Example sentences of "of [noun] [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually the yacht 's crew was arrested near Bristol and we unloaded the yacht in their absence , taking off twenty four cases of whisky during a hilarious evening operation involving our respective motor boats to ferry the goods back to Poole Quay . |
| 2 | The last leg took me down through the fringes of the Forest of Dean along a narrowing spur . |
| 3 | After breakfast we left the inn and got on the track , which , with care , need not be lost sight of in good weather , except in haze or severe rain , when there is danger at one or two places , where a ceaseless flow of moisture over a rich soil keeps the grass so green and the ground so soft , no path is traceable now and again . |
| 4 | And several yards away , glistening with droplets of moisture in a solitary shaft of sunlight , was another flower . |
| 5 | INSIDE ISRAEL Voice of unity in a divided region Israel Radio has Arab fans , writes Anton La Guardia |
| 6 | Retiro Station offered Paul Theroux a comfortable sense of home-coming after a long rail journey through the continent . |
| 7 | Now I think the landscape issue and by landscape I mean er landscape and ecology , is capable of assessment at a strategic level , that 's why we have er National Parks , A O N Bs and so on . |
| 8 | In addition to their port duties , Lerwick staff had to cover controls at Sumburgh Airport which was thirty miles south of Lerwick over a bumpy switchback road . |
| 9 | During his reign he added vast territories to the Frankish kingdom that he had inherited ; Lombardy ( the traditional enemy of both Franks and papacy ) , parts of Spain , all of Saxony over a prolonged period of campaigning , and Slavonic regions of the Drave and Elbe . |
| 10 | I regret the fact that I was not in the Chamber for the speech of the hon. Member for Pudsey ( Sir G. Shaw ) , but my hon. Friend the Member for Durham , North-West ( Ms. Armstrong ) , who was here , told me that he made a heavily veiled criticism of Government policy for its lack of recognition of progress as a key measure of the effectiveness of schools , and expressed concern about the morale of teachers who , he said , were not sufficiently recognised by society . |
| 11 | This effectively destroyed any chance of progress at a crucial stage in the negotiations , it meant the collapse of the so-called ‘ Finlandisation ’ option . |
| 12 | In the majority of cases however , the valuation engagement will be value added , where the firm uses information , which may already have been the subject of validation , enquiry and analytical procedures or information gathering work , to derive a conclusion in the form of an estimated value or range of values for a particular purpose . |
| 13 | In 1940 he wrote of an almost sanctified rural life as something vitally different from the separately developing urban culture which so disturbed him and pleaded that agriculture should be regarded as a vocation , rather than merely an industry , though he pointed out that such a view involved the whole orientation and scheme of values of a future society . |
| 14 | I mean here the notion of differentiation as a crucial component of the restructuring of the working class as part of the restructuring of the capitalist system of production in these last decades of the twentieth century ( see Byrne and Parson , 1983 ) . |
| 15 | If he demanded that an artist was dropped , the artist was dropped , nationwide — until a Texan broadcaster , John Henry Faulk , who was blacklisted by AWARE , brought and won a libel action in which he was awarded the record sum of $3,500,000 after a six-year struggle . |
| 16 | As part of its £11 million programme of support for a wide range of community activities , Barclays Bank has pledged £150,000 between 1989 and 1991 to fund Young National Trust Theatre , a professional Theatre-in-Education company . |
| 17 | No visible means of support for a perfect frame of clematis montana Rubens |
| 18 | I should also value , and quickly , advice and a possible letter of support for a particular job application . |
| 19 | The variety of the sources of support for a national scheme of family allowances are an important feature of the story of how the scheme was accepted and implemented . |
| 20 | During the ‘ phoney war ’ — the eerie nine months between Chamberlain 's declaration of war and Hitler 's attack in the West — there was a substantial current of support for a negotiated peace . |
| 21 | That is effectively we 're paying this extra fifty pence right resource misallocation we there is always what 's called a dead weight loss right to intervention , right it 's an inefficiency loss or an efficiency loss , due to the fact that we 're asking t , in this case farmers , right to using , use resources but farmers are n't the most efficient people in resources but in to erm , high tech computer companies , alright and if we gave pounds worth of support to a high tech computer company they would be able to produce more value as a result of that pound er than if we gave one pound to a farmer , simply because erm that , sort of the high tech industries are more productive , they 're more efficient . |
| 22 | In general , the wider ( and often cheaper ) choice of credit types which is opened up by monthly-paid bank accounts seems to us to be , on its own , a big enough advantage to outweigh what is really the temporary awkwardness of change to a new set of habits . |
| 23 | If ever there was a clear indication of the Government 's understanding of the changing needs of industry , the effect of change on a particular industry , and the Government 's willingness to take on board the social consequences of change , the last five years and the Coal Industry Bill clearly demonstrate the Government 's balanced commitment to honouring their duty to consider the wider public interest . |
| 24 | Indeed , getting proposals through is a test of virility for some executives , so notions of change at a late stage in the policy-making process are unreal . |
| 25 | Other influential evidence was provided by Phillips ( 1958 ) who showed that for the UK for almost 100 years before the late 1950s there appeared to exist a stable relationship — which became known as the Phillips curve — between a real variable , unemployment , and the rate of change of a nominal variable , nominal wages . |
| 26 | The answer is that we can , without using intuition , speculation or hearsay concerning Z , prove that Z , C and M are logical consequences of the axioms A1 through to I. Now whilst algebraists do not regard it as their prime duty to reduce all such sets of axioms to a minimum size , it is part of an algebraist 's function to investigate consequences of axioms such as those just referred to . |
| 27 | Bhimji had used art document paper , a more fragile and flexible photographic paper , suggesting qualities of skin with a rough surface and large open ‘ pores ’ . |
| 28 | REMEMBER that children 's skins burn easily , so cover up any exposed area of skin with a high-factor sun cream . |
| 29 | There can be a number of reasons for a slow response . |
| 30 | In theory , but not usually in practice , the total mass of products of a chemical process should equal the total mass of reactants used in the process . |