Example sentences of "an [noun sg] of [adj] [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And apart from the peculiarities of the relationship with the German Democratic Republic , the structural problems of the West German State are in the main those common to most ( and less acute than in many ) advanced capitalist industrial societies of the present : problems of social equality and distribution of wealth , and of maintaining in an era of world-wide recession the economic growth so central to the legitimacy of post-war liberal democracies ; problems of the exploitation ( and often ruination ) of limited natural resources in the interests of the economy ; problems of national defence in a nuclear age ; and the corresponding problems of containing and absorbing often justified social and political protest without destroying civil liberties and undermining the very essence of the liberal democratic state . |
| 2 | After an interval of 54 years the World Federation of Hungarians held its third congress in Budapest on Aug. 19-21 . |
| 3 | And to lead the horse we need to go somewhere ; perhaps around the house , across the lawn , over the concrete path , under the clothesline with flapping socks , past the dogs , and in to an environment of strange things the horse has not seen before . |
| 4 | Once they reach an age of 4–5 years the goldfish will often start to lose their colouration and gradually become paler . |
| 5 | Pupils in opted-out schools are funded at an average of four time the level of LEA pupils . |
| 6 | The drive through the 40 junctions ( not including the practice section ) took an average of 40 minutes the shortest time being 34 minutes and the longest being 57 minutes . |
| 7 | If ever there was an example of counterproductive intelligence the CIA is it . |
| 8 | The situation is now so serious that an area of tropical rainforest the size of 6 football pitches is destroyed every minute of the day . |
| 9 | Within an area of special control the general rule is that no advertisement may be displayed ; such advertisements as are given express consent are considered as exceptions to this general rule . |
| 10 | By building up an army of individual shareholders the Conservatives may well have expected to gain political support . |
| 11 | Later the daffodils would muster , blazing like an army of yellow heads the length of the bank and right up to the steps leading to the old house . |
| 12 | Gloucestershire clothiers in 1756 " laid the chain four or five yards longer on the bar " and stopped altogether an allowance of two shillings the price which they had been paying for " stopping " ( repairing ) the cloth . |
| 13 | In an atmosphere of such buoyancy the dealers are obliged to cut margins and try to survive competition from the opportunists for whom the fax boom is simply the latest in a long line of nice little short-term earners , such as double-glazing and car phones . |