Example sentences of "a [noun sg] of [adj] [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a variety of other ways the Conservative governments of the period 1951–64 rapidly increased the resources available to state education . |
| 2 | Like a bucket of cold water the harsh realities of life drown your sunny optimism leaving you feeling despondent . |
| 3 | Klipspringer were numerous on the cliffs at the top of the mountain , and there , above a thousand-foot precipice , I found among a mass of tumbled rocks the fresh tracks of leopard . |
| 4 | In a framework of this kind the processes of history are necessarily viewed as a decline from a Golden Age . |
| 5 | In rcording a verdict of accidental death the coroner Nicholas Gardiner said what caused the driver to take the action he died will never be known . |
| 6 | Tony Bottoms ( 1983 : 176–7 ) has compared this notion to that of the ‘ sin-bin ’ in ice hockey : the player who has committed a foul is excluded ( or ‘ disqualified ’ ) from the game for a while and symbolically marked out as an offender , but after a term of fixed duration the player is allowed to rejoin the game as a full participant or ‘ requalified subject ’ . |
| 7 | If as a result of that provision the trustees or the majority of them are deemed , in relation to the trust , not to be resident in the United Kingdom , the provision goes on further to provide that the general administration of the trust shall be treated as ordinarily carried on outside the United Kingdom . |
| 8 | Thus instead of writing If the Seller shall have given the Buyer notice that the goods are ready for collection , and the Buyer shall fail to collect them within seven days from service of such notice , the Seller shall be entitled to make arrangements for the storage of the goods and the Buyer shall reimburse the Seller all costs and charges incurred as a result of such storage the drafter could write If after the Seller has given the Buyer notice that the goods are ready for collection , the Buyer fails to collect the goods within seven days , the Seller may make arrangements for the storage of the goods and the Buyer shall reimburse the Seller all costs and charges incurred as a result of such storage . |
| 9 | As a result of this case the UK is now obliged to change its legislation because Community law takes precedence over conflicting national law . |
| 10 | As a result of this work the Coordinating Committee for Under Fives ( CCUF ) , an umbrella organisation of statutory and voluntary sector groups and individuals providing a service to under fives , decided to organise a conference to look at the issues of integration of special needs children within mainstream provision . |
| 11 | As a result of this development the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher is sometimes unavailable at times when it is most needed , i.e . |
| 12 | and as a result of this petition the public and association . |
| 13 | As a result of this report the caretaker was informed that if he did not mend his ways he would be discharged . |
| 14 | As a result of this intrusion the Nganasans were pushed farther north into the tundra , and a lasting enmity between them and the Dolgans was created . |
| 15 | As a result of this policy the Arab states as a whole had lost about US$25,000 million since 1987 through falling oil prices . |
| 16 | As a result of this action the ACRL Bibliographic Instruction Liaison Project was established . |
| 17 | It said that as a result of these investigations the committee was satisfied that there was no evidence of Londonderry Corporation being guilty of discrimination . |
| 18 | As a result of these thefts the S & T department are reviewing the issue of public access to Signal boxes at MRC . |
| 19 | As a result of these constraints the first practicable date for the sale is this July . |
| 20 | As a result of these liaisons the rest of my job involves problem solving and development of initiatives . |
| 21 | ‘ My view outlined in our company literature is that a lift is an integral part of the design and structure of a building a piece of kinetic architecture the result of creative dialogue . ’ |
| 22 | A review of German studieson the role of transport infrastructure provision in regional economic development and on the system of local public finance in the Federal Republic |
| 23 | And on a car of this class the steering column ought to adjust for rake as well as reach . |
| 24 | In the case of a transfer of registered land the plan is rarely drawn on it and must be signed by the buyer or by the buyer 's conveyancer . |
| 25 | It is not that the hearer has to decide which of a range of possible interpretations the speaker intended . |
| 26 | Holists , by contrast , wish to explain individual intentions and desires as the outcome of these wholes , thereby awarding explanatory priority to a range of social factors the identity of which varies from theory to theory . |
| 27 | In a session of contemporary art the following morning , eighty-seven of 122 lots were sold and raised £1.12 million ( $1.92 million ) , the top price being £110,000 paid by the European trade for ‘ IKB 241 ’ , a monochrome canvas by Yves Klein ( lot 350 , est. £90,000–120,000 ) . |
| 28 | In the development of water as a focus of geographical interest the evolution of a human-oriented physical geography and an environmentally sensitive human geography closely related to resource management is well under way … |
| 29 | He was in some ways a sort of humanoid Winnie the Pooh ( the bear with very little brain ) without any of Pooh 's more lovable characteristics — although no one in their right mind would tell him so ! |
| 30 | With a sort of heavy-fisted dexterity the mutually adapted emotions of each of us became synchronised , until the unavoidable anti-climax was at hand . |