Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are living in a remarkable time , when the conflict of opinions renders a firm foundation of knowledge indispensable … |
| 2 | In the end , wherever NIREX held ‘ consultation ’ meetings , its teams of experts met a frosty reception . |
| 3 | You can see that there are plenty of reasons to maintain a reasonable level of exercise . |
| 4 | Indeed a recent collection of essays shows a remarkable convergence of opinion among contributors supporting the propositions that Max Weber himself had an eminently post-Enlightenment and ‘ post-metanarrative ’ idea of modernity ( Whimster and Lash 1987 ) . |
| 5 | The next most difficult aspects to understand about Chinese herbal medicine are the rationales for using specific parts of plants and the mixing of herbs to prepare a particular formulation . |
| 6 | The 1982 Local Government Finance Act abolished the right of authorities to set a supplementary rate and the 1984 Rates Act empowered the government to limit the spending and rates of centrally defined overspending authorities . |
| 7 | Some strains of nematodes have a high propensity for arrested development while in others this is low . |
| 8 | They may also partly explain the limited success of attempts to induce a full programme of T-cell development using either monolayer cultures of a single thymic stromal cell type , or cocktails of cytokines . |
| 9 | A series of attempts to form a new coalition government had failed , and on 5 May President Coty sent a message to de Gaulle , asking whether he would be willing to enter into negotiations to form a government . |
| 10 | Furthermore , in the case of the Netherlands , von Beyme ( 1980 ) sees the tendency towards decentralisation in the early 1970s as a reaction to the failure of attempts to promote a central incomes policy — which had been pursued more strongly than in other countries . |
| 11 | However , it is not very satisfactory from the point of view of attempts to construct a complete theory because it does not make any predictions of the values of the finite remainders left after making infinite subtractions . |
| 12 | This level of divergence is compatible with the results of attempts to identify a living mammal that is comparable to the mammalian common ancestor . |
| 13 | Perhaps one reason for the paucity of attempts to offer a direct critique of the " aims of English " , is the tendency within the discipline to avoid overt and detailed manifestos or statements of aims and objects upon which such critiques might be based . |
| 14 | We may even suggest that the theory of contracts presents an ideal terrain for an examination of these fundamental issues of political philosophy , for the law of contract lies at the intersection of the market and the state , using the coercive power of the latter to reinforce the discipline of the former . |
| 15 | Given that individual autonomy comprises a fundamental tenet for liberalism , legal enforcement of contracts demands a careful justification , for legal sanctions inevitably place fetters upon a person 's freedom of action . |
| 16 | In an effort to stabilize the economy and foster growth , the House of Deputies approved an urgent government bill on March 27 , making the austral freely convertible against the US dollar . |
| 17 | Inside , the entrance hall was designed like a grand salon of a Renaissance palace , highly decorated , with Corinthian pilasters rising to a series of cornices surrounding a painted ceiling . |
| 18 | There are many modern examples of artists taking a nonchalent attitude to their own work . |
| 19 | The outward characteristics of religions have an inner meaning which brings them from their very separate and distinct starting-points towards an appreciation of the Mystery at the heart of religion where paradoxically the distinctions merge . |
| 20 | Database systems employing symbolic keys for identification of objects have an inherent advantage over less conceptual approaches in handling text whose content is continuously changing . |
| 21 | Meanwhile , a wide variety of courts administered a wide variety of laws all over western Europe ; and if one asked a man in any part of Europe to whose law he was subject , he might well have answered ‘ to my law ’ — for law was a personal thing , which a man might carry about with him ; it bound him to the courts to which his ancestors had been subject , to the laws of those courts , and gave him the privileges which those courts provided . |
| 22 | This study showed that all nuclei in the upper one third of crypts have a diploid DNA content in both FAP cases and SCRC cases . |
| 23 | Each pair of houses shared a front door , staircase and a passageway which led to the small rear yard . |
| 24 | In this field the LANDSAT series of satellites provides an enormous amount of data ( Harris , 1979 ) . |
| 25 | The reports of healing and of materialisations reflect a marked similarity to Biblical miracles . |
| 26 | In June 1991 a determined group of cyclists converted a muddy quagmire into an all-weather cycle/pedestrian path . |
| 27 | For example , the well-established tradition of ‘ community studies ’ , which involves a researcher or a team of researchers using a wide variety of methods to study a whole community , has been producing work in both Britain and the USA almost continuously since the 1920s . |
| 28 | Three quarters of the way round the circuit I was surprised to find a small Party of Germans erecting a barbed wire barricade across the path . |
| 29 | In another respect , the desire to focus on the physical experience of labourers raises a deeper issue . |
| 30 | Twenty nine per cent of cases had a mixed infection , and chronic diarrhoea was more frequent in these patients . |