Example sentences of "of a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Participating firms have the services of a consultant for between one and four hours , they receive a summary of his findings , a copy of the complete study and a return visit when he advises on ways of acting on the results of his findings . ’ |
| 2 | There 's a reprimand on his record for improper treatment of a prisoner of war . ’ |
| 3 | This is a response to the conviction of two forensic medical examiners of the manslaughter of a prisoner for whom they had prescribed methadone . |
| 4 | ‘ Are you going to take the word of a prisoner over mine ? ’ snarled Nicholson . |
| 5 | These days we tend to regard the size of a dose of a centesimal remedy as irrelevant . |
| 6 | He missed just one game that season because of a dose of ‘ flu and was regarded as having a fine future . |
| 7 | But she did know she was badly in need of a dose of sanity herself right now . |
| 8 | The panel notes difficulty in making exact comparisons but found the weight of evidence was ‘ in favour of a dose of 0.25 mg triazolam being roughly equivalent to a dose of 30 mg flurazepam or 20 mg temazepam ( UK formulation ) . |
| 9 | It would , of course , be a mistake to think that all hoards fall into one or other of these categories : they are the opposite ends of a spectrum along which most hoards in reality lie . |
| 10 | Many of the sounds we hear emanating from insects , for example , are only the bottom end of a spectrum of sound signals much of which lie above the auditory frequencies to which our ears are attuned . |
| 11 | Many of these have been published as national biographical repertories , but not all are complete ( that for France , for example , had reached the letter D when the first edition of this book appeared and has now , nineteen years later , almost completed G , Italy , in the same time , has got from B to C. Works for reference such as these form the scholarly end of a spectrum of contemporary works which runs at its other extreme into straightforward journalism . |
| 12 | Modularization is not easy to define , but can be seen as one end of a spectrum of course structures which ranges from the linear to the modular , as follows : |
| 13 | While such simple dichotomies are misleading — all categories of music live in the world of capitalist cultural production , while none can be entirely reduced to it , and a more accurate picture is of a spectrum of possibilities marked by internal conflict — their existence not only confirms the influence of the critique of mass culture in musical practice and popular consciousness , it also indicates that within the premises of such a critique , Adorno draws the net too tightly . |
| 14 | These are ‘ stewardship ’ and ‘ accountability ’ , and they represent the two ends of a spectrum of reporting possibilities . |
| 15 | My thesis will be that events that we commonly call miracles are not supernatural , but are part of a spectrum of more-or-less improbable natural events . |
| 16 | Analysis of the velocity distribution will reveal a ‘ vibrational spectrum ’ in the form of a spectrum of energy-losses by the particles . |
| 17 | Identify , through unstructured interviews , the primary health concerns of a spectrum of women in South Wales ; 2 . |
| 18 | The acquisition of a stereotype by a subgroup of the population usually works to its detriment , and although perhaps preserving a grain of truth in relation to the subgroup 's activities , it is also misleading for members of the whole population who use the stereotype . |
| 19 | Against the background of a Judaism in which even the Pharisees had become thoroughly materialistic , Jesus 's primary message in this whole area is of the danger of materialism . |
| 20 | Many years later , in the mid-eighties , John Malkovich , who was rehearsing Death of a Salesman with Dustin , remarked , ‘ One night we were playing Trivial Pursuit . |
| 21 | She has since spent seasons at the Newcastle Playhouse and in Durham , taking part in Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller and other plays . |
| 22 | The devaluation or revaluation of a currency against the dollar was permitted only when a country faced a severe economic crisis . |
| 23 | This measures the value of a currency against other major currencies on a trade-weighted basis . |
| 24 | The degree of overvaluation of a currency versus the dollar could also reflect McDonald 's attaining higher margins abroad than in the United States . |
| 25 | They 've been the guests of a charity in Worcestershire , and Central News has been following their progress … for a special programme to be shown this weekend . |
| 26 | They 've been the guests of a charity in Worcestershire , and Central News has been following their progress … for a special programme to be shown this weekend . |
| 27 | For Hirst this means that there can be no Marxist ‘ science of history ’ that can be opposed to the essentialism and teleology of a philosophy of history . |
| 28 | This model acknowledges that social problems still arise , but the cause is located in the personal or social pathology of a minority of individuals and families whose behaviour or non-conformity must be controlled . |
| 29 | Four ‘ change-facilitating factors ’ are picked out by Ramon ; heavy and unchanging reliance on segregated institutions ; the existence of a minority of psychiatrists prepared to act politically ( while not having the desire to act in a party political framework ) ; the autonomous nature of the regions leading to more enthusiastic reform beginning in socialist and communist areas ; and perhaps most importantly for the concerns of this book , |
| 30 | To suppose that the influence of a minority of party activists will not in the end prevail is to delude oneself . |