Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [adv] a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | But pointing out limitations in a writer can sometimes seem arrogant , or at least condescending , as in this extract : At times Eliot is too confusing , too abstract and too well read , but his poems initially only demand a first response or simply an appreciation of the words , their structure , sound and order . |
| 2 | MacCormick suggests that it matters little , when faced with ‘ possible unjust exercises of the power of modern states organised under and in the name of ‘ law ’ … whether or not these represent a corruption of law in its ideal essence or simply an abuse of public power . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ We 've had a lot of positive feedback from the people of the Borough and even a letter of thanks — something which is almost unheard of in our business ! ’ |
| 4 | Rendering a service connotes some positive action on the part of the renderer and not a state of passivity . |
| 5 | I exist with a primary school football team and th the two skills that they 're able to develop , the powers of concentration and hopefully a sense of fair play . |
| 6 | Many of the farmer 's wives came in for a mug of tea and perhaps a piece of cake before they set off on the long drive for home . |
| 7 | During the following week they had their first rifle lesson , bayonet practice and even a session of mapreading . |
| 8 | We are most fortunate to have as our guest teacher Irene Schwarz a former Director of Training at the Medau College and presently a member of the staff of the Physical Education Department of Freiburg University . |
| 9 | In 1828 George Hurst became a director of the House of Industry and subsequently a member of the Board of Guardians , a position which he held until he was in his nineties . |
| 10 | Oh yeah , it 's got a group of pleats and then a gap and then a group of pleats , mm . |
| 11 | As much as he is thoroughly yankified , known to all the world as Jimmy Lin , with his high-rise apartment on the Upper West Side and scarcely a trace of an accent , he none the less still feels a strong connection to his native island . |
| 12 | The bruise was a dull , greenish sickle of shadow just under the cheek-bone and then a comma of purple on the side of the nose , as if Culley had been wearing ill-fitting glasses . |
| 13 | So called keyhole surgery is being hailed as the way most operations will be carried out in the future but only a minority of surgeons can actually do it . |
| 14 | It has been argued that the communist utopia is not a scientific prediction but merely a projection of the ‘ wish-images ’ of those who adopt a Marxist position . |
| 15 | To make a contribution towards this end requires not only knowledge of alternatives and commitment to putting them into practice but also an understanding of how social policy is made and implemented . |
| 16 | By totalization , therefore , Sartre does not here mean anything like a predetermined end or final closure of a totality but rather a process of mediation among the parts , where each is determined by the other . |
| 17 | The fact that religion wo n't just go away — that it is a phenomenon to be explained — has led those influenced by positivism to explain religion as entirely a matter of social and cultural conditioning and outward show : basically religion is a kind of cultural dressing-up game . |
| 18 | It would be possible to dismiss the Plus Programme as merely an expression of a different style , without substance or commitment to institutional change . |
| 19 | To take the Liberals first , it had been a commonplace of political analysis over previous years to regard the Liberal vote as largely a product of temporary disillusion with the Tories following on periods of Tory government , as a protest vote . |
| 20 | However , when language is used within a specific domain , it is often the case that only a subset of those senses is appropriate . |
| 21 | It is one of the components of the work and not a referent of it ( literature has no referents ) . |
| 22 | A week 's good work and then a week of drought , wrote Harsnet . |
| 23 | The selection of eighty-one canvases and other works of art has been made by Nicholas Serota , director of the Tate Gallery and long an admirer of Ryman 's work , which he showed at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in 1977 , and Robert Storr , Curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art , New York . |
| 24 | Er , oh , right , on toni , tonight we 're gon na have sun and maybe a bit of snow and tomorrow morning we 're gon na have a full moon |
| 25 | Only people over 70 were eligible , and initially there was an income test and also a test of good character . |
| 26 | Corbett followed him across the yard as the English envoy made his way carefully through the throng and up a flight of steep stairs into the main keep of the castle . |
| 27 | He swept along the corridor and up a flight of stairs with the Englishman at his heels . |
| 28 | When I asked him what for he gave a sad sigh and then a sort of bitter grin and looked me in the eye and said , ‘ Sexual harassment . ’ |
| 29 | Even so , where money changes hands , it is part of an exchange and thus an expression of the social relationship which exists between the two individuals concerned . |
| 30 | His ‘ Hamlet ’ , except in the vigorous and exciting duel scene at the end , lacks elegance , poetry and even a point of view . |