Example sentences of "of [noun prp] [subord] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Iran on Oct. 7 protested to the government of Pakistan after a crowd attacked the Iranian consulate in Peshawar . |
| 2 | Witnesses said the bus , carrying 49 Britons on a day trip from Cyprus , was driving through an underpass on the main road leading to the Pyramids of Giza when a man dropped the bomb from a bridge above . |
| 3 | In an ideal integrated scheme , cultural controls ( changes in farming habits ) and biological controls would largely supplant pesticides ; in practice , chemical control continues to be an essential component of IPM when a pest population has to be reduced rapidly to minimise financial loss . |
| 4 | The only gleam of hope the Prime Minister could offer was that the Cabinet had on the previous day agreed to ask the Bank of England whether an increase of cuts from 56 million to 76 million , including a ten per cent cut in unemployment benefits , would be enough to ensure an American loan . |
| 5 | RUGBY LEAGUE came out of the north of England because a number of Yorkshire and Lancashire businessmen thought that talented lads should be compensated for time they took off from the pit or the plant . |
| 6 | No rate increases on the Scheme were announced during 1992 and we are reasonably confident that no rate increase will take place during 1993 for members in the Republic of Ireland though a rate increase is likely for members in Northern Ireland and the UK . |
| 7 | So , the House of Commons as a body was independent of Lords and King , and Members within the Commons enjoyed an independence of action inside that chamber . |
| 8 | There is , however , obviously a great deal more to the history of Siberia than a catalogue of criminality and cold . |
| 9 | Joining the House of Lords as a life peer only in 1963 , he became Lord Chancellor in the following year when the Labour Administration was formed , remaining in office until 1970 . |
| 10 | He sits in the House of Lords as a cross-bencher and is active in debates , particularly on environmental issues . |
| 11 | As they poured into Westminster from remote corners of the Scottish highlands and seats in the English shires ( fifty-nine of the government supporters had attended less than one tenth of the sittings of the house in that session ) , it was clear that those who had championed the House of Lords as a place where party discipline took second place to wisdom had an altogether too rosy view of things . |
| 12 | The action of a single tyrant may be more potent to inflict suffering on the continent of Europe than a combination of less powerful persons . ’ |
| 13 | Norma clearly recalls one day during the Battle of Britain when a number of airmen left their overcoats at the Alma , thinking they would survive the night 's mission . |
| 14 | The living system thus contains a constant amount of C. When a plant dies it absorbs no more C and that already present begins to decay . |
| 15 | Within a single ontological cluster C one can use all the elements of S to distinguish subclasses of C. When a training set TS is a subset of C , and all the tests made on instances use only functions and predicates from S , then the invented clusters are called simple . |
| 16 | Oh , I think the story goes on from there , because I do n't think though and this is a personal opinion and I I 'd love the Committee to I do n't know tha that er I M R O ever did get accounts out of Liechtenstein because a year later B I M the m the ownership of it was transferred from Liechtenstein back to England but guess who the the , the owner was transfer to a charitable trust , so we 've got erm a company that is handling the investment management of seven hundred million pounds worth of pension funds which is owned by a charity and the and the accounts that were given to I M R O and these accounts were given to I M R O a year later , were charity commission er type accounts , which evidently showed something like five hundred thousand pounds in that charitable fund and er and no transactions you know , so and that company that was running that was the beneficial owner of our investment company where all the errors took place . |