Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Some things needed to change , but some needed to remain the same and I usually found myself in this place pulling at the forces of change as a child might pull at the reins of a runaway horse . |
| 32 | It is however not in curriculum thinking that Fullan 's major contribution is to be found , but rather in the issues he raises about the nature of change as a process in educational terms , and the implications these have for managers in the service . |
| 33 | The environmental imperative is held to reside mainly in the market context of manufacturing firms and the rate of change as a variable determining the ‘ best ’ structure of an organization . |
| 34 | We are taking active steps to ensure that practising actuaries keep up with the rapid pace of change through a programme of Continuing Professional Development . |
| 35 | Classical physics tends to express things in terms of second order differential equations , that is ones involving the rate of change of a rate of change , whilst [ 9 ] is first order — it just incorporates a simple rate of change . |
| 36 | I could imagine institutions , for example , being told to be in a different position perhaps in five years ' time or ten years ' time , and being able to do this by a variety of means , working towards it , whereas , it seems to me it 's a very much harder problem , although it 's , it 's understandable as I said in the , in the present circumstances , to actually be able to take on this properly and do a proper job of change in a time scale of perhaps one year or maybe even less than that in some cases . |
| 37 | In considering drama 's place in topic work , we have to start by thinking how we might dramatise the topic ; and that means seeking out human dilemmas , looking for the moments of change in a situation , or the moments when change might be possible ; we 're looking for those moments when people make choices . |
| 38 | The Shooting Party author with a novel about 40 years of change in a community . |
| 39 | This tool can be developed to help nurses scrutinise their work or evaluate quantitatively the effects of change within a ward on nurse activity . |
| 40 | As it came away from the cold flesh , so she cut it into strips , and she wrapped each strip of skin around a piece of bone . |
| 41 | Jim Davidson sent six bottles of champagne with a card saying , ‘ What a way to get into the papers , ’ and one evening I received the largest basket of poinsettias I 've ever seen , totally stunning , with a card saying , ‘ Thinking of you — lots of love , Elton . ’ |
| 42 | She turned away abruptly and snatched up a glass of champagne as a waiter passed by with a tray of brimming glasses . |
| 43 | He told her she was a fool , and wished her luck — then he gave her a gold sovereign and a bottle of champagne as a farewell present . |
| 44 | This use of hair as a symbol of social disorder reflects Benthall 's contention ( 1976 ) that an obsessive interest in the body was a result of people turning to its use as a medium of expression , because of their individual inability to shape modern technological and bureaucratic society . |
| 45 | Taking small sections of hair at a time , pull your hair over the Flexi Comb and tuck under the edge . |
| 46 | The device is somehow congruous with the repeated images of hair like a shadow , beauty flying , leaves and years falling , through it all the hemlock-leaves of death . |
| 47 | An egg not of shell like a bird 's : leathery rather , like a turtle 's . |
| 48 | Levin makes a special case for Debord as a film-maker whose aim was to contribute to the ultimate destruction of cinema as a spectacularist medium . |
| 49 | The significance of cinema as a medium of mass entertainment and therefore as a potentially suitable weapon for political control was recognised by Lenin when he remarked , ‘ Of all the arts , for us cinema is the most important . ’ |
| 50 | The variation in strength of the gravitational field at a constant distance from the centre of mass of a planet associated with J 4 is shown in Figure 9.8 . |
| 51 | About 70–90% of mass of a crop is water ; about 85–90% of the dry matter is carbonaceous material derived from photosynthesis , the reduction of carbon dioxide , a process driven by light energy . |
| 52 | Furthermore , in those patients with resolution of pathology on a gluten free diet , the proportion of γ-interferon expressing intra epithelial lymphocytes returned towards normal concentrations , indicating a true disease related effect ( Fig 2 ) . |
| 53 | Therefore , this T lymphocyte product has been implicated as an important mediator of pathology in a variety of autoimmune and inflammatory conditions . |
| 54 | The Prophet 's lack of expertise with a gun saved Lomax 's life . |
| 55 | The first of SERA 's seminars for 1993 is planned for April at Napier University as an important step in launching a research network ( see below ) The Gender in Education Network currently being established hopes to draw on a wide range of expertise from a variety of institutions . |
| 56 | The excepted proceedings , which are specified , are actions in defamation , relator actions , certain proceedings for the recovery of a penalty , election petitions , actions relating to judgment summons in the county court , actions in the county court where the only question is the time and mode of payment of a debt , and any incidental proceedings . |
| 57 | Loss of self-control in cricket is on a par with evasion of payment for a television licence . |
| 58 | Overnight a highly suspect communist renegade was transformed into an eternally youthful dissident communist , a beacon of hope for a generation of young men and women rebelling against the anarchronistic irrelevance of an outmoded educational system and the serial alienation of a post-industrial society . |
| 59 | Their achievement is seen as a sign of hope in a country where the seven-year civil war has forced half a million people into exile and a further half million to become refugees in their own land . |
| 60 | Yet it is the merest hint of hope in a story of otherwise unbroken tragedy . |