Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [noun sg] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Part of the system of plea bargaining involves a discount for an early plea of guilty , if prosecution costs and time are saved . |
| 2 | It is a lot easier these days , so make up a little cocktail of compatible systemic insecticide and fungicide , plus a drip or two of washing-up detergent to achieve a good wetting , in a small bowl , and swish the two leaves of each cutting in the solution so that they get a good wetting and protective coating . |
| 3 | Add to this the price of rinse aid ( between £1.29 and £3.50 for 500 ml ) and salt ( about £1.40 for 3 kg of supermarket own brand ) , and a litre of washing-up liquid seems a bargain . |
| 4 | If you favoured sweating it out , you sat around on tiered benches and chatted with your friends until you started dissolving into steam , and then got yourself scraped down by a slave with a sort of sickle thing called a strigil , and massaged , and oiled and perfumed , or if you were a real fanatic you probably went straight from the hot room to take a cold plunge , like sauna addicts rolling in the snow . |
| 5 | It takes some time for a breach of contract claim to reach a trial . |
| 6 | Intervening between these two levels of representation are three others , so the whole process of sentence construction involves a sequence of five different levels of representation . |
| 7 | A standard term of GIT insurance requires a haulier to confirm to his insurance company that he has notified all his customers of the conditions of carriage , |
| 8 | Although the mechanism of calcium entry remains a matter for debate , what is not in doubt is that elevated levels of InsP 3 , perhaps acting together with InsP 4 , can maintain a constant influx of calcium . |
| 9 | Accordingly the process of curriculum development involved a team of ‘ experts ’ at the ‘ centre ’ providing the knowledge base for an innovation , then producing an appropriate content and strategy , and finally communicating it effectively to potential users at the periphery . |
| 10 | Negative movements of base level have a much more profound effect on the relief than the positive movements . |
| 11 | In such cramped surroundings , the gentleman himself seemed out of scale , for he was a large man , with a large head ; a frill of silver hair surrounded a shining bald pate , beneath which was a large pink face , buttressed by several chins . |
| 12 | The mass of silver hair framed a perfectly formed face , though the lips seemed thinner , the eyes above the high cheek bones cold and unsmiling . |
| 13 | Readership duplication and the extremes of circulation size add a surprising twist to these class divisions . |
| 14 | This was determined by automated analysis in the Department of Chemical Pathology using a SMAC machine . |
| 15 | This ingenious arrangement has two advantages : it scents the house with an acrid , invigorating smell of frying cloth recalling a tailor shop in the Bronx , and it permits me to tend two kerosene burners , a Franklin stove , and a fireplace . |
| 16 | The business of export credit deserves a book of its own and many good ones are available . |
| 17 | There can , however , be significant psychological effects of cocaine use causing a psychosis with acute mental instability and there can be marked psychological effects of acute withdrawal . |
| 18 | We will encourage efforts to improve the co-ordination and promote the growth of local volunteer support , building on the success of Neighbourhood Watch to develop a network of voluntary help in local communities . |
| 19 | Could it be that the bureaucrats of primate research saw a way to parlay an admission of poor husbandry into a public relations campaign for the primate centres ? |
| 20 | Could it be that the bureaucrats of primate research saw a way to parley an admission of poor husbandry into a public campaign for the primate centres ? |
| 21 | Mr Heseltine , its chief architect , was one of the first to dump it , especially when he fought the proposal of Consortium Development to build a town whose name was as instant an invention as its community would have been : Stone Bassett , like Consortium 's Tillingham Hall before it , was turned down by Mr Ridley , who was not the permissive planning minister he was often thought to be . |
| 22 | Executive Business Club [ EBC ] broadcasts one hour of management training programming a week , 50 weeks a year , via BBC Select , the subscription television service . |
| 23 | Whether the witless yobs breaking into the centre and attempting to destroy a little bit of village life understand a word is of course extremely doubtful . |
| 24 | This delay was based on our serum curves after single doses and on the studies of scintigraphic images of tablet disintegration showing a correlation with serum blood levels of 5-ASA . |
| 25 | Should n't the removal of Stamp Duty become a permanent feature ? |
| 26 | The early fakers of marble statuary used a variety of treatments to tone down the too obvious freshly carved surfaces , ranging from cold tea to the more sophisticated repeated acid bath treatments used by more recent fakers . |
| 27 | Most specifically , which types of specialist focus demand a particular team structure ; which alternatives can function on both an individual and on a team basis ? |
| 28 | The study is based on the hypothesis that basic research is increasingly important in technological innovation and that analysis of publication output provides a viable means of studying corporate basic research activities . |
| 29 | In its first year of publication Kwetu had a circulation of one thousand , rising to three thousand by the early 1940s . |
| 30 | Obviously the lenient system of law enforcement constitutes a kind of opportunity structure denied to those subjected to higher rates of prosecution and the imposition of severe sanctions . |