Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] of a [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It should be seen as a definite part of a school 's total reading programme in English : it is not an interruption of it . |
| 2 | This definition of the importance of a unity of view in management and of the importance of sharing interest and concern allows the significance of the classroom and of the small-scale , almost invisible base of experience of the individual teacher to take its place alongside larger aspects of policy and of governmental requirement in the total framework of a school 's management . |
| 3 | The Court of Appeal detected " underlying transactions of a solicitorial nature " and determined that on the expert evidence ( inter alia from a former President of the Law Society ) which had been presented the undertakings given were such as might come within the usual course of a solicitor 's business . |
| 4 | Adams-Webber ( 1970 ) identifies cognitive development with this kind of occurrence , in which the progressive differentiation of a system 's structure leads to an integration of previously independent sub-systems into new and more complex wholes . |
| 5 | Also , it facilitates the granting of security over assets which in the normal course of a company 's business are circulating , for example , stock in trade . |
| 6 | He suddenly risked losing the crowning glory of a lifetime 's secret endeavour to an unknown malarial " fly-catcher " as the humble naturalist-explorers were known . |
| 7 | One of the principal reasons for conducting a detailed assessment of a child 's language is to determine the most effective way of helping that child . |
| 8 | There still remains the primary need for all agreements , however limited in scope , which affect the partners to be set down clearly and exhaustively in writing to avoid subsequent dispute : such writing may range from the proper minutes of a partners ' meeting to a separate manual describing a firm 's management process as a guide , in the largest firms , to enable every partner and every employee to identify the person responsible for any particular aspect of the firm 's administration . |
| 9 | Although the Stock Exchange does not specifically require notes to the interim financial information , it does require an explanatory statement that will enable investors to make an informed assessment of a company 's activities and profit and loss during the period . |
| 10 | This is partly because vocabulary is the most individualistic part of a person 's knowledge of language , and continues to develop throughout life , although its growth is clearly fastest in early years . |
| 11 | TO UNDERSTAND the two most important things about the Greek economy , you need to remember that economic performance is just one of the outward manifestations of a people 's inner life . |
| 12 | The rate of economic and social advancement of a country 's population can influence political stability . |
| 13 | In modern times there is only one celebrated instance of a subject 's displeasure at an artist 's likeness : that of Sir Winston Churchill with his portrait by Graham Sutherland which , tragically , ended up in the fireplace . |
| 14 | Or consider Magritte 's The Rape , in which the sexual trial of a woman 's erogenous zones ( breasts and pubis ) are superimposed onto the rhyming facial triangle of eyes and mouth . |
| 15 | The scientific prediction of a person 's limitations , and thus his possible fate , has a very dangerous component in that it may lead the individual to inaction and despair . |
| 16 | Experience shows that the approval process gives a reliable indication of a centre 's potential to deliver and also encourages effective planning for implementation . |
| 17 | These electrical pulses are then analysed and used to produce detailed pictures of a patient 's internal organs . |
| 18 | These electrical pulses are then analysed and used to produce detailed pictures of a patient 's internal organs . |
| 19 | White gloves are de rigueur , and there is a strong hint of the fussing attentions of a lady 's maid above the luxe silks and satins , gabardines and cashmeres . |
| 20 | I would argue , however , that love-making ought not to be treated as drawing only on the irrational side of a person 's nature . |
| 21 | Part II — Orders in family proceedings This introduces four new orders known collectively as s8 orders which provide for different aspects of a child 's care and upbringing . |
| 22 | Or the whispering rattle of a bat 's wing . |
| 23 | Further up , like part of a discarded doll , was the top half of a woman 's torso , blood billowing from where the head should have been , the remnants of a flowered dress settling under the dust . |
| 24 | With this system , the historical record of a firm 's credit transactions is analysed to show the relative importance — to distinguishing between good and bad payers — of various factors which might be included in a credit proposal form . |
| 25 | But Tilda had taught herself to produce , by widening her mouth into the shape of an oblong , a most unpleasant imitation of a bosun 's whistle , which could be heard almost as far as Lord Jim . |
| 26 | She was the self-conscious product of a grocer 's shop and a frugal Methodist background in Grantham in rural Lincolnshire . |
| 27 | The different nature of a boatman 's work compared to that of a fisherman led to different forms of inheritance and to a contrasting family structure . |
| 28 | The Marxist critic reading a text for the ideological traces that it attempts to conceal — ‘ Hegelian grammar ’ is inescapable in such contexts — by its evasive gaps and silences , has an obvious resemblance to the Freudian analyst examining the manifest content of a patient 's dream for the repressed realities that are concealed within it . |
| 29 | Number of employees provides a reliable indicator of a company 's performance over the short term . |
| 30 | ‘ Citation frequency within a few years of publication is a reliable indicator of a paper 's lifetime citation expectancy . ’ |