Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [adv] a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 31 | Annabel Croft , once the British No 1 but now a star of stage and the small screen , cringed at the quality of her performance in the opening round of the Volkswagen National Championships at Telford yesterday . |
| 32 | The first difficulty is , as we have seen , that the term ‘ child abuse ’ covers a range of behaviours and problems , so that a search for a single or even a cluster of ‘ causes ’ is likely to be in vain . |
| 33 | Although they were playing stereotyped conspirators , innocents , prostitutes , courtiers and lackeys each role had a personality of its own and thus a semblance of reality . |
| 34 | ‘ I was thinking more of Pretty In Pink , but I really like the idea of music in films , where the song 's less incidental but more a part of the film . |
| 35 | I know it 's commonsense but unfortunately a lot of people still tend to leave these er objects lying about in easy reach of the young child , okay ? |
| 36 | Letters A-F could be paired with the symbols in Fig. 5.4 and then a string of random letters , say BCEFADDB etc , would be required to be coded by use of the relevant symbol . |
| 37 | erm schools just do n't help girls to have both and so a lot of the talk about underachievement , and I do n't like that word , amongst girls really ignores the fact that girls are n't underachieving when they do n't go all out for occupational success , when they do n't set their goals very high in schools , they are being very rational because if they do achieve they are going to be faced with immense problems . |
| 38 | But if knowledge is relative and ultimately a matter of human constructs , then such work may alter the very boundaries of our disciplines , and indeed help us to overcome the ‘ artificial ’ constraints of compartmentalized knowledge ; and the appropriate label is ‘ interdisciplinary ’ . |
| 39 | Stubbs makes some effort to link the conventions for the use of writing to general linguistic characteristics of writing , but finds it difficult to establish any hard and fast rules since different cultures see different characteristics as significant and so a variety of literacies has been developed . |