Example sentences of "of [verb] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His tale ( Off Piste ) of salvaging a dismal winter season with a superb day in April will arouse the jealousy of many a jaded ice-man of late . |
| 2 | The glaring difficulties of attaching an imagistic label to minimalist/formal of conceptual artists such as Serra , Anselmo , Sonnier , Nauman , Morris and Long are ignored . |
| 3 | Kenneth Baker echoed the views of most MPs in a Commons debate in 1990 : ‘ If the concept of British justice is to mean anything , we must retain the possibility of rectifying a mistaken verdict . |
| 4 | Tact is the skill of handling a difficult person or situation without giving offence . |
| 5 | Thus instead of articulating a justificatory art , he chooses to question the myth of art itself . ’ |
| 6 | For them there is a needless , lifelong fear of encountering a strange cat , a fear that sometimes ends with them refusing to go out of doors at all . |
| 7 | The government accused Escobar of masterminding a double car bombing in Bogota on Monday which killed four people and injured dozens more . |
| 8 | Although all this was entertainingly unpleasant , in Bira the most genuine threat to our lives came disguised in the quietest way , when we broke the cardinal rule of touching an unidentified creature . |
| 9 | The development of chaffinch song is most obviously classified as non-associative learning , because the bird learns its song by comparing it with a template rather than because of any consequence of singing a better chaffinch song . |
| 10 | But why should any western power go to the trouble of administering a third world country when these can simply be milked dry ? |
| 11 | Once the land had been expropriated , it was to be turned into cooperatives but , because the government felt it would be difficult for peasants , who had had no previous experience of administering a large farm , to move straight to a cooperative , there was an intermediary stage . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , he was discharged at the preliminary inquiry on charges of administering a noxious substance , namely semen , and committing a common nuisance . |
| 13 | ( The offence would be one of administering a noxious thing with intent to injure or annoy contrary to s.24 of the OAPA . ) |
| 14 | There are also problems with this definition of " inflict " in s.20 with regard to s.23 of the same Act , which creates the offence of administering a noxious thing " … so as thereby to inflict … any grievous bodily harm … |
| 15 | As we have seen ( Chapter 3 ) , Cunningham [ 1957 ] 2 QB 396 held that on a charge of administering a noxious thing under s.23 of the OAPA recklessness was defined as : did the accused himself foresee the consequence ? |
| 16 | ‘ They do not have the responsibility of administering a cash-starved council . ’ |
| 17 | Accordingly every politician was confronted with the sometimes unpleasant duty of suggesting a suitable replacement for a deceased minister after a delicate balancing of the claims of potential candidates . |
| 18 | So set yourself the task of suggesting a simple argument or answer and then you can try to make out a case for it . |
| 19 | Instead of using a fixed percentage , Cubbin and Leech argue that a shareholder or group of shareholders can be regarded as having control where it is likely that they would win a contested vote , but that this can be determined only by examining the degree of dispersal of shareholdings within the individual company concerned . |
| 20 | So that 's one one benefit of using a visual aid is to is to put a point over er much more quickly . |
| 21 | Instead of using a facial oil you might prefer to ‘ doctor ’ an unperfumed face cream or lotion ( preferably a ‘ natural ’ product ) with the appropriate oils for your skin type . |
| 22 | Her idea of using a private pool had become a compulsion . |
| 23 | An interesting little problem often occurs in the early days of using a new program — fumble fingers . |
| 24 | In this study we have taken advantage of using a complete modification system , the X.laevis oocyte , being aware of the fact that yeast tRNA in this heterologous system will get a modification pattern that reflects the properties of the X.laevis modification enzymes . |
| 25 | Quite apart from the habit of medieval monarchs of using a restricted number of names ( e.g. , Edward in England or Alfonso in Spain ) , it was not unusual for ‘ posthumous ’ coinages to be made in the name of a previous king . |
| 26 | For both traumatised hair and hair in good condition , get into the habit of using a wide tooth comb with rounded tips or a good quality brush . |
| 27 | Graduations on the side of the cylinder show him exactly how much chemical has been sucked out , and there is none of the fuss of using a measuring jug . |
| 28 | It was a case of using a magnifying glass and working it out from there.We asked experts for advice , but they did n't agree . |
| 29 | The sponsor of the project must evaluate offers and calculate the total cost of using a selected finance package and compare it with the cost of other sources of finance . |
| 30 | Do n't be afraid of using a code-driven package if this provides the fine control you need . |