Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [adj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was already regretting her hasty words , which could make Doreen look upon her as a rival , when of course such a thought was ridiculous . |
| 2 | Of course such a supper , minus the wine , she might have eaten on any of the evenings ( and they now stretched back a long way ) when she found herself alone . |
| 3 | And of course such a class lays itself open to prejudice and bias on the part of the teacher , a bias that may be political , racial , or religious . |
| 4 | And of course such a perception produces its own reaction , in the emphasis on common sense and experience , in people who boast of having attended the University of Life , or feel it their duty to sort out young graduates when they enter their first job , or even in anti-intellectual or irrationalist currents in higher education itself ( Shils 1984 ) . |
| 5 | But of course such a thing was n't hereditary . |
| 6 | Of course such a stage is an essential preliminary to the formulation of a theory of the performance of action . |
| 7 | In the example of Figure 15–5 a tax on meals leads to too few meals being produced . |
| 8 | In terms of Figure 15–1 a move from A to B or A to G is a Pareto gain . |
| 9 | By judicious choice of the design limits in relation to the curve of Figure 7.5 a compromise may be possible at say , 2 standard deviations either side of the mean at which 4·6 per cent of the items will be rejected as unusable . |
| 10 | By judicious choice of the design limits in relation to the curve of Figure 7.5 a compromise may be possible at say , 2 standard deviations either side of the mean at which 4.6 per cent of the items will be rejected as unusable . |
| 11 | For if at the end of period 1 a rise in aggregate demand is predictable , the government could reduce its own spending and thereby maintain the position of the aggregate demand curve at AD and hence maintain aggregate real output at y n . |
| 12 | Charlie , 50 , battled for 35 minutes to beat the specimen which was hooked in 70 feet of water half a mile off Stout Point near Aberthaw , Mid-Glamorgan . |
| 13 | To a pound of sugar half a pint of water . |
| 14 | In Lockerbie yesterday the 270 victims of the bombing of flight 103 a year ago were remembered . |
| 15 | However , from the gravitational influence of Mercury on the orbit of Mariner 10 a mass was obtained with 5 times less observational uncertainty than radar had yielded , to give a mean density of 5430 kg/m 3 . |
| 16 | During one orbit the satellite observes a band of sky half a degree wide . |
| 17 | Music : All About Eve , Proclaimers , Hipsway , INXS , ( basically anything ) Seeking tall , dark male , 17+ sense of humour half a brain , blah , blah , blah . |
| 18 | Among other personal touches , he introduces seafaring imagery on several occasions : Christ is helmsman in psalm 31 , and in psalm 89 he adds to the raging sea of verse 9 a reference to the navy which is very expressive of his Englishness . |
| 19 | Were such a proof to be successfully produced , moreover — in other words if Anselm were shown to be right — then from our point of view such a success would undermine faith rather than establish it . |
| 20 | From a physicochemical point of view such a conversion seems inappropriate because the activities of the participating ions determine the solubility product for a given salt and hence the possibility for precipitation . |