Example sentences of "of a [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But how likely was Dr. Greene , experienced as he might be in viewing bodies , to disagree with the opinion of a consultant forensic pathologist unless the latter 's judgment was manifestly perverse ? |
| 2 | Bond , 54 , the former head of a £400 million empire , spent three months on a prison farm near Perth before an Australian appeal court cleared him of concealing a £7 million fee for shoring up failed merchant bank Rothwells . |
| 3 | It was also confirmed separately that InterCity will have to buy old technology as a stop-gap in advance of a £400 million scheme for new equipment on the route , which it still hopes to start in 1995 . |
| 4 | In a separate development , the Ministry of Defence has been negotiating with the receivers at Leyland-DAF 's Lancashire truck plant over the completion of a £400 million transporter contract . |
| 5 | Many are questioning the threat of a £400 fine , which is being imposed for failure to complete the 1991 census . |
| 6 | Here there may have been a connection between the temporary weakening of ducal control over minting , in the troubles following Richard II 's death , and the production of a currency useful for traders . |
| 7 | A LOCOMOTIVE restored at ICI Wilton steams into the area again this weekend as the centrepiece of a charity open day . |
| 8 | OSLO ( Reuter ) — The Norwegian Prime Minister , Gro Harlem Brundtland , resigned as head of a minority Labour government . |
| 9 | Mosley 's dream of a fascist nation was reduced to the reality of a minority anti-semitic political sub-culture in some areas of the East End of London . |
| 10 | During the course of the action , they inflicted heavy casualties on their attackers and revealed themselves to be fierce and resourceful fighters — not amateurs , but professionals of a skill comparable to that of their Roman adversaries . |
| 11 | The group is run by its members with a full time executive officer drawing on the resources of a total 1,150 staff stretching from Exeter to Edinburgh . |
| 12 | Out of a total 1,887 pupils excluded in all three categories last year , 164 ( 8.6% ) were black . |
| 13 | Adding life peers to the calculation inevitably reduces the Etonian proportion , but Eton still accounted for four hundred out of a total 1,156 , over one quarter of the entire chamber . |
| 14 | This means that even as regards third parties who neither have nor need the protection of Code C , and who have never had such protection in the past , the police officer can not demand the production of a document relevant to the suspected offence . |
| 15 | He continued his researches with vigour , having learned to drive a car at the age of seventy-five and despite the amputation of a leg three years later . |
| 16 | Normally , Parliament will be dissolved by the monarch as and when advice to do so is conveyed to that effect by the Prime Minister ; and invariably , the issuing by the monarch of a proclamation dissolving Parliament is accompanied by the issuing of another proclamation summoning the next one . |
| 17 | A drugs squad officer has just paid a visit to the owner of a field full of cannabis — but he wo n't be making any arrests . |
| 18 | THIS bronze handle ( fig. 6.1 ) was picked up in April 1967 by Mr J. A. Hadman from the surface of a field half a mile to the north-east of Oundle , Northants. , on the east side of the River Nene ( Nat . |
| 19 | Classic rock born of a love supreme . |
| 20 | Classic rock born of a love supreme . |
| 21 | Even though the epidermis appears to be stretched taut over the surface of a structure such as a growing limb bud , its response to wounding is to close over the lesion , rather than to gape more widely . |
| 22 | End of a school Many teachers were displaced in the fighting . |
| 23 | As points of reference for the total curriculum of a school each of these falls within the usual definition of broad aims . |
| 24 | It reported in 1904 , urging the establishment of a school medical service and the provision of school meals within the public education system . |
| 25 | The projected can feel so secure — there is often so much less personal risk in being in role as a ‘ headmaster ’ examining and discussing case-study documents of a school truant than being involved in ‘ reprimanding a school truant ’ . |
| 26 | The gestation period of a horse is about 11 months , that of a donkey 12 to 13 months , and that of the hybrid somewhere between 11 and 13 months . |
| 27 | The Benefits of a Parcelforce Standard Contract |
| 28 | According to Bectu , however , the recommendations , coupled with the introduction of a BBC internal market , still constituted a ‘ double whammy ’ of up to 10,000 job losses from the 25,000 workforce — a figure Sir Michael has denied . |
| 29 | His research forms the basis of a BBC 2 Timewatch programme , The Fascist Legacy , A Pledge Betrayed , to be broadcast tonight . |
| 30 | Faldo 's was more of a grinding movement , to the annoyance at times of a gallery 25 deep in places , five deep even 100 yards back down fairways . |