Example sentences of "of [adj] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My original recreation was riding , ’ said the amiable grandfather , who recalled his first time on a horse at the age of eight a wooden horse at Middletonin-Teesdale show . |
| 2 | For example , at the end of 1986 a small fund owned and administered by a group of workers in a nationalized industry which we shall call ‘ The General Sickness and Funeral Fund ’ had the following investments : Notes : The figures for the gross yield on equities takes into account the time over which the investment has been held ( unstated ) and can not be used as a holding period return for CAPM as the periods are unequal . |
| 3 | But in the last days of 1879 a frightful storm blew the bridge down as a train was crossing , and 75 more people lost their lives . |
| 4 | The Sunday evening buffet is not to be missed , with a fish course of half a small lobster and a whole dressed crab , followed by a carvery with every kind of meat from beef to venison , and fresh poached salmon with crisp salads . |
| 5 | Two motifs of opposite direction but equal magnitude of curvature will show mobility anomaly if spaced by odd multiples of half a helical turn ( δ=; 5 ) . |
| 6 | The mobility anomaly is the largest for ×= 5 , corresponding to a separation of motifs by odd multiples of half a helical turn . |
| 7 | The Tannoy announces the opening of the buffet , and up we get , not stopping for an instant to reflect that even standing in line for seven hours outside Moscow 's GUM department store in pursuit of half a mouldy cabbage would be a more profitable venture than a futile pilgrimage to a British Rail catering outlet . |
| 8 | What could be more debilitating to the young , what harder to bear with constancy , than being shut into a narrow stone cell , under lock and key , with only a narrow cot , a tiny reading desk and a crucifix on the wall for company , and the length of half a dozen stone flags for exercise ? |
| 9 | By the Suicide Act 1961 , section 2 , English law makes aiding and abetting the suicide of another a serious crime ( see R v. |
| 10 | In the autumn of 1985 a fierce battle emerged between United Kingdom holiday firms in an effort to enhance their share of the 1986 summer holiday market . |
| 11 | As a result of this a full-time Keeper was appointed and in 1969 the University Grants Committee financed the Collection 's move to new premises as part of the refurbishment of the VanDyck Printers Building for the Drama Department . |
| 12 | I think Colin Cooper just got round the side of this a brilliant run from Young good turn and he 's a he 's attacked the heart of the defence and look at Cooper 's position now I think he 's just slightly nearer to the keeper than Laws . |
| 13 | There would be confusion , Bruce thought , and out of this a strong ruler would need to emerge . |
| 14 | On top of this a generous layer of washed pebbles or cobbles is placed and the pump outlet drawn up until it is at the surface of the stones . |
| 15 | It also seems as if they are at last more prepared to listen to the needs of the local skaters and on top of this a local developer has pledged ten thousand pounds towards the new facility so the future do n't look so gloomy after all . |
| 16 | To reduce the likelihood of this a large lexicon must be stored . |
| 17 | Inevitably , the scientists and military differ over the ethical and strategic issues raised by the possession and use of such a destructive weapon . |
| 18 | The effectiveness of such a legal system depends upon its ability to express the rights , powers and interests of subordinate classes . |
| 19 | It seems inappropriate to refer to a man of his years as a father figure or , in the context of such a mundane matter as VAT , as inspirational , but both descriptions can be applied to Victor . |
| 20 | And how little they realised the implications of such a narrow win . |
| 21 | The advocates of such a holistic viewpoint would have been far more willing to accept the need for preserving the complex web of natural relationships , and would thus have gravitated towards the environmentalist movement . |
| 22 | As at present , they would be able to overreach equitable interests ; and the Law Commission considers that the simplicity of such a new system would outweigh any possible disadvantages . |
| 23 | What they could do on one of Thomas McMahon 's or Peter Greene 's creations , and what the meaning of such a new record would be , are questions that will tantalise us until they , or other runners , provide the answer . |
| 24 | The growing strength of such a new religion would gradually undermine the power of warmongering leaders , who so frequently use entrenched religious beliefs to instil into their sometimes reluctant followers , the will to continue a conflict . |
| 25 | Fourthly , what would be the military potential of such a new entity , its military doctrine , and the structure of its armed forces ? |
| 26 | So this can save considerably on memory , without substantially increasing search times , however the building of such a mixed-method tree would be both awkward and slow due to all the list manipulation necessary when adding new items . |
| 27 | We can imagine the formation of such a chemical bond as requiring that a spring be compressed to bring the substances close to one another , at which point they are held together by a catch , as the jack is held in a jack-in-the-box . |
| 28 | However , the watering down of a basic and principled commitment , within Labour or any other libertarian party , especially in response to intimidation by newspapers of such a spurious morality , could prove deeply discrediting . |
| 29 | 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 : |
| 30 | He proposed a test , based on communication via teletypes with an unseen entity that was to be at first a human and then a computer , and if the human interlocutor , who had been told he was communicating on the subject of the differences between men and women , failed to notice that a machine had been substituted for the original human partner in the dialogue , then the machine was deemed to have passed the test , and Turing suggested we might as well speak of such a successful machine as thinking by polite convention , just as , ‘ instead of arguing continually … it is usual to have a polite convention that everybody thinks ’ . |