Example sentences of "[to-vb] an [noun sg] of [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The empirical method is seen most clearly in the work of John Austin who , in producing a science of positive law in terms of commands , sanctions , and habits , attempted to provide an explanation of law entirely in non-normative terminology . |
| 2 | The rough , boggy going combines with the forbidding beauty of the heights looming on both sides to create an impression of seriousness out of all proportion to the difficulties underfoot . |
| 3 | Ockleton 's mop of jet black hair , his apple-cheeked face and the spectacles which had slid to the end of his nose combined with a tattered gown and a skew-knotted tie to create an impression of immaturity entirely at odds with his voice . |
| 4 | A study of Dalcroze Eurythmics from which such ideas emanate is valuable , but the practice must be used with discretion if the resultant ballet is not to resemble an examination of machinery rather than a feeling fur the rhythm and shape of the engine that makes the dancers perform . |
| 5 | It was impossible to escape an impression of lives deeply disturbed and unhappy . |
| 6 | Despite its elegance , the collection managed to depict an image of women so passive that the designs would probably have been snapped up by Qantas as uniforms for its air hostesses in late 1972 . |
| 7 | Indeed , Fleury felt quite like a sculptor as he worked away and he thought that it must feel something like this to carve an object of beauty out of the primeval rock . |
| 8 | The court in that case was quite happy to imply an air of confidence even though it was not possible to say how the confidential information ( that is , the prints taken from the engravings ) came into the defendant 's hands . |
| 9 | So the Development Set invented ‘ The South ’ to denote an area of darkness out of which millions are trying to emerge into the light . |
| 10 | Other UN agencies started to throw money at the problems of the territories , for example both Unicef and UNDP provided money for activities selected and overseen by the Israeli authorities , thus — however innocent the intention — allowing aid to become an instrument of control rather than support for independent development . |