Example sentences of "of [noun] and [vb -s] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It certainly demonstrates the power of conjugation and provides a definite guide for further puzzles of this type . |
| 2 | This shows Stukeley 's keen topographical eye and fanciful imagination , but whilst the St. Peter 's area is one of the oldest places of settlement and has a regularised street pattern , like the rest of the town it does not predate the ninth century . |
| 3 | In the late spring , the colourful male builds a nest of seaweed and entices a ripe female to lay her eggs in it . |
| 4 | This thirst is a form of enthusiasm and implies a desire to discover all secrets , to become immersed in all things , and never to stop learning . |
| 5 | But his programmatic statement also lays the foundation for a critical theory of ideology and suggests a relevance for the critique of ideology that is absent in Marx 's own work . |
| 6 | Pavlovo is about 300 miles east of Moscow and has a history of metal craft . |
| 7 | BSL involves simplification of terminology and has a different grammatical construction to spoken English . |
| 8 | One set has a length of 75mm and gives a medium cut , and the second a length of 100mm , and gives a coarse cut . |
| 9 | The American firm accounts for some 60 per cent of the world 's annual sales of computers and has a turnover around $30000 million . |
| 10 | Eddy dangles a very tempting adulterous carrot in front of Richard and suggests a convivial evening of wife swapping . |
| 11 | Tel. ( 0622 688292 ) offers free advice and help on any aspects of cremation and publishes a leaflet , What you should know about cremations , which explains what happens at the crematorium on the day of the funeral . |
| 12 | It is approached by a flight of steps and has a high podium . |
| 13 | It shows Christianity beside the most primitive of humanity and slashes a raw strength into the London lounge . |
| 14 | This procedure provides the best preservation of cells and penetration of antibodies and induces a minimum of reorganization of intracellular proteins during extraction of the fixed cells ( 46 ) . |
| 15 | ( c ) Examination of deeds and requisitions A reminder , in appropriate cases , to examine and mark your abstract of title against the deeds in the case of an unregistered title . |
| 16 | This definition emphasises the concept of marketing and expresses a philosophical approach to marketing activities . |
| 17 | This induces a feeling of helplessness and engenders a belief in hidden explanations and conspiracy theories . |
| 18 | The second , fully-fledged ‘ class consciousness ’ or ‘ radical value system ’ , locates the cause of social ills in the dominance of capitalism and prefigures a new post-revolutionary society where working class interests will be universalized . |
| 19 | The measure of life events used was one which had been developed by Brown over a number of years and represents a major methodological improvement over previous approaches . |
| 20 | The national umbrella organisation for these local and regional groups is 81 ACTION which was formed during 1986 , has an agreed set of aims and publishes a newsletter . |
| 21 | It wallows in the worst excesses of sentimentality and adopts a moral tone that condemns and condones misbehaviour in the same breath . |
| 22 | This , however , has been felt to be rather ironical since , although he is critical of idealism and maintains a formal commitment to empirical rationalism , it is Hobhouse who in fact calls for the greater degree of state intervention . |
| 23 | If you do , you must ensure that your target version has its own method of development and maintains a sense of continuity in its own right . |
| 24 | 22 And in his review of O'Keeffe 's 1924 show , critic Virgil Barker had maintained that O'Keeffe 's emotions were balanced by her intellect : ‘ Miss O'Keeffe 's pictures embody intelligent passionateness. ’ 23 But from the beginning , most critics had responded to her art ( and continued to do so ) primarily in agreement with the position maintained by the Stieglitz circle , a position restated without equivocation by Rosenfeld in 1924 , when he wrote that O'Keeffe was ‘ one who shows no traces of intellectualisation and has a mind born of profoundest feeling . ’ |
| 25 | Helmut 's problems were compounded by an unsatisfactory relationship with his landlady who ‘ is just on eighty years of age and has a large house to keep clean with no help whatever ’ . |
| 26 | He looks about twenty one years of age and wears a mid-blue suit above a cream fly-fronted shirt . |
| 27 | It is made of iron and features a concave depression in the middle of the blade . |
| 28 | Rebleeding during a course of endoscopic sclerotherapy treatment occurs in 23%-55% of patients and remains a significant cause of death in the cirrhotic patient . |
| 29 | Ben Loyal dominates the Kyle of Tongue and holds a magnetic attraction for many hillwalkers . |
| 30 | Laing could have added that it is also now a company that employs tens of thousands of people and produces a phenomenal amount of food snacks . |