Example sentences of "[adj] of a [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Grants and parental contributions would be frozen at 1990 levels and loans would eventually form half of a student 's maintenance award . |
| 2 | Problems of sexual intercourse are as interactive at an unconscious level as some of a couple 's intercourse out of bed . |
| 3 | It is possible that some of a company 's shareholders will have interests , for example , as employees or customers , that are distinct from their investment interest in the business . |
| 4 | IN this chapter we are concerned with a group of torts the function of which is to protect some of a person 's intangible interests — those which may loosely be called his business interests — from unlawful interference . |
| 5 | Some of a horse 's physical needs can also dramatically influence its temperament ; this is especially true with feed . |
| 6 | This occurs , following the Formalist principle of defamiliarization , when existing linguistic or literary practice ( a ‘ norm ’ ) is violated at one level or another of a text 's structure , which then itself becomes dominant . |
| 7 | Advances ( loans ) : Advances are among the least liquid of a bank 's assets , yet they are the most profitable . |
| 8 | Onlookers paying £40 a head might have disagreed , for though the clothes were gorgeous and the models undeniably pretty , the atmosphere was more like that of a girls ' boarding school than an haute couture show . |
| 9 | Stella Fearnley replies : In response to Richard Harwood 's comments , I feel I should point out that my article did not imply that the only perception of district societies is that of a practitioners ' club , and that this perception emerged from market research carried out among our members last year , not from my own opinions . |
| 10 | Measurement of intelligence , relative to that of a pupil 's contemporaries , promised the fairest and the simplest and ( apparently ) the most appropriate means for effecting selection of this kind . |
| 11 | Later that day , and with a good half-inch of our respective hair on the floor of a Soho salon , we hit the black suede pump shop , where I was noiselessly relieved of a week 's rehearsal pay on a pair of boots the same as the ones which fell apart in three months last time and a pair of the suede pumps ( ‘ EVERYBODY 'S wearing them ! ’ ) which , one week later , were flat and circular like dinghies . |
| 12 | Well that is typical of a man int it ? |
| 13 | If pub owners were prepared to emphasise the interest of genuine historic features , regardless of period , then this type of fakery , which disappoints or sadly deceives the customer in search of the traditional pub and irreparably removes much of a building 's interest for future generations , could be avoided . |
| 14 | Much of a dolphin 's life revolves around finding and eating food , and it has evolved a highly developed jaw and sonar system to serve its feeding requirements . |
| 15 | Because much of a dolphin 's life is spent beyond the range of human observation , such basic characteristics as reproductive rates and life expectancy are much harder to measure than with birds and land mammals . |
| 16 | Witness could not say how much of a man 's time this might occupy per day . |
| 17 | Sinclair and Coulthard ( 1975 ) show that much of a child 's experience of language in the classroom , in terms of teacher-pupil exchanges , is marked by a pattern of Initiation — Response — Feedback . |
| 18 | Most of what is known about social development is based on the study of encounters between a child and one other person , yet much of a child 's life takes place in groups of more than two persons — within the family , the neighbourhood peer groups , the pre-school group , and so on . |
| 19 | One of the problems of deciding how much of a person 's temperament is inherited is due to the fact that babies are usually brought up in an environment of both parents , or at least more than on individual , and that they take a while to grow and show many personality characteristics . |
| 20 | It 's too much of a journey ai n't it , they do quite an amount there I think still |
| 21 | In the future much of a computer 's Supervisor may be in microcode : see for example the microprogrammed operating system functions on the experimental VENUS System ( Liskov 1972 ) . |
| 22 | Further , he claims , much of a lawyer 's competence comes from general rather than specifically legal knowledge , and from his interpersonal skills . |
| 23 | ‘ Parents control so much of a 14-year-old 's life , the computer gives the child the opportunity to take control for himself . ’ |
| 24 | It is even plausible to suppose that having to depend excessively on prediction from prior context may take up so much of a reader 's cognitive resources that more wide-ranging comprehension is blocked ( Stanovich , 1980 ) . |
| 25 | I explained to them that when you begin to acquire so much of a nation 's wealth , then you can not escape attention . |
| 26 | He always forgets that , with the Inland Revenue , we are considering how much of a citizen 's money should be handed over to the state , whereas in matters relating to benefits we are considering how the taxpayer 's money is handed out on our behalf . |
| 27 | She points out that much of a woman 's life is based on a spontaneity of moral response that many philosophers , in particular Hegel and Kant , would say had no moral worth ( McMillan , 1982 ) . |
| 28 | Even when all students were required to read for a degree and the certificate course was phased out , the debate — how much of a teacher 's training should be practical and school based , how much purely academic — continued . |
| 29 | Much of a manager 's use of statistics is to demonstrate to others that there is a definite pattern and hence an important message inherent in the data . |
| 30 | Much of a manager 's success depends on maintaining a reservoir of goodwill , on minimizing a reliance on authority and unilateral decisions . |