Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you generally want the views of the public it is no good trying to false those views through a straight jacket of your own to make it what you think there views should be unless of course they go right over the top in which they I do n't think that 's happened so far . . |
| 2 | These 11 large folio books , designated ‘ The Lawrence Notebooks ’ , were compiled over 30 years from the 1890s and contain detailed notes for a comprehensive history of stage scenery and technical appliances , together with lives of the most prominent scenic artists . |
| 3 | This course provides graduates with the relevant knowledge and skills for a wide range of employment opportunities . |
| 4 | Teachers who do not possess the necessary skills for a qualitative analysis of phonological errors are encouraged , by the designers of Goldman-Fristoe , to use the test as a way of gathering systematic information about children whose articulation gives cause for concern . |
| 5 | It would give a person particular skills for a particular type of job . |
| 6 | However , a recalculation of the indices for a random sample of the speakers suggests that the same pattern of social stratification would be maintained even if the word class had been more clearly defined . |
| 7 | Mr Howell stressed the TEC 's intention to improve appreciation of the benefits of training among Teesside employers as a major thrust of the TEC 's future operations . |
| 8 | Europe 's supercomputing industry has received a boost with unveiling by German company Parsytec of plans for a new range of parallel machines . |
| 9 | BRITAIN 'S plans for a new generation of anti-tank weapons , involving projects costing more than £3bn , could be thrown into turmoil after the discovery of new armour on Soviet tanks . |
| 10 | According to MacWeek , the development will be the first fruits of a planned family of multi-environment technologies that the company is calling Companion , which also involves plans for a thorough overhaul of the Macintosh interface over the next few years . |
| 11 | ‘ Government plans for a radical shake-up of the local government system are proceeding against the grain of Scottish public opinion , according to researchers at Edinburgh University . |
| 12 | But the experience is one Mr Lang and his ministerial colleagues could have done without if his plans for a radical shake-up of the local government system are to remain credible . |
| 13 | PLANS for a radical shake-up of Scotland 's council system should be scrapped now that the costings have been discredited , a leading local authority spokesman said yesterday . |
| 14 | Five or six years ago , the PTT also announced grandiose plans for a nationwide network of video conference centres . |
| 15 | It was largely the desire to create a diversion away from Flanders for Marlborough and his triumphant armies that led to new plans for a Jacobite invasion of the British Isles . |
| 16 | But they are still discussing plans for a national network of terminals . |
| 17 | Based in the London Borough of Greenwich , the centre is the first in the Trust 's plans for a national network of centres providing information , advice counselling , advocacy , outreach support and a helpline for carers . |
| 18 | These plans for a fundamental reshaping of democracy in Britain find little support outside the party , but there are those who consider that the interaction between parliamentary and extra-parliamentary action constitutes a dual strategy that provides a viable third road to socialism . |
| 19 | Our plans for a permanent expo of contemporary science will provide a focus for the public and be a major resource for schools . |
| 20 | Looking to the longer term , the Company has outline plans for a later phase of developments which will include platform improvements and a visitors ' viewing gallery in the workshops but at the moment all efforts are focused on phase 1 . |
| 21 | PLANS for a voluntary split of business interests is among options which British Gas has proposed to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission which is due to report on the future of the industry next month . |
| 22 | While on the one hand claiming to recognise the theoretical problems inherent in classifying cultural features and the possibility of interpreting otherwise , New Historicist writing tends to produce very organised , well-constructed and argued cases for a small number of Renaissance cultural features . |
| 23 | It eventually capitulated days before the Panel was due to exercise its right to apply to the courts for a forced restatement of the accounts . |
| 24 | Indeed , to date , 15 clubs have installed 44 acrylic surfaces as a direct result of LTA court surface policy . |
| 25 | As in England , the Scottish Commission identified large numbers of small authorities as a major weakness of the old system . |
| 26 | To focus upon income derived from protectionist policies as a major source of finance , is not compatible with the role of the EC as a significant participant in the world trading system . |
| 27 | Institutions which do produce more complex programmes as a regular feature of their work need to have someone in charge of the operation to ensure that proper planning is done . |
| 28 | He looked to ‘ a natural grouping of the more advanced Western powers ’ — Britain , France and Germany — to lay the foundations for a genuine Concert of Europe which would mediate the conflicts between the powers and , through the systematic regulation of its activities , turn the potentially disruptive operations of international finance into a force for peace and tranquillity . |
| 29 | On the day of the king 's execution , 30 January , he was named to the Commons committee for repealing past legislation in the order to lay the foundations for a republican form of government . |
| 30 | Although Marx himself did discuss the issue of colonialism in various places , it was twentieth-century Marxists like Lenin , Rosa Luxemburg , Hilferding and Bukharin who laid the foundations for a Marxist theory of imperialism . |