Example sentences of "[adj] [det] a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , few would argue that this has a determining influence on the size of the public sector or that such a diversity of actors can he described as a single ‘ elite ’ Rather , authors such as the US Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental relations and Rose and Peters in Britain tend to stress the plurality of causes of growth in public expenditure . |
| 2 | Bourdieu argues , however , that such a state of affairs would tend , not to impede , but to promote ‘ scientific progress ’ . |
| 3 | Commenting on a considerable drop in sales at a book fair , one experienced bookman wrote about these travel books : ‘ That such a range of books which I find boring beyond belief — I prefer to call them non-books — was due for a shake-out , appeared inevitable to me . ’ |
| 4 | We have argued throughout that such a formulation of the problem is inappropriate , for it leads to a reification of human qualities for the purposes of comparison . |
| 5 | We saw earlier that such a relationship of passive dependency on a parental power perceived as essentially paternal might account for the undoubted paranoid elements which emerge along with the megalomania of the divine monarchs — itself the paranoid equivalent of depressive mania . |
| 6 | It now houses nearly three million volumes and each year an additional half a mile of shelving is needed . |
| 7 | We went through all this a couple of years ago with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles toys and at first I thought Matchbox must be deliberately creating a shortage to whip up demand . |
| 8 | The thing that annoyed him most was that this was all such a waste of time when there was work to do . |
| 9 | So all these a lot of these firms are not up to the job why do why do n't you sack them people are not up to the job why do n't they get sacked ? |
| 10 | As that that would make all all a lot of crimes stop . |
| 11 | We have seen that the Stonors and their associates served together on the Commission of the Peace , and the records of proceedings before the justices of the peace , although few in number , show how important such a group of local men was , acting along with one or two professional lawyers . |
| 12 | Just as I am drawing his attention to the point and beginning what I know will be a long and wearying discussion , Mirsal , who has been fighting the cabman about his fare outside , appears and lets loose such a torrent of thumbnail word portraits of the clerk 's family that , used as I am to his powers in this respect , I am struck dumb with admiration . |
| 13 | The presence of such an electorally viable ‘ anti-system ’ or ‘ architectonic ’ party ( Robertson , 1976 ) , led by an elite which intends to use its electoral victory to force through revolutionary changes against opposition , is always likely to generate unconstitutional counter-revolutionary behaviour amongst incumbent elites the more probable such a period of transition seems to become . |
| 14 | Lucas argues that rational expectations implies that just such a dependence of the structure of many macroeconomic models on the policy regime is likely to exist , and that existing estimated macroeconomic models are likely to be quite misleading . |
| 15 | The Divisional Court , presided over by the Lord Chief Justice , Lord Parker , emphasized that there had to be a ‘ real possibility ’ of a breach of the peace , but went on to find that just such a situation of menace existed here : eighteen people ‘ milling about ’ when there were only eight people in the works created a ‘ real danger of something more than mere picketing ’ . |
| 16 | By 1356 such a way of approaching the problem had clearly failed . |