Example sentences of "of a [noun] [adv] the " in BNC.

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1 If 2342 scan lines from the MSS are placed together like the rows of a matrix then the distance from the first to the last scan line is just about 185 km .
2 The most important modification of the draft , agreed after several hours of reportedly heated debate , was the omission of a clause whereby the declaration would take immediate effect .
3 Early results of the DSR ( Dream State Reactivity ) — the so called , Night Jerk — research suggest the remarkable possibility that the inhibiting function of the DSD ( Dream Suppression Device ) , sometimes referred to as the ‘ Gateway ’ , may indeed be chemically overridden for periods as great as .073 of a second when the brain is in Dream Mode ; this state being identifiable by the usual REM ( Rapid Eye Movement ) sleep and related EEG brain rhythms .
4 Lazy bitch , she was : lying on this couch day after day feeling too bad to move ; but she could go upstairs and carry out the duties of a wife whenever the fancy took her .
5 For he can see in the X-ray picture of a chest only the shadows of the heart and ribs , with a few spidery blotches between them .
6 A quarter of a century ago the news broke that scientists had come near to taming the hydrogen bomb and turning fusion power into a source of energy for power stations .
7 There were no cries — no spitting of a cat , no squealing of a rabbit only the crackling of twigs and the tearing of the grass in violence .
8 It must be something of a surprise today the announcement ?
9 The process of achievement of a state where the self is receptive to the love of God is that of a balancing act .
10 His caravan site is a quarter of a mile up the valley from his house at a place called Miller 's Bottom — here , it 's marked .
11 The example is of a case where the father should not , not where he can not , remain neutral .
12 ‘ We know of a case where the driver abused the car because of a superstition — there was a number 13 on the number plate . ’
13 I find it equally difficult to conceive of a case where the court , faced with this problem and applying the approach I have indicated above , would authorise an abortion against the wishes of a mentally competent 16-year-old .
14 Now this steady-state comparison is a good example of a case where the criticisms of the orthodox model are well taken .
15 By considering different facets of a company simultaneously the model is able to synthesise these to give a clear message , even if the individual ratios are giving contradictory signals .
16 The criteria for assessment of a return i.e. the balance sheet , could only be results .
17 If a process is distributed across a number of elements of a system then the situation is much more complex .
18 Dressed in the multicoloured jacket of his company ‘ team , ’ exhausted Daryn Swords said : ‘ I thought it was a hell of a day when the first rate rise came .
19 Since he can not conceive of a situation where the financial accounts would be determined by the budgetary information , he suggests that users ' needs can be developed in financial accounting terms and then , if budgetary information is required , it should be made consistent with the financial accounts .
20 Dave Lewis , a local authority planner and then chairman of the Cornwall Anti-Nuclear Alliance , says it is still somewhat of a mystery why the CEGB chose such apparently unpromising sites in the first place .
21 They came from all over Gloucestershire for a typical Victorian day out … a trip on a steamer to the seaside resort of Ilfracombe.Six hundred and fifty climbed aboard the Balmoral at Lydney dock … making the most of the chance of a lifetime.After all the last pleasure boat to attract the crowds down to Lydney dock for a trip to Devon was the paddle steamer Ravenswood in 1893 .
22 I ca n't think of a reason why the Czar or his advisers should want to murder British agents .
23 This was the unplanned beginning of a process whereby the Liberal government gradually withdrew provision for deserving groups from the Poor Law , at no cost to the Exchequer and as little as possible to local rates .
24 The Scots , in particular , got a hell of a lot out the Empire , proportionately the Scots had many more positions of influence and profit in the Empire than we did , and I think Scottish nationalism had it 's economic roots in the last twenty/thirty years from a realization that the Empire 's over , and that great outlet for Scottish energy , education and ambition was closed , therefore the Scots are shut up in the island as they used not to be .
25 It 's very interesting to note that in contemporary political philosophy there is almost no room left for democratic decision making because in most theories that we 're given , more or less everything is already decided at a constitutional level I mean think of theory of justice , it 's the theory of justice that decides the basic nature of a constitution so the role of members of a government is simply to interpret and apply the constitution so they can make the most efficient tax policies given the basic constitution , but no individual has the authority to challenge that constitution and change it by democratic means .
26 There is a story in La Scala that a very good singer once opened the door of a room where the maestro was preparing a lady for a little love-making , and he never worked for Toscanini again .
27 Futurologists love to speak of a time when the equities of international corporations will be traded 24 hours a day in one electronic marketplace
28 Futurologists love to speak of a time when the equities of numerous international corporations will be traded 24 hours a day in one electronic marketplace .
29 The Garlands , and their shop with the rooms over , were out of period , relics of a time when the business and management of the town had been in the hands of a few prosperous traders .
30 I have many happy memories of a time when the world was innocent as were most of us .
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