Example sentences of "[to-vb] an [noun] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Positioned well away from the planned recreational activities , it promised to attract an abundance of wildlife — and so it has turned out . |
| 2 | Wilson appointed Dick Crossman Shadow Secretary of State for Education and Science , and encouraged him to spearhead some 40 conferences , up and down the country , to encourage an exchange of ideas . |
| 3 | Also one of the new pope 's first actions , taken on the day after his consecration , was to extract an oath of obedience from the prefect of Rome . |
| 4 | A fully-operational GIS should be able to extract an area of interest , given the coordinates of two opposite corners of a rectangular region containing the area , irrespective of the number of map sheets that the region occupies . |
| 5 | The government was blamed by opposition groups for inciting the violence , claiming that the Moi regime would use the clashes as an excuse to impose an state of emergency and thus delay forthcoming multiparty elections . |
| 6 | 2.1 Express indications of confidentiality Where the person disclosing information expressly states to the recipient that it is being disclosed in confidence this will usually suffice to impose an obligation of confidence ( assuming the information has the necessary quality of confidence ) . |
| 7 | As part of the drive to impose an appearance of order on the world , nineteenth-century science created a vast body of numerical information all carefully arranged so that geographical variations could be ascertained at a glance . |
| 8 | Within their own scale of operations all animals need to be able to impose an appearance of order upon their environment ; they need to be able to discriminate favourable ( normal ) from unfavourable ( abnormal ) situations . |
| 9 | He wrote some short works , for instance on legal reform and trading corporations , but later hopes to be allowed to write an account of Elizabeth I 's reign , with access to the papers of William Cecil , Baron Burghley [ q.v. ] , were never fulfilled . |
| 10 | On many a winter morning I jumped out of bed and put a letter of his in the fire , feeling it would be wrong to allow it to survive ; and when some years ago I was asked by a distinguished man of letters if I could help him to write an account of Maurice |
| 11 | Tournaments were a regular feature of noble life in these years , and in 1344 at an especially magnificent tournament held at Windsor the king took an oath to establish an Order of Knights of the Round Table as it had existed in the days of Ring Arthur . |
| 12 | There are also attempts by agencies to establish an ownership of clients . |
| 13 | Wycliffe was late for his after-dinner walk , delayed by the Captain , but he was anxious to establish an element of routine . |
| 14 | Ground staff were called in to repair an area of turf which had been dug up by vandals using a pick and shovel . |
| 15 | He began to recite an act of resignation to the Divine Will . |
| 16 | With joy in their hearts , all Brothers paused wherever they were to recite an angelus of annihilation aimed at the Emperor 's enemies . |
| 17 | The modern procedure in the action is for the plaintiff to apply to the registrar of the county court , who will see that the goods alleged to have been wrongfully taken are restored to the plaintiff on his giving security to prosecute an action of replevin in the county court or in the High Court . |
| 18 | However , while it might seem that in high EE homes , people with schizophrenia would be particularly vulnerable to relapse after a life event , Leff and Vaughn ( 1980 ) failed to find an excess of events in the weeks preceding relapse for patients in high EE homes . |
| 19 | Is it not possible to find an understanding of faith that is compatible with uncertainty rather than certainty of the existence of a Deity ? |
| 20 | From pre- , para- and reserve military training in schools and factories , to ‘ voluntary ’ contributions of food and material to the Armed Forces , to dual-purpose transport and the hardening of industrial plant , it is difficult to find an aspect of production in which military and security considerations do not in some way impinge . |
| 21 | Four men of different ages , all wearing medium-cost suits in bad taste , a lunchtime ritual to pass an hour of freedom from the office . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's much too soon to provoke an affair of honour , ’ he remarked . |
| 23 | However , I am suggesting that an opportunity was lost to incorporate recent economic analysis to any substantial extent into the evaluation of the various industry studies , in particular to provide an element of comparison and consistency between them . |
| 24 | On the other hand , in order to get clearance , I will have to provide an idea of costs and benefits and so anything you can do on this will be most helpful . |
| 25 | Oakeshott 's theory in fact draws on both Hegel and Hobbes to provide an analysis of politics , law , and the state . |
| 26 | There followed a time of uncertainty but , it had been ‘ business as usual ’ at Alton General , with staff ‘ making do ’ and ‘ covering up the cracks ’ in their efforts to provide an atmosphere of peace and calm , however hard worked they were behind the scenes . |
| 27 | Its role has been ‘ to provide reassurance to the government , to give support to policies which BR wish to pursue , to provide briefing material for Department of Transport Ministers in argument and negotiations with ministerial colleagues , and to provide an atmosphere of professionalism and control over the business which governments — and the public — expect ’ ( Heath 1984 : 221 ) . |
| 28 | The empirical method is seen most clearly in the work of John Austin who , in producing a science of positive law in terms of commands , sanctions , and habits , attempted to provide an explanation of law entirely in non-normative terminology . |
| 29 | It was accepted within the Ministry that the fuel industry chairmen 's coordinating committee ( which rarely met ) existed solely in order to provide an illusion of activity and allay parliamentary criticism . |
| 30 | Its functional modernity struck a discordant note in a room which was otherwise cluttered with eighteenth-century furniture ; two chairs with embroidered seats , a Pembroke table , a bureau , each a fine example of its period , were strategically placed to provide an island of support if she needed to make her painful progress to the door , so that the room looked rather like an antique shop with its treasures ineptly displayed . |