Example sentences of "[det] [adv] [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.

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1 Children with special needs have long been welcomed into playgroups or mother and toddler groups but members have tended to worry on two counts — first , that only a minority of families with children with special needs were finding their way to playgroup , and second that the playgroup was not fully able to meet the children 's needs .
2 Alice stood marvelling at this thought : that only a couple of days ago Mary Williams had seemed to hold her own fate Alice 's — in her hands ; and now Alice had difficulty in even remembering her status .
3 After that only a matter of confidence .
4 Each side claims to want mutual disarmament most of all , and claims , furthermore , that only the aggressiveness of the other side prevents this .
5 It is claimed , however , that only the female of the species is fertilized .
6 It was argued earlier that only the use of higher level knowledge will enable any additional success .
7 Is this merely a definition of the limits of a gratuitous promise ( as in Thomas v Thomas , infra ) or is it an offer to contract , the consideration being P's forbearance from marriage ?
8 Nor is this only a question of a difference between writing and speech , as might at first appear .
9 Nor is this necessarily a model of steady decline .
10 Or is this perhaps a product of the over-excited brain of a middle-aged and somewhat disparaged poet , when he finds that his ignored , his arcane , his deviously perspicuous meanings , which he thought not meanings , since no one appeared able to understand them , had after all one clear-eyed and amused reader and judge ?
11 Is this not a form of stereotyping at least as damaging as racist and sexist attitudes ?
12 Unfortunately , the print echo is only active whilst the CLI indicator is present , so this not a lot of use to us !
13 Why is this not an explanation of the lunar crust being thicker on one side than on the other ?
14 The testimony of a witness in a case tried at Matara early in the nineteenth century illustrates the lack of plausibility of much court testimony : ‘ I saw the two prisoners drive a head of cattle — It was in the high road — It was about two hours before dark — We asked them where are you going with the animal — Is this not the animal of the schoolmaster .
15 Is this just a case of too much sun ? ’
16 Is this just a way of expressing friendliness ?
17 ‘ Ratners thought this through a couple of years ago and then found itself locked into the game of pushing price to keep volumes moving and everything was put on the back burner , ’ says Richards .
18 He followed this up a couple of years later with Sophie 's Choice opposite Meryl Streep .
19 Perhaps he thought that a man , or more than one man , was trying to hurt or kill his mother , and perhaps he thought this nearly every night of his life .
20 There was a commitment to the maintenance of full employment , with the Keynesian doctrine that budgetary management could achieve this now a matter of economic orthodoxy .
21 Is this now the age of ‘ lies , damn lies and journalism ’ ?
22 Is this really the intention of the UN sanctions and , if so , what is the reasoning of it ?
23 Have the political and creative aspirations of the sector been abandoned in the climate of new realism ’ , or is this simply the beginning of a new phase ?
24 Is this how the head of the security police was passing his time ?
25 Wait , I 've got an instant who 's taking part in the conversations and you could type in the first names of those people and then again you 'll get back some why the use of the first name .
26 Is n't that exactly the kind of question lovers ask each other all the time ?
27 Er my Noble my Right Honourable Friend did take account of that and he did agree that hereafter the appointment of the Chairman should not be an appointment made by the Home Secretary , but that shou he should be one made by the full authority and that has I 'm glad to say met with with approval .
28 It 's probably , maybe member 's ignorance that they do n't know that , that already a lot of work has been done on it .
29 is that an Orkney way of doing it or is that just a sort of male thing ?
30 Is that just the name of the vaccine ?
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