Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] a [noun] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Farming became geared to the demands of regional and national markets and harvest crises eventually became a thing of the past . |
| 2 | It amounts to an agreement by Member States not to employ their veto to prevent a majority decision , and effectively represents a reversal of the Luxembourg Compromise . |
| 3 | In formulating the original agreement with Fields , Branson had ensured a clause be written in stipulating that , under the Articles , Virgin as the majority shareholder had the right to appoint more than two ‘ A ’ directors , and thereby gain a majority of the board , if it was ‘ not satisfied with the financial position , or the management position of the company ’ . |
| 4 | Again and again , the European Court has noted the narrowness of the English test for reviewing the merits of official decisions , and has gone on to find a breach of the convention by the UK . |
| 5 | On June 7 Olszewski met with a group of 14 parliamentarians mostly representing a faction of the PC and joined by Wlodarczyk and Roman Bartoszcze , leader of the Polish Peasant Christian Forum . |
| 6 | After a common two years , some students undertake industrial or professional placement in their third year , thereby gaining an awareness of the artist in a community and industrial context . |
| 7 | Rack renting combined with taxes and tithes — according to the abolitionists of the thirties these alone consumed a quarter of the peasants ' net income — drove out the enterprising and condemned those who remained to one of the most hopeless forms of subsistence farming . |
| 8 | ‘ We went three goals up away from home , ended up scoring five and we only got a share of the points . |
| 9 | But irrespective of whether there was one general factor or two , it was clear that these general factors only explained a part of the variation in images of parties and leaders . |
| 10 | The firm , System 6 , apparently got a lot of the work done by an engineering contingent fresh out of the Russian Academy of Science . |
| 11 | The first stage , it should be noted , does not necessarily rule out the possibility of ontological pluralism , unless it explicitly includes the thesis of independence of substance ; it merely involves a rejection of the view that properties and relations are two mutually separate and incommensurable categories , with relations allegedly being purely extrinsic " to ( and hence making no difference to the essential nature of ) their terms . |
| 12 | However , this only represents a proportion of the total wintering population , as other localities are known to attract substantial flocks ; for example , up to 250 have been recorded recently at Warnham Mill Pond and the Adur Levels , up to 300 at Pevensey Levels , up to 450 at Swanbourne Lake , and 500 in Lewes Brooks . |
| 13 | This might involve a direct effect on T-cell precursors , perhaps reflecting a continuation of the dependence of stem cells in the bone marrow on contact with fibroblasts or their matrix products . |
| 14 | Awed by this , we have naturally developed an awareness of the transcendent . |
| 15 | Dublin was not an industrialised city like Manchester or Birmingham ; the city 's industries of brewing and distilling could only absorb a fraction of the labour force . |
| 16 | Newman only caught a glimpse of the man in a dark leather jacket but he looked remarkably like Steve , the thug who had accompanied Papa Grimwood on their visit to Greenway Gardens , Wandsworth . |
| 17 | Conversely the Leicester Mercury only reported a fraction of the officially minuted FA incidents . |
| 18 | The Act confers extensive powers of entry , search , and seizure which necessarily involve an invasion of the citizen 's rights of privacy and property ; on that account the legislation might be thought to call for a strict construction . |
| 19 | Multimedia is unavoidably a complex , technical environment and many design and application matters necessarily involve an understanding of the technology of the multimedia platforms and other special expertise , particularly in programming . |
| 20 | The type of household lived in is better considered a consequence of the stage they have reached in their life course than of their age per se ( Dale 1987 ) . |
| 21 | It would undermine the non-violent parties in the region , which together command a majority of the vote , in favour of the men and women with guns . |
| 22 | The advantage they have over individuals is that , although each practice only contains a part of the complex phenomenon which is society , each one is a ‘ whole ’ in the sense that it consists of a variety of different kinds of parts , all of which are interrelated . |
| 23 | This leaflet can only include a selection of the topics covered by the Environmental Charter . |
| 24 | Care must be taken during this process , firstly not to liberate the contaminants in gaseous form and so cause a repetition of the odour nuisance in a more concentrated form , and secondly , where steam is used , to minimise the quantity of liquid effluent formed by condensation , which will require disposal . |
| 25 | These rays are refracted by the material of the lens in such a way that they are brought to a focus on the retina , so forming an image of the viewed object . |
| 26 | If the contract is not personal but contains an express prohibition on assignment , such prohibition will only prevent an assignment of the benefit if on its wording it is clear and precise . |
| 27 | In the absence of such research , Troyna 's confident rejection of multiculturalist strategies can not be sustained , although of course the antiracist argument that teaching about ‘ other cultures ’ does not necessarily give an understanding of the racism of one 's own remains intact . |
| 28 | The sort of windows that need little or nothing in the way of treatment are usually narrow slits of glass , small ovals , round , arched , stained and etched glass windows that only show a glimpse of the outside and are often unopenable anyway . |
| 29 | Most spiders have eight eyes , although only two of them are sophisticated enough to create a picture of the scene . |
| 30 | Clever compositional tricks would only trap a fraction of the space and diminish the distance . |