Example sentences of "of a [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Budgetary information is rarely included in the accounts of a profit-oriented or Type A non-profit organization . |
| 2 | But perhaps it is the paradox conveyed by that closing glimpse of a parodic but unprecedented Eliot which carries the sharpest conviction of any feature of the book . |
| 3 | Glass is an amorphous substance which has properties of a solid and the structure of a liquid . |
| 4 | Elizabeth 's famous Armada speech — ‘ I know that I have the body of a weak and feeble woman , but I have the heart of a king and a king of England too ’ — and Mary 's much-quoted desire to live the life of a soldier , wearing a Glasgow buckler and sleeping under the stars , are testimony to one ( it is perhaps worth adding that the context for Elizabeth was fighting Spain , for Mary fighting her half-brother ) . |
| 5 | For example , and the General Secretary was giving examples yesterday so I 'm entitled to do one as well , for example , Islington Council , where a direct Labour organization that had successfully survived and grown through the worst of the Thatcher years and the worst of the Thatcher attack on public services has now fallen victim to a combination of a weak and corrupt Labour Council and an incompetent senior management . |
| 6 | Although the partners may remain dependent on their marriage and committed to the arrangement either for provision of a little-used but resplendent home , or for earnings to support the acquired life style , little may be shared between them socially and emotionally . |
| 7 | Even the youngest children worked assiduously to achieve the goal of a correct and mutually agreed route and destination . |
| 8 | On a winter 's day the Lords has the dozy ambience of a modernized and centrally-heated Victorian stately home . |
| 9 | I had dreams of a greater and better life , and above all , I wanted to do more . |
| 10 | There now exist community groups of a greater or lesser degree of militancy which have eschewed political parties as the main vehicle of their demands ( although they often have to use them in the later stages of campaigns ) . |
| 11 | Although these differences are now widely known , there is so far no satisfactory explanation nor do particular penal philosophies , or the adoption of deliberate policy choices in favour of a greater or lesser use of custody , necessarily seem to have expected or intended effect on one jurisdiction or explain why its of imprisonment differs from that of another jurisdiction . |
| 12 | I spend four hours , just under four hours a day seeing customers , you know , out of a nine or ten hour day , I find that frightening . |
| 13 | These tales are told with an extraordinary lightness : the frequency of the present or the perfect as narrative tenses ; the adoption of a simple but precise vocabulary ; the sparing use of adjectives ; the composition of short , essential paragraphs added one to the other , not like bricks , in the conventional metaphor of story-building , but more like transparent balloons lifting the story off the ground — with all of these techniques , Celati has created a mode of story-telling which shakes off the weight of narrative in what is a conscious and consistent effort to pare away the superstructure of ideology and ‘ that homogeneous and totalizing continuity that is called history ’ ( Celati 1975 : 14 ; cf. |
| 14 | In Senegal a collaborative project with the universities of Dakar and Paris-Sud has had as its main objective the development of a simple and reliable technique for estimating groundwater recharge . |
| 15 | It provides for the use of a simple and standard certificate of apostille in place of what can in some parts of the world be an elaborate and tortuous process of legalisation , a concept little known in the common law world . |
| 16 | The introduction of a simple and rapid surface microspreading technique for the visualization of the synaptonemal complex at meiotic prophase in insect spermatocytes ( 36 ) has revolutionized our understanding of the behaviour of chromosomes during this important stage of meiosis . |
| 17 | The particular countries were selected because an adequate explanation of monetary growth was possible on the basis of a simple and common process . |
| 18 | The development of a simple and reliable method of obtaining and culturing gall bladder epithelial cells from a readily available source would permit a detailed study of the biological functions of these cells and would contribute to our understanding of the pathophysiology of diseases of the biliary tree . |
| 19 | ‘ We could caricature the face of a criminal and help jog people 's memories . ’ |
| 20 | He recalled Athelstan 's words , how the slayer of Adam Horne used a method practised in Moorish countries to desecrate the body of a criminal and traitor . |
| 21 | It is not that , being situated impartially , they have a clear and undistorted view of a prior and independent moral order . |
| 22 | He is describing the fate of a tall and elegant ash-tree — |
| 23 | Owing to the curvature of the bridge , the top two notes only of a three- or four-part chord can be sustained . |
| 24 | It was only when you looked at his score at the end of a round that you realised that somehow he was three under par . |
| 25 | Governments today undertake responsibility for the discharge of a vast and complex range of functions — from the organisation and administration of the armed services to the provision of education for persons of all ages . |
| 26 | He was always an active manager , out in the fields , exhorting his workers , ever watchful for the tricks of ‘ theevish and ill-disposed servants ’ or the lackadaisical habits of maids ‘ of a sluggish and sleepy disposition ’ . |
| 27 | Every week a reader shares the burden of a dark and deep regret |
| 28 | At the conference a successful effort had been made to invite informed opinion not only from the educational community but from many interest groups within Nigeria , an initiative which met with a splendid response and which led , with the help of some skilful chairmanship and competent editing to the production of a useful and sensible working document . |
| 29 | Most people prefer to collect their armies in blocks of a thousand or five hundred points , starting with say a thousand point ‘ core ’ force and adding five hundred points at a time . |
| 30 | Most people prefer to collect their armies in blocks of a thousand or five hundred points , starting with say a one thousand point core force and adding five hundred points at a time . |