Example sentences of "[verb] a [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a considerable number of textbooks which provide a run-through of positivist research findings and theories and it is not the intention to attempt yet another one here . |
| 2 | What we 're going to do for them is certainly provide a free of charge product , it 's the numbers |
| 3 | President Bush proposed a near-doubling of federal spending on airport expansion over the next five years — but would pay the bill with a controversial departures tax . |
| 4 | You dive down a side street where you have spied a festoon of pretty cotton squares , and there , under gaudy painted colonnades , lilac and orange , cinnamon and lemon and rose , in patterns more typical of Marseille or the Levant than of Cavaillon , the retail market stalls are already doing business . |
| 5 | Firstly , the antecedent factor may be a direct cause of childhood psychiatric disturbance which has a continuous of intermittent course into adulthood . |
| 6 | At the moment the academy has a nearmonopoly of the subject , and I would like to see it broken , in a recognition of the traditional cultural truth that good criticism can be written by poets and novelists , and indeed by people whose professional concern is not with literature at all . |
| 7 | The theory for an incompressible solid assumes a functional of the deformation gradients ( Where , compare Equation ( 2.14 ) and the right Cauchy-Green tensor , is given by and , because of incompressibility det ) . |
| 8 | It 's only within the last couple of year , and then oh no you can nae do a certain of the er it was actually our vice president at the started the campaign over in Fife , and they won through . |
| 9 | The sharks seemed less intimidating , so I gulped a lung-full of air and flapped like crazy in an effort to regain my position at the bottom of the tank , clutching my hair-brush and trying to control miles of floating red chiffon . |
| 10 | Consider a parallelepiped of length x o and cross-sectional area . |
| 11 | After listening to my heart and extracting a syringe-full of blood from an artery , they connected my right arm to the drip-feed . |
| 12 | Oh no they came over to er they just came over to see us well see us see a certain of new arrival . |
| 13 | Anyway , er so I thought for a , I 've had a large of the press today which is , it 's a very tense case indeed . |
| 14 | Then he struck up an acquaintance with Cassowary , and began to puff out his chest and give a beak-full of cheek to everyone he met ; even to wise old Owl himself ! |
| 15 | Though the technique employed in The Dear Deceit represents a laying-bare of traditional narrative devices without offering an alternative approach , it sets the stage for the more radical break with the conventions of realism which Brooke-Rose 's fiction demonstrated four years later . |
| 16 | And we got a full of chocolates and sweets and by the time we put their sweets on the top as well , there 'll be lots and lots by for Christmas . |
| 17 | In this case only south-west , west and northwest winds would be onshore , so that it would be better to derive a resultant of onshore winds from section ABCD of Fig. 8.24A . |
| 18 | has never hidden the fact that he is a rich man — his collection of aircraft is of a calibre that requires a hanger-full of money as well as vision and skill . |
| 19 | She takes a skirt-full of windfall lemons . |
| 20 | In this he described how , by splitting a parallelepiped of calcite spar along its shorter diagonal , and then cementing the halves together with Canada balsam ( having a refractive index intermediate between those of the doubly refracting calcite spar ) , he was able to separate the two emergent beams so widely that they could be used independently . |
| 21 | Or should it remain a neutral research instrument , and not become a Weltanschuung of an anti-religious kind ? |
| 22 | Well it so happens that I did intend you to do a paramount of talking this afternoon , so it 's quite convenient in a way that we are being recorded . |
| 23 | Most of the contending candidates for the presidential nomination and 18 of the 30 state governors indicated that they were prepared to support a limited delay in the establishment of a civilian adminstration in order to ensure a smooth of handover of power . |
| 24 | I would guess that he has one of our Plan Three policies , which does actually have a limited of fifty pounds on the erm head gasket and three hundred pounds on the engine . |
| 25 | If you use a lost of white in your underpainting you would therefore be well advised to use a white which is bound in linseed oil . |
| 26 | If you use a lost of white in your underpainting you would therefore be well advised to use a white which is bound in linseed oil . |
| 27 | Rapid changes in the pattern of demand for labour ( across regions or industries ) can also leave a residual of ‘ structural ’ unemployment in a context of intense labour shortage . |
| 28 | Next we did a door-to-door of the whole area . |
| 29 | Meanwhile the I R A have admitted a serious of attacks on so-called soft targets in Britain , including yesterday 's shooting of an army sergeant outside a careers office in north London . |
| 30 | but it just does n't want to get too soft because that old hill you know it it does get a big of a drag . |