Example sentences of "of a [adj] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This makes it possible to study samples isolated at high dilution in an inert matrix of a solid such as N 2 or Ar . |
| 2 | The International Animal Welfare Alliance said Mary , whose husband is in charge of monkeys at Woburn and Longleat , is a director of a firm involved in the sale . |
| 3 | THE OFFICIAL , artist-approved re-release of a private pressing from ‘ 74 that has since become a sought-after collector 's item . |
| 4 | A substrate 1 has successive epitaxial layers 2 to 6 , the first three 2 , 3 , 4 being of materials suitable for a double heterojunction laser , layer 5 being of high resistivity material and layer 6 being of a material suitable for an FET channel . |
| 5 | Opposition came from the Treasury ministers who objected to a handout of a cool million as a near sacrilegious attack on the principle of sound finance , and from the Foreign Secretary who had no faith at all in the capacity of the Evian Committee to agree on joint action . |
| 6 | At the same time , the rhetoric of ‘ partnership ’ has never been stronger : used by policy-makers it seeks to soften the blow of centralization ; used by the professionals it smacks of a desperate clinging to more liberal values . |
| 7 | Sabine looked at it for a long moment , aware of a faint stirring in her consciousness , some elusive memory , fleetingly brought to life . |
| 8 | But in the final analysis , Switzerland took three points out of a possible four from Scotland and that fact was not lost on Roxburgh , who said : ‘ I think these two games were significant . |
| 9 | Harrison Ngau lost his battle : he scored 2,019 votes against the Barisan candidate 's 3,252 ; only about 5,500 people voted out of a possible 10,000 in Teland Usan . |
| 10 | The design for the new Longman headquarters ( left ) has been awarded 20 points out of a possible 21 for its environmental standards by the Building Research Establishment 's Environmental Assessment method , the industry standard for assessing buildings . |
| 11 | The mean number of hits was 9.2 and false alarms 4.4 ( each out of a possible 15 per subject ) . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , the letter shows clearly the intensity of feeling in England in this period , and the creation of a new archbishopric at Lichfield is certain to have been an extremely controversial matter . |
| 13 | Taking the second first , the pathname specified for the concealed logical must be a physical pathname — you can not use a concealed logical of a concealed logical in order to traverse deeper than 16 directory levels . |
| 14 | In semi-darkness , she waited , hearing the sound of a key grating against metal , and then he fumbled for a moment , muttering to himself in Italian . |
| 15 | A plan that sometimes works very well — after their kitchen equipment ( which should include a refrigerator ) has been checked — is to start them off with a ‘ gift ’ for their larder of a small box-full of a variety of inexpensive sauces , seasonings and flavourings , which can be used to add interest to very simple meals . |
| 16 | This structuring function of the Court of Appeal was further strengthened by the appearance in 1970 of Thomas ' Principles of Sentencing which provided an accessible digest of a great many of its decisions , both reported and unreported . |
| 17 | In addition , we became experts in a new and complex world where everything from the intricacies of a changing semantic of underground language to the knowledge that tetrahydrocannabinol ( THE ) was the active ingredient of cannabis separated us from our previous associations and took us into a world where few in the organization could begin to operate with comfort . |
| 18 | Offa 's difficulties with the archbishop of Canterbury had resulted in the creation of a Mercian archbishopric at Lichfield . |
| 19 | No question of a minor consenting to or refusing medical treatment arises unless and until a medical or dental practitioner advises such treatment and is willing to undertake it . |
| 20 | The Duke turned Friar in Measure for Measure cultivates at least two different prose-styles , a plain and business-like one for his benevolent deceptions , and that of a moralist disappointed with the world — a persona within which he can also rise to more serious denunciatory verse as the occasion warrants ( for verse within this prose role see III.ii. 19–39 ; 261–82 ; IV.ii. 108–13 ) . |
| 21 | The seat had become vacant as a result of the suicide of a senior offical of the ruling Zanu ( PF ) party who had been condemned by a commission of inquiry for profiting from a racket involving the unlawful resale of officially purchased vehicles . |
| 22 | it is not restricted to conduct causing or intended to cause injury or damage but includes any other violent conduct ( for example , throwing at or towards a person a missile of a kind capable of causing injury which does not hit or falls short ) ( Section 8 ) . |
| 23 | Punishments should , he said , be public and of a kind appropriate to the type of offence : corporal punishments for crimes of violence , public humiliation for ‘ crimes founded on pride ’ and so on . |
| 24 | Such a class of behaviours includes going on to another task of a kind similar to that assigned by the teacher at one level and exploratory behaviour at a ‘ higher ’ level . |
| 25 | The fact that the polytechnics have largely grown out of a technical college tradition , geared to different ends , means that they have practical problems of a kind unfamiliar to the universities today . |
| 26 | The real joke is that , by the time they made the decision , the alternative comedians were appearing in commercials and sitcoms of a kind indistinguishable from those they had once criticised . |
| 27 | Then there are one or two anachronisms : the spurs seen resting alongside his boots are of a kind unknown during the Renaissance . |
| 28 | Even if the courts had the resources to perform the first of these tasks , the latter involves value judgments of a kind inappropriate to the judicial function . |
| 29 | This meeting of psychoanalysis with literary history is suggestive for literary criticism too because it enables an account of the differences between various articulations of the formation of subjectivity without relinquishing a notion of change in literary form , nor , alternatively , relying on the haphazard attachment of the development of a single subject to a historical account of a literary genre . |
| 30 | Ceauşescu 's arrogance in presuming not only to treat the Soviet General-Secretary as a person on a par with himself , but also one without the necessary experience to speak with the full authority of a veteran revolutionary like himself undoubtedly aroused a mixture of irritation and amused contempt in Gorbachev . |