Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [conj] [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | This caveat was echoed in Sybron Corp v Rochem Ltd [ 1983 ] 3 WLR 713 where it was said that if an employee were required to report each and every breach of duty by fellow employees this would ruin good industrial relations . |
| 2 | The early versions of this package were subject to quite a lot of criticism , mainly because the user interface of dBFast made little or no use of the fact that you were working in Windows . |
| 3 | You will have noted from the Brintons extract on page 106 that some English texts make little or no use of conjunctions . |
| 4 | Fishermen of tropical seas who regularly catch sea snakes display little or no fear of them , handling them with impunity and either killing them or throwing them back in the water . |
| 5 | Bartlett 's ideas on schemata became popular when the development of computers meant that theories of this type could be programmed ( e.g. Minsky , 1975 ; Rumelhart , 1975 ; Schank , 1976 ) . |
| 6 | For the first Christians to claim this as the heart of their faith was a scandal of the first order . |
| 7 | It was run then by Henry Thomas , who owned this and a number of other local mills . |
| 8 | But when the Assembly met for its first session on 5 January 1918 it immediately became clear that a majority of the deputies were hostile to the government and the Assembly was forcibly disbanded . |
| 9 | Furthermore , it became clear that a number of the parties would be arriving some time before the three days set aside for the conference , thus giving themselves time to prepare their ground and gauge the mood of fellow guests , though their exact arrival dates were , again , uncertain . |
| 10 | In the extensive research undertaken for the book it became clear that a number of particular issues posed the greatest challenges to potential returners and to prospective employers . |
| 11 | However , given the readiness of our subjects to talk at length about their drug use , the time limits placed on the research , and the possibility of a number of informants being sentenced and/or convicted before the second interview took place , it quickly became clear that the majority of interviewees would probably be seen only once and that in-depth interviews should be conducted on first contact , if that suited the informant . |
| 12 | It became clear that the quality of the programme was the key to degree of success . |
| 13 | It was not until the auction , however , on the third day , that became clear that the roof of the Collector 's collapsed will had once more been shored up with the stoutest timbers . |
| 14 | During the next few weeks , however , it became clear that the result of the election was not yet a foregone conclusion . |
| 15 | It became clear that the effectiveness of our work in the industry area would require the involvement of many staff , through an integrated approach to our school-industry relationship . |
| 16 | I think also that we should make clear that the nature of the Tests this year is understood to be less threatening etc. etc . |
| 17 | Very severe problems will arise if there is a drastic change from the present back to methods which involved little or no use of pesticides . |
| 18 | The bare infinitive in exclamations evokes therefore an incidence of the infinitive 's event to its support which can only be represented as potential since the speaker feels it has little or no chance of being real , of finding a place in real time . |
| 19 | ‘ She has little or no sense of her own importance , ’ she might say . |
| 20 | It is best not to attempt to write this until the rest of the piece is fairly complete . |
| 21 | This was considered fairer because the amount of advertising time would be small and expensive , which could favour the wealthiest clients . |
| 22 | In an operation on July 15 intended , according to the USSR Interior Ministry , to confiscate illegally held weapons in three Azerbaijani villages with large Armenian populations , four people were reported killed and the population of the villages was driven out . |
| 23 | The process is becoming laborious and a lot of energy is being expended with little result to show for it , progress is very slow . |
| 24 | The implications of these terms are considered later but the use of terminology in this study text needs to be made clear at the outset . |
| 25 | While Foula has a population of about forty people nowadays , Mykines has fewer than a score of permanent residents , all living in a tight group of picturesque turf-roofed cottages situated on the cliff-top above the landing-place . |
| 26 | When she returned — and she would surely return soon — she would need reassuring and a lot of tender loving . |
| 27 | However , the importance of the group is often measured by the number or helplessness of the people dependent on such services and the degree to which they are affected , for example we can all fall ill and a strike of doctors would affect all classes , rich and poor , young and old alike . |
| 28 | In 1739 , for example , when Lord Panmure held the Angus parliamentary seat , it began to appear likely that the Earl of Strathmore was contemplating a challenge to Panmure 's position in the county . |
| 29 | Organizational responses to this changing state became evident in the 1980s and it is in order to explicate these that the concept of postmodern organizations has been coined . |
| 30 | After a very haggard start to the season , they have come good since the start of the year , playing some of the most attractive football in the land . |