Example sentences of "of a [adj] [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in tucking a cover over the old man 's knees , for there was snow on the ground outside and in spite of a roaring fire the room was not as warm as he was used to , she felt her hand patted and then he said , ‘ Peace and goodwill , peace and goodwill , that is the secret after all . ’ |
| 2 | of a Spanish Peninsula the young eel is an alba plaice , Paul has not got five letters . |
| 3 | At the point of a successful match the worker is described in terms of the kinds of job he could do and the job is described in terms of the kind of worker needed to do it , Table 2.7 . |
| 4 | I have already put forward my view that in the foreseeable future there is unlikely to be a sufficiency of common purpose or tradition to create out of a federal Parliament the necessary cohesion for it to control , or even to have much influence over , the unelected central bodies , especially the Commission and the Court of Justice . |
| 5 | At the beginning of a drug-induced hallucination the subject often sees simple , coloured , geometric patterns . |
| 6 | In affording to them immunity from suit if they have acted in good faith in compliance with a legal or moral duty or in protection of a legitimate interest the law must take them as it finds them . |
| 7 | Hence in the early years of the life of a fixed asset the taxable profit may be less than the reported profit before tax . |
| 8 | So there I was , muttering in a low grumble and torpidly flipping through the pages , shoulders up , head down — when to the sound of a loud handclap the splayed centre-spread was violently dashed from my grip . |
| 9 | In the case of a salaried partner the position may be rather less clear . |
| 10 | For the purpose of a choreographic grammar the word ‘ impetus ’ can be interpreted in three ways ali of which are applicable to the design . |
| 11 | ( 4 ) At the hearing of a pre-trial review the district judge may exercise any of his interlocutory powers ( Ord 17 , r 4 ) . |
| 12 | ( b ) If the death takes place after 12/11/74 and before the passing of the Finance Act , 1975 , any estate duty is to be claimed under the said Section 2 ( 1 ) ( b ) ( i ) or ( ii ) , but the duty is payable at CTT rates , any agricultural relief is given on full estate duty terms , there is no timber relief but taper relief can be claimed , and in the case of a surviving spouse the exempting provisions of Section 5 ( 2 ) of the Finance Act , 1894 , can apply ; and the persons accountable for the duty in terms of Section 44 of the Finance Act , 1950 , can pay such as relates to qualifying property by instalments . |
| 13 | In the general confusion of a heady battle the German F3 champion demoted Schlesser to third . |
| 14 | A Labour Council was elected in 1933 , and under the political influence of a left-wing cleric the city council adopted different policies from the previous Conservative administration . |
| 15 | On occasions the courts have gone further and disqualified a member of a tribunal or board " if there are circumstances so affecting a person acting in a judicial capacity as to be calculated to create in the mind of a reasonable man a suspicion of that person 's impartiality , those circumstances are sufficient to disqualify although in fact no bias exists " ; see Law v. Chartered Institute of Patent Agents [ 1919 ] 2 Chapter 276 ; Metropolitan Properties Co . |
| 16 | Besides , if he had been to Tyler 's Hard , he would doubtless have recognized Harry from Morpurgo 's account of a strange visitor the previous Saturday . |
| 17 | The casing is much wider than it needs to be , I suppose bigger looks better , and although the top is made of a substantial plastic the base is n't and tends to give under pressure . |
| 18 | In the case of a floating charge the relevant date for quantifying the preferential debts is the date of the appointment of the receiver by the debentureholders . |
| 19 | In particular it tends to be associational rather than communal — that is , they regard as a key indicator of a flourishing village the number of clubs , societies and other associations which it supports . |
| 20 | It may well happen , however , that the users of a hierarchy ( in the case of a lexical hierarchy the speakers of the language ) have positive intuitions concerning which items belong together at a given level ; and these intuitions may conflict with the level assignations according to technical criteria . |
| 21 | In relation to the concept of a new settlement the Department very firmly has an open mind at a time , we 've heard many statements drawing on the various P P G s , and from some of them you might have been excused for thinking that the Department had indeed turned it turned its back on the idea of a n new settlements , knowing that sort of situation we felt it appropriate before the start of this examination to sound out the residents of two Marscham Street |
| 22 | In spite of so many hopes of a new order the old one proved tough enough to survive essentially unchanged . |
| 23 | Otherwise there shall be an election in the House of Commons beginning within twenty-eight days of the opening of each new session of Parliament , except that in the case of a new Parliament the election shall be held not earlier than three months nor later than six months from the date of assembly of that Parliament . |
| 24 | There was to be a further overhaul of rules covering joint ventures with foreign firms ( already the subject of a new code the previous year ) , and the development of a free market in agricultural trade was spelled out . |
| 25 | Ockrent is still trying to tone down his screen actors — ‘ remember there 'll be twenty feet of grimace up there ’ — but he retains the keenness of a novice : ‘ You get the excitement of a first night every ten minutes . ’ |
| 26 | Asked what are the essential components of a good picture the Irish Times man suggests that it should boast a very powerful and immediate visual impact . |
| 27 | Clause 25 allows employees to challenge the terms and conditions of a collective agreement the employer applies to them where the agreement appears to contravene the principles of equal treatment . |
| 28 | After all the excitement of a major event a time of exhaustion and deflation tends to set in when it is over . |
| 29 | It has already been suggested that whereas academic courses tend to change incrementally , perhaps under the influence of research , professional courses seem to need the new broom of a major report every so often to bring about change . |
| 30 | The murder of a Finnish student a decade ago has remained unsolved despite the use of revolutionary techniques to identify her . |