Example sentences of "of [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The German government 's aim of for a reduction of carbon dioxide emissions by 30 per cent on 1987 levels by the year 2005 is likely to fall short of expectations . |
| 2 | A typical example would be : How many uses can you think of for a brick ( or a paper clip ) ? |
| 3 | According to Institute statistics , it was almost unheard of for a member to go into an IVA until two years ago , but in 1991 23 IVAs were reported , last year the number soared to 56 , and by half way through January , the 1993 total was already into double figures . |
| 4 | The appointment of a slave to the office of Grand Vezir in 857/1453 , however , set the seal on the tendency to man the highest offices of the central administration , the vezirliks , with slaves ; and though it was by no means unheard of for a member of the ulema thereafter to hold a vezirlik , one begins to see the development of a separate hierarchy more or less confined to members of the ulema , the highest offices in which , known as were an end in themselves and not mere stepping-stones to high office in other areas such as the central administration . |
| 5 | The association has stated clearly that it is up to British Rail — and , perhaps , the Government — to take such dangers into account if they wish to increase railway speeds , as many of us would like , and to ensure that people can cross the line safely , even if that means the Government providing the money either for an underpass of for a bridge over the line . |
| 6 | ‘ Not to be thought of for a moment . |
| 7 | It 's unheard of for a two-year-old to race against older horses in America , but my horse has done well and I hope more will follow us over . |
| 8 | It is by no means unheard of for a band to be offered a deal on nothing more than a ‘ concept ’ . |
| 9 | that the he 'll be sort of for a right . |
| 10 | ‘ A method of poisoning which I learnt of during a sojourn in Bulgaria . |
| 11 | The fairly long seek times of CD-ROM , caused by its CLV retrieval system , can still cause pauses of between a half and one second while the read head moves from one part of the disc to another . |
| 12 | Another example is the occurrence of between a consonant and , or ; in RP we can find the following : ‘ pew ’ , ‘ tune ’ , ‘ queue ’ . |
| 13 | The period of cohabitation is often thought of as a trial marriage . |
| 14 | Science is thought of as a subject that is difficult both to teach and to learn . |
| 15 | Science is thought of as a subject that is difficult both to teach and to learn . |
| 16 | On the face of it , this seems good , but it must be remembered that each tonne used for fuel instead of as a fertilizer means a yield loss of some of 50 kg in grain production , for example . |
| 17 | When Cassio has been attacked by Iago , apparently murdered , Othello lauds his master 's example : The murder scene , with its marvellously wrought language , a ceremony that Othello thinks of as a sacrifice , is the most deluded , most fictitious scene in Shakespeare — not a word in it that Othello says is true . |
| 18 | In a sense it can be thought of as a direction of time that is at right angles to real time . |
| 19 | A rejection of an ideal or principle is involved only if , when considering the relation of a man to his acts , his principle or ideal is regarded as absolute in the sense that it constitutes an infallible guide to human conduct , or if it is conceived of as a maxim in the Kantian sense and provides the reason a man might have for thinking it worthwhile for him to act morally . |
| 20 | I 've got to take a second to tell you the whole so-called Iran scandal , I think hard to think of as a scandal . |
| 21 | By the time Tennyson revisited Cauterets , in 1861 , what he thought of as a village he now found to be , in his less poetic moods , ‘ an odious watering-place ’ , and that is a transition you can readily enough trace in the architecture today . |
| 22 | Entropy can be thought of as a measure of the chaos , randomness or disorder of a system . |
| 23 | It had long been the nuns ' ambition that Eve Malone be thought of as a lady . |
| 24 | Alternatively , a polymer solution can be thought of as a system formed by the condensation of solvent into a polymer . |
| 25 | In a way , development can be thought of as a cascade , one event leading to another . |
| 26 | Someone you think of as a friend . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ When she left me for one of the other guys in the team , somebody I 'd kind of thought of as a friend … well , ’ he went on hurriedly , ‘ I was n't surprised she 'd gone . |
| 28 | These , all these things , are directed , as says , to the ego , and the ego can be thought of as a decision making agency . |
| 29 | In modern practices , this ideal has been conceived of as a principle of utility , to be embodied in the creation of the artefactual world . |
| 30 | It 's a way of as a Council taken the position that we ought to be spending your money effectively , right . |