Example sentences of "of [noun] [vb mod] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 A goal is a set of assertions which includes one of the form ’ A certain sequence of operations will lead to a goal of the original task ’ .
2 ‘ We 're really very busy at the moment , but give me a ring tomorrow in my office and we 'll try and make a date ’ he said feebly , hoping his lack of enthusiasm might act as a deterrent .
3 Up to 100,000 families without sources of income would benefit from a cash food allowance in 1990 , and extra income support would be provided for workers heading large households .
4 Money The full Moon in your Second House of money could coincide with a minor financial hiccup , but on the whole this is a good time for you .
5 Money and medical services can make a person 's life less miserable , but no amount of money can compensate for a crippled player 's loss of freedom .
6 In another sense , however , the research could be interpreted as pointing to the necessity to ensure that , once crossed , the threshold of removal should lead to a particular , compensatory form of care in recognition of the child 's maternal loss .
7 Mr Collin said : ‘ The Government says the cost of administration will drop from a million to £400,000 , that is one reason why their Council Tax estimates are misleading . ’
8 Once the archaeological problem has been formulated , whether or not radiocarbon can be used to resolve issues of chronology will depend on a number of factors , such as the type of samples available , the nature of the contexts and events to be dated and the likely age range once the radiocarbon results are calibrated .
9 This would allow the individual to specialise in a particular job and the division of labour would lead to a clear distinction between management and the workforce .
10 On July 29 the Federal Assembly approved a new budget , since 1992 revenue was already exhausted , in which 48 per cent of revenue would come from a loan from the National Bank .
11 However , the basis of relationships might change from a continuation of historical commitments to performance .
12 This characterisation of review would come as a surprise to many commentators in this country .
13 Suppose we identify the semantic content of a sentence with its truth conditions , then the semantic content of ( 4 ) Letizia de Ramolino was the mother of Napoleon will amount to a specification of the circumstances under which it would be true , namely that the individual known as Letizia de Ramolino was in fact identical to the individual who was the mother of Napoleon .
14 This lack of lubrication may result in a burning sensation after intercourse , and apart from making sure your partner takes care to arouse you sufficiently , the application of K-Y jelly or Sensuelle , obtainable from chemists , may bring relief .
15 The closure of the Strait of Hormuz will bring to a stop the wheels of Western industries .
16 Such a change of rule would act as a great deterrent to those guilty of such offences on a regular basis .
17 Application can , of course , lead to reappraisal , just as empirical evidence in other areas of research can lead to a reformulation or abandonment of initial hypotheses .
18 2.7 The difficulty is compounded by the fact that the idea of association can correspond to a wide range of referential or " factual " relationships ( just as can the ascriptive use of an adjective or the qualifying use of a subordinate noun ) ; and , importantly , this is true not only of those relations that can ultimately be reduced to arrangements of objects in the physical world , but also of those that depend on human judgements and evaluations , e.g. relations of loving or resemblance ; all these we shall consider as factual relations by contrast with syntactic relations .
19 Perhaps Jesus is refuting the popular idea of Messiah , which was that a descendant of David would come as a nationalistic leader , drive the Romans out and restore the kingdom of Israel .
20 the future of Uganda must lie in a unitary form of central Government on parliamentary lines covering the whole country …
21 That 's one of the reasons why I 'm , why I 'm also interested in er in Freud because I think Freud provides that , I happen to think that Freud 's studies of , of crowd group psychology actually explain that , although it takes time to you know , certainly not at five minutes to four , it takes time to explain , but I think there is an explanation there and I think you c y y you can claim that there are certain emotions to do with identification and idealization , th that our genes have a programmer which things like erm nationalistic erm , erm er kind of jingoism can exploit in a modern culture which in primal cultures would have primal cultures people identify with their , with their local kin and their local culture and that 's that might ultimately promote their reproductive success , but that in modern cultures , this identification occurs with erm on a completely different level and with lots of people will not merely because you need so many more people modern cultures you have much more erm much bigger groups and you just meet many more people that , than you were ever th there is some interesting research , research recently published for instance which shows erm organizations seem to have a critical size and that people are not really able to track more than about two hundred and fifty other people , in other words you can have face-to-face relationships with up to about two hundred and fifty others , but once it gets beyond two hundred and fifty it 's too much and you start forgetting somebody as if the brain was primed to an optimum group size and once you get above that you just ca n't keep .
22 If Glu-Ser-Gln-Glu did indeed correspond to the minimal DNA-PK phosphorylation site , we reasoned that this region of c-Jun might serve as a phosphorylation site when placed in the context of another protein .
23 For them , making the legal contract of marriage may feel like a re-statement of a previous covenant and , therefore , not so emotionally decisive and fraught .
24 Accepting that a group of countries should proceed to a political or monetary union would be to accept the creation of a Greater European Superstate on the continent of Europe over which the non participants would have minimal control and which would be dominated by Germany .
25 Other types of work may qualify for a discretionary grant , which means it is up to the council whether you get a grant .
26 Since it is implausible to suppose that a creature 's understanding of ‘ inside ’ is independent of its manipulative abilities , a kingfisher 's perceptual experience of containment would differ from a chimp 's .
27 Generalisations may be helpful to a certain extent but we have to take into account complex variants which are law-related but not necessarily legal : Richard Vogler ( in Chapter 7 of this volume ) for example , leads us to ask whether the use of law will lead to a bureaucratisation and disintegration of the peace movement as in the 1960s ?
28 Possibly this form of GGF could act as a natural antagonist by inhibiting an activity of the receptor , such as ligand binding , dimerization or kinase activation .
29 " A lot of composers will forget about a work once it 's up and running , but Andrew is n't like that .
30 Also , the pressure on ministers to hustle along with the removal of lead may subside after a general election .
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