Example sentences of "[vb past] a [noun] of [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Second , the 20 years from the mid-fifties provided a period of only marginal differences in programmes both from election to election and between the parties . |
| 2 | They also entered a world of very different beliefs from their own . |
| 3 | From December 1991 to June 1992 work was carried out on ‘ DRD by Red Lake Seaplane Service along with local volunteers , who together logged a total of over 1,700 man hours of restorative work on the veteran floatplane . |
| 4 | Instead the coin began to roll and described a series of ever smaller circles , until all movement died with a final rattle . |
| 5 | I encountered a lot of very drunk people in Prague , more than in any other city I have visited except perhaps Belfast . |
| 6 | This 1662 Prayer Book retained a number of highly contentious features , such as vestments , the sign of the cross in baptism , kneeling at communion , and the ring in marriage , and its preface dismissed the Puritan objections to such practices as ‘ either of dangerous consequence … or else of no consequence at all but utterly frivolous and vain' . |
| 7 | In another report , Texaco fixed a ULCC of about 320,000 tonnes out of the Gulf at a rock-bottom rate of W20 . |
| 8 | I 'd have scarcely thought it possible , but the lady in black found a look of even deeper contempt for me . |
| 9 | Tuppe found a pair of really spiffing sun-glasses in the glove compartment and Cornelius put them on . |
| 10 | Fat fish in laburnum ( above ) ‘ I have always made things , ’ says Ned , ‘ and while on a boating holiday on the Thames about 15 years ago I found a branch of very dark wood lying on the ground . |
| 11 | ‘ Only I found a couple of freshly killed rabbits and a nice pair of boots under a bush on the bank early this morning . |
| 12 | HPI reported a drop of 15.8 per cent compared with December 1990 , while the SMMT reported a fall of only 7.3 per cent . |
| 13 | The Bond group of companies last month reported a loss of almost A$1billion last financial year , the worst result in Australian corporate history . |
| 14 | However , profits have crashed at the liqueur-maker , which is controlled by the wealthy Mackinnon family , and in 1991 the newly-formed holding company reported a loss of around £4 million . |
| 15 | Founded in 1970 , the company reported a revenue of over $80m in 1989 , with environmental audits among the most rapidly growing aspects of its business . |
| 16 | Laughter caught in her throat as he up-ended and dived under the water and she caught a flash of very tanned naked rear end . |
| 17 | ‘ Do I thank you that yesterday you thought me a friend ? ’ he questioned drily , and for a moment she thought she caught a glimpse of yesterday 's charm in his look . |
| 18 | The underground haul then involved a distance of about 4,500 ft. , and very little of it straight . |
| 19 | Both involved a delay of about an hour , and in the second case an officer was forced to go in a staff car to attend the patient . |
| 20 | Armed with some facts and figures , he confidentially approached a number of very senior civil servants within the Department of the Environment . |
| 21 | On Aug. 22 , in a decree strengthening Yeltsin 's central executive authority within the RSFSR , he created a system of specially appointed " presidential representatives " to the regions , reporting to the control board of the presidential administration , and replacing the executive boards of the local soviets . |
| 22 | Safeguarding , retaliation , imperial preference , protection for industry but not for agriculture , all created a web of almost infinite complexity . |
| 23 | The intensity of their relationship created a partnership of seemingly unstoppable solidity . |
| 24 | On November 24 , 1990 , Prakesh , Dharmowtee and Sonia ( below , l to r ) headed a march of over 500 people through Handsworth , Birmingham to demand that the Home Office remove the deportation orders against them and review their cases . |
| 25 | Three weeks before his death in London in September 1970 , Jimi Hendrix drew an audience of over half a million from Britain , Europe and North America to a five day series of concerts on the Isle of Wight , ‘ the last of the great tribal gatherings in the 60s tradition ’ . |
| 26 | He created an architecture of respectably high standards . |
| 27 | A conference in 1944 resulted in the establishment of the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) which provided an environment of relatively stable exchange rates . |
| 28 | According to bogus sexologist Dr John R Brinkley , goat glands held the secret to combating male impotence and over a period of twenty years he amassed a fortune of more than $12 million administering them to 16,000 men worried about their sexual inadequacies . |
| 29 | Um maybe it was particularly controversial because it seemed to be accusing er people , men in the family , particularly fathers , of having abused their children anally with all this sort of y'know homosexual connotations of that which activated the number of , as well as a number of fears about about child sex abuse and being a child abuser , it activated a number of rather more homophobic fears , both among the people so accused and in c our culture generally and er that perhaps explains why this er particular incident was so was so compelling and attracted so much com er publicity , according to Campbell anyway . |
| 30 | He subsequently received a discount of just over £50 after complaining about the telephone charge . |