Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] a [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | All these factors are increasing the complexity of the work of further education teachers of whom , at present , under half of the full-time staff , and even fewer of the part-timers , are trained in the sense that they have successfully completed a full programme of professional teacher training leading to qualified teacher status . |
| 2 | Progressive rock was over-dressed , the music of a leisured rock aristocracy , who possessed the money to lavishly construct a LUXURIOUS palace of sound , and the time to squander in excessively fastidious attention to detail . |
| 3 | At first resisted by conservatives who feared its materialistic implications , evolutionism eventually became a central theme of late nineteenth-century thought , the foundation for a unified philosophy of biological and social progress . |
| 4 | They have since developed a wide range of contacts and membership to the group is now by election . |
| 5 | It has two functions : ( a ) it acts as a point of orientation by connecting back to previous stretches of discourse and thereby maintaining a coherent point of view and , ( b ) it acts as a point of departure by connecting forward and contributing to the development of later stretches . |
| 6 | Only around 30 per cent of those who have been vaccinated go on to contract a mild dose of flu , and even then the risk of secondary infections is considerably reduced . |
| 7 | Besides handling a substantial slice of Syria 's drug revenues , Haser and the Magharians also laundered drug profits for the Colombian cocaine cartels through a number of Swiss banks controlled by Arab interests . |
| 8 | If the Christians do eventually deliver a true case of satanic child abuse — and , who knows , God forbid , they may , for satanists are real enough and a bit of copycat crime is surely due after all this publicity — it will be seen by many to validate all their arguments . |
| 9 | These will be issued to students successfully completing a single area of study or a short course involving two or three areas of study , but not to those following a full certificate or diploma programme . |
| 10 | During his first term , Reagan and his staff eventually developed a better appreciation of the merits and responsibilities of legislators and came to realize that the making of policy required the executive branch to ‘ bargain with , cajole and otherwise court the legislative branch ’ . |
| 11 | In this analysis er , if you set aside the effect of our sale of Elsivir er , the variance was forty nine million seventy percent of which relates to the U K. The drop in profits from our newspapers was the biggest and probably the most widely expected a substantial proportion of their costs are fixed and , er , they therefore are particularly sensitive to , er changes in volume . |
| 12 | ‘ Hopeless , I know , ’ said Karelius , going on to relate a fictitious story of the difficulties encountered by one of his farmer patients in obtaining payment for fodder . |
| 13 | The long-term asymptotic rise eventually adds a further increase of 2.1x10 -6 Hz to the rotation rate . |
| 14 | Bore-hole water rarely contains a large quantity of suspended solids , but , if it contains iron or manganese in solution , the removal of these entails the production of a precipitate that has to be removed by methods similar to those given above . |
| 15 | He has successfully rescued a whole series of major houses , without a penny of historic buildings grants , by adapting them as self-contained houses and cottages . |
| 16 | For it does rather need a constant stream of work to get full value from the investment in girders , gantries , hoists and related hardware that were installed for manipulating ( and originally for dismantling ) huge aero-engines . |
| 17 | Financial support was also given to the Royal Academy of Music 's ‘ Communication through Music ’ course on which students at the Academy perform in hospitals , hospices and homes for the elderly , thereby gaining a deeper awareness of the therapeutic and rehabilitative powers of music . |
| 18 | They 've mostly enjoyed a high standard of living and voted conservative . |
| 19 | He was widely considered a strong supporter of further European integration . |
| 20 | From the outset however they set themselves the objectives , not only producing a comprehensive study of land ownership in the region which would be of use to local groups and also capable of influencing regional and National land policy , but equally importantly , of reaching these goals through a very specific manner of research . |
| 21 | Festive food should be fun as well as tasty , so pick a few items of specialist kitchen equipment and tableware to add the finishing touches to your yuletide table spread . |
| 22 | Davies ( 1979 and 1981 ) , in a study of Wandsworth , describes how a small number of newly elected backbench councillors in the controlling Labour group crucially developed a whole range of new planning and industrial policies . |
| 23 | It is also very much of an ideal size — not so large as to be overwhelming , yet large enough to sustain a wide variety of cultural enjoyment in the Arts , Music and Drama . |
| 24 | Is the government 's tax base strong enough to support a planned expansion of services ? |
| 25 | ‘ Significant downside risks ’ were that it would be ‘ very difficult to be sure when consumers will feel that their finances are sound enough to support a stronger growth of spending ’ . |
| 26 | This not only involves a mutual understanding of the common-sense notions in everyday life about what counts as an excuse , it requires that constables put themselves in the position of the offender to test whether they would have done the same . |
| 27 | This will , of course , only introduce a new level of complexity . |
| 28 | As demand for food rose , the United States suddenly became a major exporter of agricultural goods , the surplus on that account rising from $1½ billion in 1972 to $10½ billion in 1974 . |
| 29 | From mid April to late summer , depending on the success of the breeding season , ospreys will be around and , if you visit in July or August and the season has been a success , you may be lucky enough to see a new family of young birds exercising their strengthening wings . |
| 30 | Although his jarred shoulder is improving , and he has been named in the side for Saturday , he is still only given a 50–50 chance of playing . |