Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember doing the mate 's cabin and being mildly surprised to find two cartons of cigarettes and two bottles of whisky in an obvious place under the bottom drawer of his bunk . |
| 2 | Indeed , the national is often a concept used deliberately to conceal conflict over the issues , to force one kind of unity around an existing status quo ( and if the arguments do not achieve unity , troops can be used to enforce it on the recalcitrants ) . |
| 3 | To conclude , we may place the three notions of saliency in an ordered relation as follows : Fig2.1 literary psychological statistical RELEVANCE----------------PROMINENCE------------DEVIANCE ( foregrounding ) We interpret the arrow in " X — Y " to mean " all instances of X are instances of Y " . " |
| 4 | Such indirect arguments are scorned by modern biologists , but at the turn of the century they were the mainstay of support for an active Lamarckian movement . |
| 5 | And , along with former Newcastle Knights full-back Mark Mulligan and half-back Dean Marwood — the League 's leading points scorer this season with 220 — the powerful Pickering will have plenty of support from an anticipated 10,000 crowd at Town 's tiny Derwent Park ground . |
| 6 | And , along with former Newcastle Knights full-back Mark Mulligan and half-back Dean Marwood — the League 's leading points scorer this season with 220 — the powerful Pickering will have plenty of support from an anticipated 10,000 crowd at Town 's tiny Derwent Park ground . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Turning to ( a ) in the question , the traditional rule is that the court will not inquire into the mode of user of an undoubted prerogative or privilege . |
| 10 | Nevertheless it is not common practice to consider the man-machine allocation of function as an isolated design decision . |
| 11 | Nobody knew much about her , she 'd turned up in the town as a sort of companion-housekeeper to an old lady who had a house in Morrab Close , a Mrs Armitage — a widow . |
| 12 | Balaguer , who was blind and reportedly severely incapacitated , was accused of responsibility for an economic crisis , high unemployment and constant power failures , and of channelling available resources into the completion of the huge Colón lighthouse project , a contribution to the 1992 celebrations of 500th anniversary of Columbus 's arrival in the Americas , and also seen as a memorial to Balaguer himself . |
| 13 | If the hon. Gentleman is suggesting that a review of defence by an incoming Labour Government , should we happen to have such an Administration , would mean more money being spent on defence , I am a Dutchman . |
| 14 | Much of the improvement in survival has resulted from the now routine use of cyclosporin as an immunosuppressive agent . |
| 15 | MINDLESS vandals have caused hundreds of pounds worth of damage in an overnight raid on a council bowling green . |
| 16 | On the other hand , pursuers ' agents will doubtless maintain that any pursuer who faces the prospect of osteo-arthritis in an injured joint , or degeneration in a back complaint faces serious deterioration and is entitled to take advantage of the provisional damages scheme . |
| 17 | Here I focus on the genealogy of two aspects of discrimination already addressed by this study , namely displacement between the political and the sexual , and the idea of perversion as an inimical absence . |
| 18 | As we saw with the pre-sexological theories of perversion , condensation and displacement are strangely enabled by the view of perversion as an inimical threatening absence . |
| 19 | Differences in ds only measure the amount of interaction in an additive model . |
| 20 | It is not perhaps since Romanticism that there has been so much discussion , and underlying uncertainty , about the market of literature , and it is no accident that recent years have seen an expansion of the sociology of literature as an academic discipline , alongside increased research into reading habits , the best-seller and how to write it , and the levels of writing that appeal to different strata of the public . |
| 21 | The exploits of football hooligans would probably be praised if they were part of resistance to an invading army . |
| 22 | All too often , flexible working also entails the loss of entitlement to an adequate occupational pension , and hence the possibility of real hardship during retirement . |
| 23 | It must also be remembered that a written admission of liability at an early stage could have dire consequences if the third party 's medical condition , without warning , drastically deteriorates and such deterioration is not due to a NOVUS ACTUS |
| 24 | Leaning her back in a façade of patience against an ancient painted wall . |
| 25 | The acquisition of experience in an alpine mountaineer is essentially the cultivation of these two mental qualities . |
| 26 | After years of criticism , and after Tampa , here was a suggestion of dishonesty from an unimpeachable source pointing at the chief executive of the group . |
| 27 | Although it is most usual to think of salami as an Italian speciality , they are , in fact , made throughout Europe . |
| 28 | The obvious lightness of the skeleton meant that this kind of existence for an air-breathing semi-aquatic animal would have been particularly inappropriate , because of the buoyancy of their air-filled bodies . |
| 29 | A final method of obtaining publicity , and one of the most costly , is by donating substantial sums of money towards an academic or research institution . |
| 30 | This brought home to me the fact that paying lots of money for an established defender ( central ) is a massive risk . |