Example sentences of "of an [noun sg] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One could only say of an electron encircling the hydrogen nucleus that it had a certain probability of being found here and a certain probability of being found there . |
| 2 | Reducing the thickness of the inversion layer to about the wavelength of an electron quantises the motion as the diagram shows : the permitted states lie on infinitely-thin discs in k — space , each corresponding to a surface sub-band . |
| 3 | The National Health Service provides an excellent example of an organisation facing the problem of making a best fit with its environment . |
| 4 | Dorothy , in her time , had been an active member of an organisation called the Noise Reduction Society , which had campaigned valiantly and indiscriminately against lawnmowers and jet aircraft . |
| 5 | This reasoning encourages broad drafting of the purposes of an organisation to widen the scope of its implied powers . |
| 6 | geographical dispersion of an organisation increases the pressure for decentralisation of authority to regional or area managers ; or |
| 7 | This was particularly the case when Marcia Williams , having been powerfully lobbied by Arnold Wesker , was determined to persuade Harold Wilson to bestow some extra support on ‘ Centre 42 ’ , which was Wesker 's notion of an organisation to supervise the growth of the arts in this country . |
| 8 | The merits of an approach allowing the company to seek civil redress are essentially twofold : first , no victim need be identified ; and secondly , an action may be brought in the context of anonymous stock market trades . |
| 9 | As was noted above , however much one may value identification with one 's community , since it can be expressed by other means than respect for law it can not be a foundation of an obligation to respect the law , nor a basis for the general authority of governments over all their subjects . |
| 10 | One of the earliest instances of an artifact concerns the tendency of the subject to respond in a way that the experimenter expects and is pleased by . |
| 11 | The race organiser was in Gloucester today for the christening of an entrant bearing the city 's name . |
| 12 | The main premise in FSP theory is that the communicative goals of an interaction cause the structure of a clause or sentence to function in different kinds of perspective . |
| 13 | The interpretation of an utterance involves the integration of information across different levels of linguistic description and across time . |
| 14 | A student would read the passage for the day , I would explain any background needed and then we would all keep silence for a quarter of an hour to let the Scripture passage make its own impression . |
| 15 | A narrow boat and butty took over three-quarters of an hour to negotiate the locks , however , and an inclined plane was eventually built to speed up traffic by lifting boats in movable docks . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm sure my husband wo n't mind me saying that it was not his wealth which made us all respect him — although I 've heard my husband say many a time that the wealth of Mr D'Arcy of Moss Side by Manchester was of an enormity to make the sultans and pashas of the East take note — but it was not for that , not at all , that we , all of us who knew of him … ’ |
| 17 | If the costs of an activity exceed the benefits , he will maximize his total satisfactions by choosing not to engage in it . |
| 18 | Emily was glad of an excuse to change the subject . |
| 19 | The Dauphin 's interest in delaying the transfer of territory and renunciation of sovereignty is obvious , but it has been suggested that Edward too might have been glad of an excuse to resume the war if he wanted to . |
| 20 | For those who see in this the loss of an opportunity to remould the world more nearly to their hearts ' desire , that must be the overwhelming pity . |
| 21 | In that rule the freedom of an individual to instruct the solicitor of his choice and the responsibility of a solicitor once instructed to act in the best interests of his client is underlined . |
| 22 | The characteristic hunting pose of an owl quartering the ground or flying fast and low towards something it 's spotted below it . |
| 23 | They use role , they develop stories , they give symbolic significance to the spaces in which they play — a bed becoming a pirate ship , the arm of an armchair becoming the back of a horse . |
| 24 | There is no obligation imposed on the organisers of an assembly to notify the police in advance that they intend to hold such a gathering . |
| 25 | As a reformer confronted with an ignorant and conservative society it is understandable that Olavide saw universities only as ‘ workshops for the production of an élite to serve the state and enlighten the multitude ’ . |
| 26 | When there was prima facie evidence of an airline cutting the price on one route simply to take a competitor out of the market , then there should be machinery compelling that airline to cut prices on all its other routes . |
| 27 | Reshuffling its North America operations is , ZDS officials say , ‘ part of an effort to make the firm more responsive to the personal computer Unix-based market worldwide … the company had to start at the heart of the problem the bureaucracy in the company . ’ |
| 28 | The move came , he said , as part of an effort to reduce the USA 's defence costs as well as to ease global tensions in the light of improving relations with the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact countries . |
| 29 | Yes , I believe that actually it should be the responsibility of the officers of an association to take the responsibility . |
| 30 | A formula of an ion shows the ratio of atoms of each element present in the ion . |