Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] of a [noun] [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 | But do these totals prove that hooligan behaviour of a kind broadly comparable with the present day was widespread before the First World War ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ Why should anyone want the telephone number of a house only twenty yards away ? ’ |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | But now the party faithful have appointed him crisis manager of a party still threatened by disintegration . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The particular colour pattern of a Heliconius presumably does not matter much , so long as it is memorable to the local birds . |
| 15 | A patchwork quilt of a place where tradition is , has always been , and will always be ‘ the root that feeds the branches ’ . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . |
| 18 | She is 32 , but looks about 18 , with the same clear , icon-like beauty that shone from that television film of a decade ago . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | My falling in love with Julian was nothing to do with me , nothing to do with Julian , but part of the curse put on Bernard that his wife would become the love object of a man more attractive , more wealthy , more intelligent and of a higher status than he , so he did n't stand an earthly . |
| 21 | And another young man suspect of a thing far out of his scope , who must not die a similarly unjust death . |
| 22 | But you get small ponies , I mean it could be a life size model of a horse that big . |
| 23 | His hair had formed itself into an interesting anthill kind of a shape though . |
| 24 | For he can see in the X-ray picture of a chest only the shadows of the heart and ribs , with a few spidery blotches between them . |
| 25 | There 's a lot hell of a lot more going out the gate |
| 26 | The iconography may be updated — with Punch , Harlequin , Perrault 's Cinderella , archetypal figures of immemorial imaginings replaced by newer , movie-bred cast of characters , Roger Rabbit , Indiana Jones , Disney 's Cinderella — but both theme park and funfair are designed to satisfy the childhood fantasy of a toy as big as the object of which it 's supposed to be the scale model . |
| 27 | I think secondly erm whichever country , and you do look back to your roots , and we for better or for worse here look back to the great public school headmaster of a century ago and I still think people want that kind of dynamic drive , that entrepreneurial drive , and who 's to say they 're wrong ? |
| 28 | Fluid running of a sort seldom seen Down Under was one pleasant surprise — but then every member of Wednesday 's back division was on that tour . |
| 29 | Allows the user to visit any input field of an option directly . |
| 30 | Even the psyche , the temperament of a person finds expression in his speech , to say nothing of his temporary moods and every hearer makes a certain value judgement of a speaker simply on the basis of ‘ what he talks like ’ ( Pulgrum , 1951 , p. 17 ) . |