Example sentences of "of a [noun] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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1 | For advocacy groups to work properly they must feel that they are truly independent of the influence of professionals employed by the authority , since any group will from time to time find itself challenging the advice of a consultant psychiatrist or service manager employed by the authority . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | The big pitfall is the prospect of a currency loss if sterling declines still further , which can wipe out the benefit of interest rate savings and leave the borrower owing more debt than he borrowed in the first place . |
4 | There were modest alternatives available to an antislavery readership but they either propounded the outlook of a minority tendency as did the Anti-Slavery Advocate , edited by the Irish Garrisonian Richard Webb in the 1850s , or had a predominantly local circulation as was likely with the short-lived Anti-Slavery Watchman of Manchester produced by the Garrisonian group around George Thompson and his son-in-law F. W. Chesson , or propounded a particular remedy for slavery in the case of the Quaker Richardson family in Newcastle through the Slave 's stress on the free produce movement . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | On pp. 215 — 37 we examine the interaction of EC and domestic competition laws in relation to an acquisition of a minority interest or majority stake in a local company in France , Germany , Spain and Italy . |
7 | America 's reminder to Germany of the value of NATO is one piece of a jigsaw puzzle that is growing more difficult to solve . |
8 | If a respondent is known to be acting by a solicitor , service may be effected on the solicitor by delivery to his office , by first-class post , by use of a document exchange or by fax . |
9 | He heard the clean crack of a leg bone but did not lose consciousness . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | First , a study of the general background by way of a literature review and conference on the decline of the British economy since 1870 . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | This is an activity that does n't bear repeating often as sponsors sometimes discover that they have pledged themselves to give much more than they had intended and that , unlike the purchase of a raffle ticket or a ticket to a school event , there is no chance of personal gain . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | But one thing I was determined to do was to get hold of a Supersight putter and see what its secret was . |
16 | The gondolier sang a few liquid golden bars of a love song while she listened in rapture . |
17 | She did eventually die of a heart attack but it was nothing to do with Luke . ’ |
18 | 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 . |
19 | Kim , 29 , died of a heart attack and yesterday her ex-husband Peter explained that there was no warning that she was ill . |
20 | Born in Leeds , England , in 1960 , tragedy soon struck the family when his father , a sports journalist , died of a heart attack when Clayton was six . |
21 | For a start he would drown , or if he did n't drown he would suffocate ; and most probably he would have died of a heart attack when he felt the great mouth gape for him . |
22 | The real truth about Crabb will never be known , but it does seem that he was expected by the Russians , was caught and either died of a heart attack or was murdered , and his body dumped over the side as the ships left Portsmouth . |
23 | Particularly in the case of a heart attack or stroke , a whole family 's way of life can be drastically altered overnight ; and there is often a need for emotional support as much as practical advice . |
24 | It 's believed he dies of a heart attack or stroke . |
25 | Some of us worried and went looking for him , then one of Alf Wood 's sons found him dead in the old pw hut , we think he died of a heart attack or so the doctor said . |
26 | How much would you like in the event of a heart attack or a stroke , it 's very difficult for them to decide . |
27 | A man of seventy-five dies of a heart condition and inside four days his son is shot dead . |
28 | Until we increase it by surgery for disease of aorta , renal failure , therapy for blindness , replacement of a heart valve and organ transplant . |
29 | Therefore , on 13 February 1991 , I tabled a written question : ’ To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many general practitioners in previous years , in complying with his wishes to move to use computers , applied for a grant for the installation of a computer system that was above the figure of payment set out in the published computer cost reimbursement schedule . ’ |
30 | The Oxford Dictionary of Computing ( 1986 ) defines software as ‘ a generic term for those components of a computer system that are intangible rather than physical ’ . |