Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] a [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Milton 's Paradise Lost or Spenser 's Faerie Queene are applauded for bringing a sophisticated use of classical epic conventions into English , creating national works which stand comparison with those of antiquity . |
| 2 | Thank you for bringing a little bit of light in . |
| 3 | The recent case of a consultant convicted of attempted murder for administering a lethal injection of potassium chloride to a patient in intractable pain has highlighted the issue of pain that , contrary to expectation , does not respond to opiates . |
| 4 | The Opposition may not like it , but does my right hon. Friend believe that there is a case for allowing a small part of parliamentary time for the Leader of the Opposition to be questioned ? |
| 5 | As for the East , it is a curiosity that Egypt , from which almost all of the rest of the evidence emanates , seems to have had a preference for using a joint clause of damnatio and fideicommissum . |
| 6 | This example letter is suitable for contacting a potential vendor of a targeted business ( a non-client ) on behalf of a prospective purchaser , our client . |
| 7 | In effect his agenda of constructing a theory of the state appropriate to the modern world is transformed by the public lawyers into an agenda for building a modern theory of public law . |
| 8 | Harry had been all for building a full-blown ship of three hundred tons or more , with four masts , three decks , two castles and ten brass pieces into the bargain , but Sam Gristy had insisted upon a more modest outlay , and a three-masted bark had been agreed upon . |
| 9 | The kind of guilt imposed by society is responsible for maintaining a certain amount of law and order within our civilisation . |
| 10 | Although corporate crime represents an attempt to resolve some contradictions between pursuing a limited number of organizational goals and environmental constraints , it is an attempt initiated and implemented by individuals . |
| 11 | More importantly , historically the key feature of police work has been about maintaining a particular form of social order on the street . |
| 12 | Could even be worth devoting a small corner of the garden to convert into a herb bed . |
| 13 | Oh God do n't wan na do my fucking musical , I 've got ta make a flipping piece of music out from a stupid scale . |
| 14 | Well , if death can ever be glamorous , that , I suppose , is the glamorous side of war casualties , but I think we need to spend the rest of our time very much looking at what it was like for the ordinary people of St Aldate's. erm And here , I apologise for producing a modern slide of Carfax , but I think just to remind you that we are talking about a very busy crowded city area , and erm about a city whose whole aspect was changing during the war . |
| 15 | The research has 3 principal aims : a ) to throw light on the process of assessment from the viewpoints of parents , children , professionals responsible for identifying special needs , and administrators responsible for producing a formal Statement of a child ; s needs ; b ) to describe , and provide an analysis of , sources of conflict and of agreement in the assessment process ; c ) to develop a theoretical understanding of the concept of EBD from the view-points of the various people involved in assessment , whether as clients or as professionals . |
| 16 | This maxim is also responsible for producing a large range of standard implicatures . |
| 17 | And interestingly , one review by Mawer contains the only mention of the Newbolt Report to be included in the Review during the whole of the inter-war period , and this solely in the context of attributing to the Report responsibility for generating a good deal of subsequent discussion of grammar . |
| 18 | Neither , however , are adequate for generating a full picture of elders , and more work is needed to achieve this . |
| 19 | It is , we are told ( among other things ) ‘ a systematic description of a language ’ , ‘ the way words , and their component parts , combine to form sentences ’ , ‘ a device for generating a finite specification of the sentences of a language ’ . |
| 20 | It only takes one media scare story ( Pill Deaths Quadruple ! ) or one neighbour being suddenly rushed to hospital , to make thousands of women think twice about using a particular form of contraception . |
| 21 | As Account Director for the client 's advertising agency , responsible for developing a proposed Advertising Strategy document , prepare a list of the information you would require for launching a new range of hair products . |
| 22 | Paris is a favourite destination , and Time Off has a large selection of packages to choose from . |
| 23 | The latest mood of optimism gathered pace as the Prime Minister attacked ‘ doom-mongers ’ for painting a false picture of a nation in decline . |
| 24 | Reed has signed up for a further period of seven years to publish the back list of John Steinbeck , after submitting a lavish brochure of marketing plans to the estate . |
| 25 | After eating a small square of chocolate he became very aggressive and rushed around the house frantically banging doors and kicking furniture . |
| 26 | Sarah secured her post at Devons School immediately after completing a four-year Bachelor of Education degree at Bath College of Higher Education where she specialised in four to eight-year-olds . |
| 27 | Trade unions , on the other hand , after enjoying a brief period of vigorous growth in the immediate aftermath of their legalization in 1906 , were subjected to a variety of restrictions and reduced to a skeletal and precarious existence . |
| 28 | Then later , as his speed and timing improve and after gaining a certain amount of success over his own ranks , he can go a step higher and spar with a student with more experience than himself . |
| 29 | You discover a long lost pocket of goodness in your soul and end up with a sore neck after adopting a passable imitation of a toy dog on the back shelf of a car . |
| 30 | Caesar 's forces , after defeating a large force of British , advanced to the Medway . |