Example sentences of "of [noun] [to-vb] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can see that there are plenty of reasons to maintain a reasonable level of exercise . |
| 2 | The next most difficult aspects to understand about Chinese herbal medicine are the rationales for using specific parts of plants and the mixing of herbs to prepare a particular formulation . |
| 3 | The 1982 Local Government Finance Act abolished the right of authorities to set a supplementary rate and the 1984 Rates Act empowered the government to limit the spending and rates of centrally defined overspending authorities . |
| 4 | But it clearly is much more difficult and heroic for any group of people who are on the front line of discrimination to adopt a nuanced reading of racism 's multiple forms than for those who are or want to be distanced from its processes and effects . |
| 5 | They may also partly explain the limited success of attempts to induce a full programme of T-cell development using either monolayer cultures of a single thymic stromal cell type , or cocktails of cytokines . |
| 6 | A series of attempts to form a new coalition government had failed , and on 5 May President Coty sent a message to de Gaulle , asking whether he would be willing to enter into negotiations to form a government . |
| 7 | However , it is not very satisfactory from the point of view of attempts to construct a complete theory because it does not make any predictions of the values of the finite remainders left after making infinite subtractions . |
| 8 | This level of divergence is compatible with the results of attempts to identify a living mammal that is comparable to the mammalian common ancestor . |
| 9 | Perhaps one reason for the paucity of attempts to offer a direct critique of the " aims of English " , is the tendency within the discipline to avoid overt and detailed manifestos or statements of aims and objects upon which such critiques might be based . |
| 10 | OFFICIALS in Elvis Presley 's home county have filed a lawsuit demanding the state of Tennessee to launch a new investigation into the singer 's death . |
| 11 | It may be the result of inability to maintain a constant frequency of electrical control activity and this may be due to the effects of muscle disease on groups of muscle cells producing populations with altered frequencies . |
| 12 | The sea shone , the waves sparkled , and a Royal Navy frigate steamed slowly up and down , sent by the Ministry of Defence to deter a seaborne landing on the part of the boyos of the Provisional IRA . |
| 13 | The Monopolies and Mergers Commission did not allow the 1986 bid to proceed and rejected GEC 's claims arguing that : ‘ We do not consider that it is possible in the field of electronics to establish a direct link between company size and competitive performance ’ . |
| 14 | It is quite normal of course to have a rapid weight loss of several pounds in the first week due mainly to water loss ( our bodies are 70 per cent water ) . |
| 15 | However , so few of the possible quadgrams occur in the LOB ( and of those found , 70% only occur once ) that it would appear that the LOB corpus is not a large enough sample of text to provide a reliable quadgram model . |
| 16 | agreed : ‘ It is not a sign of weakness to attend a stress-management course . ’ |
| 17 | But it took her it used to take her quite a while I suppose it would take couple of hours to make a bonny wreath would it . |
| 18 | Project appraisal involves many calculations which must be carried out a number of times to produce a proper sensitivity analysis . |
| 19 | Signs of willingness to finalize a no-attack treaty came at the conclusion of a third round of high-level talks on Dec. 18-20 in Islamabad , Pakistan , between the Indian foreign secretary Muchkund Dubey and his Pakistani counterpart , Shahryar Khan . |
| 20 | The Sri Lanka government and armed forces swung from their position in early 1990 of coexistence with the LTTE to the pursuit of military victory over them ( in which regard they achieved a series of successes from mid-1991 — see pp. 38392 ; 38439 ; 38534 ) , while providing sporadic indications of willingness to seek a negotiated settlement . |
| 21 | Very careful thought is needed , though , before taking the big step of spending a large sum of money to purchase a regular income , for there can be snags , and it is wise to get quotations from several of the major insurance companies , and the advice of a solicitor , before proceeding . |
| 22 | To provide everyone with a voucher that can be used instead of money to purchase a minimum amount of that particular service . |
| 23 | They 've proved you do n't need a team of PHDs or a pot of money to make a massive improvement . |
| 24 | In contrast , using standard protocols for transient expression it often requires 50–100 µg extract protein for 30–120 min. of incubation to reach a comparable level of CAT activity even for growing cells ( 5 , 6 ) . |
| 25 | The cows calve easily and are good mothers , with plenty of milk to rear a good calf and with good fertility . |
| 26 | With the money they gathered from different houses , they bought ham , loaves and butter , lemonade , whiskey and half-barrels of porter to hold a big dance in Kirkwood 's barn that night . |
| 27 | The ( unnamed ) organization responsible for the conspiracy was said to be directed by a committee of 75 members , and there were also allegations of plans to mount a money-laundering operation . |
| 28 | After a curious military episode — he ran away from Cambridge to join the 15th Dragoons — he arrived in Bristol in 1795 full of plans to establish a new system of society , called Pantisocracy ; this word is explained on p. 80 , but what it meant in practice was the rather grandiose idea of founding a new American colony . |
| 29 | Protestors are claiming that proposals to enlarge a trunk road are part of plans to build a new motorway . |
| 30 | Not the best of subjects to inject a little bit of humour but we did find er traces of it nevertheless . |