Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here a thick series of alluvial deposits rests in a basin cut largely in the Upper Jurassic clay formations , the Oxford , Ampthill and Kimeridge Clays . |
| 2 | In 1947 the problem of persistent shortages turned into a crisis . |
| 3 | In music for court entertainments , masques and dramatic intermedii , a group of Florentine musicians influenced by a learned Humanist , Girolamo Mei , who had come to the correct conclusion that ancient Greek music had been monodic , mixed madrigals with a new kind of monody in ‘ another way of singing than the usual ’ ( un altro modo di cantare che l'ordinario ) . |
| 4 | However , the environment of professional standard-setting changed as a result of the inception of the Accounting Standards Committee ( ASC ) . |
| 5 | I have to say though that it 's usually very embarrassing to see a group of professional dancers dancing in a club — because they are trained to be self-conscious , they ca n't let go of themselves . |
| 6 | It is made up of volcanic formations deposited in a north-west/south-east direction , the plateau of Paúl da Serra being the main core . |
| 7 | The train consisted of Cambrian 4-wheelers headed by a ‘ Seaham ’ class 2-4-0 and it proceeded up the Tanat Valley . |
| 8 | VOLUNTEERS at an historic fort were yesterday assessing the cost of extensive damage caused during a burglary . |
| 9 | The visionary hymn ‘ Jerusalem ’ , sung by generations of Labour people dreaming of a socialist paradise , was written by another Lambeth resident , William Blake . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , there was a very close relationship between employment opportunities and trends of immigration , especially from the Caribbean ; Ceri Peach 's research demonstrates that throughout the 1950s periods of economic expansion led to a rise in immigration while periods of recession led to a decline ( Peach , 1968 ) . |
| 11 | The Institute of Economic Affairs had for a long time been polemicising against the extension of state activity on the grounds that it restricted choice , led to dependency and reduced the motivation to work , and fostered economic inefficiency in comparison with ‘ private enterprise ’ . |
| 12 | This notable agreement between men who might be supposed to represent the opposite poles of economic ideology came on a day when Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov disclosed grim new evidence of wage inflation here , and Dr Alan Greenspan , the visiting chairman of the US Federal Reserve Board , wound up three days of discussions with Soviet ministers , bankers and economists . |
| 13 | Economists were being involved in the process of economic decision making in a manner which had been unknown previously , and most of them found this admission to the counsels of the influential and powerful to be very congenial . |
| 14 | Thus the omission of economic factors leads to a divergence of demand estimates between builders and regions thus increasing the potential for unnecessary conflict . |
| 15 | This means that consciousness in its ideological form is not merely arbitrarily determined by material relations but is specifically determined by the set of economic relations existing in a given society . |
| 16 | But the prospect of economic growth rising by a further half-point during the next six months raised fears on the international currency markets of an uncontrolled expansion and increased concern about inflation throughout Europe . |
| 17 | In that case a plurality of outstanding votes suffices for a candidate ( or occasionally more than one candidate ) to be declared elected . |
| 18 | A recent study of square-headed brooches came to a similar conclusion ( Hines 1984 , p. 180 ) ; they could be divided into three phases on the basis of their distribution : general , localised and , finally , more numerous and widespread . |
| 19 | It could have accepted the proposals which I put forward to rationalise and institutionalise the administrative jurisdiction in a boldly-conceived system of administrative courts separated to a large extent from the ordinary routine of departmental administration and free from indirect ministerial interference . |
| 20 | Using the intervallic interchange exercise from last month 's article — Gmaj7 to Ebmaj7th — I have written out four short melodic phrases which make use of chromatic approach notes as a means of connecting this single chord change . |
| 21 | Eamonn Martin of Basildon AC ran away from the large entry of 2,200 runners to win in a time of 40 mins. 29 secs . |
| 22 | Those wingborne came only in historic aircraft and the flying display was a vivid expression of the joys of classic aircraft set against a near-perfect sky and on a landing ground new to the late 20th Century . |
| 23 | They are condemned as signs of unclear or lazy thinking — and , indeed , when they are overused or inappropriately used ( as in a wall of political hedging erected by a defensive politician ) — they are widely and justifiably attacked . |
| 24 | Consequently , once the northern campaign was resumed , on 20 April , the task of political reorganization came to a temporary halt . |
| 25 | The historical problem becomes , not how to establish a sequence of political regimes associated with a universal process of socio-economic development , but how to explain the interconnection of different elements within a particular historical type of society and state . |
| 26 | The backdrop of rural discontent kept at a minimum the government 's tolerance level for criticism and signs of independent organization in the cities . |
| 27 | The location of rural settlements depends on a balance of considerations , ultimately on the nature of the rural economy and the system of land tenure . |
| 28 | If you 've ever dreamed of lazy hours spent on a tranquil , tropical island , then it literally is a dream come true . |
| 29 | By the 1780s it had twelve employees ; and complaints against its interference with the correspondence of private citizens figured in a number of the cahiers presented to the States-General in 1789 . |
| 30 | Currently nearly half of private households headed by a person of Afro Caribbean ethnic origin ( or nearly twice the proportion of the total population ) lives in a dwelling rented from the local authority . |