Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [verb] [pron] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE development of Britain 's atomic power programme could be resurrected under plans being considered by British Nuclear Fuels which is looking at the feasibility of establishing itself as a major player in the post-privatisation electricity market . |
| 2 | Any response which is offered as a result of reading it in a work of literary criticism would be unacceptable . |
| 3 | The first , noted by Labov with respect to the Philadelphia neighbourhood studies , is that however good the data there is no way in the absence of a supplementary broader study of locating it in a wider sociolinguistic context . |
| 4 | He had no intention of getting himself into a stew about that . |
| 5 | Well we set out with the good intention of taking her for a long walk this morning but er we changed our mind did n't we ? |
| 6 | Whole-tone harmony is part of many harmonic systems , is valuable in many circumstances , and is therefore worth a brief study by all composers , even if they have no intention of using it as a complete system themselves . |
| 7 | Nor have I the slightest intention of subjecting you to a close examination of my emotions . ’ |
| 8 | They were married in the Guards ' Chapel , a stone 's throw from Buckingham Palace , on July 4 1973 , and one member of the close-knit circle of Camilla 's friends said : ‘ She believed Charles had lost interest and had no intention of considering her as a wife . |
| 9 | They bought the building two years ago with the intention of turning it into an exhibition space for cultural exchanges between Europe ( mainly France ) and Japan . |
| 10 | Workers at the Heeley Urban Farm in Sheffield have spent several days collecting seeds from these flowers with the intention of growing them as a crop , eventually to sell the seed as an urban flower-mix . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , Mr. Pybus , the Minister of Transport , announced in February 1932 , that the London Transport Bill was dead and he had no intention of forcing it on an unwilling House of Commons . |
| 12 | Where the Buyer purchases the goods with the intention of selling them to a third party for the use by that third party of the goods at work , the Buyer undertakes to supply the goods to the third party on the basis that the third party will ensure , so far as reasonably practicable , that the goods will be safe and without risks to health when properly used , and the Buyer further undertakes to procure the signature by the third party ( prior to delivery of the goods to the third party ) of the written undertaking attached hereto as Annex A obliging the third party to take the steps specified in that undertaking to ensure this . |
| 13 | In O'Reilly v. Mackman the House of Lords held that a prisoner who was seeking to challenge ( on the ground of breach of natural justice ) a decision of a Board of Prison Visitors which had the effect of depriving him of a remission of sentence , had to use AJR procedure because he had no private law right to a remission but only a legitimate expectation that the remission would be granted if no disciplinary sentence of forfeiture of remission had been made against him . |
| 14 | It never occurred to me that other children were n't spoiled as a matter of course , the way I was , and it would be years — and my father would be dead — before I understood that the expense of sending me to a boarding school was just an excuse , and the simple , sentimental truth was that they knew they would have missed me . |
| 15 | I would have liked to have gone to Venice , where there was a faculty of languages , or Bologna , where I could have read Economics and Commerce ; but the war was on , and the expense of keeping me in a distant town was beyond the means of my parents . |
| 16 | It 's a very funny joke , but it works at the expense of treating her like a child , which is not at all what the novel usually intends . |
| 17 | The rationale here is colourfully illustrated by Lord Ellenborough 's dictum in Gardiner v Gray ( 1815 ) 4 Camp 144 to the effect that a person does not buy goods simply for the pleasure of depositing them on a dunghill . |
| 18 | There had been talk of sending me to a special school , but my family were not ready to accept such an open acknowledgment of my disability , and the excuse was again made about academic standards . |
| 19 | ‘ If I speak to Nerina , ’ said Bernard , whose blood pressure was so low there was talk of admitting him for a day or so , ‘ she might lift the curse . |
| 20 | But after her refusal , Carol has received a letter from the council saying it has ‘ discharged itself of the responsibility of rehousing her as a homeless person ’ . |
| 21 | This argument tacitly assumes that once the collapse begins there is no hope of stopping it at a later stage . |
| 22 | Just turned 21 , Jeanne had sacrificed any hope of fulfilling herself as an artist to Modigliani . |
| 23 | Right form the start they get the club into the wrong position , meaning they have no hope of getting it into a good position afterwards . |
| 24 | A year ago , Everton 's only hope of salvaging anything from a miserable season evaporated when they lost at Stamford Bridge in an FA Cup tie . |
| 25 | It did not occur to him that it was following the track of a mole , in the hope of killing it with a blow of its beak and then pulling it out of its shallow run . |
| 26 | I 've already telephoned the Consulate , ’ he added , in the hope of soothing her with a half-truth . |
| 27 | It was a film made some years ago in black and white , but , despite the difficulty of watching it in a foreign language , the power of the drama gripped them both , Sarella because she was a professional and was impressed by the intensity of the acting , and Marc because it seemed to strike some deep chord within him . |
| 28 | He had the faculty of meeting everyone on the level , and Father had a story of seeing him at a political meeting , which he was probably chairing , walking arm in arm with the Grand Old Man himself , both talking . |
| 29 | Of course , if you have a young family and feel water might be a hazard , the feature could become a raised sandpit or planter , which naturally gives you the opportunity of converting it at a later stage . |
| 30 | A perceived event then is not in the same relation to the act of perceiving it as an inferred event is to the act of inferring it . |