Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most heads felt that the quality of education in their school had increased due to either financial devolution or a change in personnel or a combination of both . |
| 2 | And if you 're going to do thin metal objects or a sort of aluminium frame , do not use the dye stamps on those . |
| 3 | A herd of deer , a pride of lions or a pack of wolves has a certain rudimentary coherence and unity of purpose . |
| 4 | One of a family of six and me elder brother was me bro me dad had a little business in the keys in and er they were hard times and me elder brother we used to go and work for him because me dad said he must and er from , after school I used to go and perhaps do the errands or a bit of filing , the odd jobs and all that sort of thing and I grew up with locks and keys and files from twelve , even before I left school . |
| 5 | This dish , suitable for a light lunch or supper , needs only freshly cooked vegetables or a salad of endive to accompany it . |
| 6 | ‘ People just do n't crave vegetables or a slice of wholegrain bread , ’ says nutrition expert Audrey Cross . |
| 7 | A major change is one that we make to your holiday arrangements before departure , that involves changing your UK airport(s) , resort area or time of departure or return by more than twelve hours or a change of accommodation to a Club not featured in this brochure . |
| 8 | Londons could also carry eight 20 lb and eight 8-½ lb practise bombs or a number of flares and/or smoke floats . |
| 9 | With inverted files the records are held in a data area on disk , but there is also an index which contains values or a range of values for some of the data . |
| 10 | They could involve matching a variety of situations or uses to a list of products or a list of items using those products ; they could involve putting the benefits of the product in order of merit or they could take the form of a question and answer quiz with specified answers from which to choose . |
| 11 | So whether you have a number of blanks or a number of punched holes side by side you 'll get floats . |
| 12 | According to John Herbert , who became second Secretary of State in 1600 , it had three principal functions : the business of the Queen , in which it ‘ doth handle principally questions and consultations of state ’ ; disputes between party and party , which might involve either criminal or civil suits or a mixture of the two ; and disputes ‘ wherein the Queen is a party ’ . |
| 13 | French names like New Man and Rodier Hommes were innovators in the 1970s , offering men a complete coordinated collection instead of just a range of suits or a collection of shirts . |
| 14 | ‘ Add a few more vegetables , some carrots or a tin of peas , and a bouillon cube — or even just water — and serve rather a lot of potatoes with it . ’ |
| 15 | These creatures may be just human beings , or just animals or a mixture of both , but which , in this instance , and ignoring for the purposes of this chapter those deviations which we call perversions , are not affected by any element of sexual attraction . |
| 16 | Various fund-raising events throughout the year finance a Christmas party , and give a gift , such a box of groceries or a basket of fruit to every pensioner in the village . |
| 17 | One trouble with being owned by conventional shareholders — whether they are pension funds or a mass of individual investors — is that ownership is dispersed and the pressure on managers is eased . |
| 18 | For otherwise how can we ever be sure whether Beethoven intends for us to see a horde of goblins or a host of elephants ? ’ |
| 19 | Crucially , there was also assured financial support for the permitted grant-aided maximum of two such tutors at each extra-mural department in that the Board of Education grant provided for 75% of the salaries of tutors or a maximum of £300 per annum for each appointment . |
| 20 | In the multimedia counterpart to hypertext , therefore , the key information elements may be text , sound , images or a combination of all three . |
| 21 | In earlier times the judge would rule on the sufficiency of the provocation , and the result of this was rather narrow and legalistic categories of sufficiency ( e.g. violence or finding a spouse in adultery were enough , but words or a confession of adultery were not ) . |
| 22 | Amdahl Corp , Sunnyvale has launched a consulting service and data storage feature to facilitate the migration of customers to Escon Architecture : the company accompanies the new service with a new Serial Channel Feature for next quarter for use with its 6100 Storage Processor , which attaches to parallel channel adaptors on the 6100 and enable it to support serial Escon channel connections ; a 6100 with the feature will support up to 32 Escon serial channels or a mixture of serial and parallel channels ; native serial channels cost $62,560 for the first four and $32,280 for each additional pair ; the Serial Channel Feature start at $21,000 . |
| 23 | Erm as far as the C C Q itself was concerned you , you gave an awful lot of information about the sort of things you were gon na look for when Martin said about , you know , what 's in it and it 's , it 's pretty big and what have you you mentioned a lot of subjects or a lot of technical jargon which may or may not have meant anything to the client rather than just say well , you know , some of it wo n't , may well not apply to you . |
| 24 | Paint them deep matt , eggshell or shiny gloss and hang them with pictures or a collection of some sort . |
| 25 | The older generation tends to believe in such dishes as health cures , aphrodisiacs or a source of physical and mental strength , while the prosperous young order them to impress their friends . |
| 26 | There will also be the option of being audited as an individual centre ( for example , a single college or training organisation ) or as a network ( for example , a group of neighbouring schools or a group of workplaces ) . |
| 27 | The court , whether High Court , quarter sessions or a court of summary jurisdiction , retains full jurisdiction over all matters before it until sentence , that is , until the final adjudication of the matter ; and the reasoning in Sheridan 's case and the cases of Grant [ 1936 ] 2 All E.R. |
| 28 | For further details about next month 's advice sessions or a copy of the ‘ Walk It ’ leaflet contact the Health Promotion Agency at Belfast 311611 . |
| 29 | Come to that , she had much better legs than a man of Gav 's mental age deserved . |
| 30 | I glanced over , thinking that she had much better legs than a woman of her age deserved . |