Example sentences of "the [noun] of a [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The defence of a newly won national independence against actual or potential threats from other States imposes an entirely new discipline upon society . |
| 2 | Whereas in much of eastern Europe , which was moving in the same direction , enserfment seems to have been the response of a very powerful nobility to a labour shortage ( made more acute in areas responding to the growing Western market for grain ) , in Russia the State clearly played a greater role . |
| 3 | But it has to be said ( it has to be said ! ) wrote Harsnet , and Goldberg , typing , smiled to himself , it has to be said , wrote Harsnet , that if every project is likely , if not certain , to result in the addition of a little more shit to the shit that already exists , there is also the possibility , faint it is true but real , of the unexpected , and this is what delay makes possible and what the onward rush of time , the ever-increasing acceleration of time , perpetually denies , and in addition to the possibility of the unexpected appearing in the coils of delay , in addition to that , it has to be said , he wrote , that whatever the project , however trivial , however exalted , it will always say more than its maker knows , and , if genuine ( I will return to genuine ) , something will emerge which is distinct from whatever came before , from whatever elements went to make up the whole , a tone , a voice , which is not the tone or the voice of the maker but something else , something which , in my more optimistic moments , or perhaps my less clear-sighted moments , seems to be distinct from the shit though inseparable from it , a tone , a style , which links it to its maker 's other genuine ( I will return to genuine ) productions . |
| 4 | They also lend a delicious flavour when added to cheap cuts of stewing lamb with caraway seeds , especially if the sauce is finished by the addition of a little soured cream . |
| 5 | This will need topdressing each year in spring , together with the addition of a little slow-acting organic fertilizer — herbs are much more aromatic when grown " hard " with little nutrient . |
| 6 | It is often the case that this is not offset by the relatively small environmental loss experienced along the already very busy distributor road by a relatively small number of people as a result of the addition of a relatively small number of vehicles . |
| 7 | He has already taken the trouble to obtain the opinions of a carefully selected group of North Britons ; what then can be his objection to ascertaining what the ordinary Scot in the street thinks ? |
| 8 | Arrange the strawberries , grapes , and peach in the base of an approximately 900ml ( 1½ pint ) souffle dish or 4 individual ramekin dishes . |
| 9 | With a delicate sniff in the direction of a slightly cowed Hester Davis , Mrs Stych enrolled herself as a sleuth in search of an author . |
| 10 | But it will prove to be a necessary and worthwhile one if it leads us in the direction of a less doctrinaire and therefore more properly educational form of antiracism . |
| 11 | A dish in any Pacific city east of the longitude of Mexico City — Lima , say , or Quito , or Santiago — will be cranked down in the direction of an equally low point on the eastern horizon — for just as American naval vessels involved in exercises off the Pacific coasts of Peru , Ecuador or Chile are regarded as being part of the US Atlantic Fleet , so communicators , for reasons of pure geometry , think of these countries ' capital cities as part of the Atlantic communications network . |
| 12 | Various pieces of legislation since 1968 have placed duties upon Metropolitan Counties to ‘ … secure and promote the provision of a properly integrated and efficient system of public passenger transport … ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Four years ago , we recognised a gap in the marketplace for the provision of a highly personalised catering service that ensured catering facilities were totally integrated with the clients ’ objectives . |
| 14 | For example , Vivian de Sola Pinto ( a regular contributor to the Review during the 19305 ) had come to consider that in the post-war world liberally-educated persons , whether schoolmasters , civil servants , or business administrators should have the capacity to contribute to the revitalization of a " soulless bureaucracy " , and that the main object of English studies should therefore be " the provision of a truly liberal education " for such " non-specialists " . |
| 15 | The provision of a very efficient fund transfer system and advice on its use . |
| 16 | The TEI header allows for the provision of a very large amount of structured or unstructured information under the above headings , including both traditional bibliographic material which can be translated straight into an equivalent MARC catalogue record , as well as a wealth of descriptive information such as the languages it uses and the situation within which it was produced , expansions or formal definitions for any codebooks used in analysing the text , the setting and identity of participants within it . |
| 17 | Originally a forest dwelling species , pigs may benefit from sylvopastoral system by the provision of a more natural environment . |
| 18 | Again like Crowther , it strongly recommended the raising of the school leaving age to 16 [ this eventually happened in 1972 ] and the provision of a more stimulating and demanding curriculum so that pupils had a wider choice of courses , including some ‘ broadly related to occupational interests ’ , and others concerned with personal and social development , and ‘ imaginative experience through the arts ’ . |
| 19 | Much of the company 's success was attributed to an effective customer care policy , targeted and highly innovative promotional initiatives and the provision of a more pleasant overall shopping experience . |
| 20 | Other database features which I consider important are : i ) a proper data function ( in order to calculate age and length of service ) ; ii ) good sort facilities ( so that staffing information can be presented in a variety of different sequences ) ; ( iii ) good selection facilities ( so that staff may be selected according to complicated " if … or … and … " criteria ) ; iv ) a " look up table " facility ( so that coded data may be entered to save data entry time but full descriptions/interpretations will appear on reports ) The provision of a really sophisticated system , comparable to the best mainframe personnel record/manpower information systems , is quite demanding . |
| 21 | The commission supports the need for such a compulsory measure though its implementation could be improved , for example , by the requirement of the provision of a specially trained social worker in appropriate cases . |
| 22 | The condition of the original internal structures and existing buildings was so bad that cost studies showed that , as well as offering higher standards of fire and sound insulation , the provision of an entirely new structure within the retained shell of the building would be cheaper than a process of repairing and upgrading the surviving framing . |
| 23 | All this training was to hold them in good stead for the war to come , when the older members were to form the backbone of a very efficient Fire Brigade . |
| 24 | Teachers , up till now , have lacked professional expertise and so need the support of a well structured teaching programme . |
| 25 | Me know the answer ! , in contrast , both the extra-verbal person evoked by me and the generalized person incorporated within the infinitive know as the support of a merely potential knowing are situated in the present , which explains the absence of to and the fact that this sentence can be used to call into question the possibility that the speaker has the knowledge at the present moment . |
| 26 | With the expertise of a well respected manufacturer aware of the demands of modern catering , the hotel installed equipment which was right for the job and which culd be relied upon to help meet strict hygiene standards . |
| 27 | All the expertise of a fully computerized trade and product information service is available for US exporters and no corner of the global marketplace is left un-intelligenced . |
| 28 | The heritability of a continuously varying trait is a useful statistic in the absence of an exact knowledge of its genetics . |
| 29 | This may have held great promise in its early years but it soon became divided and then fragmented , due largely , if not wholly to the same age-old misconception whereby the basis of the religion is the assumption of the existence of a completely undefined ‘ god ’ , in this case the ancient ‘ god ’ of the Jews . |
| 30 | The measurement of frequency depends on the existence of a clearly articulated set of linguistic and stylistic categories . |