Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | See if we got that bottle of whisky got a bottle of Bells . |
| 2 | The game could also provide links to the new topic by various levels of play providing a variety of challenges . |
| 3 | Parties for the Warwickshire team at Cranmer 's Saltdean bungalow on one of the evenings after the close of play became a tradition . |
| 4 | Rules of play became a priority and the pit on the 3rd in front of the tee was temporarily classed as a hazard , the player having to drop and lose distance . |
| 5 | The process of assessment incorporates a number of key elements and involves the assessors ( including users and carers ) in bringing to bear a wide range of observational , communication , interpersonal , cognitive , and analytic skills . |
| 6 | These examples of assessment illustrate a variety of purposes , including : |
| 7 | The introduction of the national curriculum and new modes of assessment provide a context for the study . |
| 8 | The Fijian traditional communal system of livelihood has a tendency to restrict initiative for commercial expansion and development so that there is a need to modify commercial values to meet with the demands of modern commercialism , This , in a nutshell , is what the Yalavou project sets out 10 do . |
| 9 | However , it is well recognised by conservationists that the modern pace and scale of change poses a threat which is quite unprecendented . |
| 10 | The Lord of Change cast a bolt of magical power . |
| 11 | ( There is no doubt that a good head of hair gives a man a wholly unjustified appearance of moral authority , witness Supreme Court judges and senators . ) |
| 12 | On the one hand , we have examples of speakers self-quoting , where the act of quoting activates a switch back to the code of the original utterance . |
| 13 | Again , management promises of payment secured a return to work . |
| 14 | The spread of Communism presented a threat to the Second and Third Pillars , but was making no impact upon the British political system . |
| 15 | In one way these three decades of horror provide a parable of how we try to explain evil in humanity . |
| 16 | If that happens , you may wish to exercise the rights that Parliament has granted to victims of discrimination to make a complaint to an industrial tribunal . |
| 17 | She was admitted for mobilisation , but tests requested the next morning on samples taken on the evening of admission showed a serum glucose concentration of 56.1 mmol/l . |
| 18 | This has been a very busy year and the committee has been lucky with the commitment of its Vice Chairmen and members who of necessity reflect a microcosm of the Bar from the young criminal practitioner to the experienced commercial silk . |
| 19 | Example 2:6 Right of way : unlimited times and vehicles The right in common with the landlord and all others having the like right to pass and repass ( but not to park or except in emergency to stop ) with or without vehicles at all times and for all purposes connected with the use of the demised property ( but not otherwise ) over the road coloured on the attached plan Example 2:7 Right of way : limited times and vehicles ; right to load , etc The right in common with the landlord and all others having the like right to pass and repass on foot and with vehicles not exceeding … feet in length or … tonnes ( unladen weight ) at any time between 6 am on Monday and 8 pm on Friday in each week ( except public holidays ) for all purposes connected with the use of the demised property ( but not otherwise ) over the road coloured on the attached plan and to park any such vehicle for such period as may be reasonable for the purpose only of loading or unloading it Example 2:8 Right of way : right to load etc in loading bay The right at all times with or without vehicles to pass and repass over the road leading from to the demised property ( but not to halt or park any vehicle thereon except in case of emergency ) for all purposes connected with the use of the demised property and the right for the same purposes to use the loading bay coloured on the attached plan for loading and unloading any such vehicle ( b ) Stairs and passages In a lease of property on an upper floor of a building there will be implied an easement of necessity to use a staircase that is its sole means of access ( Altmann v Boatman ( 1963 ) 186 EG 109 ) . |
| 20 | A spelling corrector must of necessity use a lexicon . |
| 21 | The fact that small groups tend of necessity to comprise a membership of close kin favours the occurrence of kin selection and hence a high probability that cooperative behaviour will evolve . |
| 22 | P.P. What sort of noise does a donkey make ? |
| 23 | P.P. What sort of noise does a lion make ? |
| 24 | The daughters of the night , they were Clotho , who spun the thread of life ; Lachesis , who would often add that little touch of luck to change a person 's destiny ; and Atropos , The Unchangeable , who used her ‘ abhorred shears ’ to cut the thread of life at death . |
| 25 | In both projective and reactive uses , however , the infinitive expresses an actualized contingent event and the impression of contingency implies a reference to a position in time when the infinitive 's event was not a reality ( i.e. before its actualization ) , so that the term " reactive " is no more appropriate here than in the canonical uses of the " infinitive of reaction " as a description of the meaning of the to infinitive . |
| 26 | The judge said : ‘ The law needs evidence of inability to control a car . |
| 27 | while the Ministry of Defence deployed a speech-synthesiser called Ian McDonald to give the British public all the news fit to print , all of which appeared to be found fit several days after it happened . |
| 28 | The Ministry of Defence maintains a policy of not confirming whether weapons transporters are loaded with warheads when they make their regular trips through Glasgow . |
| 29 | In the meantime , Nimbus is taking advantage of the ‘ mix ‘ n match ’ features of Mbus to create a demonstration card bearing the 40MHz Cypress Sparc chip Sun uses to power its Galaxy machines as its single CPU , though it is aimed at multi-processors eventually . |
| 30 | It is high time that there was a public inquiry into the matter and that the Minister of Agriculture made a statement at the Dispatch Box . |