Example sentences of "of [noun] [prep] a [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PROPOSALS to form a Premier League second division were thrown out as England 's top clubs achieved a rare showing of unity at a London meeting yesterday . |
| 2 | Mr Clerides takes over at a time when the international community is showing impatience with lack of progress towards a Cyprus settlement . |
| 3 | David Burleigh was a retired professor of literature at a New England university , quietly spoken and witty . |
| 4 | Has anyone said to you ‘ It will not take up much of your time , only a couple of hours on a Friday evening ’ ? |
| 5 | Well — that happened to me when my daughter joined the local Brownie Pack ; they were desperate for help and that ‘ couple of hours on a Friday ’ led to my becoming that pack 's Brown Owl , moving to a Guide Company that was in danger of closing and finally becoming District Commissioner administration four Brownie Packs , four Guide Companies and one Ranger Unit . |
| 6 | Can you spare a couple of hours on a Tuesday morning six times a year ? |
| 7 | As an example , in about 1500 Nicolas von Firmian , member of a noble Tyrolese family , commissioned a Book of Hours from a Flanders scriptorium . |
| 8 | Then , as the planes roar down the flightpath to Heathrow , the one designed to prevent the ultimate nightmare of exposure in a Sunday tabloid . |
| 9 | Doing it his way , he can make lots of money as a New York dentist , and buy a few nice icon things for himself . |
| 10 | It was very useful for people , because it was the only way they could get the bit of money on a Monday . |
| 11 | Well it means I 've got to go on a Thursday so if you run out of money on a Tuesday with run out . |
| 12 | A second limitation , at least if the joint profit maximizing ( cartel ) allocation is thought to be a likely objective of the collusion , is that this allocation may not be sustainable by threats of reversion to a Cournot-Nash equilibrium . |
| 13 | ‘ Getting a game of football on a Saturday for the school team was great . |
| 14 | And , believe us , before three cups of tea on a Monday morning , we are not very easily impressed . |
| 15 | After a number of break-ins at a Darlington shop a sharp-eyed witness contacted the police with details of a car spotted nearby . |
| 16 | After a number of break-ins at a Darlington shop a sharp-eyed witness contacted the police with details of a car which had been spotted nearby . |
| 17 | Both these Berghaus garments exude style , with a tasteful mix of colours and a classy use of braid with a South American influence . |
| 18 | It 's a matter of clemency for a Masai . |
| 19 | The 25 pictures on temporary show in Glasgow 's Converse Gallery are a sample of about 200 photographs and instruments of torture from a Belgrade exhibition countering what sympathisers describe as Western censorship of the horror and cruelty suffered by Serbian minorities in the civil war . |
| 20 | Lot of cars for a Monday ! |
| 21 | She got out as soon as she could , and found work in the weaving sheds — " she was a good weaver ; six looms under her by the time she was sixteen " — marry , produce nine children , eight of whom emigrated to the cotton mills of Massachusetts before the First World War , managed , " never went before the Guardians " .1 It was much , much later that I learned from One Hand Tied Behind Us that four was the usual number of looms for a Lancashire weaver ; Burnley weavers were not well organised , and my great-grandmother had six not because she was a good weaver but because she was exploited . " |
| 22 | Miller described how the original system users 1,000 mainframe Cobol programs and 75Gb of data on a DB2 DASD data farm , with 400 plus Sun SPARC workstations running C application code and 15Gb of Sybase-held data . |
| 23 | Miller described how the original system uses 1,000 mainframe Cobol programs and 75Gb of data on a DB2 disk data farm , with 400-plus Sun Microsystems Inc Sparc workstations running C application code and 15Gb of Sybase-held data . |
| 24 | His interest in zoology was lifelong : he later refused the chair of zoology in a South African university only because he felt committed to the preservation of Corsham . |
| 25 | President Carlos Salinas de Gortari visited seven United States states and Canadian cities on April 7-12 , in a tour aimed at allaying doubts over the inclusion of Mexico in a North American free trade bloc . |
| 26 | The four , believed to be Mexicans and described as major drug dealers , were arrested on Friday after police seized 20 tons of cocaine from a Los Angeles warehouse . |
| 27 | He quickly collapsed from loss of blood near a Cheltenham nightclub and died later in hospital . |
| 28 | The trouble began in November 1978 when Docherty attempted to sue the Scottish international winger Willie Morgan over remarks the player made about his style of management on a Granada TV sports programme called Kick Off . |
| 29 | The resolution called for the resumption of negotiations and transfer of sovereignty to a United States of Indonesia before 1 July 1950 . |
| 30 | ‘ And he sent this pair of shoes to a London address ? ’ |