Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [prep] a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An investigation is underway into a fire which caused thousands of pounds of damage to a plastics factory . |
| 2 | Specimen memorandum of association for a solicitors ' incorporated practice which is a company limited by shares |
| 3 | Specimen articles of association for a solicitors ' incorporated practice which is a company limited by shares |
| 4 | Specimen memorandum of association for a solicitors ' incorporated practice which is an unlimited company having a share capital |
| 5 | Specimen articles of association for a solicitors ' incorporated practice which is an unlimited company having a share capital |
| 6 | Failure to obey any instructions he or she might issue in this context may amount to the statutory offence of obstruction of a police officer in the execution of his duty , for which the sentence can be either imprisonment or a substantial fine . |
| 7 | In due course , she was charged with and convicted of obstruction of a police constable in the execution of his duty . |
| 8 | Friends of the Earth is warning Mr Redwood to beware of talk of a jobs bonanza . |
| 9 | In consequence , it is not possible to define a rate of return on a futures contract , and some other type of analysis must be used which does not require the use of the sum invested . |
| 10 | The actual rate of return on a futures position depends both on whether the position is long or short , and on the amount of margin that has to be paid . |
| 11 | The understanding of recovery as a processes is still in its formative years . |
| 12 | How one charity helps another The Goodwill charity shop in Court Arcade , Darlington , closed its doors for the last time on Tuesday after four years of fund-raising for a children 's village in India . |
| 13 | Nowadays I am inclined to compromise where as once I would have felt confident of victory in a dogs ' confrontation . |
| 14 | The picture of life in a goods station was painted by Ernest Protheroe : |
| 15 | He delivers the wretched data of life in an itinerants ' lodging house . |
| 16 | Her parents had not accepted the grounds of referral to a children 's hearing , that L had been the victim of an offence , and the case had gone before Sheriff Sir Stephen Young at Greenock Sheriff Court . |
| 17 | The retailer may combine various forms of advertising in a promotions campaign , depending on what products he wants to promote , and the way he wants to use the advertising . |
| 18 | A long , narrow corridor of stone with a portcullis at each end , it was designed to render an invading force helpless once they had entered its confines , when both grilles would be dropped . |
| 19 | ( 5 ) , Sched. 2 , Part I. For the period of currency of a seamen 's canteen licence , see s.42 . |
| 20 | Culyer ( 1973 , p. 185 ) provides a useful illustration of a trial PPB system with respect to the allocation of expenditure in a police force , although he prefers to call this approach ‘ output budgeting ’ , a term used in the UK civil service ( see below ) . |
| 21 | Rick has been teaching for twelve years and is Head of Mathematics in a boys ' secondary modern school in a small town , with an intake mainly from middle-class homes . |