Example sentences of "a [n mass] of [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The attendees were given a large package of data , including a precis of interests about themselves and a questionnaire which was completed by 75% of the audience . |
| 2 | Ontological existents as a sub-species of topics of discourse , it has been emphasised , are inseparable from identity , i.e. it must be possible in respect of any such existent to use the phrase " the same A " , with A being a descriptive expression of some sort . |
| 3 | a fish of flame in the shadowy |
| 4 | Chamber music of the visual arts , drawings bring one intimately into the creative presence of a master , for they are generally a means to an end : a means of discovery concerning individual forms or formal composition . |
| 5 | Presented with so ready a means of escape from a course of action whose wisdom he already doubted , Coleridge 's decision was predictable and eager . |
| 6 | Religion becomes an opiate when it sets apart God from the world and makes him a means of escape from suffering that is a part of life . ’ |
| 7 | It is more likely that she was a schizophrenic , for whom the religious beliefs of her day provided a means of escape from the daily life with which her inadequate personality could not cope . |
| 8 | Terrified , they seek fruitlessly for a means of escape from their hunters . |
| 9 | These section 52 agreements became the object of increasing contention in the 1970s , with local authorities seeing them as a means of bargaining for planning gain , while developers , at the extreme , regarded them as blackmail . |
| 10 | For the men , garments are symbolic markers of filial love and recognition , whereas for the women they serve as a means of self-inscription in a system that neglects them … . |
| 11 | With the advent of subscription as a means of payment for television programmes and the introduction of many new channels of communication as a result of the new media , consumers would be better able to exercise their individual choices . |
| 12 | What is necessary is a medium of exchange which is generally acceptable as a means of Medium of payment for goods and services and as a means of payment for labour and other factor services . |
| 13 | Yes , two months ago she had been just one of the Pinehurst girls , and today she was the owner of a house and faced with the double problem of looking after her sister and providing a means of livelihood for them both . |
| 14 | The IMF set about the problem by devising the special drawing right ( SDR ) as a means of settlement among its members . |
| 15 | The mineral phases predicted at equilibrium are being compared to the actual assemblage as a means of verification of the thermodynamic codes . |
| 16 | As for Edmund , the Danes themselves may have supported his cult , as the Danish rulers of East Anglia came to do in the ninth century , and if so he would eventually have become a means of reconciliation between the two peoples . |
| 17 | The aim should be to help the Commonwealth of Independent States increase oil and gas production as a means of compensation for the loss of nuclear generation . |
| 18 | What is necessary is a medium of exchange which is generally acceptable as a means of Medium of payment for goods and services and as a means of payment for labour and other factor services . |
| 19 | Joan de Warenne , the lady Anne 's half-sister , rather than that young lady herself , will go with you to the Tower — thus will there be a means of communication between us . ’ |
| 20 | Roger Frey , de Gaulle 's Minister of Information in January 1959 , argued : ‘ broadcasting is a means of communication between the state and public opinion ; it would be absurd for the government to give it to those who , via the press or otherwise , seek merely to criticize its actions ’ . |
| 21 | I have warrant from the king to deal-to keep open , if I can , a means of communication with Glendower , any honest way of continuing the debate that may yet stop this fighting , and let tradesmen and students and friars move freely about their business again . |
| 22 | As well as being a means of communication for staff , to ensure consistency of approach , a selection policy may serve other functions . |
| 23 | Regular or prolonged contact between two groups who speak mutually unintelligible languages may result in the formation of a pidgin — a language which is nobody 's native language but serves as a means of communication for a limited range of purposes related to the contact situation . |
| 24 | Conventional gestures are valuable not only because they often appear in the epics themselves , but also because they are universally recognised as a means of communication in real life and have been used on the stage since the earliest days of the theatre . |
| 25 | Whiteley wrote that the significance of these papers lay in the valuable service they performed of establishing Swahili as a means of communication in printed form . |
| 26 | Primarily the Catholic Voice exists as a means of communication within the Diocese of Lancaster . |
| 27 | The examination is designed to test knowledge of the English language as a means of communication within a commercial or industrial context . |
| 28 | Art is not , as the metaphysicians say , the manifestation of some Idea of beauty or God ; it is not , as the aesthetic physiologists say , a game in which man lets off his excess of stored-up energy ; it is not the expression of man 's emotions by external signs ; it is not the production of pleasing objects ; and , above all , it is not pleasure but it is a means of union among men joining them together in the same feelings , and indispensable for the life and progress towards wellbeing of individuals and humanity . |
| 29 | The Hull delegate to the National Conference of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children , in Nottingham in October , was surprised to learn that China is less than half as densely populated as the UK , despite the forcible abortion and sterilisation carried out on women in China and used as a means of genocide in Chinese-occupied Tibet . |
| 30 | Ever since the Middle Ages , bankers ' promises-to-pay , issued first as instruments of credit , have turned into money by being used as a means of exchange in their own right . |