Example sentences of "of a [noun] [noun] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand if someone dies of a heart attack it is just accepted that the cause is hereditary , ‘ He over-exerted himself once too often , ’ or most commonly , it was ‘ Just bad luck ’ . |
| 2 | Into the less cerebral atmosphere of a detective novel it is likely , too , that you will find opportunities for scenes of action , and that they will seem less like seized-on injections of pep-up dope than they would amid the logical probings of the puzzle story . |
| 3 | In the absence of a university college it was the nearest the Gold Coast had to an institution of higher education . |
| 4 | By considering the equilibrium of a unit cube it can be seen that the moments of the stresses must sum to zero and this implies the symmetry of the stress tensor . |
| 5 | On the other hand , without the use of a simulation model it is difficult to visualize the effect that changes in fertility or in mortality are likely to have on trends over the next few decades . |
| 6 | It may be months or years before his work today makes an impact : in the case of a project failure it may never do so . |
| 7 | Estate agency fees are based on the value of the property , eg 1 per cent of a £30,000 flat would be £300 , plus VAT , whereas on the sale of a £90,000 house it would be £900 plus VAT . |
| 8 | When there is this kind of historical development of a signal system it is important that it should not be read back in the exclusive terms of later signals . |
| 9 | However , Captain John Hughes Hallet of the Planning Staff turned these shallows to the raiders ' advantage , because on the extra-high water of a spring tide it was possible that lightly laden ships and boats might scrape over these flats . |
| 10 | It is prudent , however , to set it on a level plinth , and in the case of a fountain assembly it is vital that the jet unit be just above the maximum water level . |
| 11 | Even as I put my talons down I pulled them away , for I sensed something was wrong , but it was quicker than I and with a loud metal sound like the closing of a cage gate it sprang shut . |
| 12 | Then , while the right hand wrote on , it conjured up the pack of cigarettes once again , conjured one out , and conjured a flame out of a butane lighter it suddenly turned out to be holding . |
| 13 | In the meantime , IBM will have come out with its OS/2 2.0 , the second version of an operating system it launched in 1987 after jointly developing it with Microsoft . |
| 14 | It proved immensely effective at communicating party campaign themes to the electorate , but in the short span of an election campaign it had only a small influence on the public 's issue-agenda . |