Example sentences of "of [pos pn] [noun] [to-vb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not part of my plan to make a detour via Chastlecombe , but since you wo n't talk to me on the phone I did n't have much choice . |
| 2 | A month ago my bank informed me that it had been obliged to arrest £250 of my money to satisfy a court order obtained by sheriff officers . |
| 3 | Or did you pretend not to read it because of my invitation to make a real life together ? |
| 4 | As part of my training to become a breastfeeding counsellor I recently attended a Study Day on weaning , organized by NCT Rugby branch . |
| 5 | I promised Claudia that my desperate need for a child was a magical , elemental desire , a sunny , smiling commitment to placing myself in time , a responsible appreciation of the ultimate inevitable selflessness of being alive , and acknowledgement of my need to escape a sorry hedonism , a way to face up to the past and accept the future . |
| 6 | Christine takes her appearance very seriously : ‘ It 's part of my job to look a notch up , a bit glam . |
| 7 | Daphne : " I would be scared out of my wits to have a giraffe — it 's a wild animal and far too big for our garden ! " |
| 8 | Sociologists who lend their names or their work to a particular social policy are engaging in a political act ; they can not escape by saying that the use of their work to justify a particular social policy ( even if they did not advocate that policy ) is not their concern . |
| 9 | In March 1958 , after seven years of marriage , the Shah and Queen Soraya were divorced , largely because of their inability to have a child together . |
| 10 | Some people may wish to try their luck in using part of the capital value of their benefits to finance a business venture . |
| 11 | It gives a clear and very welcome signal to all the people in Northern Ireland of their determination to find a political solution . |
| 12 | BRICKS AND MORTGAGES Homebuyers should make the most of their freedom to tailor a mortgage to suit their needs |
| 13 | It 's all part of their efforts to build a better and more rewarding career for themselves . |
| 14 | These are remarkably tough ; for instance , the recorder manufacturers must demonstrate the ability of their products to withstand a temperature of 1100°C for thirty minutes and a dynamic load of 1000 g for five milliseconds . |
| 15 | On 4 December , several hundred students at Fang 's university in Hefei held a demonstration as part of their campaign to organise a boycott of the campus canteens . |
| 16 | In 1797 the young Poles of Danzig did stage a street demonstration , but that was the limit of their effort to revive the Polish state , and the limit of their willingness to parade a Polish identity . |
| 17 | Linked to the mobility allowance is a voluntary organization called Motability , which helps disabled people make the best use of their allowance to acquire a private car by leasing on hire purchase . |
| 18 | This was the most sensational bit of news of all and the entire class jumped up out of their seats to have a really good look . |
| 19 | On Wednesday we were notified by representatives of the Princess Royal of their intention to issue a statement denying the quotes attributed to her . |
| 20 | The effect of the proposed addition to Article 93 would be to require the Company to include in the Notice of the Annual General Meeting , free of charge , any notification made by shareholders of their intention to propose a person for election as a Director , provided it is received not less than 70 days before the meeting . |
| 21 | COHSE members coming out on strike because of their refusal to take a little boy into the theatre for an operation , pin-ups being removed from the Yorkshire miners ' newspaper , painkillers being laced with poison in the US , John Nott walking out on Robin Day in front of the TV cameras , Helmut Kohl taking over from ( crash ) Helmut Schmidt and public service pay rises being kept down to 3 ½ per cent , every single event being , in some eyes , a disaster . |
| 22 | They had trampled down the rye ahead of their line to make a killing ground some sixty yards deep and , judging by the sound of their musketry , the Dutch-Belgian skirmishers were fighting with a brisk energy . |
| 23 | Although ApC may be a potential cleavage site on account of its structure , the asymmetric drug molecule will always bind so as to cleave the opposing ( GT ) strand by virtue of its ability to form a hydrogen bond with guanine . |
| 24 | We saw in Section II that shape-perception is not needed for the recognition of object-identity , so that if we were to attribute identity-perception to a creature ( perhaps because of its ability to follow a moving target ) we would not thereby be justified in attributing shape-perception also . |
| 25 | At a more general level , however , artists embraced Marxism because of its ability to offer a total world-view , an intellectually palatable explanation for underdevelopment and social injustice , a Utopian ( and historically determined ) solution and a programme for immediate political action in which intellectuals were called upon to play a role . |
| 26 | AT ITS MEETING on 2 April , 1883 , the French Academy announced the result of its competition to solve a problem in the theory of numbers . |
| 27 | The Queen of the Night has knowledge of her domain , but her knowledge has been built up by allowing the quality of the dark to touch her , and the nature of its creatures to awaken a response in her own being . |
| 28 | If the ubiquitous black bin liner is to provide the covering , a decorative option is to cut a pattern out of its centre to suit a contrasting overlay . |
| 29 | Despite disclaimers which recommended submission to great works , the professional study of English came to transcend even the literary masterpieces themselves by virtue of its capacity to offer a complete and final assessment and achieve the kind of complete historical understanding unavailable to the historical actors themselves . |
| 30 | BGS has been working on this problem for many years , and this year enlarged the scope of its studies to include a site where such a solvent had been detected in a production borehole . |