Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun sg] [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 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Only occasional flakes came haphazardly down like white sifts of charred paper when a chimney is on fire . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In Sinhala areas most Ceylon Tamils were of high caste while a majority of Indian Tamils were of low caste . |
| 7 | Poor are those still , star-spangled nights of high pressure when a frost threatens , but even the bream will feed to some extent . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Preparation for the task of managing by means of a partnership is less a matter of structured training than a process of growth . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The impulse to establish different areas of comparative advantage when a country loses market share to the industries of another country may be lacking . |
| 15 | There are no roads up there and not a square metre of flat ground where a helicopter could land . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Photographs are also of great benefit when a repudiation of liability is being discussed with third party solicitors . |
| 18 | He lay in a sort of mental haze until a feeling of restriction just below his buttocks penetrated his still slumbering state . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I also saw many examples of good practice where a teacher introduced children to terminology to discuss their own writings . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | These include enhancement of alimentary lipaemia if a meal is preceded by alcohol ( Wilson et al , 1970a ) , and chronic alcohol-related hyperlipidaemia in susceptible individuals . |
| 26 | ‘ I think what 's interesting is … the people ( at The Mind Gym ) who are doing this thing , they do a lot of communal work where a lot of people will undergo the same program all at the one time and they find that they get a lot of really heavy group processes developing . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I think what 's interesting is … the people ( at The Mind Gym ) who are doing this thing , they do a lot of communal work where a lot of people will undergo the same program all at the one time and they find that they get a lot of really heavy group processes developing . ’ |
| 28 | These are of particular value when a student misses a session . |
| 29 | The second source of error is the problem of topological mismatch when a polygon map is represented by a grid . |
| 30 | We would be talking of the iniquities of bottled ale when a shadow crossed his eyes . |