Example sentences of "[noun] of a [noun] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed to take a long time to reach the end of the wall and I was about to turn right towards the door of the farm kitchen when from my left I heard the sudden rattle of a chain then a roaring creature launched itself at me , bayed once , mightily , into my face and was gone . |
| 2 | For example , if a stepping motor is used to drive the carriage of a teletype then the system must come to rest for the printing of each letter . |
| 3 | The criteria for assessment of a return i.e. the balance sheet , could only be results . |
| 4 | Louisa had been skidding unsteadily about the ice for the best part of an hour when a carriage came round the rear drive of the Hall and , after a moment 's debate , Edwin Frere sprang down to give a helping hand to his well-muffled wife . |
| 5 | One is led to the conclusion therefore that the husband should convey as beneficial owner ; he is very often conveying the former matrimonial home as part of an agreement whereby the wife releases her rights to further claims for capital , and as such he could be said to be receiving valuable consideration from her and it is established that a vendor selling under compulsion should stand in the same position as a contractual purchaser under an open contract ( see Re King [ 1962 ] 1 WLR 632 and Emmet on Title above ) . |
| 6 | It 's just been a bit of a surge once a month . |
| 7 | If a process is distributed across a number of elements of a system then the situation is much more complex . |
| 8 | This may seem like an impossible demand to make on someone who has smoked 20–60 cigarettes a day , but psychologically it works better for most people than attempting the ‘ slowly does it ’ campaign of a cigarette less every day . |
| 9 | Lazy bitch , she was : lying on this couch day after day feeling too bad to move ; but she could go upstairs and carry out the duties of a wife whenever the fancy took her . |
| 10 | They escaped the scene of a massacre just a week ago , and have used the time since to come to terms with their ordeal . |
| 11 | It 's very interesting to note that in contemporary political philosophy there is almost no room left for democratic decision making because in most theories that we 're given , more or less everything is already decided at a constitutional level I mean think of theory of justice , it 's the theory of justice that decides the basic nature of a constitution so the role of members of a government is simply to interpret and apply the constitution so they can make the most efficient tax policies given the basic constitution , but no individual has the authority to challenge that constitution and change it by democratic means . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I have many happy memories of a time when the world was innocent as were most of us . |
| 14 | A quarter of a century ago the news broke that scientists had come near to taming the hydrogen bomb and turning fusion power into a source of energy for power stations . |
| 15 | His caravan site is a quarter of a mile up the valley from his house at a place called Miller 's Bottom — here , it 's marked . |
| 16 | This was the unplanned beginning of a process whereby the Liberal government gradually withdrew provision for deserving groups from the Poor Law , at no cost to the Exchequer and as little as possible to local rates . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , the year 1961 , in which Molly Sheavyn and Mark Frame assumed office , is historically very significant for it marks the beginning of an era when the BDDA was no longer tun by part-time volunteers from their homes , but became an organisation with its own office and full-time paid staff . |
| 18 | They came from all over Gloucestershire for a typical Victorian day out … a trip on a steamer to the seaside resort of Ilfracombe.Six hundred and fifty climbed aboard the Balmoral at Lydney dock … making the most of the chance of a lifetime.After all the last pleasure boat to attract the crowds down to Lydney dock for a trip to Devon was the paddle steamer Ravenswood in 1893 . |
| 19 | The process of achievement of a state where the self is receptive to the love of God is that of a balancing act . |
| 20 | How far laymen would have disapproved of his behaviour is another matter , for concubinage of a type whereby a married man could also have a relationship with a woman who had a recognised position and whose children might share in the inheritance had been common among Germanic peoples , and may still have existed in England in Cnut 's day . |
| 21 | The irrigation schemes in the Sudan , including the Gezira project , provide an example of a case where a poor response from tenant farmers , for a variety of reasons , has consistently dogged the major rehabilitation projects financed by the World Bank and other donors in the early 1980s . |
| 22 | Now this steady-state comparison is a good example of a case where the criticisms of the orthodox model are well taken . |
| 23 | In no time at all we were standing on a huge patch of snow at the summit of a mountain only a few feet short of a Munro . |
| 24 | By considering different facets of a company simultaneously the model is able to synthesise these to give a clear message , even if the individual ratios are giving contradictory signals . |
| 25 | John Nicholson records the following tale of a site only a few miles from Willy Howe : |
| 26 | Andrew married Chrissie K. , daughter of a shoemaker also a compositor , while Katie married an electrical engineer , son of an engineer . |
| 27 | There is a story in La Scala that a very good singer once opened the door of a room where the maestro was preparing a lady for a little love-making , and he never worked for Toscanini again . |
| 28 | The exact truth as to material fact ceases to be of importance in art — it is a student 's style — the style of a period when the mind is serene and unawakened to the tragical mysteries of life . ’ |
| 29 | A sodium azide-based gas generator inflates the bag with nitrogen in a fraction of a second when a sensor detects a sudden deceleration . |
| 30 | A fraction of a second later a wash of flame played over the stones where they had been standing . |