Example sentences of "of a [noun sg] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A catenary is the locus of the focus of a parabola as it rolls on a straight line . |
| 2 | Vocational education is often thought of as the acquisition of knowledge and skills directly applicable to the job ; but in most posts what is required is not so much the acquisition of a skill as progressive development in the fields of human relations , of judgment , and of general educational standards . |
| 3 | Similarly , he celebrates the great house at Allington , which is early Stuart and built next to the road , with the comment : ‘ To be near the village , so as in some way to afford comfort , protection , and patronage , and perhaps also with a view to the pleasantness of neighbourhood for its own inmates , seemed to be the object of a gentleman when building his house in the old days . ’ |
| 4 | They were as likely to have followed the lead of a gentleman as of an artisan . ’ |
| 5 | The scarcity of employment suitable for the sons of a gentleman provided the man who could meet that need with very real influence in his region , and a favour of considerable value to a freeholder need not involve any major place in government service . |
| 6 | Pip may have the wealth and social standing of a gentleman though he is a false one whereas Joe lacks both of these though it is he , along with Herbert that I would call the true gentleman of this book . |
| 7 | Yeah , if you think you might come to the end of a conversation before you reach the end of the tape , they 've rather you put a new tape in . |
| 8 | Probably we have in our mind 's eye something in the nature of a raffle as being a form of random sampling , and we are right in thinking of this as one method . |
| 9 | No more of a realist than Anna ? |
| 10 | One accident the HSE highlights as a plain lack of common sense involved a child who was left in the cab of a tractor while the operator dismounted to add bedding to a pig pen . |
| 11 | Leon Kennedy held up his hand , more of a proclamation than a greeting . |
| 12 | There are two pightles in this parish , both referring to elongated pieces of land , relics of the time when such shapes were left at the edge of a field after it had been divided up for strip-cultivation . |
| 13 | What 's the point of a heart when it 's lost its dreams ? |
| 14 | ‘ I 've been going to the races and washing up the dishes with my wife , as I need a bit of a rest before I start . |
| 15 | Mid-way , after a long , hard time , we stopped for a rest — at least , as much of a rest as you can get standing in knee-deep water unable to put down your rucsac . |
| 16 | A telephone hotline , manned twenty four hours a day , has been set up for former pupils of a school where the head has been suspended and a governor arrested by police . |
| 17 | Through the 1988 Act , however , it can affect the future of a school because it bears on competition for the school . |
| 18 | There is little to be gained from looking at the past achievements of a school if the head and the governors treat their task as having been totally defined by the Education Reform Act . |
| 19 | He 'd brought home some hairs from the cross on the back of a donkey when she was cutting her teeth , and Ma had made a little black silk bag to put them in so they could hang round her neck to keep the funny turns away . |
| 20 | Zach was the only one who showed any real talent and he was more of a performer than an actor . |
| 21 | Similarly , he has the rights and obligations of a buyer as against the person from whom he purchases his raw materials . |
| 22 | ( e ) Insurance A property is not now at the risk of a buyer until completion has taken place . |
| 23 | English Estates are moving ahead with the development of Chatham Maritime and although Mr. Ault assured me that the plaintiff did not wish to drive the dock company away , its operation is clearly less of a godsend than in 1983 and the desire is to curtail it . |
| 24 | Two recent cases of young Arabs dying while in police custody ( one of whom fell out of a window while being interrogated ) have added to this impression . |
| 25 | It would involve crawling out of a window while nobody was looking and trusting in the spirit of Christmas goodwill should we be discovered . |
| 26 | John Coffin let this scene run through in his mind like a bit of a film while he walked beside Gabriel . |
| 27 | Susan could n't think of a film where he had made it alive to the end credits . |
| 28 | Basquiat père was shocked at the depiction of his son 's drug addiction in press accounts of the artist 's death , and the elder Basquiat 's lawyer says the estate may sue to stop the film , invoking laws in at least thirteen American states that enable an estate to stop the showing of a film because of objections to the exploitation of a physical likeness on the screen . |
| 29 | Innominate Crack and Kern Knotts Crack are both 4c , though the first is the harder overall and more suited to the modern climber , being less of a squirm than the other . |
| 30 | As he is also chairman of the 100 Group of finance directors and regularly speaks at conferences and meetings , his timetable requires the skills of a juggler if not actually a magician ! |