Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] of a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a second point stated to have been resolved , viz. : ‘ That payment of a lesser sum on the day can not be any satisfaction of the whole , because it appears to the judges that by no possibility a lesser sum can be a satisfaction to the plaintiff for a greater sum . ’ |
| 2 | An instruction adds one to each field of a specified index register , and jumps to a specified address unless the loop count field has reached zero . |
| 3 | I do not want to give the wrong impression by quoting that slogan of a well-known Sunday newspaper . |
| 4 | If , for example , the saved material was to be inserted into a troff document , each instance of a saved Book-title could be prefixed by the string ‘ \fI ’ and followed by the string ‘ \fP ’ , thus causing the book title to appear in italics when formatted by troff . |
| 5 | Specifically properties can be set to insert strings before and after each instance of a particular context . |
| 6 | Lord may I pick it up page four hundred and two erm at lesson B er there 's a plea of breach of duty , this new plea does however raise the issue not of the original , not apparent on the original fee then what is the scope of the solicitor 's duty that part of a particular aspect of a problem . |
| 7 | That part of a social policy course that is concerned with describing policies and the institutions responsible for them has a clear face value to the social policy ‘ practitioner ’ . |
| 8 | A computer will occasionally have an instruction which extracts a value from , or inserts a value in , that part of a specified computer word . |
| 9 | That will be harder to bear if there is little hope of a controlling interest in the near future . |
| 10 | His hope was that the pope would allow the decision reached there to stand ; the plan , however , misfired for soon after the court 's opening the case was revoked to Rome , and Henry was left with little hope of a satisfactory verdict . |
| 11 | Just my dainty little hankie will be enough to clean up that kind of a smeared speck . ’ |
| 12 | Among politicians who have spent their lives working within the seemingly fixed assumptions of the Cold War came a sobering recognition of the speed and scale of events , which even prompted Mrs Thatcher to stress that talk of a reunited Germany was ‘ going much too fast . |
| 13 | He was popularly supposed to be a man who not only told the truth , but who could not tell a lie , and the senator 's aides and publicists were not unhappy to promulgate that echo of a previous President 's virtues . |
| 14 | We have already seen , in unc that reciprocation of a triangular matrix can be achieved by a simple process of back-substitution . |
| 15 | Using identical conditions , it has been shown that injection of a single mitochondrion ( containing 10mtDNA molecules ) into cells results in the complete repopulation of the recipient cells with mtDNA and permits their subsequent proliferation in the absence of pyrimidines . |
| 16 | This is not surprising since there was little perception of a functional link between popular education and economic development . |
| 17 | A further search of the area revealed mill-stones and a stone bridge some 20ft long , slightly arched , but with each end perfectly jointed into the bedrock on each side of a rushing stream . |
| 18 | Ten feet wide , the car was long enough to accommodate six oblong tables down each side of a wide aisle with four chairs at each : forty-eight seats , as promised . |
| 19 | The curtains swished open , gathering in swags at each side of a small stage , arranged as a grotto in a hushed , expectant woodland , with cardboard rocks . |
| 20 | There were to be two aisles , one at each side of a central block of pews and then pews at each side . |
| 21 | The compartments were arranged as : a bed sitting room with lavatory accommodation at one end for the two sisters ; next were two bedrooms with wardrobes , table for medical officers , these rooms placed each side of a well-equipped bathroom and lavatory . |
| 22 | As well as the loss of two doors , the new ZXs also drop the sideglass behind the C-pillar , gain fillets in the waistline each side of a thickened B-pillar , have door handles turned through 90degs , and are fitted with new rear bumpers , fatter C-pillars and rounded rear wheelarches . |
| 23 | At face value , this sketch of a German soldier would probably make about £20 , but because it 's signed by Adolf Hitler it may reach well over £1,000 when it 's auctioned in Gloucester next week . |
| 24 | Unlike in a firm that is a jack of all trades , the supplier is an independent business subject to market disciplines rather than another bit of a big bureaucracy . |
| 25 | Set in the late seventeenth century , this story of a three-cornered relationship depends on active events vigorously described but ill supported by very generalised characters . |
| 26 | Once the topics had been set out in an order which would make sense to the recipients ( in this case of a postal questionnaire ) then the questions could be worked out . |
| 27 | Poetics is replaced by a basic evaluative typology of texts , and criticism by commentary ( in this case of a short story by Balzac called ‘ Sarrasine ’ ) . |
| 28 | Well I would have thought that if there was to be some assessment of a reasonable expectation of development proceeding , then there ought to be some assessment of demand , and I have n't seen that yet . |
| 29 | They have no means of assessing the reliability of automatic control systems but they can make some assessment of a skilled individual and without knowing very much about his working procedures they will trust his actions if he seems calm , competent and mature . |
| 30 | This shows that as soon as some part of a further track ( over and above two or three respectively ) is necessary for I 2 , a higher-level index I 1 should be created . |