Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun] of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The façade is squat and heavy — the architect deliberately lowered it to allow a frontal view of the octagonal tiborium that surmounts the cupola — but it is difficult not to admire the effort that must have gone into it . |
| 2 | The vamp was soon turning into a lady again though , and by the third song , a moody version of the classic Little Anthony and the Imperials hit ‘ Tears On My Pillow ’ , the audience was seeing a sophisticated side to Kylie too . |
| 3 | This speaker , a deaf teacher of the deaf who had worked for many years in the Department of Education of the Deaf at Manchester University , had been a committed " oralist " . |
| 4 | The final set of arguments emphasises the limited leadership qualities and organisational deficiencies that have been a historic feature of the extreme right in Great Britain . |
| 5 | A pleasant watercolour of the Scottish highland town of Callander painted by Stevenson adds another note of interest . |
| 6 | Long-established as a rich source of the unique G.L.A. ( Gamma Linolenic Acid ) , which contributes to the health of the blood and the condition of the skin , this Evening Primrose Oil is supplemented with Regina 's fresh Royal Jelly to provide a unique new formulation . |
| 7 | The industrial north of Italy , in turn , has depended heavily on a reserve army of the unemployed from the south — the more backward Mezzogiorno — and now increasingly from North Africa . |
| 8 | He conducted a retrospective survey of the professional status of the first-degree relatives of psychiatric patients admitted to hospital in his native Iceland between the years 1851 and 1940 . |
| 9 | A retrospective study of the clinical and endoscopic features of low grade gastric lymphomas of mucosa associated lymphoid tissue ( MALT ) in 16 patients together with treatment and outcome was undertaken . |
| 10 | Figure 6.8 is a diagrammatic representation of the hydrological cycle . |
| 11 | It appeared to be some disturbance of the atmosphere , a puckering slash of the ethereal epidermis itself . |
| 12 | It was thought that Iraq had chosen to respond to the appeal from a friendly leader of the Non-aligned Movement , rather than be seen as giving in to Western pressure . |
| 13 | In most cases the clause will operate by postulating a hypothetical letting of the demised property in the open market . |
| 14 | The test is whether a hypothetical by-stander of the requisite firmness would suffer such fear . |
| 15 | If Douglas 's brutality epitomizes racial , cultural , and sexual domination in its most callously direct form , Gide 's self-description of remaining in the security of his room , considering it wiser not to intervene , becomes a resonant image of the hesitant complicities which most kinds of brutality and exploitation presuppose and in which most of us are implicated . |
| 16 | Thus a precise estimate of the average height of adult males in this country can be made on the basis of a representative sample of the total population of adult males . |
| 17 | It was Jack Clayton , a director trained in the traditional film industry , who persuaded Romulus Films to finance a version of John Braine 's Room at the Top , a representative sample of the disillusioned provincial novel . |
| 18 | I was therefore seen as a representative person of the Methodist people . |
| 19 | Try the Finale ( track 3 ) for a representative example of the dazzling but highly intelligent pianism on offer here , as well as the impressive orchestral contribution . |
| 20 | Accordingly a Lopatin calculation is presented for a representative area of the Sole Pit Basin in Quadrant 48 ( Fig. 6 ) . |
| 21 | We believe there is danger in giving too much weight to the need to establish a representative catalogue of the full range of habitat types found in Wales . |
| 22 | While the arable area has increased at the expense of ornithologically more interesting permanent grassland , there has been a simultaneous reduction of the one-year ley , usually clover , within the arable system , combined with an increasing use of herbicides . |
| 23 | Palato-Alveolar Sounds which have alveolar articulation together with a simultaneous raising of the main body of the tongue towards the roof of the mouth , eg/S/ . |
| 24 | That the two City teams were housed together reinforced , even if it did not fully explain , the notable enthusiasm for a purist model of the developmental ideal within these teams . |
| 25 | The immediate reason for the outbreak of war was the French king 's confiscation of the Duchy of Aquitaine on the ground that Edward was harbouring Robert of Artois , a rebellious vassal of the French king who had fled to England in 1336 after being condemned as a traitor . |
| 26 | Two other factors seem to have played a part in bringing about a subtle transformation of the Arnoldian message . |
| 27 | Different patients vary in their response to different therapies — possibly a subtle effect of the inherited background — and no therapy has yet been devised which will suit everyone . |
| 28 | He was later to become suspicious of Maine 's motives , however , as he was to see in the glorification of contract a subtle justification of the legal institutions of capitalism , and he was to seen in Maine 's insistence on the primacy of the monogamous family an attempt to prove that this institution was beyond historical change . |
| 29 | Thus with perceptual verbs in the passive , the to infinitive involves a subtle shifting of the perceptual verb into the conceptual field with the consequent evocation of an inference and not just something directly perceived . |
| 30 | The decision was taken by voice acclamation at a private session of the Democratic representatives . |