Example sentences of "of a [noun] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There 's nothing in the dock except maybe a couple of beer cans and a radio some clumsy bimbo dropped when she was teetering out of a punt in high heels . |
| 2 | It is designed both as a basis for further study and for those students who want an overall understanding of ancient history as part of a degree in other subjects . |
| 3 | From the beginning , Frohnmayer seemed to be trying to please the avant-garde artistic community while at the same time proclaiming his own high moral stance he actually is the possessor of a degree in Christian ethics from the University of Chicago . |
| 4 | Telling a story means making what is false ( or at least largely invented ) seem true , so ‘ realism ’ ( a term hard to define but impossible to avoid ) becomes a crucial yardstick of success , a measure of whether the film wins or loses in the game of make-believe , which may also be the serious game of box-office success or failure ( though this in turn relates only erratically to the quality of a film in general or its SFX in particular ) . |
| 5 | The effect of items being stored offline is that a user will be informed by LIFESPAN of a delay in certain transactions where retrieval from offline to online storage is required . |
| 6 | These results are consistent with scintigraphic evidence of a delay in oesophageal transit of a radiolabelled liquid meal in PSS patients with impaired peristalsis and of fewer but more prolonged episodes of postprandial reflux when PSS patients were compared with those with normal peristalsis and equally severe oesophagitis . |
| 7 | The court also said that opening an account was not the conferring of a benefit in ordinary language , though that ruling is questionable . |
| 8 | The negotiations on the country 's constitutional framework appeared to be on the verge of a breakthrough in early February , when a joint commission of the Czech and Slovak National Councils ( republican parliaments ) agreed on a draft text defining the relationship of the republics in a future federation . |
| 9 | Erm , there 's a question of a rally in Central Hall , now in order to organise this pensioner 's rally there short of funds , erm , I think the executive will be discussing this and as , as before we did give them quite a considerable donating , because it costs a thousand pounds to hire the centre hall and we do want to erm take part in a very big rally , like the last one was . |
| 10 | However , expectations of a nirvana in mental health for visitors to the ‘ English Riviera ’ ( as the area is promoted for tourist purposes ) may have proved too great for some . |
| 11 | The night before the wedding , they went out to all their favourite haunts — 1997 , Rick 's Café , the Go-Down — and ended up at two in the morning getting out of a taxi in Wan Chai , the neon blazing in the hot night , dark-eyed Chinese girls in brightly lit doorways , American sailors talking to them while people slept on the pavements and steaming noodles were served at three dollars a bowl at the poor-man 's lean-to restaurant . |
| 12 | In two war crimes trials which opened in West Germany , an exiled Latvian , Boleslavs Maikovskis , was charged on Jan. 18 , 1990 with responsibility for the murder in 1942 of all 171 inhabitants of a village in German-occupied Latvia as well as another of 250 Latvians , Jews and Gypsies . |
| 13 | Oman ( 1984 , 1989 ) suggests that the crucial test is whether the arrangement involves some element of risk to the seller — and some prospect of a share in future income . |
| 14 | As so often before , Europe found it difficult to escape the effects of a deterioration in US-Soviet relations . |
| 15 | The topic of a clause in topic-prominent languages always occurs in initial position ( Li , 1976 ) . |
| 16 | Yusef Salaam , 16 , Raymond Santana , 15 , and Antron McCray , 16 , the three youths convicted in August of participating in the rape and assault of a jogger in Central Park , New York City , were given maximum sentences of five to 10 years ' imprisonment on Sept. 11 . |
| 17 | ‘ It is certainly of a type in common use there . ’ |
| 18 | Concerned about its lack of a voice in local radio , the Federal Government has now decided to reverse the policy of the previous military regime which broke up the NBC in 1978 . |
| 19 | Thus , Field J. postulated the case of a wife in poor health who refused intercourse and who was forced to comply by her husband who enlisted the aid of a third party to subdue her . |
| 20 | She thought of the woman at a mid-Western university she had visited : Frances someone , wife of a lecturer in English Literature . |
| 21 | With his support and encouragement I took my first somewhat unsteady steps towards the production of a unit in financial accounting . |
| 22 | Police went in just after 6.00 a.m. this morning , to get to the bottom of a racket in stolen cars . |
| 23 | LATERAL THINKER , rapid-fire ideas man , ex quiz king , schoolteacher and lawyer — Australia 's new Science and Technology Minister , Barry Jones , is something of a phenomenon in Australian politics . |
| 24 | She gently rocked the chair to and fro as she started to work on the head of a unicorn in white embroidery cotton . |
| 25 | The results relate to well-controlled , essentially ideal conditions but may reveal little about the effectiveness or safety of a procedure in widespread use in ordinary clinical practice . |
| 26 | There was his jewel-box of a theatre in miniature , with a sparkling ceiling and hung with fairy garlands . |
| 27 | Labour 's rather narrow parliamentary majority in 1964 was chiefly an effect of a slump in Tory support and continuing electoral revival of the Liberals ( who received over 10 per cent of the vote for the first time since the war ) . |
| 28 | Native speakers do not recognise this , but foreign learners of English notice that it is often difficult to hear the unstressed parts of a word in ordinary speech . |
| 29 | Mehmed al-Aksarayi , hakim ( kadi ) of the lands of Rum and of the armies of Shadgeldi Pasha ; and the dedication to Shadgeldi Pasha of a monograph in Persian allegedly written by Mehmed b . |
| 30 | But they 're having to withdraw them all by next week because of a change in European safety regulations . |