Example sentences of "[adv] of a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Evidence in favour of this interpretation of the phrase ‘ the physical environment ’ is found in DoE Circular 55/77 ( now withdrawn ) which made it clear that a statement of pollution policy could appropriately form part of a structure plan , albeit necessarily of a general nature since they are policies stated by an authority ( county council ) responsible neither for air pollution control nor for most development control . |
| 2 | Indeed , if we were able to give a more definite connotation to the concepts of ‘ masculine ’ and ‘ feminine ’ , it would even be possible to maintain the libido is invariably and necessarily of a masculine nature , whether it occurs in men or in women . |
| 3 | Viewing the accounts of parish overseers with their detailed entries of small payments for a range of needs , some historians have found it possible to write approvingly of a Poor Law which was sensitive to local needs and did not deal in bread alone . |
| 4 | He underlines Nithard 's insistence on what nowadays might be called line-management : he reveals that a manager 's problem in the Carolingian palace was the maintenance of good order and morale among the often unruly yet indispensable " crowd " of young noblemen who were deployed on a variety of tasks and errands , especially of a military sort . |
| 5 | This sacrifice was made in order to bring out their relevance for government intervention , especially of a fiscal form , and the public choice perspective . |
| 6 | Domestication or controlled breeding of hitherto wild animals for their products has been commercially successful : witness such ventures as fur ranches for silver fox , mink , and chinchilla An unusual and profitable business in Thailand is exporting 2000 skins annually of a hybrid crocodile ( Crocoytus porosus X C. palustris ) . |
| 7 | Let us suppose that a person well acquainted with the woollen trade sets himself to inquire what would be the normal supply price of a certain number of millions of yards annually of a particular kind of cloth . |
| 8 | The Tarsus consists primitively of a single segment , a feature which is present in the Protura , Diplura and in some larvae . |
| 9 | Lydia , herself an inveterate explorer , was now aware that her three years in Java had been quite enough of an inner workout , and she returned to Europe to comb the Mediterranean for a solitary place to centre herself . |
| 10 | However , the essential feature of structured techniques is the breaking down of a complex problem into smaller manageable units in a systematic ( disciplined ) way . |
| 11 | All training in kung fu begins with the laying down of a solid foundation . |
| 12 | but the melt down of a cast-iron relationship |
| 13 | Continuing anti-US feeling in Iran and the associated strength of the radical Islamic political forces resulted from the US refusal to make a more comprehensive effort to compensate Iran for the shooting down of an Iranian airbus in the Gulf by the USS Vincennes warship in July 1988 [ see pp. 36169-70 ] , and from the fact that it continued to hold , according to official Iranian estimates , some $12,000 million in assets frozen since the 1979 Iranian revolution [ for agreement in November 1989 to release assets see p. 37053 ] . |
| 14 | ( One widely held theory was that Iran had paid Jabril US$1,000,000 to blow up PA 103 in retaliation for the July 1988 shooting down of an Iranian airbus by the USS Vincennes [ see pp. 36169-70 ] ] ) . |
| 15 | The Government gave the go-ahead despite last week 's shooting down of an Italian relief plane . |
| 16 | Professor Ivan Smith was prompted to make his accident findings public after the recent shooting down of an Italian plane over Bosnia . |
| 17 | A symbol perhaps of a manufactured city … but the Milton Keynesians , if you can call them that , say life here could n't be better . |
| 18 | ‘ Perhaps of a broken heart . |
| 19 | There will be occasions , though , when you will need to produce the best-looking pictures that you possibly can — perhaps of an important family event . |
| 20 | However , a group of assessors under the President of Ukraine and President Kravchuk himself are obviously of a different opinion ; they are credited with the authorship of the agreement . |
| 21 | ‘ Them upstairs ’ were obviously of an inferior race , and their habits were disgusting , Rose said . |
| 22 | Regardless of a critical report it had itself commissioned , the World Bank has decided for the time being to continue financing the Sardar Sarovar dam and canal project on the Narmada river in India . |
| 23 | Norway announced it would resume commercial whaling regardless of an international ban . |
| 24 | Mothers who dreamed fondly of a white wedding , a handsome bridegroom and grandchildren soon on the scene , may find that their daughter is planning to marry a man her father 's age , who has an ex-wife and some teenage children of his own . |
| 25 | That is not so of a different kind of pride , which is currently thwarting the pursuit of those very goals . |
| 26 | He is not a flamboyant man , nor is he much of a social butterfly except by comparison with the rest of his senior colleagues who tend to keep to their own counsel and lives in Barnes . |
| 27 | It was nearly eight o'clock of a sunny evening , still light , as light as afternoon , but cool as early June often is . |
| 28 | Whatever the outcome of the Higginson Committee 's inquiry may be , if we are to see a radical improvement in secondary education , we must learn to think not merely of a new form of examination ( and therefore presumably a novel kind of syllabus that will lead to it ) but of a wholly new approach to those studies that we wish to retain in the sixth forms at school , and how these studies are to relate to the pupils ' next step , when they leave school . |
| 29 | Three years after the Hague summit the Community seemed on the brink , not merely of a major enlargement , but of a leap towards full economic union . |
| 30 | If more education raises the productivity not merely of an individual worker but of all other workers with whom this worker co-operates , there is a production externality that the individual does not take into account in choosing how much education to purchase . |