Example sentences of "of the [noun sg] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The day of the battle dawned a hot May morning . |
| 2 | The significance of the user applying a similar strategy to library catalogues has not been realized . |
| 3 | She raised Skogen to her face and through it she saw Ghost of the Tree turn a quizzical and penetrating look upon her . |
| 4 | Each day they became fewer until my image of the tree became a pink and brown blur , it being blossom time . |
| 5 | The Archbishop should be thoroughly ashamed of himself at the failure of the efforts of the Church to create a better society . |
| 6 | All that vanished with the invention of the printing press a few years later , but many of the books in the Corviniana were made in Italy at that time . |
| 7 | Among the issues which they pursued were proposed NIHT rent increases , resettlement grants , poor soundproofing and finishing in their accommodation and the refusal of the NIHT to provide a communal television aerial for Rossville Flats which would enable the tenants to receive Radio Telefis Eireann ( the Irish television network ) . |
| 8 | Out to sea the beam of the lighthouse swept a great arc every fifteen seconds ; on one side of the headland were the lights of the town and harbour , on the other it was just possible to make out a line of cliffs receding into the darkness . |
| 9 | The purchase price has been agreed at £5000 , and the form of the conveyance follows a conventional pattern . |
| 10 | In the centre of the hut stood a tall coke stove , blackened from use , deep in dust , and its chimney stack climbed to the ceiling and through its open hatch there was the glow of fuel working out a second day 's burning . |
| 11 | Yet the need to harness the ability of the computer to monitor a dynamic situation far faster than is possible with manual methods was as pressing for SGB , with a Group payroll at the time approaching £13 million , as for the very large organisation able to make substantial investment in computerised personnel records . |
| 12 | Since the family were exiled from France there could be no question of the Prince having a political role within the country , even though there was no lack of latent Bonapartist feeling among all sections of society . |
| 13 | In a second phase of training presentation of the tone preceded a nausea-inducing injection of LiCl . |
| 14 | The bidirectional reflectance of the soil has a considerable effect on that of the canopy ( , ) , see Table . |
| 15 | Wide side decks and a long run of substantial grabrail on each side of the coachroof allow a secure passage to and from the foredeck . |
| 16 | Much will depend on the legal knowledge and ingenuity of counsel and the court , as well as on the readiness of the court to take a liberal view . |
| 17 | In People v. Rosario ( 1961 ) 213 N.Y.S. 2d 448 four members of the Court of Appeals of New York , adopting the view of the United States Supreme Court in Jencks v. United States ( 1957 ) 353 U.S. 657 , ruled that the entire previous statements of prosecution witnesses ought to be shown to defence counsel after the direct examination with a view to his cross-examining those witnesses and attacking their credibility , saying that counsel were best able to decide what use could be made of the statements , whereas three members of the court took a narrower view and , following the line of authority which had hitherto prevailed in New York , held that defence counsel could examine and use only those portions of a statement which , according to the view of the trial judge , contained variances from a witness 's evidence . |
| 18 | Also it seems that if the plaintiff 's first action is at risk of being struck out for want of prosecution , it is not an abuse of the process of the court to issue a second writ as there has been no disobedience of a peremptory order of the court ( Bailey v Bailey [ 1984 ] RTR 167 ) . |
| 19 | The extent of the problem varies a great deal from one species to another . |
| 20 | The work of the Council achieved a significant increase in media coverage from the press , radio and television at both national and local levels . |
| 21 | The work of the Council achieved a significant increase in media coverage from the press , radio and television at both national and local levels . |
| 22 | It is within the power of the Council to make a one-off grant to the World for golden hellos to attract a higher calibre of research workers . |
| 23 | It might be thought that the clerk of the council has a nobler sound than director-general , for example . |
| 24 | Others keep pouring into Lima from the rest of the country seeking a better life . |
| 25 | The publication of land registers for the greater part of the country represents a major opportunity to secure the better use of massive acreages of underused land . |
| 26 | It is scarcely conceivable in the political climate of the time that the alternative would have been adopted as a matter of policy , but that it was avoided at the cost of serious reductions in the level of policing in much of the country suggests a conscious choice . |
| 27 | In his Topographical Account of Cunninghame , compiled about 1600 , Timothy Pont recorded — ‘ This part of the country yields a great deal of excellent butter but especially the parishes of Stewarton and Dunlop . ’ |
| 28 | Such a practice eventually attracted the suspicion and hostility of Parliament ; it opened up the possibility of the monarch exercising a substantial ‘ pay-roll ’ influence over Parliament itself . |
| 29 | It is sometimes very strange to see an AIB Engineering Inspector and an RAF doctor with their heads down inside the wreckage of a crashed aircraft in the AIB hangar at Farnborough , arguing , discussing or merely agreeing that this or that component is not strong enough to sustain survivable crash forces on a row of seats or that a part of the galley constitutes a lethal hazard against which passengers could suffer injury in a crash . |
| 30 | At last he said to himself , " Even the birds of the air and the fish of the sea have a better life than I , for at least they have companions . |