Example sentences of "of [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Altogether 33 countries approved a draft treaty , drawn up at Basel last March , which called for the toxic waste trade to be regulated instead of for a total ban . |
| 2 | " It 's unheard of for a religious Order to dwell in a tent or wagon . |
| 3 | On Dec. 29 Cuba and the Soviet Union — with which Cuba conducted more than 70 per cent of its total trade — concluded a trade agreement for 1991 only , instead of for a five-year period as in the past . |
| 4 | She would be considered a slut if she did , and since it is almost unheard of for a Ugandan man to do without sex for a year , her husband would usually seek another woman . |
| 5 | These are the limestone arres , and as unwelcoming a site as you could think of for a new resort . |
| 6 | Definition of for a new settlement around York . |
| 7 | It had been the day he had gone to see about a job he had heard of for a general handyman who had some experience with animals . |
| 8 | of for a long time ) and this was a puzzle still to be solved , but at least there seemed to be some evidence that fusion was happening , proving their original hypothesis . |
| 9 | This landlocked location is n't the first place you 'd think of for a diving school but the Diver Training College is proving to be very popular . |
| 10 | No one in the CRA delegation understood that it was unheard of for a non-Unionist procession to enter that area . |
| 11 | We approach it in a hit-and-miss sort of way instead of through a systematic communication programme . |
| 12 | The bis(azide) was isolated and then reduced by passage of through a boiling ethanol solution . |
| 13 | A more ambitious change sought to require complainants to present their cases orally to the magistrate , instead of through a written statement composed by an intermediary . |
| 14 | By 1701 he was serving as chairman of the influential elections committee , and was even talked of as a possible Speaker . |
| 15 | More generally , the fact that literary studies is sometimes thought of as a general training in thinking and writing means that you are expected to be able to control how you write — in particular , that you are able consistently to use a particular appropriate register . |
| 16 | The observed price of the object can then be decomposed and thought of as a weighted sum of the prices of each characteristic ; since one does not observe all the attributes , a part of the price of each drawing will remain unexplained , and contain the influence of time ( the trend , if any ) , as well as random elements ; this is the ‘ characteristic free ’ ( i.e. corrected for quality ) price of a drawing ; these prices can now be added and by taking annual averages , one obtains the ‘ average price of the year ’ . |
| 17 | Notice that the CDR can be thought of as a weighted mean of the age-specific rates , using age class population numbers as weights , i.e. CDR = |
| 18 | The former reference can be thought of as a private sector illustration of financial accountability . |
| 19 | Party membership is often thought of as a static phenomenon . |
| 20 | They argued that scientific progress and understanding could not be conceived of as a static process ; with the advance of research into passive smoking , different conclusions might one day become apparent . |
| 21 | Diana Dors was never really thought of as a great actress … indeed she once described her film career as ’ a lot of make believe held up by 37 inch bra cups ’ . |
| 22 | Again , homosexuality is thought of as a narcissistic repudiation of sexual difference . |
| 23 | Muni was obviously thought of as a major selling point and the public were urged to see this latest offering of the man who ‘ appears in fewer films than any of the big stars ’ . |
| 24 | In a simple flat-file , the data are thought of as a two-way array of m variates ( columns ) measured on each of n units ( rows ) , thus |
| 25 | This transition can be accomplished in 29 branchings , which we may naively think of as a stately walk of 29 steps across genetic space . |
| 26 | I 've certainly seen it sort of as a viable alternative for larger vehicles , you know , buses and this sort of thing . |
| 27 | The company is not thought of as a good employer . |
| 28 | Finally , Pilkingtons in St Helens , thought of as a one-company town , has seen the successful application of float glass technology , but recently large scale redundancy has had devastating consequences on local employment . |
| 29 | It is also , rather vaguely , thought of as a revolutionary activity . |
| 30 | Fascism was not thought of as a separate subject on the school curriculum , but the history of how Mussolini came to power was dealt with at length at the end of the modern history text-books . |