Example sentences of "[to-vb] an [noun] of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could it be that the bureaucrats of primate research saw a way to parlay an admission of poor husbandry into a public relations campaign for the primate centres ? |
| 2 | Even when a problem is solved and the fish have apparently recovered it is common for tropicals to suffer an outbreak of White Spot and Coralfish to get Oodinium a few days later . |
| 3 | The book follows the design of the successful RCN research series , the aims of which are to encourage an understanding of nursing research . |
| 4 | The Employment Appeal Tribunal has recently held that employees may be fairly dismissed because they refuse to accept an offer of new terms and conditions of employment ( see St John of God ( Care Services ) Ltd v Brooks and Others [ 1992 ] 458 Industrial Relations Legal Information Bulletin 12 ) . |
| 5 | A school which is trying to establish an ethos of healthy living has to take care that the message it gives to pupils are reflected in the school generally . |
| 6 | You only have to study the improvisations of musicians like Charlie Parker , Clifford Brown and John Coltrane to discover an abundance of chromatic tension and resolution points . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , Hilton continues to delineate an image of inner development which will stimulate the imagination of his disciple and enable her to recognise and order her own experience ; his great skill is to tie in the particularities of his teaching with the overall pattern of the Incarnation so that meditation on the Passion provides the constant focus for an ever deepening understanding . |
| 8 | and Sobel and Collett to find an effect of vertical disparities might have been due to the relatively small angular extents ( 8–11° and 30° ) of the stereoscopic surfaces used in their experiments . |
| 9 | and Sobel and Collett to find an effect of vertical disparities was due to the relatively small sizes of their displays . |
| 10 | to provide an outline of National Certificate provision in this area ; |
| 11 | The objective is to provide an analysis of certain aspects of the longer term evolution of technological competitiveness in UK firms and industries , by comparison with the leading European countries . |
| 12 | [ … ] In passing , it should be noted that the conceptual framework developed by Williamson claims to provide an explanation of organizational forms in general , in that it seeks to explain the circumstances in which a variety of institutional forms — including classical market contracts , non-standard market contracts , government regulatory agencies , and trades unions — have , in turn , a comparative advantage in the organization of resources . |
| 13 | In order to provide an indication of possible benefits that might be paid under this policy , Lautro ( the regulatory authority for the marketing of life assurance and unit trusts ) has made rules which lay down two bases on which future benefits may be illustrated . |
| 14 | The pluralist perspective on British politics was built up by political scientists who were predisposed to provide an account of interest-group politics which presented it in a good , democratic light . |
| 15 | The approach we have adopted is to provide an overview of current practice , and to reinforce this with examples from as wide a spectrum of opinion as possible . |
| 16 | This study was jointly commissioned by the ESRC and the Overseas Development Administration ( ODA ) to provide an overview of current understanding of the two-way interactions between poverty and environment in developing countries , with a view to promoting research in this area . |
| 17 | ‘ The golden century ’ aims to provide an overview of Flemish baroque painting while also focusing on the importance of Antwerp as a major centre for trade and artistic patronage in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries , when it was still part of the Hapsburg Empire . |
| 18 | This result suggests that the human visual system exploits the fact that the differential perspective effects increase with increasing eccentricity and consequently pools this information across quite large visual extents to obtain an estimate of absolute distance which is used for scaling disparities . |
| 19 | In other words , if the destructive forces operating on the bone assemblages are so great as to destroy some of the mandibles and maxillae , but not great enough to destroy the teeth , the ensuing sample can be expected to contain an excess of isolated teeth over the numbers expected from the numbers of jaws . |
| 20 | Sonic thirty pages in volume two are known to contain an account of everyday life on Islay at the time of the author 's visit , and notes on the fishing at Portnahaven are particularly valuable . |
| 21 | Sonic thirty pages in volume two are known to contain an account of everyday life on Islay at the time of the author 's visit , and notes on the fishing at Portnahaven are particularly valuable . |
| 22 | One of its key policies was to activate an improvement of police-black relations . |
| 23 | Stevenson was deliberately seeking a plot that would allow him to explore an aspect of human psychology . |
| 24 | to offer to the holders of ordinary shares of £1 each in the capital of the Company ( ‘ Ordinary Shares ’ ) the right to elect to receive an allotment of new Ordinary Shares , credited as fully paid , in lieu of all or part of the final cash dividend in respect of the financial year of the Company ended on 31st March 1993 in all respects in such manner as may be determined by the directors on the basis and subject to the conditions of the circular dated 21st June 1993 sent to the members of the Company by the Company and , in particular , such that the aggregate nominal value of the new Ordinary Shares which such holders may elect to receive may exceed the aggregate cash dividend which they would otherwise be entitled to receive ; and |
| 25 | His principal achievement during these years was to create an alliance of small coastal tribes to offset the military might of the inland Ashanti . |
| 26 | But the absence of public apprehension over corporate crime does not justify it being ignored by criminologists ; rather , it should justify creating a publicity campaign to create an awareness of corporate crime . |
| 27 | When buying flowers for pressing from a florist , remember that you will need far less material than you would to create an arrangement of fresh flowers . |
| 28 | Wayne helped her aboard and then darted ahead , switching on all the lights and then dimming some of them to create an impression of instant welcome . |
| 29 | Milic sees this habit as having a role in Swift 's persuasive rhetoric : as helping to create an impression of consummate logical clarity . |
| 30 | Rock City is packed , the moshpit is brimming with zealous Carpets devotees , and from the moment things explode with ‘ Generations ’ , the band and their sweaty surroundings combine to create an impression of rounded excellence . |