Example sentences of "of an [noun sg] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a carbon copy of an attack 18 months ago . |
| 2 | Erm that in fact one of the odd points here is that when a person is convicted , that information is public , but nevertheless as the years go by and indeed er this has been recognized in for instance the rehabilitation of offenders act , it becomes private information and if someone 's looking for a job the fact that he was convicted of an offence many years ago should not be er er relevant . |
| 3 | To lighten the proceedings he told us of an incident some years ago when there had still been a whaling station in the town . |
| 4 | First couple of bands on , then it stops and shows about quarter of an hour starving kids ! |
| 5 | But you are speaking of an occasion some days ago , when we recovered him after an attempt at escape . |
| 6 | Sir , — This correspondence ( ‘ Call for fresh air , not tea … answered by the taxman ’ , p 7 ) reminds me of an occasion some years ago when I was playing hockey for Ilford against Old Loughtonians . |
| 7 | A small print in Thomas Wright 's Wanderings of an Antiquary 1854 shows how the " Knob " looked before the chalk excavations . |
| 8 | The headline-making survey , which questioned 18,876 people , also found that men between the ages of 25-34 say they have enjoyed the attentions of an average 10.3 women . |
| 9 | What Dilys Powell missed when she described The Wicked Lady as a concatenation of ‘ the hoary , the tedious , the disagreeable , ’ as did other critics who saw Gainsborough 's films as a reassertion of an old escapist tendency in British cinema , was how much of an advance such films offered on everything of a similar sort that had gone before , and how they touched the sentiments of audiences who could no longer respond to stories of gallant endeavour quite as they could when it seemed that defeat was an imminent possibility . |
| 10 | Since the water had to be raised to the top of the acropolis over a distance of a kilometre , this saved the construction of an aqueduct 100 feet high over this long distance . |
| 11 | It proposed nothing less than the reclamation for her kingdom of an area 70 miles long and 30 broad , equivalent to a whole new county , the ‘ Great Level ’ of the Fens . |
| 12 | Often a random pattern is adopted and on observation the cleaner often can be seen to cover some parts of an area many times yet miss others . |