Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] of a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , notwithstanding the very high authority of Lord Coke , I think it is not the fact that to accept prompt payment of a part only of a liquidated demand can never be more beneficial than to insist on payment of the whole . |
| 2 | Continuing anti-US feeling in Iran and the associated strength of the radical Islamic political forces resulted from the US refusal to make a more comprehensive effort to compensate Iran for the shooting down of an Iranian airbus in the Gulf by the USS Vincennes warship in July 1988 [ see pp. 36169-70 ] , and from the fact that it continued to hold , according to official Iranian estimates , some $12,000 million in assets frozen since the 1979 Iranian revolution [ for agreement in November 1989 to release assets see p. 37053 ] . |
| 3 | Professor Ivan Smith was prompted to make his accident findings public after the recent shooting down of an Italian plane over Bosnia . |
| 4 | It also outlined a number of proposals that states might take into account in the drawing up of a global action plan at the February 1990 special session , including , among others : increased public information and education ; the possibility of a UN decade against drugs ; the establishment of a UN capability to provide training and equipment for national anti-drug forces ; relevant measures to prevent the laundering of drug monies and the establishment of a UN facility to gather information on this ; and development and technical assistance programmes aimed at strengthening local economies and legal systems against drugs . |
| 5 | The conference voted by 4,592,000 votes to 1,443,000 to reject a motion advocating the setting up of a working party to consider options for electoral reform . |
| 6 | Germany has also resisted the setting up of a unified life assurance market . |
| 7 | However , a Nationalist motion calling for the setting up of a small committee to be responsible for housing allocations was rejected . |
| 8 | In the six years since the Mulla Committee 's report , there has been a certain amount of further progress , including increases in the prison budget , some new instructions from the central government to the states , and the setting up of a small policy section within the Ministry of Home Affairs to consider the implementation of the recommendations . |
| 9 | From today 's disclosures , it would appear that the savings that would come from the setting up of a small number of large authorities will be less than was originally suggested . |
| 10 | The silver bugle light infantry badge is returning to Hartlepool after 50 years with the setting up of a new army cadet force detachment which is looking for boys and girls aged between 13 and 18 to go along on Monday at 7pm to St James Church Hall , Rossmere Way . |
| 11 | Angel One had argued in vain that the actual heroin loss involved was negligible , most of it having been moved on , and that the setting up of a new base was only a matter of time and resourcefulness . |
| 12 | In return for this anonymity and help with the setting up of a new life , the Legion demanded five years ' service , wherever they chose to send you . |
| 13 | More broadly , Mr Reynolds referred to developments in the funding and expansion of cultural institutions under his department and noted the setting up of a new Department of Arts , Culture and the Gaeltacht . |
| 14 | Lady Wagner , who spoke at the conference said : ‘ I am extremely disappointed that the minister did not announce the setting up of a new group to take on from where we are now . ’ |
| 15 | The setting up of a new form of Ulster Club organization involving paramilitary activity in the wake of the Anglo-Irish accord of 1985 , is an added dimension to the struggle for power within the alliance . |
| 16 | The result was the setting up of a 16 point Green Plan . |
| 17 | This GLEB report focused mainly on the manufacturing aspect of the independent sector and recommended the setting up of a modern plant to make records for the smaller companies . |
| 18 | The main points in the communique which was immediately issued included , a ) parallel statements by each government regarding the status of Northern Ireland b ) the setting up of a Council of Ireland c ) the setting up of a joint committee to consider the creation of a law enforcement area covering the whole island d ) consultation on , and coordination of , policing . |
| 19 | This had led to the setting up of a joint system of financial control . |
| 20 | On Dec. 5 the Arab League Council , after meeting in Cairo , issued a statement expressing " solidarity " with Libya , and calling for the avoidance of any military or economic action against Libya and for the setting up of a joint Arab League-UN committee " to study all the documents connected with the incident " . |
| 21 | The Germans , already in the country in large numbers , had seized Rome , and Hitler had ordered the setting up of a political system which would take effective control of the country and also take under its wing any future Fascist administration . |
| 22 | The Unitarian minister had established a reading room in Yeovil in 1842 , and in 1849 the Rev F.R. Robertson formed the first Working Men 's Institute at Brighton closely followed by the setting up of a similar Institute in South Shields . |
| 23 | Enquiries are being made with regard to the setting up of a private nursery . |
| 24 | It will go towards the setting up of a north-eastern branch of the charity which arranges holidays for children with terminal illnesses . |
| 25 | Lastly , in the project for a prison institution that was then developing , punishment was seen as a technique for the coercion of individuals ; it operated methods of training the body — not signs — by the traces it leaves , in the form of habits , in behaviour ; and it presupposed the setting up of a specific power for the administration of the penalty ( ibid. , p. 130–1 ) . |
| 26 | Recommendations included the use of day , rather than boarding , schools wherever possible ; the setting up of a comprehensive Child Guidance Service in every LEA , with a strengthened role for educational psychologists ; and the introduction of preventive measures such as increased nursery provision . |
| 27 | RIBA Council , on the recommendation of the regional council , approved the setting up of a fifth branch in the region to serve the members in Central Wales . |
| 28 | The award and the ceremony itself were instigated by the British Fashion Council , which tried every tactic it could -including the setting up of a smarter venue at The Duke of York 's Barracks -to persuade Katharine Hamnett to show in London . |
| 29 | ( 1975 ) also involved the setting up of a controlled situation in order to test an hypothesis . |
| 30 | The growth of even limited literacy — and particularly the introduction of written records — laid the foundations for the dispossession of land , the setting up of a centralized bureaucracy and the suppression of indigenous cultures . |