The phrase 'configuration of a' is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It would generally be used to refer to the arrangement or positioning of something. For example: The configuration of a room can heavily influence its acoustics.
Ideally, we would have a delay distribution for each possible configuration of A and B in the nucleus.
The buyer cannot choose the configuration of a pod, only its color.
More importantly Bartlett's framing device imparts the configuration of a medically induced dream.
The clock's fate depends on the configuration of a hotel being planned by Ian Schrager Hotels for an adjacent lot.
Manager Bobby Valentine said he did not notice teams pitching around Piazza and called the configuration of a lineup overrated.
Even relatively unadorned objects can have masterly shapes, like the classic configuration of a big, deep Navajo bowl (circa 1910).
Yoko Ono's 16-foot configuration of a chess game encourages philosophical speculation about life, chance, nature and universal concepts with its title, "Play It by Trust".
Some of Warhol's portraits are remarkably similar to the Erwitt photograph – they have the same configuration of a soldier at attention behind her.
At Baruch College in Manhattan, the interior configuration of a megastructure that occupies an entire city block is beginning to take shape.
"The batsman assumed the configuration of a hairpin," wrote former England paceman Frank Tyson, "and slowly, stiffly toppled forward on his head, motionless on the popping crease".
(The Times noted the presence, in the current power configuration, of "a four-star general whose job is to monitor the allegiance of other generals").
