Example sentences of "[det] of a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He gave me one half of a clasp that belonged to the Lion of Venice . |
| 2 | they 'd come out with half of one , they 'd come out with things like I think you 're er I du n no er , not barking up the wrong tree that was the wrong one , but the they 'd sort of come out with half of a pun and they would n't finish it off , like oh th , this is smashing ! |
| 3 | Mention was made by some of a belief that Blacks get custodial sentences more often . |
| 4 | surpasses that of a cow or pig ; but it does not follow that the foetus has a stronger claim to life . |
| 5 | A second and much more general form of patronage was that of a court or powerful household in which there was no intrinsic organization of artists as part of the general social organization but in which , often very extensively , individual artists were retained , often with titles which represent the true cases of ‘ official recognition ’ . |
| 6 | The Court appears to have taken the view that although the victim was staying overnight in the offender 's house , and therefore he had a degree of responsibility for her welfare , his responsibility was not so strict as that of a parent or other person with a longer lasting relationship with the victim , and that the degree of responsibility in this case did not justify the adoption of eight years as a starting point as opposed to the normal five years . |
| 7 | ‘ My body was that of a man but deep down I had the heart of a woman . |
| 8 | The only stable group is that of a tigress and her cubs . |
| 9 | An analogy that is worth considering is that of a landlord and tenant relationship . |
| 10 | The line and infill technique imparts to the work a certain quality not unlike that of a woodcut or sometimes even stained glass and the effect can be most attractive . |
| 11 | A married woman 's position before the law was approximately that of a child or an incompetent . |
| 12 | Derek mistook the name of the company for that of a person and blurted out , ‘ But , who is he ? |
| 13 | His point of view is that of a beginner and he makes the pitfalls and their solutions quite clear with respect to this popular programming language . |
| 14 | The results suggest that its intelligence lies somewhere between that of a chimpanzee and a dog . |
| 15 | He was very unbending , this young boss of hers — not even a smile , and his speech was more like that of a headmaster than a colleague . |
| 16 | Eck 's reputation was that of a sophist or dialectician rather than a profound thinker but in his day he exercised tremendous influence . |
| 17 | The business is that of a builder and builders ' merchant . |
| 18 | Lear 's tragic mistake is that he tries to mix his authority as a parent with that of a King and assumes love and power are interchangeable . |
| 19 | ‘ I would wish that your deportment on a horse could be more that of a lady and less that of a farm waggoner , ’ she remarked spitefully . |
| 20 | Common Law treated a contract as voidable if made under duress , i.e. threats of violence to life or limb ; it took no account of more subtle forms of pressure — the unfair advantage taken of a man in distressed circumstances , the influence exercised in certain relations , such as that of a guardian and his former ward , or solicitor and client . |
| 21 | Your attitude can be that of a winner or a loser . |
| 22 | It should have the same meaning for each person , whatever his contribution to the world , whether it be that of a labourer or that of the highly qualified expert in , for example , quantum mechanics or any other of those disciplines for the erudite which , to the laity border on unreality . |
| 23 | Interestingly , the date of the earliest document signed by Hocazade — mid-Shawwal 877 — more or less coincides with that of a recording that on 23 Shawwal 877/23 March 1473 Efdalzade had been appointed to the Sahn in place of Ali Kuscu who , Uzuncarsili says , had been transferred to the muderrislik of the Ayasofya medrese , one of the posts which Molla Husrev had held in conjunction with the kadilik of Istanbul . |
| 24 | His head looked like that of a statue that someone had found and rolled home so that all the delicate parts had broken off . |
| 25 | He reported after the Sixth Comintern Congress that ’ As a rule , when we tell our Latin American comrades , on meeting them for the first time , that the situation of their country is that of a semi-colony and consequently we must consider the problems concerning it from the viewpoint of our colonial or semi-colonial tactics , they are indignant at this notion and assert that their country is independent , that it is represented in the League of Nations , has its own diplomats , consulates , etc . ’ |
| 26 | This increases the significance of the information system to that of a recommender as to what to do based on value and choices but leaves the final decision to the manager . |
| 27 | Sadly , it seems more likely that the appeal of the existing examination tradition will remain vastly superior to that of a novel and relatively untried procedure . |
| 28 | The mass of a neutron slightly exceeds that of a proton and , when isolated , a neutron decays into a proton and a negative pion . |
| 29 | Sinhalese , of status equivalent to that of a mudaliyar or ratemahatmaya , were appointed as presidents of the tribunals . |
| 30 | Their actual digestive system is that of a carnivore and so bamboo is an unlikely foodstuff to choose . |