Example sentences of "[adv] of a [adj] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | We turned our ponies and galloped back to the Legation , where we learnt that news had just come in of a great victory for the Shoan army . |
| 2 | Lastly , in the project for a prison institution that was then developing , punishment was seen as a technique for the coercion of individuals ; it operated methods of training the body — not signs — by the traces it leaves , in the form of habits , in behaviour ; and it presupposed the setting up of a specific power for the administration of the penalty ( ibid. , p. 130–1 ) . |
| 3 | They anticipated a number of significant developments which subsequently took place , like the setting up of a local authority for the Western Isles which has had a stimulating effect on the whole life of the area . |
| 4 | The investigations into the two IRA attacks on February 26 and March 20 involved the setting up of two major incident rooms within Warrington Police Station as well as the setting up of a special HQ for CID costing £35,000 . |
| 5 | The investigations into the two IRA attacks on February 26 and March 20 necessitated the setting up of two major incident rooms within Warrington Police Station as well as the setting up of a special HQ for CID costing £35,000 . |
| 6 | Mankind seeks status even more avidly than wealth , and more self-corruptingly ; and intellectual affectation can be a darker sin than whatever vulgarities arise out of a simple greed for gain . |
| 7 | the monarchy are non political and therefore , when they choose to speak it 's usually out of a genuine concern for that problem , it 's not for popularity or personal gain because they are there already and , I think that is quite important when po politicians tend to do good it 's usually to get votes . |
| 8 | The Sports Illustrated report confirmed scientists ' suspicions that as many as 600 porpoises each year were dying in entanglements in the Gulf , out of a total population for the East Coast of the US and Canada of perhaps only 8000 . |
| 9 | Firstly , a research programme should possess a degree of coherence that involves the mapping out of a definite programme for future research . |
| 10 | Whether the weavers of today are aware of the symbolic meaning of their designs — or whether they simply reproduce them out of a general reverence for tradition — is a matter of considerable debate , but there is no doubt that the symbolic potency of nomadic designs is one of the major reasons for their growing popularity in the West . |
| 11 | Mr Major and Mr Lamont did not eat their words out of a cavalier regard for the truth and a penchant for duplicity at election times . |
| 12 | THE Queen Mother has pulled out of a public engagement for tomorrow and will remain in Scotland a few days longer after her hospital stay . |
| 13 | The theme of this chapter has been that a great deal of antislavery argument grew out of a fundamental concern for proper order in the world . |
| 14 | He made films like Sanders of the River ( 1935 ) and The Four Feathers ( 1939 ) , featuring courageous British aristocrats going off to fight for the British empire , not out of a sentimental admiration for those times , but because the Empire provided good stories , as Hollywood also found at the time . |
| 15 | The first shareholder-relations programmes , run by AT&T and General Electric , consisted simply of a telephone-answering service for routine inquiries . |
| 16 | He spoke vaguely of a new opportunity for reconciliation between aborigines and other Australians . |
| 17 | Such advantages might include the concentration of people and therefore of a large market for consumer goods and services , the development of the area as the nodal point of the transport system , or the generation of a community of skilled workers and technical know-how . |