Example sentences of "of an [noun sg] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although a member state may limit the number of members of an EEIG to twenty , it is envisaged that , in the UK , professional partnerships which may have over twenty members will be treated as a single member . |
| 2 | In ( 138a ) and ( 139a ) make implies that it is the person(s) referred to by its subject ( they , the newspapers ) who themselves engage in warfare or commit an error , whereas in ( 138b ) and ( 139b ) cause represents its subject as a condition or circumstance which provokes engagement in warfare or commission of an error by some other agent . |
| 3 | The third area is a case study of an instance of legal codification in the UK . |
| 4 | AD 180 , to coincide with the account of an invasion of northern Britain by the historian Cassius Dio ; the wholesale acceptance of this view , though , causes some strains in interpretation which can not be easily reconciled , chief among them being the implication that the damaged forts and other frontier works were left in a state of disrepair for the best part of 25 years , an unbelievable occurrence in Roman military affairs of the period . |
| 5 | Manceville had designed it himself as a great Gothic palace and even incorporated the specially-built ruins of an abbey into one wing . |
| 6 | It is possible to think that this plebeian has been lent some part of Naipaul 's aristocratic fastidiousness , some part of his hostility , while also suffering the consequences of an exposure to these qualities , and to recall that both Ahmed and the author of An Area of Darkness are preoccupied with the hanks of human shit that litter certain landscapes . |
| 7 | Thus the first band of CH 4 arises from removal of an electron from one of the three t 2 orbitals , forming in the triply-degenerate 2 T 2 state ; this distorts spontaneously . |
| 8 | It must be frankly recognized that there is at present no means of providing adequate protection for the people of this country against the consequences of an attack with nuclear weapons . |
| 9 | But it would undermine the essential certainty of an approach which sees the abolition of the GLC as an integral part of an attack on local autonomy . |
| 10 | There are two possible strategies for the treatment of an attack of dry rot . |
| 11 | Correct body movement can reduce the force of an attack by 75 per cent . |
| 12 | Anyone in West Africa who takes it upon himself to tether an animal or restrict its movement , must pay regard to the possibility of an attack by one of these armies . |
| 13 | It is one part only of an attack upon five great evils : upon the physical Want with which it is directly concerned , upon Disease which often causes Want and brings many other troubles in its train , upon Ignorance which no democracy can afford among its citizens , upon the Squalor which arises mainly through haphazard distribution of industry and population , and upon Idleness which destroys wealth and corrupts men , whether they are well-fed or not , when they are idle . ’ |
| 14 | The Americans viewed de Gaulle 's assumption of France as the delusion of an egotist with fascistic tendencies . |
| 15 | Postmodernism , therefore , becomes a certain self-consciousness about a culture 's own historical relativity — which begins to explain why , as its critics complain , it also involves the loss of the sense of an absoluteness of any Western account of History . |
| 16 | In one sense this is comforting for the concerned public in Britain , since visions of an apocalypse for those discharged seem less credible given the differences in approaches to welfare . |
| 17 | The relief of an interlude with one of the handful of people who could understand his feelings made him weep , which embarrassed them both . |
| 18 | The answer here is a very technical one , but the trustees of an organisation of this kind are of course the , the executive committee . |
| 19 | The movement of personnel from one part of an organisation to another is made easier . |
| 20 | Indeed it may well be that power is not linked to the position of an individual within the formal structure of an organisation at all . |
| 21 | Later surveys of voluntary work have produced varied results ( Halfpenny , 1990 ) , but it seems that about three in ten adults undertook voluntary work on behalf of an organisation in 1990 , a figure that had not changed much throughout the 1980s . |
| 22 | Private sector nurses were included and , indicative of an expansion of occupational pension provision into higher-status ‘ manual ’ employment during the inter-war period , just over half the women in private sector schemes were manual workers ( Ministry of Labour Gazette , 1938 ) . |
| 23 | During the year , the Group made progress towards achieving its commitment to become an industry leader in its awareness of an approach to environmental issues . |
| 24 | Cut off two , inch long pieces of gummed tape and , moistening no more than one-quarter of an inch on each strip , stick them on the top edge of your cartridge paper by holding the brown paper hinges and give it a good shake . |
| 25 | Three quarters of an inch of small print by waste disposal company Leigh Environments Ltd , lost among the Public Notices in the Manchester Evening News in April 1990 , complying with the legal advertisement of application to the Trafford Park Development Corporation to erect and operate toxic and clinical waste incinerators burning 26,000 tons p.a. in Nash Road at the Barton end of the Park , spurred into action several individuals who were aware of the health and life threatening potentiality of incinerating bitumens , acid tars , industrial cleaning fluids , engineering oils , solvents , agricultural wastes , fungicides , paints and above all polychlorinated biphenyls which are dioxin and furan generating , highly toxic , carcinogenic , teratogenic , difficult to destroy ( shades of Vietnam 's ‘ agent orange ’ and Italy 's Sevaso disaster ) , the incineration of which in ships in the North Sea had been banned by the E.E.C . |
| 26 | But it is submitted that a ‘ body of persons ’ has a collective character independently of the question whether it is a mercantile body or not , which the law is bound to protect ; in other words that any such body can sue in respect of an imputation of any conduct whatsoever of which its agents , and therefore itself by its agents , can be guilty . |
| 27 | Mr Wallis said the town should be thinking in terms of an attraction of equal size and prestige as the Beamish Museum . |
| 28 | And Mr Wallis believes the town should be thinking in terms of an attraction of equal size and prestige as the Beamish Museum . |
| 29 | Pickets handing out leaflets to passers by may thereby cause harassment , alarm or distress , but they should not be held to be guilty of an offence on that account alone . |
| 30 | ‘ ( 1 ) A person shall not be excused , by reason that to do so may incriminate that person or the wife or husband of that person of an offence under this Act — ( a ) from answering any question put to that person in proceedings for the recovery or administration of any property , for the execution of any trust or for an account of any property or dealings with property ; or ( b ) from complying with any order made in any such proceedings ; but no statement or admission made by a person in answering a question put or complying with an order made as aforesaid shall , in proceedings for an offence under this Act , be admissible in evidence against that person or ( unless they married after the making of the statement or admission ) against the wife or husband of that person . |