Example sentences of "of a [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 The remaining third has now effectively been chopped into two pieces with the formation of a computer systems arm , Control Data Systems Inc , CDS , and Ceridian Corp , the rump of its software and computer services business .
3 A FORMER head of a council children 's home was jailed for four years yesterday for indecency against young boys in his care which he committed almost 15 years ago .
4 Letter of the Fortnight and winner of a Dolphin Discs voucher .
5 Prior to the snuff-allergy hypothesis , snuff-content would not be a consideration in the making of a garment replicas .
6 The development of a Tennis Teachers Course offers help to the non-coach teacher , and the inauguration of County Schools Tennis Associations ( there are now 39 ) has enabled locally based courses to be set up .
7 I must apologise for taking so long to respond to your offer of a Village Sports Information Pack .
8 Late eighteenth-century Britain witnessed the emergence of a specialist capital-goods sector , as the demand for production machinery both increased and required more specialized skills .
9 This recommended the creation of a specialist children 's service to replace the existing provision , which was fragmented among various departments , including public assistance .
10 A charity has postponed the opening of a sex offenders treatment centre after two arson attacks on the building .
11 To enable full use to be made of a machine materials used in the food environment need to be ‘ dishwasher proof ’ .
12 The advantage of a Center Parcs break , however , is that whatever the weather you can bask in the centre 's sun-tropical ‘ Swimming Paradise ’ where the temperature is maintained at a constant 84°F .
13 That argument showed that knowledge of the external world can not be reduced to behavioural dispositions , for the very idea of a disposition functions only in the context of an unreduced grasp on the physical world .
14 However , Charles ' law is more usually expressed in the form Charles ' law was developed by Joseph Gay-Lussac who , in 1802 , stated that the volume of a gas changes by 1/273 of its volume at 0°C for every 1°C change in temperature .
15 The basic functions of a subject headings list ( as identified in section 16.1 above ) may be focused more precisely in the following terms :
16 Erm of a type replicas of a type made in Germany and i imported here in very large numbers .
17 It is a property of geometric indices that they understate the price rises and overstate the absolute size of a price falls of a portfolio of shares ( see Chapter 1 ) .
18 Phillips 's omission of a price expectations term from his original study may have been warranted in practice owing to the low rates of inflation which were experienced from the Great War onwards ; but when it comes to analyzing inflationary processes in general it is invalid .
19 Ripa di Meana demanded that the EC Commission take unilateral action to resolve the siting issue , " because every day 's delay in the taking of a decision delays the start of the Agency 's work by another day " .
20 No more than 5 per cent of the value of a unit trusts portfolio can be invested in any single company , at the time the investment is made .
21 Mrs Strutt , the wife of the pioneer mill-owner Jedidiah Strutt , was encoffined in this way , in ‘ a Suit of Superfine Crape consisting of a Shroud Sheets Cap & Pillow … £2 2s 0d ’ .
22 At seven , this is n't crucial , but I 'm well aware that this is the beginning of a tendency girls have to underachieve academically and in other walks of life .
23 Morphology covers the structure of words , the way in which the form of a word changes to indicate specific contrasts in the grammatical system .
24 In February '91 Tony started an essay on Arafat , ‘ I hooked up with him on two different occasions , over the course of a couple months , trying to do a photo-essay on him ; which was probably the most ridiculous thing to do the first time out of the box for a while — talk about a third-rate Keystone kops movie , with me as the star ! ’
25 If you have taken the sensible option of a Boar Boyz Boss this gives you a formidable front line with eight Orc and three Boar attacks concentrated into three models , not to mention the effect of magic weapons or the war boars ' charge .
26 ‘ If your child dislikes taking medicines , trying making it ‘ fun ’ — for instance , make it part of a teddy bears ' tea party .
27 For over a quarter of a century harps have been played and Guinness has been the mainstay , at the prestigious Wexford Opera Festival .
28 For more than a quarter of a century historians have been using computers to help analyse voting behaviour in English parliamentary elections .
29 Anatomy of a recession Businesses responded to a ‘ mild downturn ’ with sharp cutbacks in output and investment .
30 To carry out all functions and duties of a Trading Standards Officer as required .
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