Example sentences of "of a [noun pl] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | My hon. Friend may have noticed that the Opposition have been floating a similar idea among themselves and discussing again in an internal memorandum the possibility of a luxuries rate of VAT . |
| 2 | But because he turned down an out of court settlement of £10,000 in August , his financial backers , the RCN , now face paying a large share of a costs bill of around £25,000 . |
| 3 | The motive behind this action is usually to reduce the chances of a police check of two on a motor bicycle . |
| 4 | What we were trying to say is there is actually a place and my Right Honourable Friend thinks that there is and indeed so do I , for people to contribute to the problem of policing in their locality who have n't necessarily for one reason or another and my Noble Friend Lord Whitelaw said , decided not to erm be on the police authority , maybe they have n't had time , maybe there has n't been their , their particular but nevertheless they do know and they do care about their locality and they have got a er er a contribution to make and we think that that would actually improve the local the police authorities , provided that they are not in an overwhelming position and that is the reason why we 've suggested that eight erm t er , er , er o of a police authority of sixteen , eight should be councillors in the majority , five should be independents and three should be er er er magistrates and My Lords and then of course the complaint was ah , but then some people may not be properly represented and the number ought to be larger . |
| 5 | Dictionaries are the results of a lexicographers analysis of a language . |
| 6 | But economic success may not be the only benefit of a martial-arts way of life : Yukiso Yamamoto , a famous aikidoist , found it helped his marriage too . |
| 7 | Plastic knitting needles were scrounged and a series of holes slightly smaller than the needles were drilled in one end of an 8″ length of 4″ diameter pipe . |
| 8 | Such beliefs are very difficult to change , but once changed , may have a massive knock-on effect in the rest of an individuals framework of reference . |
| 9 | I mean it seemed to me that the whole concept of an Arts Centre of that stature and calibre on campus was simply marvellous — not unique , but of a very remarkable concept — and I became , as you say , Chairman of the Gardener Centre through Aisa Briggs ' persuasion . |