Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | See if we got that bottle of whisky got a bottle of Bells . |
| 2 | When baking in combination with the hot air mode , the touch of a button releases an instant cloud of moisture giving a smooth and glazed surface , and ensuring that the dough rises evenly . |
| 3 | A promising early phase of play brought a sloppy opening goal in the 13th minute , when Hamilton lodged a long kick into the heart of the Dundee United half . |
| 4 | For Piaget , the activity of play represents a major advance in the ability of the child to control its own environment and engage in a variety of strategies . |
| 5 | The game could also provide links to the new topic by various levels of play providing a variety of challenges . |
| 6 | Rules of play became a priority and the pit on the 3rd in front of the tee was temporarily classed as a hazard , the player having to drop and lose distance . |
| 7 | Parties for the Warwickshire team at Cranmer 's Saltdean bungalow on one of the evenings after the close of play became a tradition . |
| 8 | The process of assessment incorporates a number of key elements and involves the assessors ( including users and carers ) in bringing to bear a wide range of observational , communication , interpersonal , cognitive , and analytic skills . |
| 9 | These examples of assessment illustrate a variety of purposes , including : |
| 10 | The introduction of the national curriculum and new modes of assessment provide a context for the study . |
| 11 | A trout can detect the smell of chemicals of shrimp diluted a thousand million times , while the sensitivity of an eel is a thousand million times greater still . |
| 12 | The Fijian traditional communal system of livelihood has a tendency to restrict initiative for commercial expansion and development so that there is a need to modify commercial values to meet with the demands of modern commercialism , This , in a nutshell , is what the Yalavou project sets out 10 do . |
| 13 | However , it is well recognised by conservationists that the modern pace and scale of change poses a threat which is quite unprecendented . |
| 14 | The Lord of Change cast a bolt of magical power . |
| 15 | In Fig. 7.1 2/d ) the rate of change of freewheeling current is large and negative when the winding is turned off , but the decay is reversed by the motional voltage and the rate of change reaches a positive maximum . |
| 16 | The gift of genius Find a brilliant inventor to set loose in the laboratory and your problems are solved ; the new products will start to roll off the line immediately . |
| 17 | A long straight nose forms a T with the straight fringe close down on the brows ; a rectangular block of hair frames a triangular face which tapers to a pointed chin . |
| 18 | ( There is no doubt that a good head of hair gives a man a wholly unjustified appearance of moral authority , witness Supreme Court judges and senators . ) |
| 19 | The data describing the prevalence of smoking illustrates a good example of a cohort effect as older women , those aged 60 and over , have the highest proportions classed as never smoking . |
| 20 | On the one hand , we have examples of speakers self-quoting , where the act of quoting activates a switch back to the code of the original utterance . |
| 21 | For example , I think it will be agreed that the Newtonian concept of mass has a more precise meaning than the concept of democracy , say . |
| 22 | In 1982 the Forestry Commission 's Head of Site Studies and Head of Pathology paid a short trip to West Germany to see forest decline for themselves . |
| 23 | Their areas of expertise encompassed a wide range : Sandra Salmaso and Cinzia Mascherin from Italy devised a piece called No Man 's Land , described by Mascherin as ‘ an empty space , without border , beyond quiet ’ , based on work done with objects . |
| 24 | Again , management promises of payment secured a return to work . |
| 25 | As more and more land was planted with cash crops , the lack of pasture became a serious problem in many districts . |
| 26 | At home , the sombre and all-too-present reality of capitalism sinking deeper and deeper into crisis ; on the horizon , the gleaming and distant image of communism constructing a new world , a new man , a new life . |
| 27 | The spread of Communism presented a threat to the Second and Third Pillars , but was making no impact upon the British political system . |
| 28 | In one way these three decades of horror provide a parable of how we try to explain evil in humanity . |
| 29 | If that happens , you may wish to exercise the rights that Parliament has granted to victims of discrimination to make a complaint to an industrial tribunal . |
| 30 | But it clearly is much more difficult and heroic for any group of people who are on the front line of discrimination to adopt a nuanced reading of racism 's multiple forms than for those who are or want to be distanced from its processes and effects . |