Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun sg] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Usually when assessing damages in respect of non-pecuniary loss a court will award one lump sum in respect of " pain and suffering and loss of amenities " and in such cases it is generally impossible to say how much relates to " pain and suffering " and how much to " loss of amenities " . |
| 2 | Walker estimates that the Alcan aluminium plant , currently demanding about 20 000 tonnes of caustic soda a year , will eventually need 70 000 tonnes a year . |
| 3 | Thus , in one case , a patient with inoperable cancer of the oesophagus was still in pain despite receiving 12 g of oral morphine a day when he was admitted to a hospice ; a week later he was free of pain when taking 60 mg of morphine a day and 10 mg of diazepam at night . |
| 4 | And around each blow the flesh shuddered — the same sort of involuntary movement a cow will use to despatch a fly , but the ripples were more pronounced and further-reaching . |
| 5 | In front of each barricade a row of hefty constables was drawn up with truncheons in their hands . |
| 6 | At the beginning of each year a timetable is prepared and each year group follows a clearly defined , predetermined curriculum . |
| 7 | Beside the door of each room a supply of ready-loaded firearms had been laid ; every available weapon , from the Enfield rifles of those killed earlier in the siege to native flintlocks and the countless sporting guns which had been such a feature of " the possessions " , had been pressed into service . |
| 8 | That 's right and er at that year , that er time , we had a drop of five shillings a week and he had an increase of fifty pound a year . |
| 9 | Bolton refused to lie down and in the last kick of normal time a shot from Philliskirk cannoned off the crossbar . |
| 10 | In that case , Lord Reid , obiter , gave as an example justifying the assertion by the House of total jurisdiction a situation where the Court of Appeal had resolved the point of law subsequently certified for the House but had left outstanding other issues which might result in acquittal : |
| 11 | British pigs produce about seven million gallons of liquid muck a day , posing a big disposal problem for farmers and a water quality headache . |
| 12 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that there was nothing in the policy of the Insolvency Act 1986 that indicated that Parliament intended to give the words ‘ carried on business ’ in section 265(1) ( c ) ( ii ) of that Act a meaning different from that which they had been held to bear in section 4(1) ( d ) of the Bankruptcy Act 1914 ; that a debtor did not cease to carry on business for the purposes of section 265(1) ( c ) ( ii ) until all the trading debts of the business had been paid ; and that , accordingly , the registrar had been right in holding that since the tax liability had not been discharged the debtor was still carrying on business and that he had jurisdiction to make the bankruptcy order ( post , pp. 122B–E , H — 123A ) . |
| 13 | In 1898 a second well was bored to a depth of 398 ft supplying a further 24,000 gallons per hour , and by 1907 these two wells operated by two steam driven pumps were supplying 250 million gallons yearly , and in July of that year a record was reached of 1 1/2 million gallons in one day . |
| 14 | In June of that year a group of armed men rounded up some of the teachers and started to take them down to the principal 's house . |
| 15 | We now know too that in the later part of that time a form of Greek was widely spoken there . |
| 16 | The National Eisteddfod in Aberystwyth in the first week of August saw on the Monday to Friday of that week a Class 31 hauling Regional Railways coaches on the 11.00 and 17.25 departures . |
| 17 | For those in the middle of these events , there was in addition to the tension and the menace , a certain air of unreality ; this raises the part played by drugs , not merely in the emergence of a forceful counter-culture , but in the attitudes of plain straightforward young people to whom any kind of illicit substance a couple of years earlier would have been a complete mystery . |
| 18 | To make the experiences and history of society 's criminals less accessible also gives rise to the risk of further marginalising a section of society already relatively powerless . |
| 19 | Dietary fibre supplements have not been successful in the treatment of IBS as measured by double-blind trials , although there is evidence that at least 30 g of dietary fibre a day will improve constipation and some other symptoms . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , these entitlements are limited to the recipients having legal residence in Germany and the new law on foreign nationals ( Ausländergesetz 1990 ) can make the receipt of unauthorized assistance a reason for deportation ( Münder , 1990 ) . |
| 21 | On the issue of scientific freedom a contrast can therefore be drawn between certain Protestant cultures and those under Roman Catholic jurisdiction — a contrast exemplified by the careers of two Copernicans : Galileo himself and the most fervent popularizer of the system in England , John Wilkins . |
| 22 | Material collected for the study on the 1983 general election has been used by two researchers , John Goldthorpe and Clive Payne , to update the Nuffield study , and to examine the extent of social mobility a decade after the end of the post-war period ( John H. Goldthorpe and Clive Payne , ‘ Trends in intergeneration class mobility in England and Wales , 1972 — 83 ’ , Sociology , vol. 20 , no. 1 , February 1986 ) . |
| 23 | Last year the general assembly gave to the Board of Social Responsibility a task of coordinating the work of the church in this field and we are proud now to be able to report to the general assembly that the work done by the assembly 's various Boards and by numerous local initiatives make the Church of Scotland the nation 's leading provider of services to the victims of H I V and to their families delivering both the most extensive and the most comprehensive service to these people within Scotland . |
| 24 | By simply recording the presence or the absence of some property a level of quantification could be attained ; certainly sufficient to allow for the examination of the joint frequency and occurrence of a property with others . |
| 25 | For the purpose of this test a contrast with zero is valid . |
| 26 | Sir Robert Mark goes on to tell us that after the prisoner 's appearance in court where , with his leg encased in plaster he was fined ‘ the customary ten shillings ’ , the violent navvy behaved like a perfect gent : Sir Robert Mark thus tries to squeeze out of this story a moral which points to the deteriorated relationship between the police and public . |
| 27 | SIR , — The US National Institute on Drug Abuse ( NIDA ) published on March 25 of this year a warning about the efficacy of bleach for cleaning needles , syringes , and other drug-injecting paraphernalia to prevent the transmission of HIV and other blood-borne infections . |
| 28 | In February of this year a resolution calling for its enactment was passed by the Liberal Party Council , and it has also been supported by many individuals and groups in both the Labour and Conservative parties . |
| 29 | In March of this year a meeting was held to again decide the fate of the elephant . |
| 30 | In March of this year a meeting was held to again decide the fate of the elephant . |