Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adv] a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plenum , in the event , made little influence upon the continuing discussion , and by the early 1990s it was clear that only a reconsideration of the very bases of Soviet statehood would be likely to satisfy the aspirations of the various republics and nationalities . |
| 2 | After a review of its operation in 1977 it became clear that only a minority of patients referred from the other hospitals were being successfully rehabilitated and that St Wulstan 's had become another long-stay hospital . |
| 3 | She suspects that Charles suspects that she had once had an affair with Ivan , but of course she had not , though she concedes that Ivan is so unpleasant that only a degree of past sexual intimacy could plausibly explain the kind of relationship that he and Liz have over the years established . |
| 4 | Seeking to translate this question of morality to local issues , I asked the question , did the candidates agree that it was morally wrong and perhaps a misuse of public funds for local councillors to claim that there was no money available to install gas central heating in the homes of elderly disabled people when they always found money for hospitality allowances and trips abroad for themselves . |
| 5 | Kevin O'Neil was just thirty years old and already a part of it in Dublin . |
| 6 | Internationalization is the notion that each country 's economy has become less self-contained and more a part of a global process of production and change . |
| 7 | What has to be shown he said , is that by deliberate acts the court order has been defied and broken and accordingly a contempt of court has taken place . |
| 8 | Underlining this was not only a sense of what was proper but also a sense of what was politically and socially wise . |
| 9 | They were afraid because elsewhere a group of armed cossacks had besieged the ship , threatening to kill anyone who disembarked . |
| 10 | The plan of the book is related to its overall purpose of demystifying research , making it more accessible and more a part of everyday work and decision making . |
| 11 | The performance of the EEC during the Uruguay round of GATT discussions was instructive and probably a foretaste of what is to come . |
| 12 | It was not long before we had to try our swords , as the billhooks had become , on something real and so a row of perfectly harmless Brussels Sprouts were decapitated . |
| 13 | Concepts , criteria , definitions , and their implications seem at first just verbal and so a matter of convention or even arbitrary . |
| 14 | The following four German folktales relating to this theme , as collected by the Grimm brothers in the nineteenth century , are typical but only a fraction of the many variants known . |
| 15 | Being a forward-thinking ‘ man of science ’ it seems highly probable that our present-day Darwin would be computer-literate and certainly a user of word processors . |
| 16 | At the wedding ceremony , when the usual problem of naming his father had arisen , John put ‘ Lawrence Tiller ( deceased ) ’ but his son was called Lawrence , was still alive and now a man of twenty-nine , working as general manager in the business . |
| 17 | The vicar is now so unpopular that only a handful of people still attend St Mary 's Church . |
| 18 | The pupil is very large and only a portion of the iris is present , so the eye appears dark in colour . |
| 19 | It would be foolish , however , to argue that the problems created by the increasing urban demand for recreation in the countryside are entirely illusory or simply a matter of arbitrary taste : they clearly are not . |
| 20 | Then he realised that they were presumably so poor that even a choice of cornflakes or lumpy porridge , along with underdone toast and margarine , had the overwhelming attraction of being free . |
| 21 | ‘ This friction between her and your mother — was it really important or just a manifestation of teenage rebellion ? ’ |
| 22 | Dungannon 's Clarke , now attached to the host K Club , has improved his score each day — 75 on Thursday , 73 on Friday and a splendid 70 yesterday — but it is most unlikely that even a golfer of his calibre could make up seven shots in one round . |
| 23 | Another market on the main shopping street , the Ludwigstrasse , was equally busy and there a number of the stalls were manned by Turks selling cheap jeans or asparagus or pots and kettles . |
| 24 | Their reasons for doing so are obviously partially speculative and partially a result of ewe hoggs now being eligible for subsidy . ’ |
| 25 | The story is long , complicated and just a part of one of the most controversial and problematic developments in the creation of the English canal system , a story admirably told in Charles Hadfield 's The Canals of the East Midlands and more fully still in Philip Stevens ' The Leicester Line . |
| 26 | This is referred to as a form of idolatry ; it is the particularization or objectification of the Ultimate and consequently a form of demonization . |
| 27 | The same interlocutor omits to mention semantic , inventive , aesthetic and especially a measure of subjective information , which can not be equated with Claud Shannon 's binary units . |
| 28 | This is as much a consequence of data on households being more easily available as necessarily a reflection of real differences between household and non-household kin . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | ‘ 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 . |