Example sentences of "[adv prt] of an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Government spokesmen had indicated on June 11 a willingness to consider one of the protestors ' later demands , namely the opening up of an independent television station . |
| 32 | Voice of Palestine radio reported on Jan. 21 that the PDR 's objectives included " the right to self-determination and the setting up of an independent state led by the PLO " . |
| 33 | While clearly pointing out that these moves do not ensure women 's rights , and that the struggle for women 's liberation will carry on long after the setting up of an independent Palestinian state , Women 's Committees are encouraged by these developments and determined to learn from the mistakes made by women involved in other national liberation struggles , for example , in Algeria , where gains made were lost after the revolution . |
| 34 | The royal couple 's individual humanity , rather than their status , has made most impact ; Charles 's unflagging curiosity , reports of Diana shaking hands with a leper in Indonesia , her instinctive picking up of an old woman 's dropped walking-stick . |
| 35 | ( b ) in requiring the measurement or weighing up of an historical problem . |
| 36 | The Great Western Weekend will be made up of an intensive service using 5029 , the railway 's own resident ex-GW ‘ Odney Manor , ’ and another visitor , 2-8-0T 5220 from the Great Central Railway . |
| 37 | Hitler 's extraordinary popular standing , built up in the peacetime years on the foundations of his perceived personal achievement in overcoming economic and political crisis , ridding Germany of unemployment , and making the nation great again through an astonishing series of diplomatic coups , was maintained in the first phase of the war ; it was then even further elevated through the scarcely conceivable run of military victories attained with minimal loss and sacrifice and , not least , through the prospect he continued to hold up of an imminent glorious end to the war . |
| 38 | The establishment of the Enterprise Staff Development Programme ; the setting up of an Academic Link scheme ; the ‘ piloting ’ of ‘ Live Projects ’ ; a ‘ pilot ’ Student Tutoring scheme ; enterprise studentships ; the formation of a network of Enterprise Co-ordinators are a few ‘ highlights ’ of what has been a busy programme of work for the year 1992/1993 . |
| 39 | A report on Estonian Radio on April 27 said that Veering and Puura had been given the responsibility of expediting the setting up of an Estonian Defence Ministry . |
| 40 | Support for the organisation 's super-priorities of multilingualism and multiculturalism was reiterated and this was particularly reflected in the approval of the setting up of an Asian Language Program — and , equally important , according it the appropriate budgetary priority . |
| 41 | The group was made up of an educational psychologist , a psychiatric social worker , an educational welfare worker and myself . |
| 42 | In this case , however , it may be that present sea level coincides with an older sea level to so close a degree that the erosion platform merely represents the trimming up of an earlier one . |
| 43 | The problem is that we as a nation continue to expect a clinical quart out of an economic pint . |
| 44 | ‘ My colleagues and I will be very interested , ’ he said sourly , ‘ to know what kind of propaganda that red magazine you work for can make out of an international survey of prospective parents . ’ |
| 45 | This uncompromising line by the main resistance groups implies that the USSR would need to maintain a political and military commitment to any Afghan regime which includes a PDPA component and emerges out of an international settlement . |
| 46 | GOALKEEPER Stephen Pears goes into hospital tomorrow for an operation on a cheekbone injury that has ruled him out of an international debut next week . |
| 47 | The city 's many chimney pots offer themselves in silhouette against the mildly energised off-black glow , but they neither smoke nor steam while God , lit with 25 watts , claws desperately to glance even faintly out of an over-high stained glass church windowledge . |
| 48 | Bhabha writes of how Fanon ‘ speaks most effectively from the uncertain interstices of historical change : from the area of ambivalence between race and sexuality , out of an unresolved contradiction between culture and class ; from deep within the struggle of psychic representation and social reality ’ ( foreword to Fanon , Black Skin , White Masks , p. ix ) . |
| 49 | This planet inflates anything it touches so , on the one hand it will make you even more seeringly aware of the flaws in a relationship and , on the other , it will bring the great and good out of an appropriate union . |
| 50 | To have tried to help Jacqui in the matter of the photographs was illogical , but at least generous , getting her out of an awkward situation . |
| 51 | It makes me wonder just how long it 's been going on , or if it was merely a way to get Calder out of an awkward situation . ’ |
| 52 | A son of Green Desert , Magic Ring is out of an Empery mare and there are indications that he will stay a mile despite the amazing speed he displayed as a juvenile . |
| 53 | And today Robin Cook pledged that Labour would try to fund the post out of an extra £1 billion it says it will spend on the NHS . |
| 54 | As the sampling proceeds , therefore , a continual shuffling of proposed sample members into and out of an auxiliary subfile is required , a procedure ideally suited to the computer . |
| 55 | Simenon never grew out of an adolescent attraction to crime , and he provides the reader with a vicarious opportunity to share his inverted moral code within the safe confines of a novel . |
| 56 | It seems to me the only people who do persist in that phase and make something tenable out of an unsatisfied , unsettled life , are rock musicians , and rock critics . |
| 57 | The Group said that a further 20,000 died as a result of their internment out of an overall total of 150,000 NKVD prisoners . |
| 58 | The European Community was born out of an unswerving determination that the countries which had fought each other in two terrible wars during this century should never be at war again . |
| 59 | In the opinion of many Bohm had jumped out of an indeterminate frying pan into a crackling non-local fire . |
| 60 | Some 5000 out of an estimated 20 000 tonnes of waste ‘ disappears ’ every year . |