Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] [adv] a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | A muddy substratum is recommended and therefore a mixture of clay and peat is satisfactory . |
| 2 | For example , given the heterogeneous nature of cereal production in the UK , a uniform response is not expected but rather a range of opinion amongst producers , largely dependent on the degree to which producers are committed to intensive cereal production . |
| 3 | When it was first mooted that maybe a team of Tropical Plants staff would make for good television on Busman 's Holiday , several folk were keen to take part . |
| 4 | An eye catching layout , full of interest over a wide range of subjects , well written and hardly a hint of political bias . |
| 5 | An eye catching layout , full of interest over a wide range of subjects , well written and hardly a hint of political bias . |
| 6 | Although this area of research is beyond my technical competence , I am assured by experts in neo-Walrasian economics that very strong apriori restrictions need to be imposed before even a glimmer of a general market clearing solution can be discerned . |
| 7 | Aethelred 's initial acts on becoming king should perhaps be seen as primarily a securing of Mercian border territories . |
| 8 | The former proposal could be seen as just a way of improving the quality of decision-making by the High Court when hearing judicial review applications . |
| 9 | In structuralist accounts the state is seen as essentially a factor of cohesion in society , which functions to organize the dominant class and to disorganize the subordinate classes through the use of either repressive or ideological apparatuses ( Althusser , 1969 ) . |
| 10 | In traditional medicine , health is seen as essentially a matter of maintaining a balance within an individual as well as between the individual , the community and the environment . |
| 11 | Purchasing ought not to be seen as mainly a question of routine paperwork . |
| 12 | We find social relationships simplified , while myth and ritual are elaborated … if liminality is regarded as a time and place of withdrawal from normal modes of social action , it can be seen as potentially a period of scrutinization of the central values and axioms of the culture in which it occurs . |
| 13 | We were then told that only a handful of high-spending authorities would be capped . |
| 14 | This can perhaps be interpreted as either a sign of policy changes feeding through into the yield curve or as a change in exchange rate expectations . |
| 15 | In many cases , identification of workers with the enterprise which employs them may be only weakly formed but again a community of interest may be established at this level , depending perhaps on the degree of ‘ paternalism ’ of the management , the character of employment conditions in the enterprise , and the degree of craft skill or other interesting aspect of work within the enterprise . |
| 16 | Indeed both women and men were so baptized and entered the people of God which was the church — in differentiation from the Jewish background in which only men were circumcised and fully a part of the religious people of Israel . |
| 17 | In the meantime , it is clear that many judges consider that the Lord Chancellor 's Department has ceased to act as an intermediary or ‘ hinge ’ between themselves and the executive Government and has become as much a part of the governmental machinery as any other Department of State . |
| 18 | Furthermore , once language is recognised as simply a type of behaviour , it seems to make sense to treat it like any other subject which adults deliberately teach to children . |
| 19 | It is well known that only a minority of alcoholics are afflicted with clinical pancreatitis and the issue of individual susceptibility to alcoholic pancreatitis has recently been reviewed . |
| 20 | The Ethical Investment Research and Information Service ( EIRIS ) , an independent organisation which advises investors on the activities of companies , has found that nearly a quarter of Britain 's major companies breached the limitations on discharges into rivers and waterways on numerous occasions in the last three years . |
| 21 | Attempts that have been made to check the ‘ honesty ’ of respondents have indicated that about a quarter of respondents are liable to conceal information . |
| 22 | Tilting back my head , I saw shrouds and regimental colours hanging like winter leaves when the flesh is gone and only a gauze of capillaries remains , scab of red , mothwing of gold . |
| 23 | Victory was all too easy in this lopsided match and if this had been a boxing contest it would have surely been stopped after barely a quarter of the game had elapsed . |
| 24 | The children found that many of the old names had been kept but naturally a number of new ones , such as Frisky , Fay , Titania and Babs , had crept in . |
| 25 | There has been some controversy in recent years over the effect which the plague had on the population , and the bacteriologist J. F. D. Shrewsbury has tried to argue that bubonic plague could not , by its nature , have destroyed as high a proportion of the population as historians have claimed ( 102 ) . |
| 26 | Indeed , according to Ralph Shepherd , the NEB was ‘ widely perceived as just a mouthpiece of the industry ’ . |
| 27 | It is in this sense that language use can be regarded as essentially a matter of the negotiation of meaning . |
| 28 | The strength or his argument is such that it can not be dismissed as merely a distortion of the formula by which ‘ capitalism , is understood as the guarantor of ‘ bourgeois freedom ’ . |
| 29 | The relationship is often hostile rather than cooperative , but this can be treated as just a reversal of sign . |
| 30 | If the managers , or some of them , own shares in Target , these could be exchanged for Newco shares and , provided the conditions of s135 TCGA 1992 are satisfied , and clearance under s138 , to the effect that the transaction is bona fide commercial , is obtained , this should be treated as neither a disposal of the Target shares nor an acquisition of the consideration shares in Newco , so that a manager 's base cost in his Newco shares will equate to his base cost in the Target shares . |