Example sentences of "[art] [noun] of [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inoculation against smallpox had been practised since the 1720s , although it constituted a potentially lethal measure in itself and only achieved an erratic degree of success against a disease which probably claimed the lives of up to a quarter of the population throughout the century , and disfigured many of the survivors . |
| 2 | The danger of not including a statement of subject to contract is that one party may subsequently argue that the heads are a binding agreement either as the main contract or as a collateral contract . |
| 3 | Indeed the importance of the correct citing of an author 's spelling is regularly marked by the insertion of sic into a citation by a second author who wishes to disclaim responsibility for an aberrant spelling . |
| 4 | They were here in a deserted old house in the middle of nowhere on a black and starless night in one of the more mysterious bits of Scotland , and there was a scrabbling , clawy sort of noise coming from the ceiling above him and this other drunk , stoned man . |
| 5 | The Hilary of once upon a time would have done it and taken great pleasure in confronting him , but the Hilary of now seemed to have become a spineless coward . |
| 6 | To describe the family of today as a relatively autonomous , conjugally-based unit is probably the best way to do justice to the variety of patterns that not only persist but which continue to evolve and develop , and to recognize some of the sources of contradiction and tension within the family as well as some of the sources of strength . |
| 7 | There was a case in Lothian last year where the health board objected to the conversion of somewhere into a 75 bed registered nursing home and they lost it on appeal . |
| 8 | If a tie results , then after a break of up to a minute an extension of two or three minutes is fought . |
| 9 | Double Benefits for you and your Spouse — £160 each per day for a period of up to a year — in the event of you both being hospitalised at the same time because of an accident , whilst both insured under the same policy . |
| 10 | We shall attempt to introduce into the timetable a period of up to a week in which to consider indicative offers and possibly commence negotiations with a preferred bidder . |
| 11 | A certified cheque , cashier 's cheque or bank draft are quite acceptable although there could be a delay of up to a week before these funds can be used . |
| 12 | A certified cheque , cashier 's cheque or bank draft is quite acceptable although there could be a delay of up to a week before these funds can be used . |
| 13 | Boots ( retail division ) may consider giving employees moving from low-cost to high-cost areas a loan of up to a maximum of one and a half times the employee 's expected first year 's gross salary . |
| 14 | One woman fainted in the crush as police fought to control a crowd of up to a thousand . |
| 15 | It will cost you two stamps , and I 'm afraid , a wait of up to a month , as our volunteers deal with the huge response we get . |
| 16 | They went up there like a couple of out of a gun , when I opened the door ! |
| 17 | And this method of actually going there living with them , learning their language and er so on s , really participating er would , finally there 's a way of actually in a sense , getting of the people , the nearer you can , anyway , of course , it 's relying on the people you stay with that you understand that something of the world comes over onto you so that imposing what 's essential in and So , here what Judith Oakley 's trying to do , is trying to understand how gypsies , themselves , differentiate , how do they define the boundaries between themselves and others . |
| 18 | The frequency of fluent restorations is thus an indication of whether mispronunciations occurred before or after the recognition point of a word , and thus an indication of where in a word the recognition point actually occurred . |