Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | If ever there was a clear indication of the Government 's understanding of the changing needs of industry , the effect of change on a particular industry , and the Government 's willingness to take on board the social consequences of change , the last five years and the Coal Industry Bill clearly demonstrate the Government 's balanced commitment to honouring their duty to consider the wider public interest . |
| 32 | We have to visualize the process of change as a gradual one , with progressive forays from the water , until the first animal with true limbs developed ( the bony elements of the limb are present in the fish fin ) . |
| 33 | Accordingly , the LTQ programme was conceived of as a series of structural realignments and common processual techniques which is embedding a culture of change as an everyday and on-going process rather than for a specific , limited period . |
| 34 | Indeed , getting proposals through is a test of virility for some executives , so notions of change at a late stage in the policy-making process are unreal . |
| 35 | Other influential evidence was provided by Phillips ( 1958 ) who showed that for the UK for almost 100 years before the late 1950s there appeared to exist a stable relationship — which became known as the Phillips curve — between a real variable , unemployment , and the rate of change of a nominal variable , nominal wages . |
| 36 | Bhimji had used art document paper , a more fragile and flexible photographic paper , suggesting qualities of skin with a rough surface and large open ‘ pores ’ . |
| 37 | REMEMBER that children 's skins burn easily , so cover up any exposed area of skin with a high-factor sun cream . |
| 38 | Here , even the famous credo of uncrushability by a mere comic plot comes across as somewhat comically crushed . |
| 39 | DRAINED by the exercise of inferring what was holding together two pieces of stick inside a cardboard box , a first-year science pupil at Gillingham comprehensive school in north Dorset advanced the opinion that the national curriculum was ‘ just another posh name for different subjects ’ . |
| 40 | The jokes between her father , mother and older brother had been adult , almost risqué ; she had been allowed several glasses of champagne without a reproachful look , and her rather revealing décolletage had passed without comment . |
| 41 | The development of Champagne as a sparkling wine |
| 42 | Intercepting a fresh glass of champagne from a passing waiter , he pressed it into Mrs Rossington 's hand . |
| 43 | Running low on ideas , and tired of shopping , all shopped out , I bought four drunks and three strippers nine bottles of champagne in a topless bar on Broadway . |
| 44 | Other than this exchange , and a desultory extension of it , in which Boswell tried to get his Bear to perform by raising the quality of genius as a conversational topic , lunch and its aftermath proceeded to a dull conclusion . |
| 45 | He was plastering wet threads of hair over a balding pate , and there was a look of alarm in those magnified eyes . |
| 46 | While a cannon ball may plough through a line of troops and kill two or three victims , a mortar shell explodes with a tremendous bang , scattering mud , dirt , and bits of shell over a wide area . |
| 47 | Osburn 's points were that his fellow Englishmen in India , whose heartless behaviour towards Indians he described in some detail , failed to ‘ realize that the British Empire depends for its existence on obtaining the consent and the friendly co-operation of the races governed ’ , and that the demand for independence ‘ need never have arisen but for the arrogance and want of tact of a large percentage of Englishmen who , in one capacity or another , are resident in India ’ . |
| 48 | The same meeting approved voting rights to Retired Members , providing there was a continuous and unbroken record of payment as a Full Member for at least 25 years . |
| 49 | It declared that the linking of the right to pay for imports to the receipt of foreign exchange was ‘ an unacceptable principle ’ , because the system led to ‘ the obstruction of foreign exchange flows between regions and banks , the reduction of the role of the dinar as a single currency and means of payment in a unified Yugoslav market … and the strengthening of autarkic tendencies ’ . |
| 50 | Chairman , you , you have in a sense already seen this item as part of your budget this morning , er , this is the transfer of payment from an appropriate sum er , other than from the Health Authority , to er , the Local Authority . |
| 51 | He was very glad to hear Charles was getting so much better — he did n't want his brother 's death on his conscience , he said , and that gave Rachel a lot of hope for a future reconciliation . |
| 52 | Drawing on an earlier record of municipal activity and labour representation , it was able to consolidate its position at a time of hope for a new future by an active fusion of Labour Party , trade union and cooperative effort . |
| 53 | If the Muslims get arms , they believe , any shred of hope for a negotiated settlement would vanish and the world could expect at least one more round of slaughter . |
| 54 | Gilpin ( 1987 ) , like many liberal economists , regards it as contrary to consumer interests , whereas others describe it as ‘ a ray of hope in a dismal world ‘ . |
| 55 | In a topic on industrialisation one might look at the effect of industrialisation on a rural community without work . |
| 56 | A high energy , bitter-sweet survey of nightlife by a hot young company new to Oxford Youth Theatre . |
| 57 | Many historians have commented on the decline of nonconformism as a political force in the early twentieth century . |
| 58 | It is possible that these differences reflect the availability of suitable timber , but it is difficult at present to determine the extent of woodland at a sufficient level of detail . |
| 59 | The Korean War marked the spread of the Cold War beyond Europe and the Atlantic : henceforward the US government saw the containment of communism as a global task . |
| 60 | He was in the restaurant kitchen late one night before closing up , knocking back the remains of four glasses of liqueur from a dirty table , when his head suddenly cleared and he heard some lines from the past in a devastating playback in his head : ‘ You 're better off without me ’ — Bella 's voice , coolly justifying herself to him on the telephone . |