Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] of a [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , notwithstanding the very high authority of Lord Coke , I think it is not the fact that to accept prompt payment of a part only of a liquidated demand can never be more beneficial than to insist on payment of the whole . |
| 2 | An extensional description of a cluster just states what are its elements . |
| 3 | In my experience of doing exams , and I 'll talk to you about revision techniques in a minute , erm generally you 're better off to have a broad coverage of a syllabus rather than having a shallow one , right ? |
| 4 | At present it 's merely a few planks covering a narrow part of a stream further along this track . ’ |
| 5 | This in turn was possible when abolitionists were provided with the occasional opportunity , by factors exterior to the small British antislavery world , to break through the torpor and indifference of opinion and mobilise popular enthusiasm of a kind not seen since the 1830s . |
| 6 | The Carabinieri patrolman had the raw look of a recruit freshly dug up from one of the no-hope regions of the deep South and put through the human equivalent of a potato-peeling machine . |
| 7 | It involves an immense extrapolation of our actual knowledge to assert that the Schrödinger equation would furnish an adequate description of a system sufficiently complex as to be able to sustain consciousness . |
| 8 | Initially reluctant to tackle the area of post-war policy ( doubtless with thoughts of Lloyd George 's empty words of a quarter-century previously ) , when he did so he insisted on a full-blooded promise over the opposition of many in his party and administration . |
| 9 | What looks like a four-leafed clover in the centre of a galaxy is in fact a product of gravitational lensing ; the four leaves of the clover are four different images of a quasar far more distant than the galaxy in which they seem to nestle . |
| 10 | And , once on that tack , she saw Luke everywhere : in the purposeful stride of a man ahead of her in the crowd ; in the dark , white-stranded head of a man bent over his newspaper ; in a rich crimson and grey striped silk tie … |
| 11 | The leadership of the NECC is well aware of the contradictions in urging children back into the overcrowded classrooms of a system still based on apartheid principles . |
| 12 | Every other sound that she had hitherto been conscious of — the distant bleat of sheep in the field , the wind in the trees , the mewling cry of a hawk far above her — disappeared , vanished from her awareness . |
| 13 | Children 's paintings hung on the gate of a timber yard , the most restrained moment of a day long protest against the tropical timber trade . |
| 14 | If 10%–15% of the total activity is carried out in private practice and a similar proportion is carried out by trainees without the direct supervision of a consultant then one consultant is required for approximately 30000 population . |
| 15 | This was the unplanned beginning of a process whereby the Liberal government gradually withdrew provision for deserving groups from the Poor Law , at no cost to the Exchequer and as little as possible to local rates . |
| 16 | By considering different facets of a company simultaneously the model is able to synthesise these to give a clear message , even if the individual ratios are giving contradictory signals . |
| 17 | A four-part mass , probably dating from the 1520s , uses as its cantus firmus the popular French tune ‘ L'homme armé ’ , the only known British use of a theme much used by continental composers . |
| 18 | The two of them arrived at the broken gate of a house even more rackety than its peeling neighbours . |
| 19 | " He 's talking about that lop-eared nitwit of a poet down there , " answered Bigwig . |
| 20 | I could hardly believe that this was to be the end of the public life of a man so comparatively young , and with so much still to give … |
| 21 | They present both a problem and a challenge ; for any theory which overcame them would vindicate a form of holistic social explanation of a power hitherto unaccepted . |
| 22 | Those who know better will not rest contented with such a meagre peep of a lake so singularly grand , but will round the hill rather more than another mile to the west , and when the dark lake is full in view , sit down to drink a long look from that favourable point of view . |
| 23 | Consequently , many people find the unsmiling face of a horse rather expressionless which encourages them to think that horses are virtually emotionless — that they only have two emotions : ears forward , and the horse is happy ; ears back , and he is bad tempered . |
| 24 | By linking different parts of a discourse together and by reducing redundancy , verb-phrase anaphora contributes to the cohesion of the discourse ( that is , the extent to which it flows and holds together ) . |
| 25 | When she had a piece within her I said , ‘ Maria , you can turn away from me and sing , because I know you will never be one tiny part of a bar out . ’ |
| 26 | Had he simply desired her he would have taken both her and the consequences then and there , booted that evil-looking brute of a dog aside , and made love to her , gloried in her , possessed her once and for all , on the hearth-rug . |
| 27 | The enthusiastic liberal solutions of a decade ago seem to have failed ; the rise of passionate single-issue politics , the decline of party loyalty and the new brittleness that resists compromises make the tasks of leadership more difficult . ’ |
| 28 | Each production played for two successive nights , with the co-operation and active encouragement of Brighton Borough Council it is hoped to extend the use of the Pavilion Theatre as a regular venue to provide an opportunity of seeing wide-ranging drama of a kind not otherwise available in Brighton . |
| 29 | The 1840 Treaty , signed between the British Crown and the Maori chiefs , marked the formal establishment of British sovereignty over New Zealand , and was seen by many modern Maoris ( who comprised more than 10 per cent of the current population of 3,200,000 ) as the symbolic beginning of a process whereby their culture and status had been systematically undermined . |
| 30 | While it brings a warm glow of a job well done ( and , perhaps , the thought that a happy subscriber is more likely to keep on subscribing ) answering such queries personally does leave a nagging worry . |