Example sentences of "of a [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The recent case of a consultant convicted of attempted murder for administering a lethal injection of potassium chloride to a patient in intractable pain has highlighted the issue of pain that , contrary to expectation , does not respond to opiates . |
| 2 | They all seek declarations to the following effect : ( a ) that as a matter of law in the case of a prisoner serving a mandatory life sentence the Secretary of State is required to set a period for retribution and deterrence which does not exceed the tariff recommended by the judiciary ; ( b ) that the Secretary of State is required by law to tell the prisoner what period the judiciary have recommended , and the reasons for that recommendation , and also if he has departed from that recommendation to tell the prisoner his reason for doing so ; ( c ) that the prisoner is entitled to be given the opportunity to make representations to the Secretary of State before the tariff is set , and for this purpose to be told of any information upon which the Secretary of State will make his decision which is not in his , the prisoner 's , possession . |
| 3 | But the Secretary of State has clearly to consider other aspects of the early release of a prisoner serving a sentence of imprisonment . |
| 4 | ‘ Have you heard of a prisoner called Enrico ? ’ |
| 5 | If the process of learning to conquer the impulses to self-gratification seems too painful to be borne , the author reminds the sisters that ultimately a complaint will seem as misguided as that of a prisoner thrown a bag of money to buy his release who moans that the bag hit and bruised him . |
| 6 | Members working on behalf of a prisoner learn a lot about that country — its culture and political allegiance for example — knowledge that is no longer useful when the case is closed . |
| 7 | Our comments about sampling 15 minutes after the end of a dose applied to intravenous infusions . |
| 8 | So , for Freud , the extreme situation of a panic shows the way in which the group is held together under more normal circumstances . |
| 9 | The technique is discussed in some detail in Ref. [ 1 ] , p. 395 , and an example of a spectrum showing fluorescence from a crystalline sample is shown in Fig. 5.6 . |
| 10 | Comte 's hierarchy is more often expressed nowadays in terms of a spectrum running from ‘ hard ’ to ‘ soft ’ sciences ( spectra are less contentious than hierarchies ) , but its influence is still apparent at the undergraduate level , although the picture at the postgraduate and research level in the sciences seems to be becoming ever more complex and many-faceted . |
| 11 | I bus-hopped back to Hackney , feeling a bit of a prune sitting there in my suit in between a gaggle of wrinklies who 'd been blowing their pensions down the supermarket . |
| 12 | The idea of a sequel seemed odd , ‘ Harvest ’ was an LP he 'd badmouthed over the years , and it was hardly his style to go into the Mike Oldfield school of repackaging old product . |
| 13 | FILMING of a sequel to smash hit The Commitments begins in New York this winter . |
| 14 | Whereas the extremities of a parabola become parallel to its major axis , the asymptotes of a hyperbola cross one another . |
| 15 | In 1952 Death Of A Salesman had been filmed . |
| 16 | Police have condemned as despicable the theft from a widow 's home of a cask containing her husband 's ashes . |
| 17 | A Briton known to leaders of a charity based in Northampton discovered them and fled with them to the relative safety of Split . |
| 18 | This was decided by a phone call from Sue Hunt , organiser of a charity run at daughter Sally 's school , Sandbach High . |
| 19 | Miss Hilali was a trustee of a charity providing aid for Kurdish refugees . |
| 20 | It is easy to scoff at the movement — with its prizes for knitting and taffeta umbrellas , its hyperboles about the happy revolution to be accomplished by wheel ploughs , its scientific amateurism — as the naïve posturings of a minority engaged in a self-conscious crusade against the forces of routine and conservatism . |
| 21 | The harmonization of laws affecting domestic transactions in member States has an effect on international transactions in that within the field covered by the harmonizing measures these obviate the need to resort to conflict of laws rules and thus achieve one of the objectives of a Convention regulating international transactions . |
| 22 | The prospect of a convention has drawn economists into unfamiliar fields of international politics . |
| 23 | How they are set is a difficult question to which I shall return , but those who decry as too narrow the scope of a Convention running to over a hundred Articles must surely embody the resuscitated spirit of Oliver Twist who will always cry for more ! |
| 24 | To them it is not good enough to say that the idea of a god has ‘ great psychological appeal ’ . |
| 25 | I stumble up the aisle to the immense ponderous tones of a god extolling the virtues of a restaurant in Moscow Road , Bayswater , and pass through some dingy curtains into the foyer . |
| 26 | The traditional areas still maintained fortunately , cos it did n't affect the knitted outer-wear at this stage , so all the areas we talked about in the north of Yorkshire moor and Scotland , fortunately there 's more of a skill to maintain there . |
| 27 | And soon after , when we got together in New York , it was simply like two pieces of a jigsaw slotting in tightly together . |
| 28 | Many themes can be explored in this way , like pieces of a jigsaw coming together . |
| 29 | By 1652 he had become a member of a syndicate engaged in victualling the navy . |
| 30 | Have you ever been part of a syndicate taking part in the pools ? |