Example sentences of "[noun sg] a [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was at the time of reorganization a considerable expansion of advisory services to meet the desire for increased curriculum coherence and the staff appointed were to take on much of the short course organization and guidance to schools for school focused INSET . |
| 2 | Nearly all the Embiricos vases — which range from black- to red- figure , include white-ground Lekythoi , and presente a representative sample of Greek vase types — are by known painters , making this an exceptionally interesting group . |
| 3 | An added complication which increases in importance from time to time , is the tendency for both ITV contractors and media buyers to negotiate ‘ share deals ’ , in which the advertiser obtains a discount for giving a particular contractor a disproportionate share of the TV budget . |
| 4 | Sometime before he became king in 1625 , James I 's son Charles had adopted as his personal religion a conservative version of Protestantism known as Arminianism ; he had done so either because he disagreed with the doctrine of predestination , or more probably because he found the austere liturgy of undiluted Calvinism distasteful . |
| 5 | There are many more , far too numerous to mention here , but The Body Shop stock a good selection of aromatherapy oils as do most health food sores . |
| 6 | It is , I am told , German settlers in County Wexford who are responsible for the Irish Brie called St Edi now being peddled in this country ; the assault of its ammoniac smell brought back to me with terrible force a twenty-two-year-old memory of the Camembert of war-time Egypt which , I now realize , could have been none other than the handiwork of a German fifth column active in Alexandria . ) |
| 7 | But Corden , mindful that in football a firm show of boardroom backing so often heralds managerial upheaval , said : ‘ I 'm not going to give him a vote of confidence ! ’ |
| 8 | flo plays wide midfield on norways national team — but i think he is used mainly as a target man for sheff utd. norw coach drillo wants to try a setup with one ‘ Flo ’ as both left and right wide midfielder , then trying to hit hard high , crosses from behind towards the ‘ towers ’ at the sides thus giving football a new dimension of play . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Elsewhere , however , as has been stated , it is not uncommon for a court to declare invalid a purported act of a legislature on the ground that the legislature in question had no power to pass such an act at all . |
| 11 | In the long run it may be possible to go further than this , to appropriate in the form of tax revenue a large part of the income which workers would otherwise have put into long-term savings schemes , and to expand commensurately the socialised provision for retired workers ( state pensions plus appropriate social amenities ) . |
| 12 | He justifies this implicit raising of the required standard partly in order to encourage pupils to continue caring about geography lessons ( as opposed to reading the newspapers ) and partly because it would be unfair to give pupils taking geography a better chance of reaching university than pupils taking , say , physics under the war-time difficulties caused by shortage of laboratories and physics teachers . |
| 13 | Two recent studies exclusively involving patients with diarrhoea similarly reported the absence of potential pathogens in most patients with AIDS related complex while in most patients with AIDS a potential cause of diarrhoea was detected ; as the abnormalities detected in AIDS patients were obviously not necessary to produce diarrhoea at earlier stages of the disease , their causative relevance is doubtful . |
| 14 | As a result a small piece of low-level code is being reworked , hardly something to even write home about . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | As a result a good model of the system may be obtained from a much smaller corpus of data . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I like to make to Mr Hopkin is private citizen a small gift of Frenloudji book , which is the only abject in my possession and to give him handshake for last time . |
| 20 | At present , the region acts as a clearing house and Lothian region gives the college a great deal of autonomy . |
| 21 | The council has also been giving the college a yearly grant of seventy thousand pounds . |
| 22 | Early in the programme a few specimens of achondrites were found in both the Allan Hills and Yamato ice fields . |
| 23 | It wanted to give the club a different style of management . |
| 24 | The difference between the situation of such characters and the readers and that of the remaining characters within the fabliaux makes irony a typical feature of the experience of reading a fabliau . |
| 25 | Ironically , this was a source of strength for the dynasty because , unlike its English counterpart , it did not have to face the potential opposition a corporate body of the great magnates could provide . |
| 26 | On the Continent a curved form of axe , the franscisca , was used as a weapon by throwing it , but this type and conventional forms of axe are rare in England , even though it would have been a basic tool for cutting timber . |
| 27 | With this in mind a new model of training in surgical science has been established at University College London , organised jointly by the departments of surgery and of anatomy and developmental biology . |
| 28 | For one thing it was too babyish — Moses Arkwright would never do anything with so little risk attached to it — and for another , deep in the dark of his mind a small seed of moral uneasiness had begun to germinate . |
| 29 | There are many sorts of visionaries , and one of the highest is the sort that forms in the mind a complete system of existence . |
| 30 | She had turned on him again that remarkable glance in which for the first time he had detected to his discomfiture a brief flash of intelligence and of calculation . |