Example sentences of "of [adj] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Hampstead and Highgate , north London , where Miss Glenda Jackson is trying to overturn a Tory majority of 2,221 , the register has dropped by 5,156 , and in Hornsey and Wood Green , north London , the chances of Labour reversing a 1,779 Conservative lead may be hit by the disappearance of 6,673 names from the list . |
| 2 | The continuing failure of Labour to present a distinctive alternative to the Tories was indicated strikingly in the opinion poll finding that 40 per cent of electors believed it made no difference which party was in power . |
| 3 | Even Franco , whose automatic reaction to labour unrest was usually to dismiss it as the work of communist agitators , was obliged by the arguments of the Minister of Labour to authorize a 23 per cent general wage increase . |
| 4 | United States trade figures for the second quarter of 1971 showed a deficit for the first time . |
| 5 | He was educated at Woodside Board School , but left at the age of eleven to become a cellar lad with Thomas Firth & Son Ltd . |
| 6 | It is true that he seems to have been sufficiently interested to use Wagner as the extreme example of " the demonic in music " for his Germania paper on that theme ; and also that , following his exposure to the music of Tristan , some of his own compositions of 1861 have a marked Wagnerian flavour ( in eccentric combination with formally archaic polyphony ) — but this flirtation was short-lived and not repeated until his conversion to Wagner seven years later . |
| 7 | The first such trips in the spring of 1980 represented a victory over the KGB . |
| 8 | After a fine spring , the summer of 1980 became a big disappointment and the weather reached something of a soggy climax for the fifth Test at Headingley . |
| 9 | Our current team of eight make a particularly important contribution through the committees of the board — Audit ; Compensation ; Health , Safety and Environment ; External Affairs ; with a Nominations Committee to advise on board membership . |
| 10 | There were 70 candidates for the post , and the shortlist of eight included a sergeant , an inspector , and a superintendent of police , and a sergeant-major of the 25th Regiment of Foot . |
| 11 | Pieces of Eight marked a new self-confident Kenneth Williams who had only occasionally revealed himself until then . |
| 12 | Eden estimated that the Cornish tin and copper miners earned around 10s ( 50p ) a week in 1797 , while a select committee of 1799 gave a monthly range of £1 10s to £2 2s ( £1.50p — £2.10 ) . |
| 13 | Now from a creature of five senses , we might aspire to that creature that Voltaire conceived of that had a hundred senses . |
| 14 | Any prospect of that providing a significant amount of our energy needs ? |
| 15 | Humans are at the top of the food chain and because of that occupy a very special and responsible position . |
| 16 | Along with conventional breeds of lamb , she also rears primitive breeds of that have a stronger flavour . |
| 17 | two , three of that makes a horrible noise do n't it ? |
| 18 | Here 's a recipe to make the lovely , firm texture and subtle flavour of sole go a little further . |
| 19 | The DNA-binding domain of DP-1 contains a region that resembles that of E2F-1 ( refs 16 , 17 ) , and recognizes the same sequence . |
| 20 | Whereas the 1832 Act helped ensure the dominance of the House of Commons within the formal political process , the passage of the Reform Act of 1867 began a process of the transfer of power from Parliament to Ministers . |
| 21 | A light that radiates out from its source can dissolve personal limits , blending with other such pools of light to form a greater circle . |
| 22 | The Master of Ceremonies and a capacity crowd of 12,500 welcomed a wild hairy caveman to Wembley Arena on Tuesday for the second night of the World Wrestling Federation European Rampage Again Tour . |
| 23 | Here German numerical superiority of 2:1 made a hole in the line that could be only inadequately plugged . |
| 24 | Not having access to small quantities of such materials ( they come in 8x4ft sheets ) I resorted to a coating of epoxy containing a graphite powder , which gives a hard , slippery , scratch resistant finish . |
| 25 | Retention alone is not sufficient for comprehension , but without this mental black-board will be difficult to relate the meaning of one word to the meaning of another seen a few seconds later . |
| 26 | The monks of old began a tradition of growing aromatic herbs which still survives . |
| 27 | So much for those who think that the Punch of old had a magic quality we have lost for ever . |
| 28 | … in every way like the man , as a twin brother and companion , haunting him as his shadow , both before and after the original is dead ; and was also often seen of old to enter a Hous , by which the People knew that the Person of that Liknes wes to Visite them within a few days . |
| 29 | They were stopped outside the gate , of course , and after a time the sergeant on guard came out and spoke to them and they began an argument and it got very heated because this sergeant thought that the Americans were like knights of old rescuing a damsel in distress . |
| 30 | Apart from Bursa and Edirne , which constitute special cases and are dealt with in detail in the following chapters , the city for which there is the earliest reliable information concerning a continuous official muftilik of some importance appears to be Amasya , to the muftilik of which Ali Cemâlî , later Mufti of Istanbul , was appointed by Bayezid II in 888/1483–4 ( ? ) with the not inconsiderable salary of 30 akce a day . |