Example sentences of "of a [adj] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A parallel is drawn between the direction of a Japanese company 's collective effort against outside competitors , and the ability to mobilize national effort . |
| 2 | are on three months ' placement with , on a three months ' placement with the Authority until the middle of September as part of a six months ' training programme organised by the South African Advanced Educational Project . |
| 3 | It sports the artistic pretensions of a poor man 's St Ives , the garishness of a funfair and the red brick boredom of a retirement haven . |
| 4 | A shift to kerosene is very costly and nowadays fuel for cooking may absorb to up to 15–20 per cent of a poor household 's income ( see Schroeder 1977 , Ives 1981 ) . |
| 5 | The ‘ Trinidad terms ’ , proposed in 1990 by John Major when he was Britain 's chancellor , write off two-thirds of a poor country 's debt incurred before a certain date , and reschedule the rest over 25 years . |
| 6 | Whereas a progressive tax takes proportionately more of a rich person 's income , a regressive tax takes proportionately more of a poor person 's income . |
| 7 | I affected to become social with the others but out of the corner of my mind — while I played for the others the part of a poor miner 's son who was puzzled , but delighted by the attention these lovely people paid to him — I had her under close observation … |
| 8 | " I had a great sense of the worth of a simple person 's life and service to God . " |
| 9 | Even so , he had survived some narrow escapes ; always the fault of a Rotten Fellow 's hopeless driving . |
| 10 | Within the affluent premises of EMI , Virgin were referred to scornfully as ‘ The Earls Court Hippies ’ , and hardly worthy of a managing director 's time . |
| 11 | There is no need to be intimidated by the formality of a staid institution 's catalogue , or to neglect popular magazines ; as for writing in various academic disciplines , there ought to be no barrier to learning about an interesting topic . |
| 12 | It was the Richard Branson that would throw anybody in a swimming-pool — literally and metaphorically — often forgetful of the cost , be it of a junior employee 's ruined wristwatch or an editor 's dignity ( the watch could be paid for afterwards : dignity was harder to repair ) ; the Richard Branson that , when playing wicket-keeper in a company cricket match , would tie cotton round the bails and then ‘ when the batsman has been in long enough ’ yank them off with a roar of laughter , all the more resounding for the look of fury on the fallguy 's face . |
| 13 | From some dim recess of her mind came the words of a Breton fisherman 's prayer , which she had read in some book . |
| 14 | Then we lowered the sail and sat in the sun , and Pierre spoke of the lot he and his fellow villagers had been born to , the weeks at sea , the gales , the great hauls of fish , the hardships and achievements of a Breton fisherman 's life , while we ate the food he had brought with him , and drank his rough cider . |
| 15 | I remember walking out into the bright sunlight of a late summer 's day in central London thinking : ‘ Oh God , how the hell do I tell people ? ’ |
| 16 | The going was good and in the morning an Arab gave me a soft fresh loaf the size and shape of a strong man 's forearm . |
| 17 | Erm , I have children of my own , that I had naturally and I said yes , but with reservation because erm I I 've often wondered in the case of a handicapped baby er , that was born to a surrogate mother and the surrogate mother wanted to keep it simply because it was handicapped , or if she knew she was gon na have a handicapped baby the amniocentesis test and if she wanted to abort the baby but the mother-in-waiting did n't who would decide ? |
| 18 | Here too there is much science to learn in the story of a Soviet defector 's son who stumbles on a discovery hidden away in some late papers by Chaim Weizmann — a method of making high-octane petrol by fermenting the juice of a special variety of potato with a special variety of bacteria . |
| 19 | The results of a card vote will be announced today on a proposal by the NEC for the creation of a Labour women 's committee . |
| 20 | Car-makers are pessimistic about an upturn this year and are expressing concern about the effect of a Labour government 's economic policy on the industry . |
| 21 | There would be suspicions among Unionists of a Labour government 's agenda and a feeling that the Nationalist SDLP would be given too much influence . |
| 22 | Under the banner of industrial democracy various changes have been proposed in the structure of the organisation , decision-making and ownership of companies , involving things such as compulsory councils and co-determination at the shop-floor level , the representation of workers on the board , and most recently ( in Sweden and Holland ) the setting up of a union-controlled wage-earners ' fund by capitalising a percentage of pretax profits , with the newly issued shares being placed in the fund and used to acquire interests in other companies and to supplement wages in the lowest-paid jobs . |
| 23 | I and my colleague here have the pleasure and the privilege of serving on a vast majority of a Liberal Democrat erm local authority . |
| 24 | He had arrived in the late afternoon of a perfect summer 's day , was shortly to go off to the Alps and then the Himalayas and had not touched rock for a couple of years , so the urge for activity was upon him . |
| 25 | The most common example of breaches of this duty are the use or disclosure of a former employer 's client list or of a secret process belonging to him . |
| 26 | At his office in the stable block of a former count 's palace in north east Moscow , Grigoriev 's company , Vagrius , has helped set up the Task Force Against Piracy , a legal action fund to combat flagrant breaches of copyright which sees Western books and Russian editions illegally produced and sold . |
| 27 | The sitting Bharatpur MP , K. Natwar Singh , is the grandson of the brother of a former Maharajah 's wife . |
| 28 | There have been major rebellions against the imposition of charges for eye and dental tests , for an amendment to grade the poll tax according to ability to pay , and for the second reading of a private members ' bill to liberalize the Official Secrets Act . |
| 29 | Because of disquiet among ordinary members there , George Devlin , Vice-Chairman of the company , says that they wish to retain the atmosphere of a private members ' club , while delightful Chairman Michael Broke , told me that the plan is to raise standards even higher . |
| 30 | That means it will be the first time abortion has been debated as part of government legislation , rather than on the basis of a private member 's Bill . |