Example sentences of "of [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His tale ( Off Piste ) of salvaging a dismal winter season with a superb day in April will arouse the jealousy of many a jaded ice-man of late . |
| 2 | Kenneth Baker echoed the views of most MPs in a Commons debate in 1990 : ‘ If the concept of British justice is to mean anything , we must retain the possibility of rectifying a mistaken verdict . |
| 3 | It was my first real experience of handling a fast planing hull . |
| 4 | Tact is the skill of handling a difficult person or situation without giving offence . |
| 5 | Thus instead of articulating a justificatory art , he chooses to question the myth of art itself . ’ |
| 6 | For them there is a needless , lifelong fear of encountering a strange cat , a fear that sometimes ends with them refusing to go out of doors at all . |
| 7 | Mike Gatting will probably get the job this winter , but I doubt if either he or the two younger contenders , Mike Atherton and Alex Stewart , are quite up to the task of masterminding a major English renaissance . |
| 8 | The government accused Escobar of masterminding a double car bombing in Bogota on Monday which killed four people and injured dozens more . |
| 9 | In a surprise comparable with the fall in UK unemployment for February , foreign semiconductor manufacturers took an astonishing 20.1% of the Japanese market in the fourth quarter of 1992 according to both Japan and the US — but the Japanese now worry that the system of targeting a specific foreign share of the market will be demanded for other product categories . |
| 10 | The development of chaffinch song is most obviously classified as non-associative learning , because the bird learns its song by comparing it with a template rather than because of any consequence of singing a better chaffinch song . |
| 11 | But why should any western power go to the trouble of administering a third world country when these can simply be milked dry ? |
| 12 | Once the land had been expropriated , it was to be turned into cooperatives but , because the government felt it would be difficult for peasants , who had had no previous experience of administering a large farm , to move straight to a cooperative , there was an intermediary stage . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , he was discharged at the preliminary inquiry on charges of administering a noxious substance , namely semen , and committing a common nuisance . |
| 14 | ( The offence would be one of administering a noxious thing with intent to injure or annoy contrary to s.24 of the OAPA . ) |
| 15 | There are also problems with this definition of " inflict " in s.20 with regard to s.23 of the same Act , which creates the offence of administering a noxious thing " … so as thereby to inflict … any grievous bodily harm … |
| 16 | As we have seen ( Chapter 3 ) , Cunningham [ 1957 ] 2 QB 396 held that on a charge of administering a noxious thing under s.23 of the OAPA recklessness was defined as : did the accused himself foresee the consequence ? |
| 17 | ‘ They do not have the responsibility of administering a cash-starved council . ’ |
| 18 | Accordingly every politician was confronted with the sometimes unpleasant duty of suggesting a suitable replacement for a deceased minister after a delicate balancing of the claims of potential candidates . |
| 19 | So set yourself the task of suggesting a simple argument or answer and then you can try to make out a case for it . |
| 20 | Instead of using a fixed percentage , Cubbin and Leech argue that a shareholder or group of shareholders can be regarded as having control where it is likely that they would win a contested vote , but that this can be determined only by examining the degree of dispersal of shareholdings within the individual company concerned . |
| 21 | So that 's one one benefit of using a visual aid is to is to put a point over er much more quickly . |
| 22 | Instead of using a facial oil you might prefer to ‘ doctor ’ an unperfumed face cream or lotion ( preferably a ‘ natural ’ product ) with the appropriate oils for your skin type . |
| 23 | However , if we examine the drawbacks of the analogue system , the advantages of using a digital one should be clear . |
| 24 | Her idea of using a private pool had become a compulsion . |
| 25 | An interesting little problem often occurs in the early days of using a new program — fumble fingers . |
| 26 | In this study we have taken advantage of using a complete modification system , the X.laevis oocyte , being aware of the fact that yeast tRNA in this heterologous system will get a modification pattern that reflects the properties of the X.laevis modification enzymes . |
| 27 | This indeed is perhaps the principal danger of using a complete " off-the-peg " draft : the implications of each provision may not receive sufficient consideration . |
| 28 | The French delegation led by M. Jean Arrivetz of FACS stressed the desirability of using a mnemonic one could say as a word . |
| 29 | Quite apart from the habit of medieval monarchs of using a restricted number of names ( e.g. , Edward in England or Alfonso in Spain ) , it was not unusual for ‘ posthumous ’ coinages to be made in the name of a previous king . |
| 30 | Er yes well that is so this did come through er very very late indeed er in the and the Parish Council of course are in the situation where they have to cover all eventualities and what er Mr is referring to is a suggestion of using a one O six agreement to protect as far as possible the local communities when the tip is erected . |