Example sentences of "of a [noun prp] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The news came as a devastating blow to her 67-year-old father , the Mossley Hill-born grandson of a Liverpool police superintendent . |
| 2 | She is redoing her A-levels in chemistry , physics and biology in the sixth form of a London girls ' school . |
| 3 | By eight o'clock at night the platforms of a London goods station are congested with great stacks of goods , every imaginable commodity and every conceivable shape . |
| 4 | Party political interference , he said , rejecting the possibility of a London police authority , was especially to be abhorred . |
| 5 | Indeed , when Mt Rowland and Lonrho were themselves the subjects of a DTI inspectors ' report in 1976 , they had no such protection . |
| 6 | Members of a Cardiff ladies ' rowing club tried to pull her out of the mud , but found the current was too fast , and the bitch ( yes , she is called Eric ! ) , too heavy . |
| 7 | A fifth guerrilla , Kunio Bando , was exchanged in 1977 for passengers of a Japan Airlines plane hijacked by members of the Lebanon-based Japanese Red Army . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , Ghulam Abbas Chandio , an adviser to the former PPP chief minister of Sind , was arrested on April 25 on charges of being " closely associated " with the hijacking of a Singapore Airlines Airbus in March [ see p. 38103 ] . |
| 9 | This , and a veiled threat of prosecution , was enough to deter the publication of a Sunday Times article and the broadcasting of a Thames Television programme which were both detrimental to the Army 's case . |
| 10 | Not his idea of a Saturday nights entertainment . |
| 11 | And he once passed on to BitC an invitation he had received requesting him and the Princess to open the conference of a Brent Women 's Association , with a note saying , ‘ Do you think I should do it ? |
| 12 | As courts began dealing with charges of theft and public order offences , a qualified referee was told he may be jailed for his part in the looting of a Blackpool jewellers . |
| 13 | There was the son of a Dallas police officer who held a press conference last autumn to ‘ confess ’ that his dead father was the ‘ second gunman ’ some believe fired at the president from a grassy knoll . |
| 14 | Lonesome Dove , a five-part story of a Texas-to-Montana cattle drive , also shown on CBS last year , was the best-watched TV mini-series of any kind in America for five years . |
| 15 | This morning it was the turn of a Cirencester clothes shop . |
| 16 | Once up in the front line , troops found that life had been reduced , in the words of a Beaux Arts professor serving with the Territorials , ‘ to a struggle between the artillerymen and the navvy , between the cannon and the mound of earth ’ All day long the enemy guns worked at levelling the holes laboriously scraped out the previous night . |
| 17 | It surfaced last year during the trial of Frank Beck , former head of a Leicestershire children 's home , who used it to abuse young people in his care both sexually and physically . |
| 18 | It looks like something out of a Marx Brothers sketch ( ’ the party of the first part … ’ one , which includes the immortal line ‘ Sanity clause ? |
| 19 | The evening suit was not a good fit and he looked as though he was part of a Marx brothers film . |
| 20 | Last summer the crew of a Britannia Airways Boeing 737 inbound to Gatwick filed an airmiss report claiming that a small black lozenge-shaped object , thought to have been a balloon , had passed within 100 yards of the airliner at FL140 over Surrey . |