Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun sg] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is because a lack of technical expertise in a Petipa variation danced in a ‘ tutu ’ is all too obvious , whilst its lack in modern works usually goes unnoticed . |
| 2 | We are working for resolution of outstanding points of technical detail with a view to early adoption by the Council of Ministers . |
| 3 | Direct selling in customers ' homes is to some extent accepted practice for a number of consumer product groups such as perfumes , cosmetics and toiletries but remains an area of unexplored potential for a number of others . |
| 4 | ‘ a specific issue order ’ means an order giving directions for the purpose of determining a specific question which has arisen , or which may arise , in connection with any aspect of parental responsibility for a child . |
| 5 | A specific issue orderwhich gives directions for the purpose of determining a specific question which has arisen , or which may arise , in connection with any aspect of parental responsibility for a child . |
| 6 | In particular she won a great deal of sympathy last January when she appeared on national television with Bill Clinton as he faced allegations of extra-marital dalliance with a singer . |
| 7 | For example , the idea of advanced education as a process for the " regeneration of the self " was strongly propounded by modernizing Oxbridge dons like Mark Pattison , an influential educationalist and Head of Lincoln College , Oxford from 1861 . |
| 8 | Vivian de Sola Pinto sums up the qualities required of this kind of professional scholar as a capacity for " exact scholarship " , an extensive " knowledge " of language and literature , and — if possible — " the most perfect taste and tact " . |
| 9 | Whilst it is our preference to generate fees for the provision of professional advice on a transaction we may also generate fees for a brokerage transaction . |
| 10 | The lord chancellor claims that the revised assistance by way of representation scheme due to come into effect on 1 April will cover the costs of professional representation at a tribunal for almost all those currently covered by the scheme . |
| 11 | On the basis of extensive research in a number of congregations in the United States , Peter Wagner has postulated an estimate of ten per cent who are either effectively or potentially gifted as evangelists . |
| 12 | You know that I should be interested , well I was the secretary of Labour Party for a time . |
| 13 | That is , he first carries out an OLS regression of monetary growth on a number of other variables — the DM equation — and obtains the residuals from this equation ; then , in a second stage , uses these residuals , the , in an OLS regression in which unemployment or output is the dependent variable . |
| 14 | A vice is a bad habit or some kind of strange temperament in a horse or pony not normally expected which renders it — dangerous , or less useful or liable to decline in health . |
| 15 | The weakness of feudal service as a basis for recruiting an army was that it was hedged round with difficult restrictions . |
| 16 | The Vietnamese , who have kept a few items of sunken treasure for a museum in Hanoi , but sent most of it for auction in the West , pronounced themselves well satisfied . |
| 17 | Yet the period also saw the revival of government-business co-operation on a scale not evident since the early NIRA days of the New Deal . |
| 18 | The EC has at various stages attempted to devise summary indicators of regional performance as a guide to the magnitude of the regional problem . |
| 19 | An example of regional differentiation within a country was Italy , where a strikingly sharper drop in fertility appeared in the north than in the south in these years . |
| 20 | At the same time , these categories do not enable one to penetrate the ‘ surface of phenomena ’ … to understand the process and development of economic life as a whole … |
| 21 | Many agricultural livestock practices are currently experiencing a downturn in their level of economic activity for a variety of reasons , ie the reduction in Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food commissioned cattle testing duties , the short term effects of the EEC dairy quotas , and the improved animal husbandry skills of many farmers and herdsmen as a result of better farm education today . |
| 22 | The post-1945 years have produced a fundamental restructuring of the pattern of economic activity on a scale never achieved by the prewar industrialization . |
| 23 | This research seeks to understand and separate out the respective ‘ backward looking ’ and ‘ forward looking ’ aspects of economic behaviour in a variety of applications including housing , labour and consumer goods markets . |
| 24 | Concern over the size of the bill prompted Belfast City Council to join forces with the Department of Economic Development in a bid to reduce the waste . |
| 25 | Inherent in the use of economic analysis as a complement to traditional legal scholarship is the fact that there must be an investment in a new vocabulary : opportunity cost , synergies , externality etc . |
| 26 | More immediately , there was a fear that the business community would be blamed for the inevitable social side-effects of economic liberalization by a government concerned about its electoral prospects . |
| 27 | For , like Attlee before him , Churchill originally had it in mind to curb the Treasury by parcelling out the functions of economic policy-making to a team of ministers , of which the Chancellor of the Exchequer would be a member , but not an over-mighty one . |
| 28 | The Unitarian William Roscoe was equally in support of economic liberalisation as a way to bring on emancipation . |
| 29 | This may take the form of economic growth as a whole over long periods . |
| 30 | A third form of constraint would be one in which the courts subject the exercise of administrative discretion to a set of more specific substantive principles . |