Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | SUPERSTAR Arnold Schwarzenegger plans to appear in a wacky movie spoof of his own career . |
| 2 | The trade-weighted index was also lifted by the better sentiment towards the pound , rising from a historic opening low of 75.7 to end at 76.3 . |
| 3 | On the other side sat a pleasant Bedford woman of about thirty years of age . |
| 4 | As this was a retrospective study retrieval of notes was difficult , especially for the earlier years , and information from case notes was patchy . |
| 5 | Another sweep along the side of a deep furrow produced a rusted iron belt-buckle of unusual design . |
| 6 | HAR DAR DI KAL A small worm ; the hypothetical creator of a hypothetical sister planet of Myrin |
| 7 | The contract comprises a 4.5 kilometre extension of the M74 in Glasgow . |
| 8 | Alongside the race equality unit , Southwark SSD has worked hard to build up a representative mailing list of funded and unfunded bodies , says Wright . |
| 9 | The linear size of such a representative volume element of spherulites would be perhaps several hundred microns . |
| 10 | Er now this is interesting because this is not a representative cross section of er , of women in Scotland , but its an average gathering together , not chosen for any reason other than some are interested er , some come from er no particular background , but sixty two of this hundred have said yes , they have been a victim of crime , those of you had said yes , what , what , what experiences have you had that made you say yes ? |
| 11 | This is a descriptive vote because this hundred er women are not a representative cross section of the whole of Scotland they 're invited to come from various places and ninety six of them think that animals deserve a better deal . |
| 12 | These 20 buyers would be chosen from a representative cross section of firms , according to the numbers in each level of output category . |
| 13 | Just by taking a test drive in any model from the award-winning Citroën BX range at your local Citroën dealer you can book yourself and your partner into one of over 300 superb hotels in England and France ( including the Riverside Country House Hotel in Ashford-in-the-Water , as featured ) for a 3-day break courtesy of Citroën . |
| 14 | The impact of the section has been very broadly based in the city , and for the first time we 've added for you in very brief terms , a Domiciliary Health information of just the total number of visits made by the city health care , erm and the level of work in terms of notices served , and prosecutions , note , going up in most of the sections , particularly their units they 're small numbers , but they are significant , just the same , and the table on the top of page forty-four , erm as I said earlier , I think we reached the highest level of insect complaints in the summer that we 've ever had to deal with , it 's very usual for us to deal with a thousand , over in the summer period , this time we dealt with sixteen hundred . |
| 15 | The 25th meet a slick remix courtesy of Harding and Curnow . |
| 16 | They used minute-to-minute data to fit a simultaneous equations model of the determination of spot and futures prices for the MMI . |
| 17 | Definition 2.6.1 A function ( also called map , mapping , or transformation ) from a non-empty set A to a non-empty set B is a non-empty subset f of A x B such that for each a ε A there exists exactly one b ε B for which ( a , b ) ) ε f . |
| 18 | This research grew out of an earlier project ( funded by the Leverhulme Trust and the History of the University of Oxford ) to collect data on the social origins , university experience and career destination of a stratified 10% sample of Oxford University 's twentieth century members . |
| 19 | Inside , a subtle colour scheme of white or light pastel shades is complemented by cool tiled floors and modern facilities . |
| 20 | That stalemate might provide a private sector equivalent of the Government 's golden share . |
| 21 | The former reference can be thought of as a private sector illustration of financial accountability . |
| 22 | All the people with whom we have had a significant relationship are retained as imagos ; a private society inside of us . |
| 23 | Two plates from the china cupboards are shown here on a plate from a private dinner service of Queen Elizabeth II . |
| 24 | The coins quietened the men 's agitation in the way that gold can , and Rincewind was amazed to find , half a minute later , that he was holding a little glass portrait of Twoflower wielding a huge notched sword and smiling as though all his dreams had come true . |
| 25 | I also often attach a little shade fringe of yarn under the colour key too , as this helps me remember later what type and quality of yarn was used , as well as the actual colours . |
| 26 | Emergency services were called to the M four when a fifty kilogram container of calcium hypochloride split open during peak hour traffic . |
| 27 | across in swindon yesterday eight hundred of the country 's fittest athletes were competing in one of the summer 's toughest events … the two twenty triathlon … a fifty mile race of endurance |
| 28 | Baghoomian organised Basquiat 's last show in New York , and after Basquiat died of a drug overdose in the spring of 1988 , just a few months after that show closed , Baghoomian claimed a fifty percent share of all the works in Basquiat 's estate , numbering in the hundreds . |
| 29 | But an increase in the supply of dollars implied a persistent US balance of payments deficit ( e.g. exporters to the USA accept payments in dollars , or payments overseas by US residents are made in dollars ) , and this would undermine confidence in the dollar as a reserve currency because dollar claims were growing in relation to US gold reserves . |
| 30 | Grupo Torras , a Spanish investment subsidiary of the London-based Kuwait Investment Office ( KIO ) , filed for receivership in Madrid on Dec. 4 ; it was reported that losses in Spain might total approximately US$4,000 million between 1986 and 1992 . |