| 25 | In the absence of transactions costs for trading futures and assuming no risk aversion or preference , the current price of a futures contract for delivery at time T in a competitive market will equal today 's expectation of the spot price at time T , that is , F t = E ( S T ) . |
| 26 | He took the money in Georgia — but presented it to UEFA in Geneva as irrefutable evidence of a bribes scandal which has rocked Europe . |
| 27 | A person who can make good use of a resources library has learnt the following things : |
| 28 | A Renaissance had last happened in the days of the ‘ Glasgow Boys ’ and the other artists , architects and the like at the turn of the 20th century , and one of the stars of that re-birth of style and innovation , was the late , great son of a police superintendent , Charles Rennie Mackintosh . |
| 29 | From the earliest days , no one in Emor was a mere individual : he was also the current representative of a gens , one of the great Emorian dynasties that dominated the political life of the empire . |
| 30 | Proof of the number of seats in a passenger motor car or the maximum gross weight of a goods vehicle may be necessary to show this new offence applies to the vehicle in question , eg. ‘ The motor car had been adapted to carry 8 seated passengers in addition to the driver ’ ( but not more than 8 ) . |