Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [noun] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 One way to bring these different aspects of quality together in a concerted way is through total quality management , discussed later in the chapter .
2 ( Let's face it , when was the last time you heard references to ‘ Cliff Richard 's lip ’ , Iggy Pop and the annual ceremony marking the opening of the Houses of Parliament side-by-side in a song ? ) ; indecision and apathy are confronted in ‘ Not Superstitious ’ ; ‘ Dead Industrial Atmosphere ’ details the decline of the North-East as an economic force and the subsequent social fall-out and , of course , we get a few long songs thrown in to spice things up , or down , as is more often than not the case .
3 A flower or tree might well be said to show signs of distress much as an athlete might unwittingly show symptoms of it , although it would be inappropriate to describe a watch in that way .
4 Erm what is now being proposed is a somewhat less regimented plan than we had before , if you remember there were lines of trees before in a very grid-like pattern across the marketplace .
5 These agencies may be seen alternatively as implementers that affect the character of policy or as independent creators of policy forever in a relationship of tension with the ‘ centre ’ .
6 Lying in bed at dawn on Tuesday morning at Swans ' Meadow , she felt the stirrings of grief more as a physical process than a mental one .
7 The valuation of high cultural works of art , which sees possibilities of critique only in an aesthetic realm that is separate from the social , is constitutive of the modernist aesthetic of critical theory 's ‘ mainstream ’ .
8 These requirements are : ( 1 ) filing by the plaintiff of the appropriate documents with the court , which are : ( a ) either a request for the issue of a summons in the appropriate form ( N201 — 204 ) or , if allowed by the court ( Ord 3 , r 3(1A) , the summons itself prepared by the plaintiff together with a copy for each defendant or both ; and ( b ) particulars of claim together with a copy for each defendant .
9 His expert knowledge of classical history was sharpened by a deep interest in Indian law based upon his years of service there as a senior legal official .
10 But it ties it in to a date and I think in a similar way , erm centenary which is the only thing we 're going to do offic I think that it could be the only thing we do to celebrate our hundred years of existence apart from a small exhibition in .
11 It seemed like aeons of time ago in an unimaginably distant world .
12 His work in geology was of equal importance , since he developed a technique for viewing slivers of rock directly through a microscope ( by cementing the mineral to a glass plate and grinding it to an extreme thinness ) , thus allowing its structure to be visualized by direct microscopy , rather than through use of reflected light , which revealed only its surface qualities .
13 These households have higher median levels of RNR mainly as a result of the income from paid employment of one or more of these younger household members .
14 She uses her silk to line the walls and also to bind particles of soil together into a circular lid three-quarters of an inch across .
15 They seem to have a reasonably clear meaning , and have the merit of linking diverse bits of information together in a coherent pattern , and it provides an explanation for the content of Judaism and Christianity especially , and may have some application for understanding and explaining the ritual developments in Hinduism and Buddhism , as will be illustrated in Chapter 5 .
16 She enjoyed the discipline of eating them without butter — the idea of keeping pats of butter overnight in a bedroom was abhorrent to her , incompatible with her picture of herself , swansdown on her bedjacket , broderie anglaise at her wrists , nibbling away in a leisured manner , her widow 's weeds for the moment forgotten .
17 I was n't keen on the deep-fried banana served with many fish dishes , and the habit of using photos of food instead of a menu .
18 But there was no room in his account of the sociology of science for a review of the meanings that constitute the presuppositions of science even in a liberal democracy .
19 ONCE again Jaguar shares defied the laws of gravity yesterday with a 62p gain to 731p .
20 Paid in part by the Crown and in part by ecclesiastical benefices , they were Crown servants first and ministers of God only in a fairly casual sense .
21 ‘ You ca n't take one decision on a particular area of reform in isolation because everything relates to some other aspect , so we are carrying the study of the different components of reform forward on a broad front . ’
22 Meanwhile cook the two types of spaghetti together in a pan containing plenty of boiling salted water for 8–10 mins until ‘ al dente ’ : tender , but still retaining some bite .
23 Whole LRT double deck bus painted in colour to RBG individual design , including advertising panels inside and out , enabling us to get various types of information across to a very wide audience .
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