Example sentences of "a [noun] a [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | In such a case a complete reconsideration of the case , including the taking of evidence and the finding of facts , would be a waste of time and money ; so the court can remit the case and direct the authority to reconsider the facts in the light of the law as it has been held to be . |
| 2 | In such a case a careful examination of the handbrake should be made bearing this offence in mind . |
| 3 | In fact , training horses is all about habits : good training consists of teaching a horse a whole series of good habits ; whereas a poor trainer teaches a horse some bad habits too . |
| 4 | Through a gap a long wave of treetops stretched to the horizon , in the middle distance the smoke was coming and going in irregular bursts as they had seen it do once before from Ridgery Steep . |
| 5 | One of the advantages of a quantitative study of this sort is that it is possible to view at a glance a collected set of responses . |
| 6 | As a result a small piece of low-level code is being reworked , hardly something to even write home about . |
| 7 | Headlines in a US paper saying that the Open Software Foundation has dropped Tivoli Systems Inc 's management framework from its Distributed Management Environment are flat out wrong and creating unnecessary waves : as our sister paper Unigram.X has already said , DME 1.0 is being made fully compliant with the Object Management Group 's Common Object Request Broker , a specification that post-dates development of both DME and the Tivoli framework and as a result a small piece of low-level code is being reworked , hardly something to write home about , and the Foundation says Tivoli 's framework remains central to the object management framework . |
| 8 | As a result a good model of the system may be obtained from a much smaller corpus of data . |
| 9 | But following the changes in Eastern Europe and the virtual ending of the cold war this particular danger has receded for the time being , and as a result a new process of gradual disarmament by the major nuclear powers has begun . |
| 10 | The recently-held Day of Recollection for members of the APC and friends had been greatly appreciated and as a result a further Day of Recollection will be held in the spring . |
| 11 | Moreover , if it is applied at the instant before the actual strike goes in , the loud , shrill sound has the effect of momentarily stunning an opponent , and in that brief fraction of a second a whole range of techniques can be directed towards a target . |
| 12 | This happy coincidence — happy , that is , for all those visionaries and seers who speak in sonorous phrases about the ‘ New Pacific Century ’ and the ‘ Grand Pacific Age ’ , and find such a discovery a perfect symbol of what they 're talking about — has been the case ever since 22 October 1884 , when a group of scientists and politicians met in a hotel in Washington DC and set down the rules by which the planet was henceforth to organize the keeping of its time . |
| 13 | In order to effect such a transfer a whole variety of different agencies may be involved including remedial therapists , GPs , social work , community nursing and domiciliary services . |
| 14 | Note that the products and are not maximized where and are maximized , because over a range a bigger share of a smaller income will represent a higher total tax revenue than a smaller share of a larger income . |
| 15 | The method of keeping little tins in the house marked ‘ rent ’ , ‘ rates ’ , ‘ telephone ’ , etc. , into which you put money may give a certain amount of satisfaction as a way of saving , but it will also give a burglar a certain amount of satisfaction to have everything so conveniently marked and to hand for him . |
| 16 | It would take a teacher a great deal of time to prepare such graphs manually but more importantly the software allows pupils to manipulate it to discover aspects of pond life for themselves . |
| 17 | After a take-over a common way of making an acquired company more profitable is to reduce the size of the workforce or otherwise to change working conditions to lower costs or increase productivity . |
| 18 | Give a Lewisach a tiny corner of one of these great fields and he would be a cattle baron . |
| 19 | But , though statistics are objective icons for the disinterested observer — or powerfully distorting tools for the polemicist — once in a while a particular set of figures will leap from the page of some dust-dry tome to offer up an image more illuminating than all of a dozen reports like those in the bibliography relating to this chapter . |
| 20 | A heroin addict who gave a friend a fatal injection of drugs has had his sentence reduced by the Court of Appeal . |
| 21 | Frequently , after a revolution a new set of politico-legal principles have to be established reflecting the interests and ideals of the new power-holders . |
| 22 | To set too high a standard tends to discourage a student unduly ; too lenient a standard , particularly if accompanied by few comments , may give a student a false idea of his/her examination prospects . |
| 23 | Metroprolol was then added and titrated against heart rate until within a week a final dose of 25 mg thrice daily was attained , resulting in a resting heart rate under 80 per min . |
| 24 | This attempt to be influenced by the maximum of factual knowledge is in a sense a rational way of trying to answer ethical questions ( this being perhaps the Stevensonian answer to the second question raised in the introduction ) , but it offers no guarantee of congruence . |
| 25 | This aunt is in some sense a kind of female-father figure , just as the maternal uncle is in a sense a male version of the mother . |
| 26 | In a sense a great deal of development is about transcription factors , for these factors regulate gene activity and so the state of the cell . |
| 27 | Moderator it may seem a little strange to resist this er addendum but I do so really because er it 's never a good idea to er to be amending what is in a sense a liturgical piece of work on the floor of the house . |
| 28 | Dr Clarke is a political historian , and in a sense a political historian of the old school . |
| 29 | In the first case , either interpretation is fully acceptable — it can be either Farjeon or his style of undressing which has the quality of being clumsy ; and quite possibly the existence and use of such sentences provide the interpretative syntactic basis for the type which follows it , which therefore represents in a sense a second order of syntactic patterning . |
| 30 | It gives what is in a sense a richer account of a mental episode by including relations with other strictly mental episodes and facts-these too , of course , to be understood relationally . |