Example sentences of "of a [adj] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It subsequently transpired that the conveyancing arrangements I have described were part of a fraudulent scheme of the Hammonds to obtain money for themselves using the property as security . |
| 2 | I am interested in an aspect of it which exists , it at all , in terms of that contradiction — of a parodic critique of the essence of sensibility as conventionally understood . |
| 3 | In the case of Bloomsbury , changes in the general order , and especially the establishment of a solid sector of professional and intellectual employment , made independent survival much more practicable . |
| 4 | Sarella herself was buoyed up by the thought that soon this nightmare would be over and she would be able to pull herself together under cover of a solid stint of hard work . |
| 5 | There he was , at the end of a solid day of meetings with French officials , looking exactly the way he had when they set out . |
| 6 | Not being in possession of a verbatim record of the submission by the County , I have prepared twelve linked submissions in this matter , document G W Fourteen B , which seek to rebut with justification the point believed to have been made on behalf of the County and District Councils . |
| 7 | Borland International Inc has formalised its agreement with Epson Sales , the marketing subsidiary of Seiko Epson Co , for the sale and technology licensing of a Japanese version of InterBase 3.2 — at Borland 's Tokyo announcement of InterBase last December , Epson was already demonstrating InterBase and the first release of InterBase JA3.2 is on Sun Microsystems Inc Sparcsystems , available from April 12 ; Borland plans to put the Japanese version of the database up on other machines ; the Japanese version supports a number of new functions including distributed databases , active data processing — functions such as triggers and event alerters — language support ( including support for both JIS and EUC codes sets ) and binary large objects ; Borland in conjunction with Epson Sales and its systems integration subsidiary Trans Abel , is to set up a Borland Authorised Support Centre for education and training . |
| 8 | DEC says it is also working with Microsoft Corp engineers on creation of a Japanese version of Windows NT . |
| 9 | Spengler was particularly worried by the threat of a Russian invasion of Europe . |
| 10 | If a parallel is taken with the treatment of another infection , say , lobar pneumonia , at the end of a ten-day course of penicillin treatment , there will be no sign of the responsible bacteria and , if the antibiotics are stopped , the bacteria will not return and reinfect the lung . |
| 11 | Dr Barsamian stresses , however , the importance of a correct understanding of such concepts and methods of analysis so as to avoid unrealistic expectations about their capabilities by non-experts . |
| 12 | The operation , and the lack of a correct diagnosis of her true illness , had killed her . |
| 13 | Under his direction , the Ulster Constitution Defence Committee maintained its traditional line that O'Neill was not responding to the legitimate demands of a disadvantaged section of the population , but giving in to the demands of rebels who would never be satisfied with anything less than the destruction of Northern Ireland . |
| 14 | Severe cases of athlete 's foot , involving the toenails and other areas of the foot ( fissured heels is a symptom ) is usually indicative of a poor state of health in general and needs to be treated holistically . |
| 15 | But the point is that the mind of a child is often capable of a greater grasp of the complexity of a theological problem than an adult . |
| 16 | In its report and accounts for the year ended 30 June 1992 , the Mutual Accountants Professional Indemnity Company ( MAPIC ) warns of a greater level of claims at a time when competition in the market has tended to depress rates . |
| 17 | By concentrating on the inclusion of a greater percentage of high-fibre vegetables , fruit and cereal foods in your diet you will be making less of those 1,000 calories available to your body . |
| 18 | It is possible that this increase may have been , on the one hand , indicative of a greater frequency of homosexual activity ‘ in public ’ and , hence , of a degree of ‘ permissiveness ’ . |
| 19 | This type of analysis forces a recognition of a greater diversity of structures by which history may be written and understood . |
| 20 | There are still few Salvadoreans who advocate the view that a woman 's reproductive rights ( or a right to self-determination based on a knowledge of her own sexuality ) are fundamental to the development of a greater sense of autonomy and , in the long run , a wider political participation . |
| 21 | Hence , even where force is used in self-defence in response to the first use of violence the employment of a greater degree of force than that used by the attacker , or the continued use of force beyond the point where the attacker is willing or unable to continue the attack would not be seen as legitimate in law . |
| 22 | The finding of a greater degree of alkaline exposure in the lower oesophagus of patients with complications of their Barrett 's oesophagus distinguishes them from those without complications and poses the question as to the origin of this distinction . |
| 23 | He appeared to be advocating a reversal of the process by which military officers were appointed to key posts since the mid-1960s , by calling for the civilianization of a greater proportion of bureaucratic positions . |
| 24 | On the one hand , if the landlord has redevelopment plans or if a higher rent could be achieved on a reletting of a greater part of the building , it will be in the landlord 's interest to ensure that all tenancies are expressed to expire on the same date . |
| 25 | By now , the Commission had retreated on the existence of symptoms , and adapted its surveys to include older and more exposed trees of a greater range of species . |
| 26 | Secondly , a non-porphyrin ligand would be easier to chemically modify and so permit study of a greater range of ligand structural variations . |
| 27 | In the absence of a greater range of evidence it is difficult to be certain about how representative the Sutton Hoo mound 1 boat is of the range of ship types . |
| 28 | The Council will use as a basis for all future supported bus service contracts in Lothian Standard Conditions which require the provision of a greater range of passenger safety and accessibility features on buses than previous sets of conditions . |
| 29 | On the personal taxation front , 1990 saw the introduction of a greater measure of equity , in that independent taxation for married couples was introduced . |
| 30 | If we focus on all those clients who were still at home one year after referral , we can ask again whether the Home Support Project was sustaining more disadvantaged people than were still at home in the control sub-sample , and we can examine the interplay of a greater number of factors than those presented in Table 4.4 . |