Example sentences of "[prep] an [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Black artists , photographers , film makers and cultural critics have been in the forefront of demands and attempts to break the bounds of an aesthetic of ‘ positive images ’ . |
| 2 | She 's also a past chairman of an environmental of the Environmental Health Committee at Brighton so be careful what you say . |
| 3 | Excitement mounted : the third lot , estimated at $6,000–8,000 realised $110,000 ( £68,750 ) , and the fourth made $140,000 ( £87,500 ) against an estimated of $7,000–9,000 . |
| 4 | ‘ It is entirely up to you whether you can gradually raise yourself to the highest position of eminence ever achieved by a musician … whether you choose to leave this world having been ensnared by a skirt , forced to lie on straw and shut up with an attic-full of starving children , or whether , after a Christian life , you go full of satisfaction , honour and glory , your family well provided for , and your name revered by all . ’ |
| 5 | This was a case of Gentlemen versus Players in the golden age when such distinctions still applied and when it was obvious to anyone with an eighth of an intelligence that no paid journeyman could ever begin to compare with the rapier-like ‘ amateurs ’ who flitted with effortless superiority , solving one crime after another with a brilliant insouciance which was the dismay of the criminal fraternity , the envy of the constabulary , and a source of immense satisfaction to most of the upper middle class , especially those with an aptitude for the Times crossword . |
| 6 | For about an eight of what you 're getting here ’ . |
| 7 | If you really want to spoil your guests in the Christmas , serve a slice of delectable Tesco Tia Maria Gateau as an after-dinner of coffee-time treat . |
| 8 | In the United States , Margaret Ribble ( 1943 ) published The Rights of Infants ; in England John Bowlby ( 1952 ) followed up his earlier studies of maternal deprivation as an antecedent of what he had called ‘ the affectionless character ’ ( 1946 ) with his report for the World Health Organization , Maternal Care and Mental Health ; and in the opening volume of the journal Psycho-Analytic Study of the Child , Rene Spitz ( 1945 ) published his paper on hospitalized infants and the effects of lack of mothering , and supported this with the widely circulated documentary film , Grief : a Peril in Infancy . |
| 9 | On the other hand , there is nothing here to show necessarily a diminution in Offa 's enthusiasm for an archbishopric of Lichfield or lessening regard for Hygeberht . |
| 10 | From £10–£15 for an eighth of an ounce |
| 11 | and then when you get the to the end of it all you sa you say and they sell that for an eighth of a price that you charge for your bloody beer ! |
| 12 | No action was taken but Warrington general manager Ron Close said : ‘ We have looked closely at the video and it looks as if Jones might have deliberately kicked Bob , who has been told by a specialist that he came within an eighth of an inch of losing the eye . |
| 13 | WARRINGTON skipper Bob Jackson came within an eighth of an inch of losing an eye on Sunday . |
| 14 | Private businesses would be limited in the size of workforce , from a maximum 200 employees in an industrial of construction company down to a maximum 15 employees in the retail sector . |
| 15 | Rock meant heaviosity , abstract lyrical concerns , an end to the chirpy three-minute single in favour of lengthy and weighty instrumental explorations and , in general , weirdness on an undreamt of scale . |
| 16 | The Discovery is the first ever gas cooker to have a hotplate with ‘ Gas Powered Discs ’ a revolutionary new concept developed by Moffat that actually places a Disc above the flame to give you the controllability you expect from gas plus an unheard of level of cleanability . |
| 17 | A description by an ancillary of the abilities of the school 's stencil cutter or Caramate slide-tape presenter can be the key to innovation , because the teacher suddenly recognizes what is possible , as distinct from a lot of theory whose implementation he has previously understood imperfectly if at all . |