Example sentences of "a [noun] of [noun] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are more living arthropod species than all other phyla combined ; if diversity is a measure of success then the arthropods are the easy winners . |
| 2 | Whilst a number of considerations may limit the resort to force majeure , there is a sufficiency of means once the will to use them is present . |
| 3 | Robert Savage referred to it as a box-iron piece , a piece of land roughly the shape of an old fashioned box-iron used for smoothing linen ; and he related that the old ploughmen used to refer to the ploughing of this type of field as goring work . |
| 4 | It was a gargantuan task : each year a piece of woodland approximately the size of a tennis court was brought into the garden . |
| 5 | Then you can put the test on a piece of paper just the questions and I 'm going to give the piece of paper to somebody else to answer . |
| 6 | When work is complete on a range of entries only the text of the latest version of a new or changed entry is transferred to the main archive . |
| 7 | It certainly erm , sent a shock of horror though the whole country , |
| 8 | ( b ) That if the effect of the proviso were to impose a restraint of trade then the consequence was that not only the proviso but also the whole of the paragraph to which the proviso related and which contained the stipulation that post-termination commission would be paid was void . |
| 9 | Now , what we 've got here is a lump of wood roughly the same shape trying to be a cricket bat , and if you hit a ball with it , the ball will travel about ten feet and you will drop the bat and dance about shouting ‘ Ouch ! ’ with your hands stuck into your armpits . |
| 10 | If they depart in a state of gloom then the chances of improvement are cut by at least half . |
| 11 | When we are in a state of disease then the smooth calm surface is disrupted by ripples ( or even waves ! ) spreading out from the site of disturbance . |
| 12 | A word of caution here the diagram for the DIP Switches screen-printed on the memory board is correct . |
| 13 | The star 's penchant for nymphet flesh is a matter of record yet the actresses chosen to portray these girls are all individuals who do n't look a day under 25 . |
| 14 | The atlas vertebra is distinctly more massive in the male ( Boyd & Trevor , 1953 ) with a number of dimensions particularly the breadth , greater than in the female . |
| 15 | The dock strike failed because the transport workers did not have the strength to defend the labour monopoly enjoyed by registered dockers in a number of ports once the Government removed its statutory underpinning . |
| 16 | Now is it not they 'll ask you , reasonable to recycle some of those savings and surely regain the into the provision of those ten fire officers that the service so badly needs for a number of years now the Fire Inspector 's report has identified the confidence levels as we in our service . |
| 17 | And they did a lot of things just the old way you know , where they had the |
| 18 | If you have very few batteries then its range is limited , if you have a lot of batteries then the weight of the load is too great , so much work and research is being devoted at the moment to the development of alternative batteries . |
| 19 | In constructing a scheme of work then the selection of content must be closely related to a judgement on the depth of coverage to be attempted . |
| 20 | A couple of minutes later the night silence outside was broken by the sound of a vehicle , presumably an ambulance , starting up and moving off . |
| 21 | A couple of streets away the traffic rumbled but here , in the heart of London , all was tranquil . |
| 22 | A couple of hours later the same Burnmouth boat which had brought the Marischal in picked its secret way out of Berwick harbour , with the three knights as passengers . |
| 23 | He explained that a couple of centuries ago the course was leased out as a rabbit farm and , well , ever since , the creatures have been hopping wild across the four courses . |
| 24 | i will post more on Frank 's situation later — but i think he is going ; funny to think of when Leeds played Ipwich a couple of weeks ago the subs were Frank and Batts — some kind of Omen i guess ? |
| 25 | In fact , a couple of weeks later the Soviets , a Russian/ Khazakstan selection in everything but name , managed to survive a spirited Spanish challenge in Seville with a last-minute try by centre Konovalenko , converted by fly-half Nikolaev . |
| 26 | ‘ 'Then some asshole of a journalist printed a story that he was still working for the Company and a couple of weeks later the Red Brigade snatched both of them . |
| 27 | ‘ A couple of years ago the kids who had been on the trip from Bawnmore just turned up at the self-help group premises and wanted to see the friends they had made on the holiday again , ’ Adree said . |
| 28 | It was just I , I went down they played Liverpool in the cup about that era , and the , the wall was pushed down at the Street end but erm the people just spilled on the pitch and I do n't think anyone was really hurt , this happened when they played er Liverpool in the cup a couple of years ago the wall was pushed down at the other end on that occasion , but er there was just one , one person hurt but there was n't anybody very seriously injured as I understand |
| 29 | all well and good , but for twenty year , we should n't be talking about this , when I was in Ireland a couple of years ago the skew over overseer said he had to get rid of his television for the same reason , he er could n't turn it up |
| 30 | He joined Hampshire in 1970 and a couple of years later the selectors were enquiring after him , but he chose to await his chance with West Indies . |