Example sentences of "with a [noun sg] of [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | His conclusion coincides with a tide of concern among mainstream researchers about possible failings in their predictions of a warmer world . |
2 | Fill in the details as required on the order form , and send it , with a deposit of £10 to the address shown . |
3 | Please quote this on the booking form and return it to us at the address shown , together with a deposit of £25 per person and optional insurance of £6 . |
4 | I remember one Sunday afternoon when I saw Zebbie the Coalpicker pushing a bicycle up the hill with a sack of coals on the cross-bar . |
5 | Lead singer , bassist and songwriter Edgar Summertyme is only twenty-one years old , but early exposure to an older brother 's record collection left him with a headful of songs by The Yardbirds , Love , The Byrds and Them . |
6 | ‘ What you told me last night , Rachel , only convinced me that this marriage could work , ’ he said softly , and walked towards her with a look of intent in his blue eyes that sent panic rushing through her in hot waves . |
7 | I came down when she called me and found him standing in the living-room with a look of distaste on his face as he looked round at the overflowing ash trays , the dirty grate , the pile of chair cushions tumbled in the middle of the floor . |
8 | As he did so , she moved away with a look of distaste on her face . |
9 | The general flew backwards with a look of shock on his face . |
10 | The lips were full and sensual ; the face flabby with a look of self-indulgence about it . |
11 | But when he saw me , he stepped back , with a look of wonder on his face . |
12 | A figure in brown detached itself from the shadows , reached into the bin with a look of disgust on his face , and pocketed the crumpled paper without reading it . |
13 | A junior platoon , still weeks from their own Pass-Off Parade , marches slowly past , the fatigue of a day 's fieldcraft training mixing with a look of envy on their faces as they notice the celebration of those for whom training is now a memory . |
14 | He sat silent for a moment , glancing with a look of displeasure at the cars jamming them in on either side . |
15 | The guard climbed up into his brakevan , to return with a can of detonators in case he had to protect the train . |
16 | One lunchtime , after consuming his ration of junk food and two cigarettes , he fell asleep in his waiting room with a can of cola in his hands . |
17 | He said : ‘ We have met with a wall of silence over this business . |
18 | However , as with any grammatical category , a translator working from a language with a category of number into one without such a category must be careful not to overspecify this type of information in the target text . |
19 | The assault from the north came with a flurry of tinder among the trees , and a crackle of sparks on a driving breeze . |
20 | Strange to say , these trains do not come from other towns , say Birmingham , with er a trainload of stuff for Nottingham , they come with a trainload of stuff for here there and everywhere . |
21 | They turned the corner of the house and saw what looked like an outbuilding , only rather a smart one , painted white and with a tub of nasturtiums outside the open front door . |
22 | Normally only one loco comes west of Shrewsbury on revenue earning services in the week — the Wednesday Stanlow to Aberystwyth tanks which , in the last week of August , turned up on the Thursday to cope with a shortage of fuel in Celtic Oils . |
23 | The project has been co-ordinated by Sue Lambert , Head of Design , Prints and Drawings at the museum and funded largely from the internal budget with a contribution of £75,000 from the Friends of the V&A . |
24 | Pyatt steps up BOXING : Chris Pyatt will make his middleweight debut in Norwich tonight against American Melvin Wynn with a debt of thanks to Chris Eubank and Nigel Benn , who have moved up to the 12-stone division . |
25 | Coffin studied the neat quiet house with a plot of garden in the front . |
26 | The group will be one of the largest of the new consortia now emerging in Lloyd 's and will insure up to $10m for each risk , with a ceiling of $25m for catastrophes in one zone . |
27 | The Edinburgh branch of the union faced particular problems from the start , then , with a sub-category of skilled , fully apprenticed but low-paid compositors in the trade well before any mention is heard of women , and with a division of labour between groups of compositors already well established . |
28 | Henry Eliot 's condition had worsened , with a bout of pneumonia on top of his leukaemia , and in anticipation of another visit to America Eliot was trying to book his passage for spring 1947 , although he was ready to fly out at once if there was a sudden crisis . |
29 | Maybe phenomena like the Needle , a pockmarked warty old erect penis with a tuft of grass on its tip , do not hold the same attraction these days . |
30 | The sauce was thin with a layer of sediment over the bottom of the pan . |