Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | His classification into personal and projected play represents a hierarchy of abstraction ; dramatic activities using oneself as the medium of expression standing at a lower level on the table of abstraction than dramatic activities using media other than oneself . |
| 2 | Nearly all these individuals are fully competent native speakers of British English , so they do not actually require Creole for strictly communicative purposes ; for them , Creole fulfils a number of other roles mostly related to its symbolic significance as a marker of black identity . |
| 3 | The technique involves a network of irrigation pipes running from the store to a point on the headland . |
| 4 | In procedural terms , therefore , the life sentence involves a transfer of function : normally it is the judge who determines the sentence ( or at least its upper limit , since earlier release on parole may be possible ) , whereas a life sentence entrusts that function to the executive , who must first ascertain the opinions of the Lord Chief Justice and the trial judge . |
| 5 | In keeping with a dominant impulse within inter-war English studies , he concludes that " Literature constitutes a body of knowledge to be studied in and for itself without regard to any educational value it may have … [ since ] its being is its own justification . " |
| 6 | By transferring the means of production to state ownership , nationalisation represents a broadening of the scope of economic calculation beyond the limited horizon of private profit . |
| 7 | Even this morning I 've had to sell a first-rate Hockney print for £6,500 , which cost £5,540 seven years ago , which with the cost of money represents a loss of about £5,000 . ’ |
| 8 | Before leaving his desk the computer supplies a printout of each location to be visited showing the individual name , job title , man number , depot number , hourly/weekly/monthly paid , age , birth date , service , joining date , marital status , salary or wage , total numbers by payroll and average salary or wage . |
| 9 | Each Faculty makes a substantial contribution to the field of adult and continuing education , in which the University offers a range of part-time degree , diploma and postgraduate courses together with a comprehensive programme of short courses . |
| 10 | The University offers a programme of high-level courses in the area of accounting and related studies . |
| 11 | The University offers a programme of high-level training courses in Hotel and Catering Management ( or Hospitality Management as this vocationally important area is increasingly known ) . |
| 12 | Because the GPC route imposes a stage of processing between the visual analysis and the lexicon , it is necessarily slower in use than the direct lexical route . |
| 13 | Each of the other fundamental rights reveals an aspect of the value of private autonomy , whereas , in contrast , a right to enforce a contract involves an assertion of the justice of commandeering state power to curtail economic liberty and restrict autonomy . |
| 14 | The North West represents a microcosm of many of the present opportunities and problems for public passenger transport in Great Britain . |
| 15 | The criteria for selection for reporting are that the case involves an issue of legal principle and contributes to the orderly development of the law . |
| 16 | Communicating involves a variety of complex behaviours which are difficult to categorise . |
| 17 | The course involves a range of physically challenging activities including a gruelling assault In a follow-up programme they go potholing , canoeing and parachute jumping . |
| 18 | Chair work of this kind involves a lot of compound shaping to make the chair really comfortable and supportive and five a refined appearance . |
| 19 | In the late spring , the colourful male builds a nest of seaweed and entices a ripe female to lay her eggs in it . |
| 20 | It is symbolic that a Babylonian text records a payment of oil to Jehoiakin , the son of the king of Judah , and to seven Greek carpenters who worked for the Babylonian court ( Ancient Near Eastern Texts , 2 ed. , p. 308 ) . |
| 21 | So solving the difficulty involves a combination of understanding with memorisation of particular examples . |
| 22 | As Jane Feuer points out , camp involves a kind of sensibility in which ‘ blank mimicry and a critical edge may coexist ’ , and thereby resembles that form of postmodern parody which Linda Hutcheon defines as a ‘ repetition with critical distance that allows ironic signalling of difference at the very heart of similarity ’ . |
| 23 | The opposite condition is shown by the hamadryas baboon : the male enforces a direction of march through biting the necks of recalcitrant females until they follow him . |
| 24 | The theory of ideology offers an account of the role of knowledge in society that enables its analyses to operate as critique . |
| 25 | Any change involves a mixture of gain and loss , loss and gain . |
| 26 | Bristol & West offers a range of insurance services , many specially negotiated and not available elsewhere . |
| 27 | A NEW mortgage deal from Bristol & West offers a rate of 8.5% reducing to 6.5% by April 1994 . |
| 28 | Preparation of an internal control questionnaire in which the auditor devises a series of questions to assess the strengths and weaknesses of a system and to test whether an objective of control is capable of being met by the system . |
| 29 | The technique has a host of medical and industrial applications , because bacteria can not colonise a protein-free surface . |
| 30 | Trial work suggests that the technique has a number of advantages over other forms of injection . |