Example sentences of "an [noun sg] of [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | There will need to be an assessment of which overseas markets offer the most opportunities at the same time as looking for early signs of local companies being eyed by competitors as ripe for merger or acquisition , forecasting what the effects of this might be on the locality . |
2 | However , floating has occurred previously , as in 1973 , because of a breakdown in fixed exchange rates rather than as a result of a collective decision based on an assessment of its relative advantages . |
3 | Ninety six male patients admitted to four surgical wards for elective repair of inguinal hernias under general anaesthesia were interviewed in hospital on the day before surgery and asked to complete two self evaluation questionnaires : a screen for pre-existing anxiety or depressive states using the hospital anxiety and depression scale ( HADS ) , in which patients were asked to score answers based on how they generally felt over the few weeks before admission , and an assessment of their current state of anxiety ( Spielberger STAI-X1 ) . |
4 | Regular readers will have noticed that a number of our recipes are now followed by an assessment of their nutritional content . |
5 | This may have been a difficult question for some to answer as it was an assessment of their own abilities . |
6 | The pack also includes general guidance for employers and employees on the prevention of work-related musculo-skeletal disorders , and an assessment checklist designed to help most employers who have to carry out an assessment of their manual handling operations to do so quickly and at minimum cost . |
7 | For example , she may be required to take an assessment of her nursing skills for examination purposes during the allocation , and may need extra help for this purpose . |
8 | He expressed the opinion that she was not fully compos mentis ; that she was not fully rational in making an assessment of her medical condition being unaware how critical her condition was ; and that she was not fully rational at the time of signing the refusal . |
9 | The insider/ethnographer can turn his understanding of an interpretive methodology to an assessment of his own actions , and see connections as if scales had been removed from his eyes . |
10 | In determining an employee 's suitability , it is necessary to gain an assessment of his domestic circumstances . |
11 | At one time , he was taken as a founding figure for American sociology of a quite different complexion ; while , more recently , interest in his work had developed from an assessment of his considerable influence on Lukács and , through him , to a certain tradition of Western Marxism . |
12 | Language might be able to illuminate higher ‘ things ’ , but an admission of its fictive role also made it suspect . |
13 | In March 1991 IEA issued its Oil Market Report , with an update of its supply-demand balance for the first quarter of that year . |
14 | I would be most grateful for any information you may have pertaining to the RLS centenary be it an update of your present events or any contacts you may know of . |
15 | The extreme depth and detail in which these women describe their job experiences — often of five or more years ago — is an index of their continuing significance . |
16 | Using such a critical procedure , two indices could be constructed : an index of women 's sociological visibility and an index of their social presence . |
17 | It was a stretched Telecaster , using the same ‘ slab ’ ash body with no contouring whatsoever , while its elongated top horn extended to above the twelfth fret and offered good balance for an instrument of its considerable weight . |
18 | For both countries , the special relationship between them is their primary foreign policy priority , and the European Community remains principally an instrument of their foreign policy needs . |
19 | This is very clear , for example , in the beautiful crystalline Hommage a J. S. Bach ; not only do the stencilled letters and the graphic marks enable us to reconstruct the musical subject matter of the still life , but the painting as a whole seems to become an analogy of its musical connotations . |
20 | I therefore offer readers an extract of my elder friend 's memoirs , taken from the book which his daughter Aliki Costakis and I are currently preparing for publication . |
21 | He lived in a world of his own mythology peopled by an enemy of his own creation — the Jewish Communists with the razors — who had marked him for what he was . |
22 | So swallow your pride and do n't make an enemy of your own child . ’ |
23 | The most obvious trap to avoid is a stringent comparison of ROIs as an indication of what each SBU is contributing to the total group . |
24 | Even if residential workers are not able always to succeed , then at the very least young people may come to see these efforts as an indication of their own importance for others . |
25 | He trusted the curiosity of these young men was an indication of their special training for the task . |
26 | But his daughter proves to have been very properly ill-at-ease among its dazzling lights , long corridors , great staircases and phalanxes of ladies ' maids ; that his second wife should revel in them is an indication of her moral inferiority . |
27 | One small story that made the newspapers in 1952 gives an indication of his current popularity . |
28 | Already their father had given an indication of his deep displeasure by ordering all three of them to remain in the room throughout the ceremony . |
29 | ( One of his father 's particular delights was found in the Reader 's Digest , perhaps an indication of his limited energies . ) |
30 | However , he manages to retain his honour up to his death which is an indication of his strong character and resilience . |