Example sentences of "of a [adj] [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Glass is an amorphous substance which has properties of a solid and the structure of a liquid . |
| 2 | The piece prepared by the six young musicians includes a crisp packet being scrunched , playing cards flicked with the skill of a sharper and the zip on 14-year-old Sunjeev Singh 's bag buzzing backwards and forwards . |
| 3 | Instead , the logical policy is to tax consumption , at a rate which reflects not the disposal cost of a good but the costs which would be inflicted on society if it were illegally dumped . |
| 4 | Although still some months short of his fifteenth birthday , Richard had already discovered from experience that there is a critical relationship between the piquancy of a secret and the number of people who can keep it . |
| 5 | As this meeting is in camera it is allowable at this stage to point out that certain elements in this family , being of — er — immigrant origin , ah , have a totally different conception of the role of a daughter in a family and of parental rights , and while doing all they could to respect the traditions of minority ethnic groups , and in particular the rather dominant role of the father in such societies , in the last resort it was with the protection of a minor that the Council was concerned according to the law of this country . |
| 6 | Indeed , among these villains of the wheel , the woman cyclist was possibly even more of a portent than the cyclist juror . |
| 7 | And there would be no more reason for establishing the membership of a co-operative than the investors in a joint stock company as such a group . |
| 8 | Yet depending upon what A is , the phrase in question can be used to assert the numerical identity of a particular or the qualitative identity of a species . |
| 9 | There 's an ecumenical consensus nowadays surely that it is by faith and baptism that one is made a Christian or becomes a Christian and we 've also inherited , many of us , another rite , with its origins in the New Testament , valuable in the making of a christian and the three strands in confirmation set out in the report before us would certainly be owned by all of us . |
| 10 | The second half was even more of a grab-bag than the first , the suspicion growing in Jude as she watched that the parody and pastiche was a smoke-screen put up to cover the creators ' embarrassment at their own sincerity . |
| 11 | Before mixing , one is the upper state of a fundamental and the other the upper state of an overtone or combination band . |
| 12 | ‘ When you have the killing of a Marine and the beating of the navy man , some response was certainly called for , ’ said Mr Edwin Smith , a University of Southern California law professor . |
| 13 | As a simple illustration of these remarks we note that the Babylonians posed many problems [ 71 , p. 34 ] of the form : " Find the side of a square if the area less the side is 870 . " |
| 14 | This is not to deny that cliques and ‘ school gate agitators ’ sometimes operate with the sole intention of fermenting a campaign aimed at causing damage to the reputation of an individual or the school . |
| 15 | What is less controversial is the central function of an individual or the concept called the self . |
| 16 | For the manager the critical relationship to understand is that between the potential ‘ drive ’ of an individual and the nature of needs . |
| 17 | Decisions such as these show that the courts inclined to the view that in a conflict between the common law property right of an individual and the statutory powers of a local authority to interfere with those rights , the benefit of any doubt in statute was to be given to the individual — and that this was particularly so if the statute gave less than full compensation to the individual . |