Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun] [subord] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such desire for the other may be less the result of a desublimation of repressed desire than a consequence of desire itself being structured by social repression generally : thus the other may be cathected as ( an ) other beyond repression . |
| 2 | If a weaning process is required , the parent can progressively increase the requirements for earning a sticker , for example two nights , then three , and then a week of dry beds before a sticker is allocated . |
| 3 | Institutional labels would suggest not ; it seems to be largely a matter of historical accident whether a university , polytechnic or college has a faculty/school of humanities or one of arts ( or even letters ) . |
| 4 | Agriculture Secretary John Gummer has given an assurance that the British government will not support a resumption of commercial whaling until a method of killing the mammals humanely has been invented . |
| 5 | Only occasional flakes came haphazardly down like white sifts of charred paper when a chimney is on fire . |
| 6 | There are two forms of sub-slate roof-deck construction favoured by the traditional builders which may store up serious problems for restorers of old buildings once a breach has occurred in the roof covering . |
| 7 | POLICE are warning people to beware of unscrupulous workmen after a pensioner was swindled . |
| 8 | THE PEACEMAKER : He sees gifts as an excellent way of atoning for sins , but can put himself at risk by overstating himself — giving an exquisite set of English porcelain when a book token would do . |
| 9 | In Sinhala areas most Ceylon Tamils were of high caste while a majority of Indian Tamils were of low caste . |
| 10 | Poor are those still , star-spangled nights of high pressure when a frost threatens , but even the bream will feed to some extent . |
| 11 | New insurance scheme covers home buyers and sellers against the expense of lost fees if a purchase of sale falls through . |
| 12 | According to the conventional British wisdom of the middle of the century , our flexible unwritten constitution , our democratic Parliament , the sense of fair play of our permanent civil service , and our vigorous and vigilant free Press were safer and more effective guarantees of personal freedom than a Continental or American-style ‘ government of judges ’ . |
| 13 | Beldi Hill was the scene of pitched battles between rival gangs of lead-miners in the 1770s when workings were flooded , and Spoutgill Smelt Mill became the scene of violent fighting when a man called David Brunskill was thrown bodily into the hush , a deep gully scoured out of the fellside during the search for lead-bearing veins . |
| 14 | Some of the sepoys were shot or cut down as they struggled to get over the possessions ' which stuck out jaggedly here and there ; a sowar pitched headless from his horse on to a silted-up velvet chaise longue ; a warrior from Oudh dived head first in a glittering shower through a case of tropical birds while a comrade at his elbow died spreadeagled on the mud-frozen wheels of the gorse bruiser . |
| 15 | Again , there is likely to be a serious breach of natural justice if a manager , after hearing an employee 's case at a disciplinary interview or appeal meeting , has a private discussion with the person who presented the case on behalf of the company , or with a witness , before reaching his decision . |
| 16 | Preparation for the task of managing by means of a partnership is less a matter of structured training than a process of growth . |
| 17 | It is surely not being excessively pompous to see this as one sign of a trivialisation of European civilisation , or to accept that there has been a catastrophic spiritual impoverishment of national life when a country such as our own , which once thought of itself as Christian , can for the most part simply ignore today 's commemoration of Christ 's passion and death . |
| 18 | Aim for the knoll of Little Ingleborough where a path coming up from Gaping Gill will be joined for the last easy half-mile to the summit . |
| 19 | The impulse to establish different areas of comparative advantage when a country loses market share to the industries of another country may be lacking . |
| 20 | There are no roads up there and not a square metre of flat ground where a helicopter could land . |
| 21 | If you are starting completely from scratch , however , and have the cash available , I recommend that you purchase a basic helicopter radio which can still be used with a fixed pitch machine if required , but will be of great help if a variable ( collective ) pitch machine is purchased . |
| 22 | Photographs are also of great benefit when a repudiation of liability is being discussed with third party solicitors . |
| 23 | He lay in a sort of mental haze until a feeling of restriction just below his buttocks penetrated his still slumbering state . |
| 24 | A WARNING letter has been sent to a dairy by Montgomeryshire 's director of environmental health after a slug was found in a bottle of milk . |
| 25 | I also saw many examples of good practice where a teacher introduced children to terminology to discuss their own writings . |
| 26 | A fountain pen in Paris fulfils the same sort of emblematic function as a car and may cost almost as much : all kinds of social and identity messages are tied up in it . |
| 27 | By the Nuclear Installations Act 1965 no person other than the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority shall use any site for the operation of nuclear plant unless a licence to do so has been granted in respect of that site by the Minister of Power . |
| 28 | She was , I am sure , less motivated by dreams of Elysian fields than a longing to shuffle off her mortal coil and be freed both from the arthritis and the meaninglessness of what her life had become . |
| 29 | It should be pointed out , however , that the results of the Forster and Olbrei experiment do not provide evidence for a constant effect of syntactic analysis since a correlation coefficient of.65 accounts for less than 40 per cent of the variance in processing times . |
| 30 | These invaluable references can save you pounds on technical reference guides and provide the same level of accurate information as a book , only the text is at your fingertips . |