Example sentences of "[is] a [noun sg] of [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I actually I I intend to believe you actually have been sent by the Jehovah 's Witness to defend the indefensible , it 's a kind of like a and I I y'know , I 'm I 'm sorry but I do n't really think this actually deserves that . |
| 2 | There 's a couple of on there . |
| 3 | There 's a grin of across here of these two P's they keep chucking out ! |
| 4 | I know it must sound terribly irresponsible to get into this position but , truthfully , it 's a case of of ‘ heart ruling head ’ . ’ |
| 5 | I mean it 's a case of of what time we 'd make the journey is n't it ? |
| 6 | It 's a way of as a Council taken the position that we ought to be spending your money effectively , right . |
| 7 | Right , there 's a bit of about anticipation . |
| 8 | Other documentation you receive and certainly is this one and you ca n't do your job without that and that 's a blank of of the layout . |
| 9 | I mean , I know that 's a method of of counting |
| 10 | There 's a lot of about tha , like that though is n't there ? |
| 11 | I suppose there 's a lot of to and fro over your mother 's affairs ? ’ |
| 12 | There is there 's a lot of in that at erm cos erm |
| 13 | It 's a comparison of of what 's happening in the county in terms of registrations of births and deaths , and what 's happening nationally . |
| 14 | But the same kind of people , very often , who are in trouble , are the ones who want somewhere quiet and peaceful where they can be alone with God and they can pray , and so in a sense it 's not a matter of turn them out of the church , it 's a matter of of encouraging them to use the church building in particular ways . |
| 15 | I think it it was a it it was a very bad er announcement for Lincolnshire , and er , on the strength of that , er , for the benefit of all of us in the county , I just like to lobe a few , as a minister for roads and traffic , er expressing our bitter disappointment really , 'cos it 's er , particularly on the T S G , it 's a , it 's a cut of of er , of forty five per cent against the er er er national cut of of of of of of about half of that . |
| 16 | It is now generally accepted that , about a lightyear from the Sun , far beyond the orbit of Pluto , there is a belt of at least 10 million comets , collectively known as the Oort Cloud , after the great Dutch astronomer Ian Oort . |
| 17 | In practice , when you press the camera button there is a delay of about one second before the camcorder actually begins to record anything . |
| 18 | That is a delay of at least two months from the opening of the floodgates . |
| 19 | The chapter is somewhat confusing , for it is a conflation of at least two accounts concerning one rebellion led by Korah the son of Izhar , and another led by Dathan and Abiram . |
| 20 | All an underwater turbine needs is a current of at least 1 metre per second in a stream or river at least 3 metres deep . |
| 21 | Siobhan Cleary is a member of Despite TV , a co-op who have recently completed their first broadcast commission , Battle of Trafalgar , a documentary on the Trafalgar Square poll tax riots . |
| 22 | There is a wealth of of useful information about pregnancy and birth , available from organisations like the Health Education Authority . |
| 23 | Such a ‘ note ’ would have a frequency of about 400 GHz and a corresponding wavelength of 0.7 mm , that is to say it is a microwave of about the same order of size as the ones used in microwave ovens Now the law relating to microwave transmission is very strict , and microwave ovens are suitably shielded to prevent the unwanted escape of potentially lethal radiation . |
| 24 | There is a boy of about the same age in Kanal , Andrzej Wajda 's epic film of the Warsaw uprising . |
| 25 | The range is a mixture of pre and post shave formulations which keep skin soft and smooth , and includes After Shake Soother for sensitive skin . |
| 26 | It seems to be the reasonable approach to adopt , although it will vary from time to time and from place to place and it is a question of of balancing a number of factors . |
| 27 | We we got lots of evidence to suggest that actually the amount of noise problem outside weekends is actually and we do n't actually have the staff to actually deal with this problem without considerably more expenditure than anybody in this council is actually talking about and our tendency towards this erm again this is a bid of of what 's it sounds good and as as to the public conveniences this has been liaised it 's been negotiated about , it 's been looked at very , very expansively indeed . |
| 28 | In the first category , for senior managers , a person is eligible for licentiateship if he is a manager of at least 25 years of age , holds an executive post and has experience of education or both which earns at least 60 points on a special assessment scale . |
| 29 | The firms listed in the Bill are not minority suppliers , because everyone in the United Kingdom is a consumer of at least one and probably several of the services covered by it . |
| 30 | Now , 30 lb in a year is a loss of between 2 and 3 lb ( about 1 kg ) a month . |