Example sentences of "[noun] a [noun] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He seemed to be deeply immersed in thought and was driving mechanically , his skill at the wheel a product of experience and finely honed reflexes , not of intense concentration . |
| 2 | Remember that in Marks and Sparks a couple of months back they were selling borders off and I bought a beautiful aqua one . |
| 3 | Just like anybody else , they have understood science to be a process of investigation , and religion a matter of faith . |
| 4 | er which we stop for er we probably have a cup of tea a couple of times on the way down |
| 5 | Progressively reducing the twenty Mk 1 sets by half , and acquiring from regular service stock a fleet of Mk 1 first open coaches , Ward put in hand a programme of vehicle refurbishment involving re-upholstering , recarpeting and curtain replacement and the fitting of individual table lamps , with the aim of restoring a level of respectability to coaches which had seen better days . |
| 6 | Simply to pass risks a sense of purposelessness ; but the purposefulness of approach requires delicacy and tact . |
| 7 | To counter these tactics , larger and thicker walls were built , walls with much enlarged bases ; and in the late twelfth and thirteenth centuries a variety of devices were invented to harry the attacker and make his work more difficult . |
| 8 | Over the centuries a number of species have become extinct , among them the Mexican grizzly bear , great auk and passenger pigeon . |
| 9 | a mere skeleton , legs a mass of sores . ’ |
| 10 | An example might be to show informants a series of drawings , models , or other stimuli , and ask them to name them . |
| 11 | We had a nice stare at each other and gave the fans a bit of excitement . |
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| 13 | Of course , I 've I 've left him in the charge of of not I have n't asked Paul to take him under his wing over the weekend , but I 've left Neil a list of things that I would like done . |
| 14 | Some schools organise ‘ bulk buy clubs ’ where a member with a van or large car buys in bulk a variety of goods from a discount warehouse — items such as nappy liners and toilet rolls seem to be quite common in these schemes . |
| 15 | The massive bulk a mountain of strength — |
| 16 | Yet even the foreign secretary conceded that economic difficulties would in due course force a reappraisal of Britain 's military commitments within Nato . |
| 17 | Tesco Australian Sparkling Wine £5.05 A blend of grapes and very pale in colour . |
| 18 | If we were to take a formal view of the entailments of such a declarative sentence ( like that , for example , expressed in Smith & Wilson , 1979 : 150f. ) , we would be obliged to accept as entailments a set of sentences which would include the following : |
| 19 | Here the skilled operator establishes in her own consciousness a network of alarm signals which go off when the train of thought starts chugging along in a dangerous direction . |
| 20 | I 've seen him outside of football a couple of times — but it just shows there are no friends in the game . ’ |
| 21 | So , to test their intelligence we decided to show each horse a plate of oats , and while it was still watching to place the food inside the ring of the tire with the empty feed bucket on top . |
| 22 | The going will be a bit tough , not because I shall use sophisticated techniques ( I shall not ) , but because I can not avoid producing in fairly quick succession a sequence of ideas which will be new to many of my readers . |
| 23 | ‘ I heard a story from one of our Wrens that her husband was killed in an accident out there in the Falklands a couple of weeks ago . |
| 24 | ‘ No disrespect for the other players who may be left out , but I want to give the kids a bit of experience . ’ |
| 25 | We are n't a unit that believes in giving kids a lot of freedom . |
| 26 | You know the score , give the urban kids a slice of country life . |
| 27 | Section 5(3) affords to the defendant a number of defences relating to lack of fault that are not available on a charge under section 4 . |
| 28 | It is not necessary for the plaintiff to owe the defendant a duty of care : Although contributory negligence does not depend on a duty of care , it does depend on foreseeability . |
| 29 | and from America there was the wider practice of according suburban districts a measure of identification as neighbourhoods of 5,000 to 10,000 people . |
| 30 | When crops failed , people could not afford to buy imported rice anyway , though in some districts a number of villagers received income from seasonal work on plantations . |