Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] a [noun] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | By transferring the means of production to state ownership , nationalisation represents a broadening of the scope of economic calculation beyond the limited horizon of private profit . |
| 2 | Research conducted by a team at Bristol University asked a sample of the population in London what weekly income they thought was necessary to stay out of poverty . |
| 3 | Each of the other fundamental rights reveals an aspect of the value of private autonomy , whereas , in contrast , a right to enforce a contract involves an assertion of the justice of commandeering state power to curtail economic liberty and restrict autonomy . |
| 4 | It was in this state when a team consisting of six men from Scott 's base camp made an ascent of the volcano in December 1912 , with a geologist , Raymond Priestley , in the lead . |
| 5 | Second , whereas a rejection of the goods supplied under a contract of sale entitles the buyer to claim a refund of the price , if already paid , termination of a contract for work and materials or for services will normally only entitle the innocent party to claim damages for the breach . |
| 6 | The theory of ideology offers an account of the role of knowledge in society that enables its analyses to operate as critique . |
| 7 | These included , for the ANC , police brutality in dealing with unrest ; the government for its part sought a suspension of the ANC 's mass mobilization campaigns , which it regarded as a violation of the ANC 's commitment to suspend the " armed struggle " . |
| 8 | Her rich tawny hair caught a reflection of the setting sun from a mirror . |
| 9 | The official receiver must in every case send a copy of the certificate to the trustee and file a copy at court ( r 6.120(5) ) . |
| 10 | The top coin has a representation of the Emperor Constantius II ( AD 337–61 ) , the lower one of Anastasius ( AD 491–518 ) . |
| 11 | This is a very sophisticated procedure , but only in the most metaphorical sense would we want to say that the computer has a theory of the external world . |
| 12 | Yet the watch caught a glimpse of the movement , for he had been warned . |
| 13 | Hundreds of cheering people lined the route to catch a glimpse of the man who , like those champions of " true " , Christian Spain , had put the infidel to flight . |
| 14 | Accordingly , the amount assessed was computed by the Inland Revenue to include a proportion of the school 's overheads on an average cost basis . |
| 15 | The research methodology involves a study of the area around a junior school , the social organisation of its population ; an in-depth study of a number of households spanning a range of class and ethnic origins , and a survey of households with children in the same school . |
| 16 | A draft law passed by the Russian Federation Supreme Soviet on March 20 envisaged forming an Ingush republic in Russia within two years , thereby splitting Chechen-Ingushetia between the independence-seeking Chechenia and Ingushetia ( which had declared its intention to remain a part of the Russian Federation ) . |
| 17 | This Sri Lankan Buddhist priest confronts an image of the Buddha hoping to find , through contemplation , answers to the many mysteries humanity may never find the answer to . |
| 18 | A longitudinal study involves a pattern of the form where the same sample ( sometimes called the panel ) is observed ( O i ) at ( usually ) equal intervals of time — say five years . |
| 19 | In 1906 the College became a school of the University of London , with recognised teachers and could prepare candidates for the university 's BSc ( Veterinary Science ) degree as well as carrying out its basic function of training candidates for the diploma of membership of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons . |
| 20 | The solicitor acting for the College sought a review of the decision on the ground that no argument on the Rybak decision had been heard before the IT . |
| 21 | The research involves an investigation of the historical geography of a group of communities in the Cambridgeshire fenland for the period 1600-1914 . |
| 22 | The full bright moon and the reflection of the snow made a mockery of the night . |
| 23 | If the client recovers nothing , the lawyer receives no fee , but in a successful case the lawyer receives a percentage of the damages recovered . |
| 24 | Importantly their chapter offers a defence of the role of educational studies in addressing fundamental educational problems and issues , and of the need to sustain independent enquiry at a time when official pressure concentrates on the technical and utilitarian aspects of schooling . |
| 25 | But Moloney 's mount was soon back in command when his rival made a nonsense of the second last jump , from where Whaat Fettle went on to record a splendid 10-length win . |
| 26 | President Juvenal Habyarimana went to Gbadolite , Zaïre , on Sept. 7 for a summit meeting involving President Buyoya of Burundi , President Mobutu of Zaïre , and President Babangida of Nigeria , John Malecela , the Prime Minister of Tanzania , and Paul Semogerere , the Ugandan Foreign Affairs Minister , in a bid to secure a renewal of the March ceasefire agreement with the rebel Rwanda Patriotic Front ( FPR ) [ see p. 38134 ] . |
| 27 | In an attempt to find a model of the universe in which many different initial configurations could have evolved to something like the present universe , a scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Alan Guth , suggested that the early universe might have gone through a period of very rapid expansion . |
| 28 | However , it has been judicially observed that the objection to a rent representing a percentage of the tenant 's turnover is that , if the price of a commodity rises at a faster rate than the cost of living , pressure is likely to develop on dealers in that commodity to reduce their margin of profit or rate of commission ( Naylor v Uttoxeter UDC ( 1974 ) 231 EG 619 per Brightman J ) . |
| 29 | Where the agent has a retainer of the type which I have previously mentioned he will at the beginning of the session report to the clients on the latent , as well as the obvious , dangers to that client of a-particular Bill or order . |
| 30 | It is essential that one lawyer has an overview of the caseload of every personal injury lawyer . |