Example sentences of "of a [noun] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few years ago , I heard of a consultant surgeon who had been drinking on duty for 20 years . |
| 2 | However , what evidence there is highlights a number of ways in which — relative to older whites — black and Asian elders are disadvantaged ( in income , housing , health and access to services ) , and are part of a minority group which clearly suffers racial discrimination . |
| 3 | At Horkstow we might have another example of such usage — an interpretation supported by the cosmic imagery , the role of the kneeling figures , and the inclusion of a guilloche border which otherwise diminishes the design 's radius . |
| 4 | On the other hand if someone dies of a heart attack it is just accepted that the cause is hereditary , ‘ He over-exerted himself once too often , ’ or most commonly , it was ‘ Just bad luck ’ . |
| 5 | I had intended to go on and become a teacher , but when Dad died of a heart attack I was needed to help run the family art gallery . ’ |
| 6 | — Peter Sellers , telling reporters of a heart attack he had while making love to Britt Ekland . |
| 7 | Workmates of a computer technician who 's thought to have have killed his wife and children before committing suicide have held a memorial service to pay their last respects . |
| 8 | The description ‘ Big , Black but Slim ’ could be misconstrued but as dedicated readers of a computer magazine I 'm sure you 'll realise that I 'm talking about the keyboard ! |
| 9 | If staff development is part of a management plan which in turn is controlled by governors this means that governors ' powers are still further increased . |
| 10 | The proposal was , however , rejected in favour of a management buyout which valued the company at £4 million in January 1987 . |
| 11 | In James Callaghan 's famous speech at Ruskin College , Oxford , in October 1976 , from which the Great Debate emerged , he spoke of a school curriculum which would aim ‘ to equip children … for a lively , constructive place in society , and also fit them for a job of work ’ . |
| 12 | During the course of a school day there will be many more instructions than this ; obviously , therefore , he obeys most of these ( or at least does not have tantrums after hearing them ) . |
| 13 | Many of the needs described above require the involvement of a school staff who have an understanding of and commitment to the benefits of linking with the world beyond school . |
| 14 | Alongside these developments the plan also has to cater for the projection of a school image which is honest and intelligible and for making and fulfilling promises about quality . |
| 15 | In Australia , for example , a series for the unemployment percentage is compiled from the results of a sample survey which covers about one-third of 1 per cent of the population . |
| 16 | You see , children , this is all part of a BBC plan which you will come to know as CISSI ( the Corporation 's Intention to deal Sensitively with Serious Issues ) . |
| 17 | Molloy and Carroll suggest that while Access courses equip students with whatever is necessary for the completion of a degree course they may be less successful in preparing them for the higher levels of academic performance . |
| 18 | Indeed in all the contexts examined to date have suggests that the disposition of the " subordinate " ( denoted by its direct object ) to comply can be assumed or taken for granted : a sentence such as I had him cry , for example , would sound rather strange , unless imagined in a situation where someone is disposed to cry on request ( as in the context of a film director who is referring to an actor working under his orders ) . |
| 19 | She stared at a watercolour of a moorland scene which hung between the two windows . |
| 20 | But now she raised her eyes and did look , differently , at Alice , the housemate of a Council official who worked at the main office for this area . |
| 21 | Union leaders and business experts say they 're shocked by the sacking of a council executive who brought thousands of new jobs to an unemployment blackspot . |
| 22 | On the day of a Council meeting which I attend , the number of calls increases substantially . |
| 23 | It 's the number of a steam engine I 've got . |
| 24 | the cylinder of a printing machine which brings the paper into contact with the with the printing plate or blanket cylinder . |
| 25 | In R v Love the Court of Appeal quashed the conviction of a director of a printing company who had been absent at the time a print order for obscene books was accepted , and who had no personal knowledge of the contents of those books . |
| 26 | ‘ If this is not direct political control of a broadcasting network I do not know what is , ’ he said . |
| 27 | Sir Anthony Barrowclough was told that police had wanted to interview Mrs Elizabeth Barlow in 1981 over the collapse of a stockbroking firm which had links with another investment company , Farrington Stead , a similar operation to Barlow Clowes . |
| 28 | In 1985 a conference of PGCE tutors drafted a description of a core curriculum whose status remains indefinite . |
| 29 | The second part of the package is the creation of a golf course which would retain the open parkland in front of the castle . |
| 30 | Only last year , Belgian motor racing ace , Bertrand Gachot lost his place in the Silverstone-based Jordan team when jailed for spraying CS Gas in the face of a taxi driver he 'd crashed into . |