Example sentences of "of a [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In the absence of the latter , it is doubtful whether complete monetary integration , in the form of a currency union , will be achieved . |
| 32 | Inflation , shortages and fear of a currency devaluation led to massive purchases of gold , silver and jewellery late in 1989 . |
| 33 | The big pitfall is the prospect of a currency loss if sterling declines still further , which can wipe out the benefit of interest rate savings and leave the borrower owing more debt than he borrowed in the first place . |
| 34 | And today , details were announced of a charity ball to pave the way for a ChildLine service dedicated to Northern Ireland . |
| 35 | I had a successful 2 o'clock meeting with the organisers of a charity event to raise money for Guy 's Hospital cancer unit . |
| 36 | Lewis had pulled in behind the taxi , and was in time to find Morse slowly — reluctantly ? — pushing two £10 notes into the slot of a Charity Bottle . |
| 37 | Well , you , you see you get of every kind of , of a charity application , begging letters and so forth and it sounds cruel rather |
| 38 | The big heave ho was part of a charity evening for the MacMillan Nurses Fund , of which Lady Zetland is president . |
| 39 | Humorous account of a charity dinner on behalf of the ‘ Indigent Orphans ’ Friends Benevolent Institution' ( CD parodies in this made-up name the pompous titles of many public charities ) . |
| 40 | FIVE members of a charity group have accused a health authority of breaking its promises . |
| 41 | The success of a charity appeal connected with the marathon does lie , to a certain extent , on the appeal of the cause , but it relies even more on the organisation . |
| 42 | THE head of a charity appeal to build a leukaemia unit in Darlington promised last night that all money raised would be spent as originally intended . |
| 43 | THE head of a charity appeal to build a leukaemia unit in Darlington promised last night all money raised will be spent as originally intended . |
| 44 | He was survived by his wife Mary , the daughter of a Birmingham provision merchant , two sons and a daughter . |
| 45 | Mr Heseltine has been forced to pull out of a Birmingham conference on global technology today as a contingency to allow the final details to be tied up in time for presentation to the Cabinet . |
| 46 | MESSAGES left by the kidnapper of a Birmingham estate agent and the killer of a Leeds teenager had similarities , a murder trial jury was told today . |
| 47 | The book is intended for undergraduates in their second or third year of a philosophy degree , but this need not necessarily deter readers with other backgrounds ; e.g. , my father claims to be able to understand it , though perhaps he would not thank me for the suggestion that he is representative . |
| 48 | ( b. c. 1220 ) , Franciscan friar and theologian , was born c .1220 of unknown parentage and entered the Franciscan order in England by 1245 , when Fr Adam Marsh [ q.v. ] requested the loan of a philosophy text assigned to him ( Monumenta Franciscana , vol. i , ed . |
| 49 | On April 1 , 1990 , the Hungarian Zionists Association which had been dissolved after the Second World War , was re-established , with the aim of promoting the formation of a minority council within the Jewish community . |
| 50 | There were modest alternatives available to an antislavery readership but they either propounded the outlook of a minority tendency as did the Anti-Slavery Advocate , edited by the Irish Garrisonian Richard Webb in the 1850s , or had a predominantly local circulation as was likely with the short-lived Anti-Slavery Watchman of Manchester produced by the Garrisonian group around George Thompson and his son-in-law F. W. Chesson , or propounded a particular remedy for slavery in the case of the Quaker Richardson family in Newcastle through the Slave 's stress on the free produce movement . |
| 51 | Rather , they would prefer to struggle on , in charge of a minority government , in the hope that the economy will recover and they can reap the benefits at a second election after about a year — as Labour did in 1974 . |
| 52 | Labour , however , remains confident that Mr Kinnock is on course to enter Downing Street at the head of a minority government . |
| 53 | If Mr Kinnock found himself head of a minority government and decided to ‘ soldier on ’ he might find that Sir Richard Attenborough , that grand old trouper in ‘ Luvvies for Labour ’ , could turn out to be an embarrassment . |
| 54 | If reflected on polling day , it would make Labour the largest single party , about 20 seats short of an overall majority , but with Mr Kinnock almost certain to enter Downing Street at the head of a minority government . |
| 55 | Both Labour and the Conservatives ruled out a post-election pact with the Liberal Democrats , while Mr Ashdown appeared to soften his threat to vote down the legislative programme of a minority Government . |
| 56 | Such a result would almost certainly put Mr Kinnock in Downing Street at the head of a minority government . |
| 57 | With more than 500 results declared , early hopes that the Mr Kinnock could enter Downing Street at the head of a minority Government had all but evaporated . |
| 58 | In other words , the position of a minority government can be made untenable if all the other parties combine against it . |
| 59 | Jugnauth then announced that he would continue in office , as head of a minority government depending on external support from the MMM . |
| 60 | As long as power oscillated between two evenly-balanced parties , who shared more or less the whole of the vote , the election of a minority government did n't matter too much . |