Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [noun pl] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Farming for a livelihood demands manipulation of the life-processes in the soil , crops , and animals in such a way as to yield continuous sustenance or profit without depleting capital . |
| 2 | The research , which acknowledges the profound effect on the student in changing to a different concept of learning , and the important effect of his previous full-time learning environment , sets out to develop an effective methodology for creating a research skills profile of the PhD student at the commencement of his course . |
| 3 | Would any ex-members of the Queens Royal Irish Hussars , 8th Kings Royal Irish Hussars , or 4th Queens Own Hussars , who are interested in forming a home counties branch of the regimental association , like to contact me at the address below ? |
| 4 | The accruals method has been in development for over three years , and was triggered by the takeover of Pearl by AMP on a price/ earnings ratio of 9.6 times earnings calculated under an embedded value method . |
| 5 | Together they have provided a record events sponsorship of nearly £100,000 , sum which will enable the Trust to stage eighteen concerts . |
| 6 | The contribution was recognised later by a substantial monetary award from a War Inventions Board of scientists and by an OBE from the Government ’ . |
| 7 | The Commissioner is a recognizable national figure , in modern times invariably a career police officer of high ability . |
| 8 | Transfer from special school to integrated provision as a pupil gains mastery of specialised skills or transfer from integrated provision to special provision for specific reasons should be neither surprising nor impossible . |
| 9 | The South East distributor enjoyed a midway profits jump of 53% to £9.2m . |
| 10 | Certainly , that expansion could never have occurred in a society organised into villages of co-operation ; nor would industries run by trade unions as workers ’ co-operatives and organised nationally have provided a basis for it , for the accumulation of capital with which to finance the crucial , secondary stage of the Industrial Revolution : that is , the establishment of a capital goods sector of the economy . |
| 11 | The test is not based on a property lawyers view of the world but that of the businessman . |
| 12 | Patients with no abnormal changes in the colorectal mucosa ( n=1151 ) showed a pseudomelanosis coli incidence of 3.13% . |
| 13 | In patients with no abnormal changes a pseudomelanosis coli frequency of 6.9% was detected , indicating more reliable documentation of this observation than in the retrospective study . |
| 14 | IBM Japan Ltd is to buy an 18.2% stake worth $172,000 in Genex Corp , one of the largest commodity future information service firms in Japan : Genex is an information services unit of Tokyo General Corp and Taiyo General Corp , which are the two biggest commodity brokers in Japan . |
| 15 | Mitsui will sell and support SoftBench in co-operation with OGIS Systems Inc , an information systems subsidiary of Osaka Gas Co . |
| 16 | Mitsui will sell and support SoftBench in co-operation with OGIS Systems Inc , an information systems subsidiary of Osaka Gas Co . |