Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] of a [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is Millie 's father , coming up Hyde Hill Lane of an evening so wearily , with so little to say for himself ; yet here he is sliding through the grass with such snake-like speed and resourcefulness . |
| 2 | They speak of election campaign polls as a musician might of an orchestra out of tune , or a painter of defective paint . |
| 3 | Little came of this , partly because of the resistance from regional newspapers , and partly because of the Jacobin traditions of a government little inclined to decentralize . |
| 4 | But do these totals prove that hooligan behaviour of a kind broadly comparable with the present day was widespread before the First World War ? |
| 5 | Women as much or more than men everywhere in the world — up to 13 hours more than men in Africa and Asia and very poor women are working 60–90 hours per week just to maintain their living standards of a decade ago . |
| 6 | Most of this housing took the form of Tyneside flats , an unusual type of construction in which what appears to be one reasonably large terrace house of a kind very commonly built in industrial cities in Northern England in the late nineteenth century , is in fact two flats . |
| 7 | He said the Conservatives had achieved a ‘ fraudulent ’ election victory and had produced a ‘ scandalous ’ Budget sweeping away all their manifesto pledges of a year ago . |
| 8 | The marble statues of a century later , though in Naxian stone and closely derived from the Cycladic pioneers , show the same quality . |
| 9 | She crouched in the shadows of the porch and watched the blurred lights of a Christmas tree winking in the first-floor room of a house opposite . |
| 10 | Selection , he believed , required the expert knowledge of a man close to the players , but the idea of one England team manager was inconceivable even to Chapman . |
| 11 | ‘ Why should anyone want the telephone number of a house only twenty yards away ? ’ |
| 12 | Statutory town planning of a kind therefore got under way after the hiatus of war , with only limited experience to guide it , as summarized by Adshead ( 1923 ) . |
| 13 | But now the party faithful have appointed him crisis manager of a party still threatened by disintegration . |
| 14 | who are requested to reach and are paid by a private concern ( W.I. , T.G. , sports sections of a firm etc . ) |
| 15 | By definition a single currency means that this country would no longer have the levers of control over the interest rates or banking policy … the Delors proposal for a Stage 3 would involve transfer of sovereignty from the United Kingdom Parliament of a sort neither Government nor Parliament would find themselves able to accept . |
| 16 | Poetry differs from ordinary language in that it activates the secondary or collateral meanings of a word simultaneously , a strategy which would disrupt ordinary communication , which depends on the absence of ambiguity through there being only one functional meaning for a word . |
| 17 | NEC Corp has developed a full colour 10.4″ 2.5 lbs thin film transistor liquid crystal diode display screen based on an analogue RGB interface : NEC says that the new technology displays natural colours in the 4,096 colour range of a quality not previously possible : a high level of picture brightness is also achieved ; specifications include a 640 by 480 resolution screen with a total of 307,200 pixels and a response time of less than 40ms . |
| 18 | Middlesbrough had the better of the first half once they survived the opening quarter of an hour when Ironside , deputising for the injured Pears , kept them on terms . |
| 19 | When first visited , their condition was nauseating : ‘ there were open troughs of ordure passing through the upper rooms into a half stagnant open sewer in the parapet , immediately below the uppermost windows … the cellars were full of refuse filth … the open stairs were the night haunt of the filthy , and the back yards of a morning deep in all abomination ’ . |
| 20 | It changes the normal behaviour pattern of a ball so that the one you expect to move away actually comes racing in at you at 90mph . |
| 21 | The particular colour pattern of a Heliconius presumably does not matter much , so long as it is memorable to the local birds . |
| 22 | A patchwork quilt of a place where tradition is , has always been , and will always be ‘ the root that feeds the branches ’ . |
| 23 | Theirs was a short street going uphill , four shops on the right-hand side and the blank back walls of a warehouse opposite . |
| 24 | If is defined as the number of atoms in the backbone chain of a polymer then typical values for c are 610 for polyisobutylene , 730 for polystyrene , and 208 for poly ( methyl methacrylate ) . |
| 25 | ‘ without being displayed in such a manner as to be clearly visible to other persons using the road from within a reasonable distance from the front and back of the vehicle ’ This element means that the ‘ L ’ plate must be unobscured , straight , as near to vehicle as possible and not wrapped around the forks of the motor bike or the bumper bar of a car etc . |
| 26 | Staff are expected to obtain student evaluations of a module whenever it runs . |
| 27 | This is caused by the steering properties of a sail only partly sheeted in . |
| 28 | She is 32 , but looks about 18 , with the same clear , icon-like beauty that shone from that television film of a decade ago . |
| 29 | POLICE divers recovered the body of a second missing schoolboy in the 70ft waters of a quarry yesterday . |
| 30 | CLEVELAND 'S retiring fire chief Bill Cooney was presented with a bronze statuette of a firefighter yesterday in recognition of his ‘ outstanding ’ service to the brigade . |