Example sentences of "to a [noun] [prep] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | We refer the interested reader to Schwartz ( 1985 ) for more illustrations of ways of applying Garrett 's model to aphasic sentence production , since we do not have space here to consider this work further : we must now turn from considering disorders of spoken language to a discussion of disorders of written language reading disorders ( acquired dyslexias ) and writing disorders ( acquired dysgraphias ) . |
| 2 | In fact Arieti 's coverage of the latter is very cursory and he swiftly shifts to a discussion of examples of , to use Pickering 's term , ‘ creative malady ’ ; such as Proust 's asthma and Darwin ‘ s psychosomatic palpitations — examples that are interesting in themselves but largely irrelevant to the creativity/psychosis debate . |
| 3 | DAGENHAM Motors , the London and South East-based Ford dealer , sold nearly a fifth fewer new cars last year contributing to a fall in profits of more than a third to £2.1m . |
| 4 | ( ii ) The term ‘ legal executive ’ may only be used in a practitioner 's publicity , including stationery , to refer to a Fellow of the Institute of Legal Executives ; and ‘ trainee solicitor ’ to refer to a person under articles of training . |
| 5 | His wife , pointing to a row of dolls of various sizes , replied with pride , ‘ And I , too , my lord , have not been idle . ’ |
| 6 | Only 36 per cent of UK waste collection authorities are planning to meet the government 's target of recycling 25 per cent of household waste by the end of the century , according to a survey by Friends of the Earth . |
| 7 | ‘ There are those who would say it is n't in the public interest and would lead to a diminution in standards of pleading . |
| 8 | These bills of exchange almost invariably sank to a discount in terms of sterling , which meant that British merchants exporting to America lost money if they were compelled by colonial legislation to accept them as payment . |
| 9 | Tommy told Los Angeles police his Ranger went out of control and skidded to a halt within inches of plunging off a Hollywood Hills cliff . |
| 10 | I was looking forward to a couple of hours of vigorous strolling in the company of what I assumed would be a garrulous , suitably eccentric English guide . |
| 11 | Morris helped himself to a couple of lungfuls of cigarette smoke . |
| 12 | Q May I draw your attention to a couple of pieces of equipment ? |
| 13 | Sampdoria fell behind in Genoa to a goal by Maragos of Panathinaikos in the 27th minute — the Greeks ' first goal in five games in the tournament . |
| 14 | There is always some potential for opposition and change ; this comes to a climax in periods of revolutionary social transformation . |
| 15 | I remember I had a dream , when I was five or six , of all the books in my mother 's library being thrown on to a bonfire with piles of other books and burnt . |
| 16 | So the search is on for a more durable , ‘ horizontal ’ resistance to a variety of races of a pest . |
| 17 | It is well known that survey data is subject to a variety of sources of measurement error such as misreporting , recall errors and telescoping of past incidents to give a false historical record . |
| 18 | With the aid of a mass of equipment , some manual ( such as whips and chains ) , some mechanical and some electrical , clients were subjected , at their own wish and with their full consent , to a variety of forms of humiliation , flagellation , bondage and torture , accompanied often by masturbation . |
| 19 | The immediacy of this direct working is exhilarating and the Oilbars are responsible to a variety of ways of handling and touch ; my chosen canvas allowed me to apply Oilbars smoothly and evenly over large areas . |
| 20 | to develop in children the skills of recording and to introduce them to a variety of ways of presenting mathematical ideas ( eg graphs , charts , diagrams ) |
| 21 | This usually involves , for a start , a very extensive survey which asks several thousand people about their attitudes to a variety of aspects of how they run their lives and about their purchasing habits . |
| 22 | According to a variety of indicators of economic situation , widowed women were least advantaged . |
| 23 | Mike Cairns , director of the charity , said that elderly dementia sufferers were subject to a variety of methods of restraint ranging from the crude tying-down and locking up of the elderly to the more subtle use of drugs . |
| 24 | Paradigms will also include standard ways of applying the fundamental laws to a variety of types of situation . |
| 25 | v.2.21 ) the Spartans did copy Athens and go over to a system of contributions of money not men ; but that was in the 370s . |
| 26 | Of necessity this will be specific to a company in terms of its markets and capabilities and a comprehensive universal list is not practical . |
| 27 | Of necessity this will be specific to a company in terms of its markets and capabilities and a comprehensive universal list is not practical . |
| 28 | They are advised by and responsible to a committee of members of the water authority . |
| 29 | On the other hand , as also identified by Giddens ( and , before him , Freud ) there are innate processes leading to a recognition by individuals of the common or national interests represented by the state . |
| 30 | The necessity of obtaining consents to transfers subject to a mortgage from occupiers of the matrimonial home aged 18 years and over must not be overlooked in view of the effect of Williams & Glyn 's Bank Ltd v Boland [ 1981 ] AC 487 . |