Example sentences of "of [verb] a [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm the process of maintaining a state 's interest in the international arena . |
| 2 | The process of maintaining a state 's interest in the international arena . |
| 3 | The process of maintaining a state 's interest in the international arena . |
| 4 | The couple felt they should make their plight known so that others would realise the danger of accepting a surveyor 's report . |
| 5 | It says much for the sense of humour of the untidy , bespectacled architect that after the initial shock of the Princess 's request , he accepted the relatively minor commission of building a dolls ' house for the Queen with enthusiasm , and immediately visited the Princess to discuss the project , bringing with him a mutual friend , Sir Herbert Morgan , President of the Society of Industrial Artists . |
| 6 | ‘ Even if I were n't of Hindu stock , I doubt if I would ever have been attracted by the notion of eating a cow 's stomach . ’ |
| 7 | They were sort of given a choice er i either I , I think it was sort of either you go on the land or er y you , you go down the mines . |
| 8 | So looking at clauses joined by but is one way of revealing a speaker 's or writer 's underlying , unstated assumptions . |
| 9 | The most direct way of revealing a society 's economic state is therefore to study the quality . |
| 10 | But apply to the European Tour for a spot in its qualifying scheme and your chances of gaining a Player 's card at the end of it are a measly one in 20 . |
| 11 | Another electronic effect , pioneered for this story , and thereafter used in all subsequent Dalek serials , was the Dalek extermination effect-a very simple trick of opening a camera 's aperture too wide , thereby admitting in too much light , swamping the camera 's electronics and causing it to send back to the gallery a negative image . |
| 12 | A land lease was another kind of commercial favour which recurs , and this too could form a useful and persuasive means of keeping a voter 's loyalty , as in the attempt to augment the Argyll interest in the burgh of Stirling in 1756 by giving a tack of land in Argyllshire to Robert Campbell , a brother of the laird of Barcaldine , who was one of the merchants of the town . |
| 13 | There are a number of articles which analyse this important aspect of explaining a region 's economic fortunes . |
| 14 | The magistrate would also appear to have been infected with the same cheerful disposition : even allowing for the ravages of inflation , a ten shillings fine is a somewhat less than draconian response to a charge of pushing a policeman 's head through a shop window . |
| 15 | Since the musician works with notes , why should we not accept that colour by its intrinsic force is capable of expressing a painter 's thought ? ’ |
| 16 | Devlin was apprehended in the course of robbing a jeweller 's shop in Fernley Shopping Centre … ’ |
| 17 | A THERE are a number of ways of propagating a Passiflora caerulea . |
| 18 | Yet while the ultimate decision on your future involves a fair assessment of the industrial realities rather than a precise medical diagnosis , the quotation above shows the importance of seeking a doctor 's prognosis . |
| 19 | This is an important aspect of the process of developing a school 's strategy of in-service education but it also enables other parties to share in the awareness of what has been achieved and what needs improvement . |
| 20 | Because of the variability between biopsy samples , the gain in precision of defining a subject 's proliferation index by taking two biopsy samples compared with one is remarkable for both methods . |
| 21 | Fortunately for this particular hippy , she picked a merchant with a well-earned reputation for consistently high quality , because since the early Seventies a bewildering number of organisations have sprung up with the intention of guaranteeing a wine 's organic credentials . |
| 22 | However , fuel economy is poor and as I am planning to drive to Morocco next year I am thinking of fitting a Ford V6 3.0 litre or 2.8 litre engine . |
| 23 | What do you think of fitting a Ford V6 ? |
| 24 | The retention may also be used as a means of securing a vendor 's future obligations under the sale agreement or ancillary document such as not competing with the business or continuing to provide stocks and materials to the business . |
| 25 | However , reversal from left to right visual field superiority was observed by Kaufer , Morais and Bertelson ( 1975 ) when they investigated the effect of presenting a Landolt 's ring at fixation for subjects to report the position of a small gap in the ring prior to recalling the stimuli presented in the left and right visual fields . |
| 26 | Although experimental methods provide a highly economical and efficient method of investigating a speaker 's responses to particular items of structure , the main difficulty associated with them is the mismatch which sociolinguists have consistently found between what speakers claim when they are directly questioned , and what they actually do , as evidenced by their linguistic behaviour in naturally occurring conversation . |
| 27 | Early in the fourth century the Carthaginian clergy disapproved of a local lady addicted to the habit of venerating a martyr 's bone ; but a hundred years later we hear of only isolated protests . |
| 28 | Councillors , most of whom firmly believed that their representative should have close ties with the ministers of the crown , found in a candidate 's ability to place friends in local revenue offices and other patronage appointments , and equally , his ability to move political enemies out of such places in the district towns , an effective means of evaluating a candidate 's qualification for membership in the House of Commons . |
| 29 | We were talking on the subject of erm divorce in in yesterday morning 's programme and this idea that erm the the whole procedure of getting a divorce som er would be speeded up and there 'd be something called , No faults divorce , so that people would n't have to point accusatory fingers at one another . |
| 30 | ‘ It was not really the normal way of getting a manager 's job . |