Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [vb base] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a volte-face that makes Germaine Greer 's change of heart look like a tiny emotional trifle , the former feminists ' champion has switched from the red corner to the blue corner without a blush in the process . |
| 2 | X-rays of wavelength impinge on a crystal at an angle of incidence 8 . |
| 3 | Three additional sources of opportunity exist outside a company in its social and intellectual environment : |
| 4 | Four such areas of opportunity exist within a company or industry : |
| 5 | There 's enough explosive power in a really big display to make the twenty kegs of powder Guy Fawkes planted below the Houses of Parliament look like a damp roman candle . |
| 6 | It might be argued that in such situations it is the only course of action open to a man and that he would be at fault if he acted differently . |
| 7 | The negative criticisms of Communist strategy and conduct are largely valid , though implicit in them is — or ought to be — an even greater criticism of the Anglo-French policies that deprived the Republic of aid save from a Soviet regime whose diplomatic overtures the British and French governments spurned . |
| 8 | A famous sailing ship has been damaged within hours of setting sail after a complete refit . |
| 9 | The charges of rape relate to a time two years before that , when he held a similar position at a childrens home in Norfolk , run by Norfolk County Council . |
| 10 | Even the tail is carefully protected , fitting snugly into a deep groove on the animal 's rump , where two sheets of armour meet in a vertical cleft . |
| 11 | But will an obligation of confidence attach to a computer hacker ? |
| 12 | Erm there is a further implication in this conception , and again I quote whosoever therefore out of a state of nature unite into a community must be understood to give up all the power necessary to the ends for which they unite into a society to the majority of the community unless they expressly agreed in any number greater than the majority and this is done where are we by barely agreeing to unite into one political society which is all the compact that is or needs to be between the individuals that enter into or make up a commonwealth . |
| 13 | Banks ' daily holdings of cash fluctuate as a result of transactions between the government and the public ; bank cash held by the discount houses is used to smooth out these fluctuations . |
| 14 | Because the laws of war derive to a large extent from standards which have developed within states , and because they have always depended for their enforcement largely on national legal systems , court decisions have been a very important source of the laws of war . |
| 15 | As a result , genes underwriting the avoidance of incest remain at a high level in the population . |
| 16 | Many situations of stress feel like a tangled knot of coloured threads — the more you pull at it the worse it gets . |
| 17 | The Act also contains guidance for the courts as to the factors which they should take into account in deciding whether any of the statutory exceptions to the presumption in favour of bail apply in a particular case . |
| 18 | It 's the time when the final pellets of vanity accumulate into a cyst , when the self starts up its last pathetic murmur of ‘ Remember me , remember me … ‘ ; it 's the time when the autobiographies get written , the last boasts are made , and the memories which no one else 's brain still holds are written down with a false idea of value . |
| 19 | Many women have benefited from mifepristone 's availability in France — but even there , not all women want it : according to a spokesman for the makers , about a third in need of abortion opt for a swift operation . |
| 20 | In another move which shows that the board intends to live up to the word ‘ control ’ in its title , it sent a message to the Dominion Theatre in Tottenham Court Road , where Frank Bruno is playing in Aladdin , to the effect that Bruno will not be able to rub his genie 's lamp and in a puff of smoke reappear in a world title fight . |
| 21 | Figure 8.11 shows that , apart from London , the different types of authority spend at a very similar level on books and equipment in special schools , but that in both primary and secondary schools , metropolitan districts spend on average less on books and equipment per child than the shire counties . |
| 22 | For example , the commodity trades which generate a high percentage of charter party bills of lading rely on a ‘ Master 's ’ bill of lading . |
| 23 | The belt and sandals were fashionably ethnic — the sort of accessories that were made of buffalo hide by a little man in Kabul . |
| 24 | The principles of normalisation relate to a style of living towards which people with learning difficulties and their supporters can aspire . |
| 25 | Although the two systems of government differ in a number of key respects , sufficient similarities exist to suggest that further work would be justified . |
| 26 | As this is likely to be the last Scottish Question Time before the general election , will the Secretary of State indulge in a deathbed conversion and recognise the frustrations and hopes of the Scottish people about the present constitutional set-up ? |
| 27 | Given the Government 's stress on education selectivity and exclusivity in the national curriculum and in the league tests , did the Secretary of State insist on a special emphasis on educational special needs when he commissioned his report into primary education last week ? |
| 28 | Will the Secretary of State respond to a question that I have put several times since the Select Committee on Science and Technology in another place produced its recommendations for the Government ? |
| 29 | Will the Secretary of State think for a moment about the effects of NHS trusts on the low-paid hospital staff , who are just as essential as medical staff in the running of the hospital ? |
| 30 | The problem of induction can not be regarded as a decisive refutation because , as I have previously mentioned , most other philosophies of science suffer from a similar difficulty . |