Example sentences of "[noun] of [adv] a " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | There can be little doubt that at the time Constantine took control of the Western empire , Christianity can have been the religion of only a minority , though perhaps not so tiny a minority as has sometimes been thought . |
| 2 | In many cases , a material may exhibit the characteristics of both a liquid and a solid and neither of the limiting laws will adequately describe its behaviour . |
| 3 | At temperatures above 374° C and pressures above 218 atmospheres , water becomes what is known as a supercritical fluid , with some of the characteristics of both a liquid and gas , and is able to dissolve almost anything . |
| 4 | It is a massive concerto in four movements rather than the usual three — the addition of a scherzo emphasises that the work has the characteristics of both a concerto and a symphony . |
| 5 | It seems fair to say , in fact , that the first thirty years of Proust 's life laid much of the intellectual basis for his later literary erm achievements , and it was incidentally also during the eighteen nineties , that , among other things , he obtained a , a Licence des lettres , that he attended Bergson 's lectures , that he discovered Ruskin , and that he wrote the bulk of nearly a thousand manuscript sheets discovered in an old hatbox after the last World War , and published as Jean Santeuil in nineteen fifty-two . |
| 6 | Now he was criticising the discipline of the men of Tulagai 's personal guard : a force of about a hundred men which was maintained by every one of the Kha-Khan 's grandsons . |
| 7 | Their legs would need to be proportionately stronger , more like a reptile 's or a mammal 's , in which case they would need to have the metabolism of either a reptile or a mammal . |
| 8 | Thus his/her appreciation of perhaps a landscape , but the dismissal of , say , a Pollock or Mondrian . |
| 9 | It describes , too , the extraordinary effect of the collapse of quite a small sewer . |
| 10 | For most general practitioners a huge increase in workload and a decrease in job satisfaction will result from the closure of almost a quarter of London 's hospital beds . |
| 11 | The loss of just a handful of Democratic seats could create an effective Republican majority on specific issues , and could even put that chamber under Republican control . |
| 12 | In July 1977 , Revco Drug Stores , one of America 's largest discount drug chains , was found guilty of computer-generated double-billing schemes that resulted in the loss of over a half-million dollars in Medicaid funds to the Ohio Department of Public Welfare ( Vaughan 1980 ) . |
| 13 | Many small birds have escaped with the loss of only a few feathers because of a smartly delivered peck with a sharp beak . |
| 14 | Miraculously , however , the books hold together , with the loss of only a few pages , until the end of the year . |
| 15 | The imminent loss of perhaps a third of the cream of Russian science , he says , demonstrates the importance of taking rapid action , by whatever means available , to help those still willing and able to do science . |
| 16 | The changes are expected to provoke the loss of about a third of France 's 8,300 dock jobs and an end to the power of the CGT union . |
| 17 | The code , which was published last May , also resulted in the loss of about a dozen personal accounts and the same number of small corporate customers which opposed the bank 's position . |
| 18 | In just one week a hundred and ninety four crimes were committed , causing a loss of almost a hundred and one thousand pounds . |
| 19 | FRANK SIDEBOTTOM , the man whose papier-mache head must be responsible for the loss of quite a fair amount of small coniferous growths , now has his own show . |
| 20 | A spur , sometimes inappropriately called a snag , is the result of either a breakage not being cleaned back properly to an eye or growth bud , or of pruning too far above a bud — a common case is cutting a bloom , and not paying attention to what is left behind on the plant . |
| 21 | There was an abandoned city on the coast to the south of the G'bai , and the G'bai itself was almost certainly the result of either a nuclear war or an accident of such proportions that it had produced large-scale volcanic activity . |
| 22 | In very urgent cases the result of either a full land charges search or bankruptcy search can , for a fee of £2 a name be telephoned . |
| 23 | Now , partly I think as a result of the numbers being fewer , but partly as a result of simply a greater awareness of need , I think , the schools are more caring places , they do try erm not to treat erm minority groups as just annoying variants on the majority group , they try to erm think through their problems and to help to meet them . |
| 24 | You see at Banbury School our governing body erm has expressed itself clearly as against the tertiary education proposals as they were first put forward , and I am very pleased to have heard during the debate that they 've been amended as a result of quite a lot as a result of the discussion that has gone on . |
| 25 | The court might be in a foreign country , there to try a citizen of yet a third nation , but it was her element and she was relieved to be back in it , even though she could take no active part in the trial . |
| 26 | An attempt was made , at least by de Gaulle , to link riots in Syria in May 1945 with what happened in Algeria on VE Day ; but the scale of the French reaction in Algeria to the murder of over a hundred European settlers and associated atrocities left at least a thousand and perhaps as many as six thousand Algerian dead . |
| 27 | Furthermore , a three-phase study of over a thousand school leavers in the Lothian region of Scotland found that , in marked contrast to alcohol and tobacco use , ‘ levels of illicit drug use were much higher amongst both males and females who were unemployed than amongst their peers who were working or were full-time students ’ ( Plant et al . |
| 28 | The study of even a single society is considered to be extraordinarily difficult because of the complexity of social relations and the obvious problems of trying to generalize about people , their groupings and the structures within which they act . |
| 29 | Data for my research was obtained from four main sources : detailed interviews with ‘ samples ’ of front-line workers , such as social workers and health visitors ; a participant observation study of how a sample of new cases were investigated and managed ; examination of files and records ; attendance at case conferences , which are the meetings of professionals with relevant knowledge of a particular case to decide whether child abuse has taken place , and what course of action is in the best interests of the child , or children , concerned . |
| 30 | Equally , the human considerations of where a settlement is placed in a region are as important as the physical characteristics of the landscape which must be allowed for . |