Example sentences of "[noun] of a [noun] [adv] a " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | It 's just been a bit of a surge once a month . |
| 4 | They escaped the scene of a massacre just a week ago , and have used the time since to come to terms with their ordeal . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | John Nicholson records the following tale of a site only a few miles from Willy Howe : |
| 9 | Andrew married Chrissie K. , daughter of a shoemaker also a compositor , while Katie married an electrical engineer , son of an engineer . |
| 10 | A sodium azide-based gas generator inflates the bag with nitrogen in a fraction of a second when a sensor detects a sudden deceleration . |
| 11 | A fraction of a second later a wash of flame played over the stones where they had been standing . |
| 12 | It is important to know what the acceleration of a body down a surface would be without friction as a start to explaining its actual acceleration . |
| 13 | The new work also involved the construction of a road over a quarter of a mile long but no unexpected difficulties were experienced , either with this or the realigned route of the railway . |