Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a massive concerto in four movements rather than the usual three — the addition of a scherzo emphasises that the work has the characteristics of both a concerto and a symphony . |
| 2 | Equally , the human considerations of where a settlement is placed in a region are as important as the physical characteristics of the landscape which must be allowed for . |
| 3 | In so doing , we shall begin to understand the difference between the two views of how a market economy works . |
| 4 | Watson 's remark in a BBC Radio 4 interview reiterated his views of almost a decade earlier . |
| 5 | It happens that what we 've done is we 've taken it and hung it on the starlight , the magic of starlight — how wonderful it is , how much you can tell from just looking at a star through a telescope and measuring the light that comes out of it , and this takes us into realms of why a star shines ; what do you mean by time when you go back millions of years into the universe lifetime ; what do you mean , why do stars shine with different colours . |
| 6 | Although many people possess the psychotic traits we have been discussing , only a few will show the signs of even a borderline disorder and still fewer will develop a full-blown psychotic illness . |
| 7 | For the more serious , a twin-sailed transporter had already been devised that was capable of taking loads of around a kilo ( 2.21 b ) . |
| 8 | There is a tendency of course for some old people to expect to have long telephone calls of even an hour or more with their |
| 9 | A method which you may prefer is to pre-record your commentary section-by-section onto a sound tape ; this tape is not cued , and the sections follow each other with gaps of only a second or so between them . |
| 10 | Actual quantities , which exceed internal expectations of only a month ago , boil down to between 100,000 and 200,000 units a quarter , which in turn means that by the end of the current quarter Sun expects to be able to fill all the back orders it has for Model 41 Sparcstation 10s plus the orders it receives in the intervening weeks . |
| 11 | Actual quantities , which exceed internal expectations of only a month ago , boil down to between 100,000 and 200,000 units a quarter which in turn means that by the end of the current quarter Sun expects to be able to fill all the back orders it has for Model 41 Sparcstation 10s plus the orders they get in the intervening weeks . |
| 12 | The analytical core which Keynes shared with Pigou did not extend to their respective prognoses of how an economy responds to excess supply in the labour market . |
| 13 | The truss rod nut would also be extremely awkward to adjust in any kind of a hurry , but considering some players ' sketchy ideas of how a truss rod works , perhaps that 's no bad thing . |
| 14 | Those who come to it fresh , without preconceived ideas of how a spreadsheet works , will find it a dream . |
| 15 | writes from : THE funerals of both a soldier blown up in Ulster and a young mother murdered on Wimbledon Common were marked by the same poem : |
| 16 | A supervisor can tap such first-hand knowledge without wasting time studying Ordnance Survey maps or other records , while the competent field man is in a position to handle a problem immediately in an emergency without having to research the questions of where a pollution may have come from , where it will go , or what damage it might do . |
| 17 | With the development of end-user computing even the questions of how a manifestation of the data was made and why become different kinds of questions . |
| 18 | Brought up in the outskirts of the city , his grandparents had often told him stories of how a bocor could trap your soul through your shadow . |
| 19 | The reason behind this two-stage approach is that it is often very difficult for the viewers of the demonstration to understand the principles of how a product works while at the same time watching it work . |
| 20 | Within private care where the element of choice might have been thought to be an advantage it was found that a third of residents did not choose , and for 22 per cent the unsolicited efforts of either a relative , the general practitioner or a social worker led to their admission ( Weaver et al . , |
| 21 | None of these new and developing areas of study was without its problems , and the committees and boards had to be constantly confronting difficulties of either a general and continuing or a highly specific kind . |
| 22 | The book costs £10 and gives details of how a UK scientist can find a research post in Japan . |
| 23 | Their former Serbian neighbours of just a week ago have also left , streaming in the opposite direction across the Drina into Serbia . |
| 24 | On election of Benchers , my proposal of direct election by Inn members of even a minimum of new Benchers per year has been unanimously rejected by all Inns . |
| 25 | Not particularly tough , I ventured , when last year in court cases arising from pollution at ICI sites on the Tees and Mersey , guilty verdicts led to fines of only a couple of thousand pounds in each case : ICI could find that from petty cash . |
| 26 | Here are three examples of how a change of thinking can save you from making high scores . |
| 27 | The only serious flaw is his use of BASIC to provide examples of how a programming language works . |
| 28 | For an instance where one of the parties did object to the principle , see Chelsea Man plc v Vivat Holdings plc ( 1989 ) unreported , Court of Appeal , 24 August discussed at 13.8.2 : and for two examples of how an expert dealt with points of law , see 13.8.3 . |
| 29 | An additional and severe problem is that the volumes of data which are already collected are huge by the standards of only a decade ago . |
| 30 | Every Saturday morning at Willesden Green Library Centre at 11.00 there is a performance for children of either a theatre show or a film . |