Example sentences of "of a [noun] [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 | BAT Industries ' Brian Hutchinson went to the top of the class to mark the topping out of a £400,000 sports hall at Middlesbrough 's City Technology College . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The news came as a devastating blow to her 67-year-old father , the Mossley Hill-born grandson of a Liverpool police superintendent . |
| 17 | The basic functions of a subject headings list ( as identified in section 16.1 above ) may be focused more precisely in the following terms : |
| 18 | Erm of a type replicas of a type made in Germany and i imported here in very large numbers . |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 " . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 ’ . |
| 24 | She is redoing her A-levels in chemistry , physics and biology in the sixth form of a London girls ' school . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Party political interference , he said , rejecting the possibility of a London police authority , was especially to be abhorred . |
| 27 | Indeed , when Mt Rowland and Lonrho were themselves the subjects of a DTI inspectors ' report in 1976 , they had no such protection . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Morphology covers the structure of words , the way in which the form of a word changes to indicate specific contrasts in the grammatical system . |
| 30 | 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 ! ’ |