Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun] [conj] [adv] a " in BNC.

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1 It offered opportunities for the reception and use of the precepts of economic liberalism and thus a break from intellectually old-fashioned mercantilist conceptions of public policy .
2 He was running what was mostly a sixties disco with a sprinkling of classic rock and only a few recent standards .
3 Politicians and party activists not only face the normal cut and thrust of political life but also a deadly threat to their lives .
4 So far I have left open the question of whether Maastricht is likely to prove to have been the high-water mark of European Federalism or merely a bench-mark against which to test future movement towards a Federalist state .
5 ‘ How about a bit of jugged hare or perhaps a nice plump breast of chicken , ’ she said , knowing full well that such delicacies were beyond the reach of the poor worker .
6 Tears were a kind of emotional richness that only a man who was really warm and human could afford .
7 ‘ I know some people are saying we will hit somebody for five or six goals sooner or later , but I 'd rather we had a nice , successful run of 1-0 wins than just a one-off . ’
8 Er and I think we would all er acknowledge er the the precise difficulties of that wording and perhaps a , an amendment may need to be considered on the second line following the list of districts .
9 Social conventions would clearly be of little use if only a small proportion of members was aware of them , and the same holds for the interpretative rules which guide the manner in which meanings are attached to objects and situations .
10 MAUREEN ( trying the B set which emits a series of siren-like whoops and then a muffled jazz band ) : It does n't seem particularly easy to get ANY station on the B.
11 Soon after 9 p.m. rally drivers came upon an unexpected road hazard as they steered into the narrow twisting lane — a barricade of wooden benches and almost a dozen seated householders !
12 Mr Terry Davis , Labour MP for Birmingham Hodge Hill , told the Guardian last night : ‘ As a former employee of British Leyland and now a member of the Commons public accounts committee , I pressed for an inquiry into the sale .
13 The German blitz was resumed in the early months of this year and then a fresh terror , the " flying bombs " , was directed against London in the summer .
14 If it is argued on the basis of this reply that even a maniac is not beyond redemption and that given the right kind of treatment he might be able to take his place again within society , the argument only serves to show the different moral considerations that can be brought to bear on situations of moral dilemma .
15 Antiracists , on the other hand , will have to move beyond their reductive conceptions of culture and their fear of cultural difference as simply a source of division and weakness in the struggle against racism .
16 English was the most far-flung language in 1880 ; not only in new nations , but in British colonies where it was the language of official life and therefore a language of record and social advancement for the native .
17 A few hundred years of Imperial rule and already a coterie surrounded the throne which , by its very nature , endangered the survival of the Imperium .
18 The Throwbag Holster from Suzy is a carrying device for the Green Slime 's Rescue Throwbag , other line of similar size or even a camera , flares at sea or other item of equipment .
19 Lastly , after government , the administration , military and judiciary , a fifth element of the system can be identified which Miliband ( 1969 ) calls the various units of sub-government — in a sense the extension of central government but also a voice of the periphery , and thus a channel of communication between the two .
20 messageRoutines — Two procedures each allowing the output of a message of fixed length and also a procedure delivering a warning message .
21 Furthermore , successive governments have appeared to accept this definition of ethnic relations as largely a question of immigration control .
22 So there were going to be four months of hard training and probably a lot of violence .
23 Here we have , albeit speculatively ( and more baldly than most specialists would dare ) , the distributions and dispersals of archaic populations and so a geographical history of human populations throughout the world .
24 The underlying approach of codification in re-forming the law has stressed the mechanistic nature of legal reasoning as essentially a syllogistic exercise .
25 Not all information will be regarded as of equal weight and therefore a truly total assessment is unattainable .
26 The Blue Elephant , 4 Fulham Broadway , SW6 ( 01 385 6595 ) has brought the jungle to London in an imaginative series of bamboo-roofed spaces broken by walls of trellised greenery and even a lacquered bridge with a real stream trickling under it .
27 The yew contains a mixture of poisonous compounds and only a chemist can extract anything good from it so people should n't eat or drink anything connected with the Yew tree .
28 Chronology is broached also by Peter le Huray , who examines Morley 's prescriptions for good composition ( published in 1597 ) , considers the undoubtedly early ‘ Libera me , domine , published in 1575 , and argues for recognition of mature procedures and thus a relatively late dating for the monorhythmic cantus firmus piece ‘ Christus resurgens a mortuis ’ .
29 The plan showed a small wood , plenty of mature trees and even a stream running along the edge of the property .
30 It should not be a series of coded sign-posts that only a small élite can decode and which lead us round and round in circles .
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