Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] a [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Small details , that make fishing a constant source of delight : a bank of yellow flag by a tiny burn ; where mountain everlasting grow ; secret otter greens ; where we saw a wildcat ; a peregrine 's nest ; rutting red deer ; black-throated divers . |
| 2 | This does not mean that there are no generalizations that can be made about evolution , but it does make biology a different kind of science from physics . |
| 3 | It is difficult , however , to accept the concept of work which is non-profit-making or which may even cost the providing employer a substantial amount of on-going revenue funds , and until now there has been a great reluctance to fund such initiatives . |
| 4 | Shortage of reliable contraceptives in Poland made abortion a main means of birth control . |
| 5 | You 'd have difficulty a local player of that one . |
| 6 | I am by no means inclined to consider Diodorus a mere copyist of his sources , and I know only too well that by stylistic criteria one could prove that Sir Ronald Syme is the author of some of the books written by his pupils . |
| 7 | flo plays wide midfield on norways national team — but i think he is used mainly as a target man for sheff utd. norw coach drillo wants to try a setup with one ‘ Flo ’ as both left and right wide midfielder , then trying to hit hard high , crosses from behind towards the ‘ towers ’ at the sides thus giving football a new dimension of play . |
| 8 | This is not good news for Leeds who are coming upto a difficult series of games over the next month . |
| 9 | Shaw 's infatuation with the actress Mrs Patrick Campbell , who was to play Eliza , clearly found its way into the script , giving Pygmalion a powerful undercurrent of sexuality , despite all the playwright 's blustering attempts to deny it . |
| 10 | With a well placed hole a considerable quantity of rock could be broken off ; all that was necessary was to have a free face to work from . |
| 11 | Her father saw in a vulgar simulacrum of coloured lights and trilling music a true portrayal of a great maritime tragedy ; whereas for her the reality was best conveyed by a simple , static canvas adorned with pigment . |
| 12 | As a consequence , few individual American lenders do make insurance a mandatory part of the contract . |
| 13 | He justifies this implicit raising of the required standard partly in order to encourage pupils to continue caring about geography lessons ( as opposed to reading the newspapers ) and partly because it would be unfair to give pupils taking geography a better chance of reaching university than pupils taking , say , physics under the war-time difficulties caused by shortage of laboratories and physics teachers . |
| 14 | He subsequently concluded that , in spite of his own intentions , it was still too deeply coloured by the thought of Kierkegaard and Heidegger , that it gave faith a wrong kind of priority over revelation in the arrangement of its material , and that its account of faith was more Existentialist than Christian . |
| 15 | So did meeting a wider group of friends . |
| 16 | Our stated aim is to give the guitar playing reader a wholesome understanding of every featured instrument . |
| 17 | I think that I have already given way a reasonable number of times . |
| 18 | Elsewhere , however , as has been stated , it is not uncommon for a court to declare invalid a purported act of a legislature on the ground that the legislature in question had no power to pass such an act at all . |
| 19 | ‘ What 's it for , Mama ? ’ she asked , watching open-mouthed a huge waterfall of silver sparks hanging in the smoky night sky . |
| 20 | Compensation for the loss of goodwill payments may be offered inter alia by : ( 1 ) consultancy arrangements , which guarantee the outgoing partner an income in return for a reduced work load , but do not survive his death and therefore can not benefit his dependants ; ( 2 ) annuities for himself and his family payable out of the firm 's profits , which are fiscally unattractive and can place undue strain on the firm 's finances ; and ( 3 ) guaranteeing the partner nearing retirement a generous level of income overriding , in a bad year , his strict entitlement under the agreed profit sharing ratios ; but the reluctance of younger partners to accept such arrangement may easily be imagined . |
| 21 | A group of publishers and journalists from 38 African countries has called on the United Nations to declare censorship a grave violation of human rights and has asked African governments to free journalists who have been jailed for their professional activities . |
| 22 | ‘ Victoria , you 're a sensible girl , you go first , ’ was an order she heard often and with pleasure , for whatever ordeal into which she had to lead the rest , from construing straight-faced a suggestive passage of Ovid to pushing her pony through a muddy ford , was always rewarded by authority 's approval . |
| 23 | The difference between the situation of such characters and the readers and that of the remaining characters within the fabliaux makes irony a typical feature of the experience of reading a fabliau . |
| 24 | So the very feature of our own legal practice that seemed to make conventionalism a good interpretation of legal practice — the deep , constant concern judges and lawyers show about the " correct " reading of statutes and precedents in hard cases actually an embarrassment to that conception . |
| 25 | In Eastern block countries the school curriculum is used to con firm a particular view of social and economic organisation ; in countries where the Roman Catholic Church enjoys power and influence the school curriculum reflects its dogma and teaching ; in nations where the values of social democracy are paramount ( like Sweden ) all schools follow programmes which con firm the part which men and women must play as responsible , socially conscious citizens . |
| 26 | The only way to deal with that is to make coal a competitive source of fuel and the first choice for the generators . |
| 27 | But the message of Christmas is that God will never leave us and his love will endure for ever , which makes Christmas a real celebration of God 's commitment to our world and makes sense of all our hopes and dreams . |