Example sentences of "[noun sg] of a [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hardened wheel of a pipe cutter will give a much neater cut : the adjusting handle is progressively tightened as the cutter is rotated around the pipe . |
| 2 | In a windy , cold field in Cambridgeshire , green with winter wheat , half a mile away from where Angela Morgan 's body had been found , a small man with a narrow , turned-down mouth sat smoking his twentieth cigarette of the day at the wheel of a Land Rover . |
| 3 | The man had spent about thirty minutes behind the wheel of a Land Rover Discovery like this one … they 'd followed Geoff 's normal route from Banbury to the village of Mollington , onto Cropredy , then back into Banbury . |
| 4 | And the result is that more motorists than ever are opting for life behind the wheel of a diesel vehicle . |
| 5 | ENVIRONMENT Minister Sir George Young was taking the wheel of a JCB digger to launch work on a new £6 million wholesale fruit and vegetable market in Nottingham today . |
| 6 | They show their immaturity as soon as they get behind the wheel of a sports car . |
| 7 | He was just as at home behind the wheel of a Sports Car as he was in a Grand Prix car , and his passion for all branches of the sport possible hindered his quest for the world title . |
| 8 | They were also aware of an even deeper change in the texture of Christianity : it had become the religion of a warrior nobility whose values and culture it had necessarily to absorb in the process of Christianizing them . |
| 9 | Neither the religion of the school chapel , nor the religion of a puritan church , satisfied . |
| 10 | The orbiting platforms which maintained the isolation of a quarantine world were a Navy responsibility . |
| 11 | The isolation of a cDNA clone from testis of S. macroura and the long open reading frame in the M. eugenii genome suggest that these marsupial genes are not pseudogenes . |
| 12 | Support for experimentation , innovation , resource-based learning activities and other desirable or interesting ventures can involve anything from a reorganization of a school timetable to a series of local education authority decisions on staffing and materials provision . |
| 13 | Debate among those legislators will begin this summer or autumn , once a report on the feasibility of a droit de suite is submitted to Congress by the Library of Congress Copyright Office . |
| 14 | In the United States the US Registry of Copyrights began hearings in San Francisco on 23 January as part of a study on the feasibility of a droit de suite system . |
| 15 | Morais and Bertelson therefore carried out an experiment in which the apparent spatial localisation of a sound source was achieved by manipulating either the time or the intensity difference of the same stimulus heard at the two ears . |
| 16 | You can do some simple calc calculations by thinking of a number line , for example , two , minus two , plus five means start at minus two then go up five so you 'll finish at three . |
| 17 | For example , thinking of a power station as a way of translating energy from fuel into electric power enables the designer to consider various options . |
| 18 | Then there was the Auckland Rugby Union combining with TVNZ to produce a delayed-telecast of a Friday night match featuring two Auckland club championship sides . |
| 19 | Things go wrong for him in Marc Olden 's KRAIT ( New English Library , £15.99 ) when his business partner kidnaps the girlfriend of a man Martins betrayed in Vietnam . |
| 20 | In a recent episode of a Music Television cartoon called Beavis and Butthead , the characters play with fire . |
| 21 | The experiment involved secretly filming a group of children , ranged in age groups of ten to thirteen , watching a never-before-seen episode of a science fiction serial . |
| 22 | DETECTIVES have raided a house in their hunt for the brutal killer of a Hartlepool man . |
| 23 | POLICE hunting the killer of a champion Ayrshire cow believe it may have been slashed to death by a jealous farmer . |
| 24 | POLICE are hunting the killer of a drugs centre counsellor who was found battered to death at her office in Worcester . |
| 25 | As she searches for the killer of a diamond merchant , Melanie falls for the rabbi 's son , played by flashing-eyed newcomer Eric Thal . |
| 26 | MESSAGES left by the kidnapper of a Birmingham estate agent and the killer of a Leeds teenager had similarities , a murder trial jury was told today . |
| 27 | A man whose name was linked to the killer of a police informer was found murdered at his home in Chapel Street , Stroud , Glos , early yesterday . |
| 28 | Bowie is a close enough friend of Scorsese 's to have been given a storyboard of a fight scene in the director 's Raging Bull ( Bowie loves boxing ) although he intensely disliked Marty 's latest film , the box-office smash Cape Fear . |
| 29 | In late November , after the lifting of a government order restricting her to the southern city of Karachi , Bhutto vowed to resume what she described as her " Long March " to Islamabad — a declaration which revived fears of further widespread political unrest . |
| 30 | In a speech made on Jan. 4 during a visit to Singapore United States President Bush announced the lifting of a trade embargo , imposed nearly 17 years previously when Khmer Rouge rebels forced the pro-Western regime in Phnom Peng from power , against Cambodia . |