Example sentences of "of a [noun] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here there may have been a connection between the temporary weakening of ducal control over minting , in the troubles following Richard II 's death , and the production of a currency useful for traders . |
| 2 | During the course of the action , they inflicted heavy casualties on their attackers and revealed themselves to be fierce and resourceful fighters — not amateurs , but professionals of a skill comparable to that of their Roman adversaries . |
| 3 | This means that even as regards third parties who neither have nor need the protection of Code C , and who have never had such protection in the past , the police officer can not demand the production of a document relevant to the suspected offence . |
| 4 | A drugs squad officer has just paid a visit to the owner of a field full of cannabis — but he wo n't be making any arrests . |
| 5 | Even though the epidermis appears to be stretched taut over the surface of a structure such as a growing limb bud , its response to wounding is to close over the lesion , rather than to gape more widely . |
| 6 | As points of reference for the total curriculum of a school each of these falls within the usual definition of broad aims . |
| 7 | The gestation period of a horse is about 11 months , that of a donkey 12 to 13 months , and that of the hybrid somewhere between 11 and 13 months . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , the influential head priest of the Jama Masjid in New Delhi , Imam Abdullah Bukhari , yesterday charged Mr Gandhi with being in league with Hindu militants who laid the foundation stone of a temple next to a mosque in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh on Thursday . |
| 9 | The use of a facility such as ‘ Office Power ’ would thus reduce the pressure on staff dealing with more complicated cases where a much more detailed and individual response is required . |
| 10 | The use of a facility such as ‘ Office Power ’ and its electronic mail capabilities would ensure that all aspects of a case could be considered timeously without fear of hard copy correspondence being lost between different sections inadvertently or otherwise not actioned . |
| 11 | In the Raman , the intensity of a peak due to a given species is directly related to its concentration . |
| 12 | There are in the Musée two memorable and characteristic El Greco portraits , of a duke all in black and a cardinal ; some excellent Ingres , including a full-length portrait of the depressing King Charles X , looking depressing , and an ample-backed Baigneuse or Woman Bathing ; a Goya self portrait , among other pictures by him , making him look mild and harmless ; some British pictures , by Constable , Lawrence , Reynolds and Raeburn ; a Géricault and an agitated Delacroix showing Job tormented by Demons ; and some fine drawings , of which Bonn at had a most notable collection , too large to be displayed in toto , by artists from the early Italians onwards . |
| 13 | Its purely endogenous nature is well illustrated by the facts that it can be evoked by the absence of a stimulus such as a gap in a long sequence of evenly spaced tones and that the actual probability and significance of the stimulus is less important in determining whether or not the P300 will occur than the subject 's perception of its probability and significance . |
| 14 | Paul Way found himself on the receiving end of a £100 fine for a breach of the P.G.A . |
| 15 | THE Football League 's imposition of a £50,000 fine on Third Division Barnet appears a harsh penalty for breaches of the statutory smallprint . |
| 16 | Of course , the use of a category such as " the English people " requires some sense not only of what that phrase encompasses , but of what is necessarily excluded from it . |
| 17 | This case supports the right of a third party to challenge the conclusion of a treaty inconsistent with obligations owed to at least one of the treaty parties by another treaty . |
| 18 | This mere slip of a girl responsible for at least seven deaths . |
| 19 | The decoration is of a style typical throughout the Empire , laurel wreaths , cherubs and scrolls are all devices that are commonly found on banners and armour . |
| 20 | ‘ The cost of a vessel such as the Khan has described will be beyond a trader 's reach , Noyon , given that men are permitted to make only a profit from an enterprise which may be considered just . |
| 21 | Who knows what thoughts may pass through the mind of a machine capable of consciously perceiving such patterns , and thinking about them ? |
| 22 | In dealing with this damage , police found an estimated five metric tonnes of fertiliser of a type suitable for use as explosives , ’ he added . |
| 23 | The two men were reputedly friends and these sturdy cat-built vessels were of a type familiar to Cook from his earliest days at sea , apprenticed to a Whitby shipmaster . |
| 24 | Other observers have also detected significant departures from ‘ pure ’ bureaucracy in Soviet systems of government , though these are often of a type familiar to Western students of bureaucracy and have positive results , such as entrepreneurial initiative , departures from hierarchical principles , the development of informal relationships , creativity , pragmatism and instrumentalism ( Granick 1954 ; Armstrong 1965 ; Stewart 1969 ; Hough 1969 ; Churchward 1968 ; Hough 1973 ) . |
| 25 | This Site of Special Scientific Interest covers 74 acres of beautiful ancient woodland of a type uncommon in the East Midlands . |
| 26 | Our survey programmes have been extensive and we have found nothing of a type similar to that which has been found in Derbyshire . |
| 27 | Dating from between 1875 and 1885 , the gilt frame is considered an outstanding example of a type popular during the nineteenth century . |
| 28 | Modern Spanish nationalism of a type comparable to nascent nationalism in other European countries was created by the fact of resistance to Napoleon . |
| 29 | For , plainly , such a procedure and the acknowledgement of either authoritative text or persons involve the existence of rules of a type different from the rules of obligation or duty which ex hypothesi are all that the group has . |
| 30 | The government has responded by increasing the military presence in the area , while the " Mindanao Defenders " , an irregular civilian paramilitary force of a type common in the Philippines , is beginning to intimidate the protestors . |