Example sentences of "[vb -s] an [noun] of [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the firm selling overseas needs an understanding of why they behave in that way . |
| 2 | It needs an understanding of how all the parts contribute to the whole , so that new elements of collaboration can be introduced as and when appropriate , with the children 's confidence and understanding being developed until they are ready to take over the initiative for themselves . |
| 3 | Forest extends up to 1,200m and covers an area of over 19,500 hectares . |
| 4 | Our membrane covers an area of about 4 square centimetres , which is small in comparison with many other mammals . |
| 5 | One on the Yellowstone Plateau in Wyoming , U S A , covers an area of around 2500 km 2 and forms a large basin partly filled by massive sheets of ignimbrite . |
| 6 | Halley 's comet has an eccentricity of about 0.9675 permitting it to visit us every 76 years . |
| 7 | In the UK , all newborn babies are screened for the inherited condition phenylketonuria which has an incidence of about 10 cases per 100,000 live births in the UK Afro-Caribbean population . |
| 8 | Although his main tunings are the common ones ( open E — EBEG£BE , open A — EAEAC£E and open G — DGDGBD ) Sonny also has an armoury of more obscure minor , chromatic and combination tunings . |
| 9 | A rabbit has an overlap of only 24 degrees , while we manage an amazing 180 degrees . |
| 10 | June Roder , 62 , a pensioner from Ilford , has an income of about £6,000 a year from pensions and savings . |
| 11 | The review of RAWP estimated an equation in which standardised mortality ratio has an elasticity of roughly 0.5 , so the same 10% increase in standardised mortality ratio would lead to only a 5% increase in funding target . |
| 12 | The anthropologist Susan Harding has an account of why women and men in a Spanish village use different styles of discourse which depends on the idea that the sexes have differing roles . |
| 13 | Note that the solar cell has an efficiency of only about 10% . |
| 14 | Wesley has an explanation of why the believer can not explain to the unbeliever what he or she has learned by faith . |
| 15 | It has an overdraft of just over £1m , and its finance committee was told this week that , after hoarding trade-union and individual affiliations since 1987 , the party would have some £6m to spend in a May or June election — still much less than the Tories , but twice what it spent in the last election . |
| 16 | The site , which has an area of approximately 5,000 square feet and is freehold , is currently vacant and boarded off . |
| 17 | He calculates that there are enough long-range connections for there to be two-way connections between any patch of 1 mm 2 and every other 1 mm 2 patch over the whole neocortex , which is quite impressive when you realise that the human neocortex has an area of more than 100,000 sq . |
| 18 | If Chartres has an atmosphere of almost hysterical ecstasy , then Brigflatts has an air of honest calm and loving peace . |
| 19 | A 33MHz Mac QMacMac Quadra 950 , for example , has an RRP of around £5,000 . |
| 20 | The constellation also contains an object of quite different type : NGC 7000 , the so-called North America Nebula . |
| 21 | He is probably to be identified with the ‘ patrician ’ ( the term signifies an individual of very high standing indeed ) called Moll to whom King Eadberht and Archbishop Ecgberht gave the monasteries of Stonegrave and Coxwold in Yorkshire , seized by them from Moll 's brother , Abbot Forthred , for which action Pope Paul I reproved them . |
| 22 | ( 1988 ) estimate 17,000 additional fatal cancers in Europe in the next 50 years but highlight that the Chernobyl legacy adds an increment of only 0.01 per cent to European lifetime fatal cancer risk . |
| 23 | Close to its crest lies an outcrop of particularly fine shales and in these some of the most perfectly preserved fossils in the world have been discovered . |
| 24 | The second point to be taken into consideration is a quite surprisingly coherent and consistent story that links an intake of mostly green and yellow vegetables with a much lower risk of several forms of cancer . |
| 25 | In his discussion of The Legal Aspects of Sanitary Reform , Edward Jenkins includes an account of newly built cottages in the East End of London in the 1860s , where the contents of an adjacent cesspool were actually being used to make mortar for further dwellings , crammed into the back gardens of the first . |
| 26 | I only want to speak at this juncture on the element of that which is due to lower mortality as I call it , I E deaths and this is addressed in paragraph five and in the table at the bottom which shows an effect of about two thousand er extra households , due to lower mortality rate assumptions in our projections . |
| 27 | It is known , for example , that Seyh Zeyneddin was in Egypt in 822 , and there also exists an exchange of mutually adulatory between Molla Fenari and Seyh Zeyneddin 's disciple and close friend , Shaykh " Abd al-Latif b . |
| 28 | Family health services authorities and their professional advisers are charged with the challenging task of ‘ improving the quality and cost effectiveness of prescribing , ’ but any consideration of prescribing costs requires an understanding of how they are affected by factors outside the family health services authority 's control . |
| 29 | Appreciating what bills get enacted , in what form , and then what monies are appropriated to fund their implementation requires an understanding of how Congress conducts its business , and how its members are influenced , by the President , by other members , and by outside interests , including their own constituents . |
| 30 | Use of trade exhibitions is on the increase and firms increasingly need to establish a more scientific method of managing this function as it requires an understanding of how an exhibition stand communicates itself to the public . |