Example sentences of "of a [noun sg] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea of a sequel seemed odd , ‘ Harvest ’ was an LP he 'd badmouthed over the years , and it was hardly his style to go into the Mike Oldfield school of repackaging old product . |
| 2 | Whereas the extremities of a parabola become parallel to its major axis , the asymptotes of a hyperbola cross one another . |
| 3 | The harmonization of laws affecting domestic transactions in member States has an effect on international transactions in that within the field covered by the harmonizing measures these obviate the need to resort to conflict of laws rules and thus achieve one of the objectives of a Convention regulating international transactions . |
| 4 | e.g. " As late as 1911 only 59% of Britain 's adult male population ( some eight million out of a total nearing forty one million ) had the vote , and there were seven different types of franchise , of which the two major ones related to ownership or occupation of land , or of any house defined as a separate dwelling . " |
| 5 | Budget preparation leads to the presentation of a document indicating planned spending under various headings known as budget heads . |
| 6 | He was far too much of a gentleman to degrade any woman . |
| 7 | Far off she heard the drone of a tractor working late or set for home . |
| 8 | 11 June saw the reopening of a station closed thirty-five years previously and the opening of the first new inner-London station for very many years : Hackney Central and Hackney Wick on the ‘ Cross Town Link Line ’ between North Woolwich and Camden Road , a promise of greater things to come . |
| 9 | You can have up to two teaspoons of a low-fat polyunsaturated rich margarine , such as Flora Light per day . |
| 10 | ‘ The requirement of a creditor to wait 12 months before claiming relief instead of being able to claim at the end of the first quarter after an insolvency ( as was possible previously ) has an adverse effect on his own business 's cash flow . |
| 11 | The only other buildings visible are the multiple apexes of a warehouse showing above the embankment , the pumping house and eight vats of a sewage works half a mile west , and , at least three miles beyond this , a small group of houses and the square tower of a church . |
| 12 | The autonomous region of Catalonia has decided to build a synchrotron facility near Barcelona , following rejection last December by CERN , the international particle physics laboratory in Geneva , of a request by Spain for support of a facility to produce large numbers of tau and charm particles . |
| 13 | How much of a benefit has that been , the fact that people are seeing you i as a as a professional who you know , who works for social services , |
| 14 | ‘ There should not be any question of a bowler getting any outside help — I am dead against that . |
| 15 | It requires less of a stimulus to become depolarized . |
| 16 | If the use of a drug seemed appropriate , what dose should be used , and for how long should it be continued ? |
| 17 | But I I would n't er if I hear of a girl getting pregnant er you know now now it 's a very common thing I know , but sometimes I feel really sorry for the girls because it 's tying yourself fifteen , sixteen tying yourself down to children . |
| 18 | Examples such as the one above suggest that the linguistic label for an object is part of the representation of a scene containing that object , even if the scene has not been described . |
| 19 | By this is meant the ability of a fluid to make complete contact with a surface at the point where they meet namely the interface . |
| 20 | The fact that the selection of a style became such a contentious issue can be attributed to his sustained advocacy of Gothic . |
| 21 | The canonical form obtained by a similar transformation of a matrix having equal eigenvalues , when reduced to its simplest form , has the eigenvalues in the principal diagonal , with equal eigenvalues in groups ; elsewhere the matrix is null except that there may be units in the superdiagonal . |
| 22 | A 512 cm3 sample of a gas weighed 1.236 g at 20°C and a pressure of one atmosphere . |
| 23 | Assured of success by the dream of a warrior called Black Hair , twenty-eight warriors , including Ollokot , Looking Glass , Toohoolhoolzote , Two Moons and Bird Alighting , stealthily entered Howard 's camp at 3.30 a.m. to steal his horses . |
| 24 | In the absence of a clause forbidding this , a seller can sub-contract his performance of the contract without reference to , or sometimes even the knowledge of , the buyer . |
| 25 | In standard conditions of sale , therefore , many sellers would choose the option of a clause forbidding both parties to assign ( in whole or part ) as the most commercially acceptable way of proceeding . |
| 26 | Following this judgment , it now seems almost impossible to conceive of a clause preventing set-off which fell within the ambit of s 3 ( ie either in a consumer contract , or in written standard conditions ) which would be both commercially practical and legally enforceable . |
| 27 | If we saw two blokes coming out of a pub rolling drunk we might wait to see what develops before acting . |
| 28 | The position would have been very different in the case of a payment made some years before which was sought to be recovered because a court in another case had ruled that the regulation under which the demand had been made had all along been ultra vires . |
| 29 | It took just 500th of a second to take each snap . |
| 30 | The effectiveness of any measure of external fire fighting would be extremely limited whilst the external cladding of a building remains intact and in the case of the taller building even the range of turntable ladders or hydraulic platforms may be insufficient . |