Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | In discussions with the child it is often possible to plan a course of work to meet the individual 's needs so that the learning process is negotiated rather than dictated . |
| 2 | On making enquiries , it seems that there are no records of an earlier gallery here , but it is pleasant to see a reminder of bygone days amongst the new shops in the restoration of this attractive yard . |
| 3 | They 're grateful to see a lot of the ‘ deadwood at the top ’ removed , ticking off long-time retainers like the number two guy Jack Smith , senior vice president of operations , once considered a possible Olsen successor , Jay Atlas , vice president for US channels and Don Zereski , once US area vice president . |
| 4 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that to sustain a plea of autrefois convict a defendant had to prove not only that he had already been found guilty of the offence charged by a court of competent jurisdiction , either by the decision of the court or verdict of the jury or entry of his own plea of guilty , but also that the court had finally disposed of the case by passing sentence or making some other order ; that since the proceedings on the first indictment had been discontinued before sentence had been passed there had been no final adjudication and the defendant had properly been convicted on the second indictment ; but that , in all the circumstances , particularly having regard to the lapse of time between trial and determination of the appeal to the Judicial Committee , it would be appropriate for the death sentence to be commuted ( post , pp. 931D–E , 935H ) . |
| 5 | In addition it should be possible to conduct a survey of the surrounding sea bed to prospect for wreckage or other surviving finds . |
| 6 | The Zoo is unique amongst British zoos because of its hilltop setting , and is one of the most beautifully situated in the whole of Europe , where it is possible to see a variety of birds , animals and reptiles , in their natural settings . |
| 7 | And from its summit it is entirely possible to see a stretch of water which — whether to a sixteenth-century viewer innocent of the details of geography , or to a well-versed wanderer five centuries later — could only be an ocean . |
| 8 | It is possible to obtain a kind of flow chart automatically as it were by using successive photographs of operator positions on the same photographic plate . |
| 9 | It was therefore very refreshing to find a group of general practitioners meeting with managers and spelling out precisely what they wanted and , through the contracting process , beginning to see the possibility of achieving it . |
| 10 | Fourth , using this information , it should be possible to establish a sequence of intermediate teaching objectives . |
| 11 | … Whether , as a matter of expression , you say , as was said in the case of Watson v. Fram Reinforced Concrete Co . Ltd. , that this is to be explained by postulating a continuing duty , or merely projecting the relationship of duty into the future , or whether you regard it as possible to establish a breach of duty as at birth by reference to an act antecedent to the accrual of the cause of action , may be open to debate , but it has no bearing on the precise question we are called upon to answer , namely , whether the defendant owed a duty of care to the infant plaintiff . |
| 12 | It was , therefore , refreshing to discover a nest of technological progressives , all claiming allegiance to the international Labour movement , gathered together at the General Municipal and Boilermakers ' Union ( GMB ) national training school in Manchester the other week . |
| 13 | Then , scientists were to puncture them in the leg with a large hypodermic to extract a sample of muscle tissue . |
| 14 | For situations when all other attempts to suggest a word have failed , it would be preferable to provide a string of characters which is in some way a best guess , even if that string is not a word known to the lexicon . |
| 15 | One female mates with several males , leaving each to incubate a clutch of her eggs and raise the chicks . |
| 16 | A preferred bidder will emerge from this stage and it is normal to grant a period of exclusivity during which due diligence procedures can be carried out . |
| 17 | If a new demand is short-lived , it may be possible to find a way of meeting it without any overall loss of performance . |
| 18 | If it is not possible to find a relationship of this sort , some other method of assigning addresses to keys has to be found . |
| 19 | 12 When you are in the country look for a rotting log or branch-even in the town , it is often possible to find a piece of rotting timber . |
| 20 | it should also be possible to discover a number of laws which can be used to assist parallelism introduction , for example by making a sequential program more amenable to it , or speeding up the behaviour of a parallel network . |
| 21 | It is entertaining to see a group of loushe Parisian types forming a street band or filling in for cabaret . |
| 22 | It was one thing to agree that this was desirable , another to agree a measure of need . |
| 23 | She was n't afraid to wear a pair of glasses . |
| 24 | A sudden dedication to a foreign influence like Hegel or Derrida , brief but intense , is about the only thing there is that can cause the British to lose a sense of humour or a sense of proportion , and during the first London production of Waiting for Godot in 1955 I was reproached by strangers seated around me for laughing , though I still think it a funny play . |
| 25 | It would be wrong to paint a portrait of Macari as an incompetent gambler , or a hopeless loser ; by all accounts his gambling in the Swindon area was relatively successful , but Lucky Lou 's golden touch deserted him when he joined West Ham . |
| 26 | It follows from this that the institutions must be willing to risk a proportion of their investment on the basis of the business plan presented to them by management , and because of their view of the management team . |
| 27 | The announcement came as State President F. W. de Klerk was hinting that he was prepared to reintroduce a state of emergency , lifted in part in June 1990 [ see p. 37522 ] . |
| 28 | It may be inferred from what the judge said on a later occasion that counsel indicated that the Crown was prepared to accept a plea of guilty to manslaughter and the judge did not dissent from that course . |
| 29 | They also came , if you insisted and were prepared to accept a measure of mild public humiliation , in plastic and plain paper . |
| 30 | Thirdly there have been studies of geomorphological processes affected by human activity and particularly important stimuli were produced by Wolman ( 1967a ) who suggested the way in which sediment yield varied at the present time between urban and non-urban areas and extended this to provide a model of change of sediment yield in the northeast of the USA since 1700 , and also by Douglas ( 1969 ) . |