Example sentences of "of a [noun] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 8 ) Rights of control must be exercised in good faith and the oppression of a minority is unacceptable . |
| 2 | The sources of a convention are open-ended and diverse . |
| 3 | The performance of a skill is dependent on practising it and so a pupil 's success will be crucially dependent on how recently it has been practised . |
| 4 | There is , of course , absolutely no doubt that even when only a facsimile of a document is available a professional historian or amateur specialist can gain a great deal from its perusal ; much more so when there is the opportunity to examine the original itself . |
| 5 | The Copyright , Designs and Patents Act 1988 expressly recognizes that works produced by or with the aid of a computer are worthy of copyright protection . |
| 6 | Head as chief teacher , believing , and demonstrating , that the teaching function of a school is pre-eminent and that the head must play the leading part , by action and example , in advancing it . |
| 7 | As has already been suggested , the management of a school is concerned primarily with the development of its pupils . |
| 8 | The studies using arousing stimuli with many components and exploring memory for different aspects of the stimuli separately ( e.g. Christianson & Loftus , 1987 , 1991 ; Christianson et al. , 1991 ; Heuer & Reisberg , 1990 ) have the additional problem of deciding a priori which aspects of a stimulus are central and which are peripheral . |
| 9 | Besides , Mr Ramaphosa 's claim that the negotiations would otherwise have been on the threshold of a breakthrough is questionable . |
| 10 | Is n't it also about the hypocris , hypocrisy of a society that 's saying that one kind of a drug is okay , and another sort of a drug is n't okay ? |
| 11 | The effects of a drug are dependent upon the relationship of three factors — the pharmacological properties of the drug , the mental state of the drug user , and the setting in which the drug is taken . |
| 12 | Rumours of a punch-up were rife . |
| 13 | The basic principle of a budget is straightforward it 's to forecast your forecast your expend expenses so they can make plans for the future . |
| 14 | The absence of a throng is incidental . |
| 15 | In AD 685 St Cuthbert perambulated ‘ illis murum civitatis ’ and also saw a fountain working , implying that there was still a functioning aqueduct ; whether he was looking at the walls of a genuine town or of a fort is arguable . |
| 16 | Vagueness was resorted to by the judge in Jenkins v Reid in order to explain why a reformulation of a clause was unacceptable and in Gledhow Autoparts Ltd v Delaney [ 1965 ] 1 WLR 1366 Dankwerts LJ criticised the phrase " districts in which the traveller had operated " as being too vague especially as instructions given as to where he should work were purely oral . |
| 17 | 1 The form of the agreement The form of a restraint is irrelevant . |
| 18 | Sometimes people assume that the meaning of a pronoun is clear when it is not . |
| 19 | These are but a few of the principal sources of authoritative information that AIB look to when their own knowledge of a subject is insufficient to resolve the problem at hand . |
| 20 | Although the IAAF do have a three-month ban for minor offences like using ephedrine , manipulation of a test is equivalent to a fully-fledged steroid offence — a point Mr Emig twice missed during the proceedings . |
| 21 | Fundamental to the proper design of a test is clear definition of the objectives of the test . |
| 22 | However , where a term of a contract is unclear , is capable of having more than one meaning , or is specific to a particular trade or market , there is considerable scope for looking at the factual background or " matrix " known to the parties , in order to clarify how it should be applied . |
| 23 | The purported withdrawal of a resignation is ineffective as the resignation is final when received by the proper officer of the authority or the chairman as the case may be . |
| 24 | This is a derivation of the formal systems model , and is used in essentially the same way , ie as a checklist to ensure that the model of a procedure is well-formulated and all the necessary attributes are considered during the analysis . |
| 25 | ( 6 ) The licensing board , if in its opinion any objection to the renewal of a licence is frivolous or vexatious , may find the objector liable in the expenses caused by such objection to such extent as the board thinks fit , or , if in its Opinion any such objection is unauthorised , may find the agent of the objector liable in the expenses as aforesaid ; and the amount of any expenses so found due may be recovered in the sheriff court having jurisdiction , and a certified copy of the finding of the licensing board shall be sufficient evidence and authority for discerning for the said amount with expenses . |
| 26 | incorrect or ineffective decisions may be made , due to the fact that members of a committee are unfamiliar with the deeper aspects of issues under discussion . |
| 27 | This is inappropriate , since in most domains , more than one sense of a word is relevant . |
| 28 | There was a noise of a parcel being unwrapped as Mick unfolded the space blanket . |
| 29 | If one of a couple is disabled or older than the other , the couple will qualify for the higher amount . |
| 30 | The question of a couple being happy or unhappy did not really seem to arise . |