Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [prep] an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember doing the mate 's cabin and being mildly surprised to find two cartons of cigarettes and two bottles of whisky in an obvious place under the bottom drawer of his bunk . |
| 2 | To conclude , we may place the three notions of saliency in an ordered relation as follows : Fig2.1 literary psychological statistical RELEVANCE----------------PROMINENCE------------DEVIANCE ( foregrounding ) We interpret the arrow in " X — Y " to mean " all instances of X are instances of Y " . " |
| 3 | Chairman , you , you have in a sense already seen this item as part of your budget this morning , er , this is the transfer of payment from an appropriate sum er , other than from the Health Authority , to er , the Local Authority . |
| 4 | Turning to ( a ) in the question , the traditional rule is that the court will not inquire into the mode of user of an undoubted prerogative or privilege . |
| 5 | Nevertheless it is not common practice to consider the man-machine allocation of function as an isolated design decision . |
| 6 | Nobody knew much about her , she 'd turned up in the town as a sort of companion-housekeeper to an old lady who had a house in Morrab Close , a Mrs Armitage — a widow . |
| 7 | Balaguer , who was blind and reportedly severely incapacitated , was accused of responsibility for an economic crisis , high unemployment and constant power failures , and of channelling available resources into the completion of the huge Colón lighthouse project , a contribution to the 1992 celebrations of 500th anniversary of Columbus 's arrival in the Americas , and also seen as a memorial to Balaguer himself . |
| 8 | Much of the improvement in survival has resulted from the now routine use of cyclosporin as an immunosuppressive agent . |
| 9 | MINDLESS vandals have caused hundreds of pounds worth of damage in an overnight raid on a council bowling green . |
| 10 | Here I focus on the genealogy of two aspects of discrimination already addressed by this study , namely displacement between the political and the sexual , and the idea of perversion as an inimical absence . |
| 11 | Differences in ds only measure the amount of interaction in an additive model . |
| 12 | It is not perhaps since Romanticism that there has been so much discussion , and underlying uncertainty , about the market of literature , and it is no accident that recent years have seen an expansion of the sociology of literature as an academic discipline , alongside increased research into reading habits , the best-seller and how to write it , and the levels of writing that appeal to different strata of the public . |
| 13 | The exploits of football hooligans would probably be praised if they were part of resistance to an invading army . |
| 14 | It must also be remembered that a written admission of liability at an early stage could have dire consequences if the third party 's medical condition , without warning , drastically deteriorates and such deterioration is not due to a NOVUS ACTUS |
| 15 | The acquisition of experience in an alpine mountaineer is essentially the cultivation of these two mental qualities . |
| 16 | After years of criticism , and after Tampa , here was a suggestion of dishonesty from an unimpeachable source pointing at the chief executive of the group . |
| 17 | Although it is most usual to think of salami as an Italian speciality , they are , in fact , made throughout Europe . |
| 18 | This brought home to me the fact that paying lots of money for an established defender ( central ) is a massive risk . |
| 19 | She had no vision of money as an independent power , or a formidable opponent . |
| 20 | NOTE under the OT policy the exclusion wording on MONEY has not been relaxed and still refers to ‘ loss of money from an unattended vehicle unless secured in its locked boot ’ . |
| 21 | Hooley 's idea became reality mainly through the efforts of Ghost Of An American Airman 's management guru Dave Sinton and Johnny Hero . |
| 22 | Interestingly , two of the carers in Glendinning 's study were single women who were sharing a household and some of the responsibilities of care-giving with an unmarried brother as well as their elderly parent . |
| 23 | But for parallel development in relation to the parliamentary franchise , the position thus brought about might have resembled too closely that which prevailed under the Stuarts , save only that the pretended despot would have been a Prime Minister , able to influence the composition of Parliament to an excessive degree , rather than a monarch claiming Divine Right . |
| 24 | Any further restrictions would require the specific approval of Parliament through an affirmative resolution . ’ |
| 25 | Those who wish , both unionists and nationalists , can interpret it as the beginnings of absorption into an all-Ireland state . |
| 26 | Fears of recession which heightened the perception of silver as an industrial metal and heavy over-supply over an extended period , caused prices to plummet to below $4.00 a troy ounce in mid-December for the first time in fifteen years . |
| 27 | Two centuries of silver from an outstanding Oxfordshire family firm . |
| 28 | The money would support action at four levels : in the community to improve and preserve plant genetic resources ( PGR ) in the field ; nationally to stimulate and support such work and run gene banks ; regionally to allow collaboration across borders ; and globally to set policy , mobilise and distribute funds and promote a plan of action through an intergovernmental council , with executive board , scientific and technical advisory committee and PGR trust fund . |
| 29 | But a Welsh Water official gave an assurance that supplies were safe , and he said extra pumps were being brought in to take over from giant pumps which had been put out of action by an electrical failure during the floods . |
| 30 | It was , therefore , not surprising that the great economists of this period either ignored or made only brief and passing references to the quality or quantity of labour as an important factor in economic growth . |