Example sentences of "and of a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The political allies of the Popular Television Association were initially limited to a handful of young Conservative backbenchers like John Profumo and Selwyn Lloyd , but they ran a public-relations campaign on a scale , and of a sophistication , which had not been seen before in Britain . |
| 2 | Firstly , there are anatomical reports of ventricular enlargement and cortical atrophy in people with chronic schizophrenia , and of a thickening of the corpus collosum and cerebral atrophy ( Cutting , 1985 ) . |
| 3 | Presently she found that she had the gift of tongues : notions of sacrifice and immolation and of a saviour with hair of sackcloth poured out of her mouth like a river of lava . |
| 4 | Where , though , do we see evidence today of any analogous common grounding , and of a felt shared set of interests running across the academic community and its various disciplines ? |
| 5 | Granted the intriguing premise , one might reasonably expect some attempt to probe the morality of a privatised police force , and of a society which allows someone like Kuffs to buy and use firearms as casually as he does here , but no . |
| 6 | Taking first the retirement pension of a single person at £52 and of a couple at £83.25 , the single person 's pension as a percentage of the couple 's pension is 62 per cent . |
| 7 | Edward sent to Mrs Andrews ‘ a short note , fulfilling the two duties , of thanks for her past undoubted kindness , and of a request for a ‘ character ’ ( virtually ) when you leave . |
| 8 | When Eliot heard that Wyndham Lewis had been travelling around North Africa in a thick English suit , he remarked , " Lewis was always a heavily dressed man " ; and of a lady who had acquired too many petrol coupons during the first year of the war , he said , " There is always bound to be a certain element of iniquity in these matters " . |
| 9 | A PAPER fan inherited among a job lot on her marriage led Mrs Lynn Lamport on a trail of historical intrigue unearthing tales of three-in-a-bed and of a Lady whose gambling losses brought her down to the level of street sweeper . |
| 10 | ‘ BY DAYLIGHT , the bower of Oak 's newfound mistress Bathsheba Everdene presented itself as a hoary building of the Jacobean stage of Classical Renaissance as regards its architecture , and of a proportion which tells at a glance that , as is frequently the case , it has once been the manorial hall on a small estate … |
| 11 | We 've heard of a small baby who chewed through a gift and swallowed a battery , and of a granny who bought one of those talking baby dolls for her favourite grandaughter , only to find that it had a vocabulary of four-letter words . |
| 12 | However , subsequent developments in revolutionary tactics in Latin America ( both the Nicaraguan FSLN and the Salvadoran FMLN have attempted to combine the use of the armed struggle with the building of a mass movement ) indicate that the conference was at least symbolic of real shifts in theoretical position and of a maturing of Latin American Marxist thought . |
| 13 | A few weeks ago I wrote to inform your Mother and Aunts of the Death of Mr. Green 's eldest unmarried Daughter , who was the main prop of the Family , and of a plan which had been set on foot for their relief by raising a Subscription , to which I received a most kind and satisfactory reply . |
| 14 | This concern has expressed itself not only in papers on children 's acquisition of literacy ( e.g. , Donaldson , 1984 , 1989 ) , but also in the publication of a number of children 's stories and of a reading and language programme for children in primary classrooms ( Reid and Donaldson , 1984 ) . |
| 15 | But it seems clear that this one bears the marks of defeat and despair , and of a reprisal directed at the liberal England which has let the violator down . |
| 16 | The main social security policy changes in this period were the introduction in 1965 of earnings-related supplements to sickness and unemployment benefits and of a redundancy payments scheme . |
| 17 | A story of a man called Texaz looking for his woman and of a girl called Sabi looking for something else . |
| 18 | Tatar President Mintimer Shaymiyev said that the referendum was " a question of new relations and of a union with Russia as equals " . |
| 19 | We had heard of a municipal university , and of a university of the East Midlands , and newcomers were welcomed by the Chairman of the College Council who , I think , was also a City or County Councillor . |
| 20 | The same subjects — at any rate , the same subjects nominally — can be part of a university education and of a course in technology . |
| 21 | CCT is part of a restructuring of the role of local government in a post-welfare society , and of a reduction in the significance of the local democratic process . |
| 22 | The second and most detailed stage will be a series of three interview surveys : of solicitors , to establish the amount and kinds of work they do ; of general legal services , such as the Citizens ' Advice Bureaux , to establish how far they complement or duplicate the service provided by solicitors ; and of a sample of the population from selected parishes to find out the kinds of issues that have caused individuals to resort to legal advice . |
| 23 | You are frightening me ! ’ and of a passer-by who had added , to the astonished Shanti , ‘ You ought to be ashamed of yourself , frightening someone like that . ’ |
| 24 | And of a terrorist in today 's headlines : one of those inscrutable middle-class Germans , for example . |
| 25 | But the picture that emerged in a week of highly speculative stories was a misleading one : of a body outside a tent , and of a diary found on the body , of suggestions of who had died and why . |
| 26 | The opposition parties had on Jan. 4 called for a three-day strike on Jan. 7-9 , with the aim of securing the " immediate and unconditional " resignation of Mobutu , notwithstanding his promise ( in an address to the country on Dec. 31 ) that 1991 would see the organization of presidential and legislative elections and of a referendum on a new constitution . |
| 27 | Most administrators agreed with D. Storrs-Fox that the Masai were ‘ more intelligent than , and of a type superior to , the other native tribes around them ’ . |
| 28 | As the world 's leading manufacturer of permanent pressure tennis balls , ( formerly known as ‘ pressureless ’ and of a type favoured in European markets by the general public but not yet extensively used in professional tournament tennis ) , Tretorn has justifiable cause for concern . |
| 29 | He found that they were suddenly eating pizza and jokingly said oh they might have got him one , so one of them used a police car to take him to the nearest all night pizza place and then he walked back to the airport and waited , having done a deal with the one taxi driver who was there , and he and shared a taxi , arriving home c. 0215 and then proceeded to have a meal of a MASS of pasta and sauce previously made by me , and of a type which both boys always ask day in day out when here or there ! |
| 30 | Apart from public education , my own field of interest and experience has been in the discourse analysis of language in the magistrates ' court , where I have played the roles of a bilingual interpreter and of a sociolinguist observing the language scene . |