Example sentences of "of a [adj] [noun sg] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | The search for a laterality index that is not biased with respect to accuracy recently led Bryden and Sprott ( 1981 ) to propose the adoption of a new index , lamda , based on the log odds ratios ( P/ ( l — P ) ; P/ ( l -P ) where PR and P , are the respective probabilities of a correct response at the left and right sides . |
| 2 | Stacy Keach , a far more versatile actor than his many mundane films would have you believe , was busted at Heathrow Airport and served three months of a nine-month sentence at Reading Jail . |
| 3 | ‘ The mere fact that more than a thousand police officers know that their conduct is under investigation can , it seems to us , in no sense diminish the prejudice suffered by a particular officer against whom there was a prima facie case of the commission of a criminal offence at a very early stage of that investigation . ’ |
| 4 | There is evidence of a Roman presence at Chester by this date , and clearly this harbour on the Dee Estuary held the key for a rapid and unopposed advance . |
| 5 | He gestured abruptly to the side of a vast building at one end of the square , lit by flaring torches which guttered and spat in the light snowfall . |
| 6 | It is , however , the great lake itself that dominates the scene , with its forests of dead trees , bare trunks standing tall out of the water like the masts of a vast fleet at anchor . |
| 7 | I 'm not sure whether Ian has kept up with Markham — who had something of a dark reputation at one time . ’ |
| 8 | Hosts : Dog and cat Site : Small intestine Species : Toxascaris leonina Distribution : Worldwide Toxascaris is almost indistinguishable grossly from Toxocara canis , the only point of difference being the presence of a finger-like process at the tip of the male tail of the latter . |
| 9 | Minute amounts of slower moving material are also visible independent of SAM addition and presence of a 5-fluorocytosine residue at the correct position within the Dcm recognition sequence ( lanes 1 , 3–6 ) . |
| 10 | Members of Radical Anti-Racist Action ( RaRa ) claimed responsibility for two bomb attacks on the main building of the Ministry of the Interior and the home of a junior minister at the Ministry of Justice on Nov. 13 . |
| 11 | The national data computed for Japan ( 1979–1980 ) and that combined for the German Democratic Republic ( GDR ) and Hungary ( 1976–80 ) show minimum risks of a still birth at the second birth order for women aged 25–44 years . |
| 12 | Beejay always seems to spot the object in the hedge that he can not possibly pass without a protect , just as I hear the roar of a fast-moving car at our rear . |
| 13 | The Yellow Book The London Stock Exchange requires that own-share purchases within any 12-month period of 15 per cent or more of a company 's issued share capital must be made either by way of a partial offer or by way of a tender offer at a stated maximum price . |
| 14 | The introduction of a geographical dimension at this level could be taken up even by those who saw evolution as something more than the selection of random variation . |
| 15 | Welder George Wallace , 50 , of Hipsburn Drive , Humbleton Hill , Sunderland , who was thrown from the top of a chemical tank at a Consett factory when the solvent it contained exploded , was in a stable condition at Newcastle General Hospital yesterday . |
| 16 | A widely publicised New York Times report of March 9 , 1989 , quoted " official US and Swiss sources ' expressing their governments ' concerns about the development of a chemical plant at the Abu Zaabal military-industrial complex near Cairo , the Egyptian capital . |
| 17 | But boss Atkinson warned : ‘ We need to be on our guard after giving Oxford the lifeline of a late goal at their place in the opening leg . |
| 18 | A bit of a late starter at Crystal Palace , Wright has scored nearly 160 goals in the seven and a bit seasons since . |
| 19 | The pressure paid off in the 58th minute when central defender Whelan , scorer of a late winner at Southend on Saturday , rose to direct a far-post header over Stowell , in the Wolves goal , from one of Thompson 's many excellent dead-ball crosses . |
| 20 | The subjects covered include the costs of a recent strike at Preston ; the phenomena of diamagnetism ; the heating effect of secondary electric currents ( much electricity was still in Chemistry at the BAAS ) ; the extent of palaeozoic glaciers ; and the action of literary and philosophical pursuits in promoting longevity . |
| 21 | As Nick Coleman ( Time Out ) wrote of a recent gig at the Town and Country : ‘ Unmissable really ’ . |
| 22 | As yet unfamiliar to a British audience , they are Darren Largo from this country , and two German sculptors , Werner Haypeter and Gloria Friedman , who lives near Dijon and has been the subject of a recent exhibition at the Moderne Kunst Museum in Vienna . |
| 23 | Frith is showing ten new photographic prints by Craigie Horsfield ( to 30 October ) , who was the subject of a recent exhibition at the ICA . |
| 24 | Joni used much more solid underpainting on which the flesh tones would be laid — convincing proof of a recent attempt at fifteenth-century painting . |
| 25 | Dr Anusavice took the opportunity of a recent conference at the National Institute of Dental Research ( NIDR ) in Bethesda , Maryland , to remind 700 of his colleagues of something all 190,000 American dentists know , or should know . |
| 26 | You can imagine : old Crumwallis going around with the expression of a Soviet agronomist at harvest time . |
| 27 | It is true that he gave one daughter , Eadburh , in marriage to Beorhtric , king of the West Saxons ( ASC A , s.a. 787 ) , and another , Aelfflaed , to Aethelred , king of Northumbria , in 792 , but the revival of a Northumbrian coinage at this time by Aethelred ( see above , p. 158 ) and the inauguration of a new West Saxon coinage by Beorhtric at Winchester or Southampton testifies to their continuing independence . |
| 28 | It was , he said , a ‘ new Victorian Poor Law ’ which would pave the way for the election of a Labour Government at the next election . |
| 29 | Meopham may be nearer to France than to most of Britain but its residents cheered long and loud as Mr Major derided a United States of Europe and the prospect of a Labour Government at the EC table : ‘ Brussels wags its finger and over on its back rolls the Labour Party saying ‘ Yes ! ’ ’ |
| 30 | 10.5 Where the medical adviser considers that an employee is permanently unfit to carry out the duties of their post as a result of a violent incident at work , the Director of Social Work or nominated officer will discuss the matter with the employee concerned who may be accompanied by a trade union representative or some other person of the employee 's choice . |