Example sentences of "of a [adj] [noun] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The same pH may be given by a very small quantity of a strong acid or by a much larger quantity of a weak acid or a mixture of such an acid with its salts . |
| 2 | As Ireland opened up to foreign investment under de Valera 's successor , Sean Lemass , another element in the value structure came to prominence , namely the obligation to achieve and retain full employment within the context of a modernized economy and a satisfactory level of housing , welfare , and medical care for all . |
| 3 | In the second half of 1848 the Prussian ambassador was reporting to Berlin that St Petersburg 's main concerns were not revolution but a cholera epidemic , the expectation of a poor harvest and a shortage of cash . |
| 4 | The new variegated urban space meant the experience at any one time of a greater number and a greater variety of impressions . |
| 5 | It is a site of a Roman villa and a Saxon palace ; it is the birthplace of Edward the Confessor , and was the site of a Royalist garrison during the Civil War . |
| 6 | Out there , away from the Inspirals ' tour bubble , is a land of a thousand lakes and a million fir trees , where the people drive with the headlights on in full daylight , past ‘ Moose Crossing ’ warning signs , to restaurants where you can tuck into sautéed reindeer . |
| 7 | In seconds police officers can obtain details of a stolen car or a wanted person , and establish whether an offender has previous convictions for serious crimes . |
| 8 | He was an interesting character , with the raffish air of a nineteenth-century showman and a goatee beard and longish hair to match . |
| 9 | The rise of this logical positivism reinforced the Enlightenment belief in science and rationality ( at the very moment that the world was in desperate need of a moral code and a spiritual light to help it through the great crisis — the Depression — of the old machine 's apparent demise ) . |
| 10 | Inevitably this means that not only are individual consciousnesses unique but that the consciousnesses of one epoch may differ as greatly from those of another as do the construed worlds of a polar Eskimo and a city dweller in New York . |
| 11 | These departments will needless to say be answerable direct to the main body of partners but , for administrative convenience an additional tier will usually be introduced in the form of a managing partner or a partners ' management committee as a more efficient method of control and a useful filter to ensure that the partners as a whole are spared the necessity of dealing with anything other than matters of real importance . |
| 12 | Officials also foresaw the creation of a regional parliament and a peacekeeping force , and hoped that member states would eventually adopt unified foreign and defence policies . |
| 13 | I had always been sort of fascinated with pictures : I was more of a visual person than a word person . ’ |
| 14 | It looks as though the Birmingham-born son of a Spanish father and a Welsh mother , living in Berkshire , who represents Surrey , could have started something big . |
| 15 | Mr James Drife , professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at Leeds General Infirmary , says society views mastectomy as ‘ unacceptably mutilating ’ when all it involves is ‘ excision of a redundant gland and a pad of fat ’ . |
| 16 | To cooperate may be defined as to work together or to operate jointly-These terms are therefore not dissimilar , yet co-ordination may be seen to be of a higher level and a more difficult operation than co-operation . |
| 17 | Land Securities bucked the market trend , up 7p to 665p over reports that the property sector is on the edge of a strong recovery and a major revaluation . |
| 18 | He was bright and articulate , the son of a successful doctor and a concert cellist . |
| 19 | Looking inside , he was aware of a misty atmosphere and a figure sitting in a chair at a desk . |
| 20 | Companies make statutory returns to Companies House ; their annual accounts must by law be fuller and more complicated than those of a sole trader or a partnership and must be laid out in a statutory format . |
| 21 | Stock consists of a Percula Clown and a Regal Tang . |
| 22 | Well last night only three days after the shadow cabinet elections one of the women MPs who was thrown off John Smith 's core team accused her male parliamentary colleagues of a cynical plot and a stitch-up . |
| 23 | It is also a play in which mortals are seen as figures of infinite pathos in a universe controlled by the whims of a cruel fate and a capricious deity . |
| 24 | To go out on the knocker was party activists ' jargon for canvassing , a thankless task usually carried out at night with the aid of a failing torch and a broken pencil . |
| 25 | Day care is clearly in need of a radical rethink and a wider choice of services is required than is now available . |
| 26 | The untrammelled right of the individual to dispose of his own property as he saw fit was the essential foundation of a liberal economy and a bourgeois society . |
| 27 | Arguments based on deference to the judgment of corporate managers or those based on the finding of a personal interest or a non-corporate purpose on the part of the directors have the appearance of mere slogans to justify either judicial restraint or intervention . |
| 28 | A mini-breakdown was less of a black mark than a criminal record if he should ever choose to emigrate . |
| 29 | All these behaviours are part of a vicious circle where a maladaptive response to stress produces more stress . |
| 30 | Householders however , who look out over the proposed site may fear the loss of a pleasant environment and a drop in their property value . |