Example sentences of "a [noun sg] of [noun] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The articles in this book demonstrate in a variety of ways where the bias occurs and how it might be redressed . |
| 2 | This is a part of Yorkshire where the tradition of personal service thrives |
| 3 | Often they were missing altogether and there was just a kind of gap where the timbers were , a sort of hole in the brick . |
| 4 | There are more living arthropod species than all other phyla combined ; if diversity is a measure of success then the arthropods are the easy winners . |
| 5 | Whilst a number of considerations may limit the resort to force majeure , there is a sufficiency of means once the will to use them is present . |
| 6 | Robert Savage referred to it as a box-iron piece , a piece of land roughly the shape of an old fashioned box-iron used for smoothing linen ; and he related that the old ploughmen used to refer to the ploughing of this type of field as goring work . |
| 7 | It was a gargantuan task : each year a piece of woodland approximately the size of a tennis court was brought into the garden . |
| 8 | Then you can put the test on a piece of paper just the questions and I 'm going to give the piece of paper to somebody else to answer . |
| 9 | The protestant Christian has too quickly jumped to the conclusion that Catholicism regards the Holy Communion service as a work of salvation whereby the priest offers afresh the offering of Christ and pleads for salvation . |
| 10 | Then we have a range of measurements where the conflict control systems of animals are not able to work properly ; for example , where the animal wants to do something but can not , or is frustrated . |
| 11 | When work is complete on a range of entries only the text of the latest version of a new or changed entry is transferred to the main archive . |
| 12 | Giving added sophistication to a range of kitchens where the emphasis is on quality , the turned wood spindles , galleried shelves , a dresser with bevelled glass doors , and the intricate touch of fretwork that can be seen in the photograph , are all features that make these two ranges very special indeed . |
| 13 | To consider that matter at a point of time when the child has been placed under protection for several weeks , first by a place of safety order and then by one or more interim care orders , would , as pointed out by Bush J. in M. v. Westminster City Council [ 1985 ] F.L.R. 325 , 340 , defeat the purpose of Parliament . |
| 14 | For many seminary-trained churchmen this was a radical change in both direction and spirit after some eighty years of official censures and directives , which too often saw a danger of heresy whenever the human part in the dialogue of revelation and the development of doctrine were explored . |
| 15 | Obviously we do not want to be in two minds up to the last day and he would n't do that but there is quite a a period of discretion where the time gets shorter and er he would have to make a judgement . |
| 16 | These have to be settled , if necessary , by a process of reconciliation whereby the budget committees impose specific ceilings . |
| 17 | This book is particularly useful as a reminder of areas where the reader may have become rusty , and as an update of the very good ongoing R&D work in the field of corrosion inhibition . |
| 18 | It certainly erm , sent a shock of horror though the whole country , |
| 19 | ( b ) That if the effect of the proviso were to impose a restraint of trade then the consequence was that not only the proviso but also the whole of the paragraph to which the proviso related and which contained the stipulation that post-termination commission would be paid was void . |
| 20 | I carry on munching through my toast , and since there 's no point carrying the last dregs of marmalade to wherever it is we 're going , I scrape an inch-thick layer out of the jar and ask through a mouthful of carbon where the landlord lives . |
| 21 | On 11 November 1980 , C and G contracted to sell their shares in the company to a fellow shareholder and director of the company , B. Under the terms of the agreement , the taxpayers , B , and the company , executed a deed of novation whereby the company released the taxpayers from liability on their current accounts ( which stood in total at £79,000 ) up to a limit of £68,000 . |
| 22 | Now , what we 've got here is a lump of wood roughly the same shape trying to be a cricket bat , and if you hit a ball with it , the ball will travel about ten feet and you will drop the bat and dance about shouting ‘ Ouch ! ’ with your hands stuck into your armpits . |
| 23 | If they depart in a state of gloom then the chances of improvement are cut by at least half . |
| 24 | When we are in a state of disease then the smooth calm surface is disrupted by ripples ( or even waves ! ) spreading out from the site of disturbance . |
| 25 | They perform the function of a rite of passage whereby the reader is enabled not only to glimpse imaginatively the possibility of a reality which transcends the limitations of sense and intellect but also to validate it . |
| 26 | A word of caution here the diagram for the DIP Switches screen-printed on the memory board is correct . |
| 27 | And it was only a matter of time when the truth came out . |
| 28 | The star 's penchant for nymphet flesh is a matter of record yet the actresses chosen to portray these girls are all individuals who do n't look a day under 25 . |
| 29 | New ventures : LASMO is investigating new venture possibilities in a number of countries where the Company already has a presence , as well as countries in which LASMO is not presently represented , included the CIS . |
| 30 | We have encountered a number of difficulties where the calculation of the scheme charge is certainly not what the customer expects to see on his bill . ’ |