Example sentences of "of [noun prp] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was in the hills north of Achnashellach recently on a day of low cloud and smirry rain . |
| 2 | The setting was so romantically idyllic , with the distant jangle of yacht masts , soft calypso music , the rustle of breeze in the palms , that she thought of Mortimer again with a sick wave of anger . |
| 3 | Walker 's worry is that neo-Nazis will travel from all parts of Germany and treat the clash between the champions of England and of Germany almost like a mini international He is confident that Leeds have taken all reasonable precautions but added : ‘ The great bulk of Leeds supporters are well behaved and will subject themselves to checks . |
| 4 | Part of the problem , certainly , was the slow and inadequate response of the central authorities and of Gorbachev personally to a deepening crisis . |
| 5 | I am able to escape the misery of golf in the south of England once in a while and go back to Scotland where sanity reigns and nobody condemns a high-handicapper ! |
| 6 | PAKISTAN signed off their stormy tour of England yesterday with a beating on and off the pitch . |
| 7 | The move also meant that the £10 BILLION spent by the Bank of England yesterday in a bid to prop up the sliding currency was wasted . |
| 8 | It 's the sort of thing you might collect from the House of Commons particularly during a er big debate . |
| 9 | An unusually cold winter in 1916/17 brought the city of Paris almost to a halt . |
| 10 | Body found : Police were called to the Oxford Road area of Hartlepool yesterday after a man collapsed and died . |
| 11 | Paid in part by the Crown and in part by ecclesiastical benefices , they were Crown servants first and ministers of God only in a fairly casual sense . |
| 12 | She merely packed the pair of Purdeys away in a trunk in the attic , locked the trunk , and told no one , and it must have been assumed that they were sold with the rest of his things . |
| 13 | For this purpose I choose the country depicted on Sheet 145 of the Ordnance Survey ( sixth edition ) , which runs from the edge of Oxford northwards to a few miles beyond Banbury , and from Chipping Norton on the west to beyond Brackley in Northamptonshire on the east . |
| 14 | Storia 5 contains fourteen articles ( fact and fiction ) on the state of Britain today from a selection of contemporary female British writers , and foreign writers based in this country . |
| 15 | These households have higher median levels of RNR mainly as a result of the income from paid employment of one or more of these younger household members . |
| 16 | His sister came to England in July , and they went to the Isle of Wight together for a little over three weeks . |
| 17 | A 77-YEAR-OLD woman was robbed at knifepoint in her home in the Mosspark area of Glasgow yesterday by a masked man . |
| 18 | The five reportedly reached a " preliminary consensus " on a plan to involve the UN in the governing of Cambodia ahead of a general election . |