Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [verb] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A promising early phase of play brought a sloppy opening goal in the 13th minute , when Hamilton lodged a long kick into the heart of the Dundee United half . |
| 2 | For Piaget , the activity of play represents a major advance in the ability of the child to control its own environment and engage in a variety of strategies . |
| 3 | In Fig. 7.1 2/d ) the rate of change of freewheeling current is large and negative when the winding is turned off , but the decay is reversed by the motional voltage and the rate of change reaches a positive maximum . |
| 4 | The gift of genius Find a brilliant inventor to set loose in the laboratory and your problems are solved ; the new products will start to roll off the line immediately . |
| 5 | A long straight nose forms a T with the straight fringe close down on the brows ; a rectangular block of hair frames a triangular face which tapers to a pointed chin . |
| 6 | The data describing the prevalence of smoking illustrates a good example of a cohort effect as older women , those aged 60 and over , have the highest proportions classed as never smoking . |
| 7 | In 1982 the Forestry Commission 's Head of Site Studies and Head of Pathology paid a short trip to West Germany to see forest decline for themselves . |
| 8 | Their areas of expertise encompassed a wide range : Sandra Salmaso and Cinzia Mascherin from Italy devised a piece called No Man 's Land , described by Mascherin as ‘ an empty space , without border , beyond quiet ’ , based on work done with objects . |
| 9 | As more and more land was planted with cash crops , the lack of pasture became a serious problem in many districts . |
| 10 | At home , the sombre and all-too-present reality of capitalism sinking deeper and deeper into crisis ; on the horizon , the gleaming and distant image of communism constructing a new world , a new man , a new life . |
| 11 | But it clearly is much more difficult and heroic for any group of people who are on the front line of discrimination to adopt a nuanced reading of racism 's multiple forms than for those who are or want to be distanced from its processes and effects . |
| 12 | Here was the infinite region where powers of Chaos achieved a twisted consciousness and a purpose anathema to all that was real and true . |
| 13 | Out of chaos emerged a self-created god , Atum , who was all or nothing , who was the original sun god of Heliopolis and later deemed to be the creative aspect of Re . |
| 14 | Another distant roll of thunder added a bass note to the orchestrated shrillness of the tropical night , and Devraux lifted his head for a second to listen . |
| 15 | This reliance on the compulsive power of oratory started a rhetorical tradition which in the long run weakened liberalism ; rhetoric is unsuitable to the politics of interest and easily becomes the property of extremists . |
| 16 | The once proud members of the Auguste Didier School of Cuisine looked a doleful group as they followed Auguste . |
| 17 | The men threw up their arms every time they shouted , and gradually what began as a confusion of noise became a solid roar of acclamation . |
| 18 | Thus , allocation of function requires a continuous juggling of functional , mechanistic and behavioural approaches . |
| 19 | These buildings were of a later date than the Manor house , being built of brick surrounding a large quadrangle . |
| 20 | It may be the result of inability to maintain a constant frequency of electrical control activity and this may be due to the effects of muscle disease on groups of muscle cells producing populations with altered frequencies . |
| 21 | The sea shone , the waves sparkled , and a Royal Navy frigate steamed slowly up and down , sent by the Ministry of Defence to deter a seaborne landing on the part of the boyos of the Provisional IRA . |
| 22 | This latter type of description specifies a typical role which a character plays in a scene , but the term role will be reserved for the role-filler notion discussed already , to avoid confusion . |
| 23 | The lessons to be learned from Ichthus are manifold : they have a very clear philosophy of ministry involving a threefold emphasis on mission , fellowship and training . |
| 24 | But the stumbling block to abattoir approval by the US Department of Agriculture remained a major barrier , according to trade sources . |
| 25 | However , the Ministry of Agriculture reported a similar level of ruthenium in a soil sample taken in 1987 , apparently without any comment being raised at the time . |
| 26 | The River Solway Purification Board and the Ministry of Agriculture conducted a ten-year study into Galloway 's declining fish stocks in the 1970s . |
| 27 | The Monopolies and Mergers Commission did not allow the 1986 bid to proceed and rejected GEC 's claims arguing that : ‘ We do not consider that it is possible in the field of electronics to establish a direct link between company size and competitive performance ’ . |
| 28 | The ideal of self-government has a special aspect that integrity promotes directly , and noticing this will lead us into our main discussion of legitimacy and political obligation . |
| 29 | Whereas the holders of the former view of physics made a strong distinction between arts and science , the holders of the latter view saw affinity between arts and science . |
| 30 | Each type of wave attracted a different noun , and the nouns incorporated adjectives , verbs , whole narratives . |