Example sentences of "of a [noun] [noun] and " in BNC.

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1 Bright beer is certainly preferable to a fully-fledged keg but it still lacks the rounded flavour of a cask beer and is served too gassy and too cold .
2 If Mr Kinnock found himself head of a minority government and decided to ‘ soldier on ’ he might find that Sir Richard Attenborough , that grand old trouper in ‘ Luvvies for Labour ’ , could turn out to be an embarrassment .
3 Field work will take the form of a literature review and visits will be made to the sites at three monthly intervals to reflect the institutions at different stages of development .
4 First , a study of the general background by way of a literature review and conference on the decline of the British economy since 1870 .
5 In order to divide up a lengthy recording of conversational data into chunks which can be investigated in detail , the analyst is often forced to depend on intuitive notions about where one part of a conversation ends and another begins .
6 Born in New York City in 1944 , Anne , the daughter of a schoolteacher mother and a father who was an assistant librarian in the business section at Columbia University , was raised in Chappaqua , NY , where she attended the Horace Greeley School .
7 But one thing I was determined to do was to get hold of a Supersight putter and see what its secret was .
8 Giving up smoking reduces the risk of a heart attack and is particularly important for those who have other risk factors such as high blood pressure , raised blood cholesterol levels , are overweight or diabetic .
9 Kim , 29 , died of a heart attack and yesterday her ex-husband Peter explained that there was no warning that she was ill .
10 A man of seventy-five dies of a heart condition and inside four days his son is shot dead .
11 Until we increase it by surgery for disease of aorta , renal failure , therapy for blindness , replacement of a heart valve and organ transplant .
12 Sequoia Systems Inc is joining the rush to fit out Unix systems with all the aids and facilities that mainframe users take for granted , and reckons that it is one up on its competitors with software that continuously monitors all the functions of a computer system and immediately notifies operators of problems in operations or applications — even if it did have to go out-of-house to get it .
13 It may be possible to read a listing of a computer program and perhaps make some sense of it but , certainly to many of us who have to use computer programs , they take on a quasi-mystical nature as they are , after all , intangible .
14 The addition of a management controller and monitoring facility allows the individual design activities to be integrated into a total design process .
15 We had the possibility both of a management buy-out and of interest from outside the company .
16 Peter Thompson now explained that he wanted to go beyond the concept of a management buy-out and to involve all the staff who wanted to buy shares .
17 The ability to operate as part of a management team and to manage an expanding group is essential .
18 The fed state replaces fasting activity during ingestion of a nutrient meal and this motility state was also examined using the MBEST scanning technique .
19 Approaches to selection , organization and database construction vary according to the day to day timetable of a school library and it is important in selecting a topic to consider the time-scale of the project .
20 Looking back at 4 , we might surmise that teachers and pupils have a shared schema for the progress and structure of a school lesson and their roles and responses to possible events .
21 Inside the blue and gilt auditorium , the loveliest in the world , western presence was felt only in the shape of a film crew and their bright lights , with the Philips recording team behind the scenes , documenting one of the company 's most remarkable achievements under Gergiev before it makes way for new plans .
22 It had once been the offices of a film company and inside we found a dozen Iraqi soldiers in battledress , claiming to be Palestinians , members of the Arab Liberation Front .
23 That is here , at this cinema and er usually consists of a film show and erm er presentation and then of a buffet lunch .
24 The bank took the package as part of a $3m hardware and software deal concluded in January .
25 By a writ dated 11 October 1989 the plaintiff , Derbyshire County Council , claimed ( 1 ) damages for libel contained in articles appearing in the issue of ‘ The Sunday Times ’ dated 17 September 1989 entitled ‘ Revealed ; Socialist tycoon 's deals with a Labour chief ’ and ‘ Bizarre deals of a council leader and the media tycoon ’ , and in the issue dated 24 September 1989 entitled ‘ Council share deals under scrutiny ’ published by the defendants , Times Newspapers Ltd. , Andrew Neil , the editor , Rosemary Collins and Peter Hounam , two of the newspaper 's journalists ; and ( 2 ) an injunction to restrain the defendants , their servants or agents from publishing the same or any similar libel of the plaintiff council .
26 The articles in the issue of 17 September were headed ‘ Revealed : Socialist tycoon 's deals with a Labour chief ’ and ‘ Bizarre deals of a council leader and the media tycoon ’ : that in the issue of 24 September was headed ‘ Council share deals under scrutiny . ’
27 The company was originally part of a furnishing business and applied general retailing techniques when it entered the travel trade in 1963 .
28 A Johnson Matthey spokesman dismissed any suggestion of a boardoom rift and said that the two departures were ‘ not particularly connected ’ .
29 A Johnson Matthey spokesman dismissed any suggestion of a boardoom rift and said that the two departures were ‘ not particularly connected ’ .
30 She had now stationed herself directly behind Rupert , and suddenly she extended a hand the size of a tennis racquet and grabbed all the hair on Rupert 's head in her fist .
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