Example sentences of "[noun] of a [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He indicates that he is looking for £150m.The defence division had appeared as a ‘ blot on our copy books ’ , he said — pre-tax profits at the business plunged to £1.5m from £13.2m , and turnover slipped to £425m from the £436.5m of a year ago . |
| 2 | His capacity for controversy in such social encounters had gained Johnson a great deal of his divinity in English letters , but in Scotland , with the good manners of a visitor necessarily prevailing , such intercourse invariably proved pleasant , Lord Monboddo 's house typically thus . |
| 3 | It 's an all British car erm except for the Japanese tape deck , and the makers believe there are enough people around who still want to drive with the top down and the wind in their hair , people who are prepared to risk the weather , as well as an overdraft , to get behind the wheel of a Healey again . |
| 4 | On the other hand I was afraid that if I made the driver sound too important he might end up under the wheel of a bus instead of behind one . |
| 5 | Perhaps to make use of the end dregs of a field where turnips had been sown . |
| 6 | Naturalists had to fall back on their judgement in family grouping ; and some then and since have followed Adanson , a great French contemporary of Linnaeus , in trying to weigh up all characteristics of an organism instead of taking one or a few as crucial . |
| 7 | To the ears of a European newly arrived , this music sounds very strangely , for there are ten to twelve hautboy , and as many cymbals , which [ all ] play together . |
| 8 | She stared into fitzAlan 's hard , relentless eyes , and behind her fear that tiny flicker of resentment flared into sudden blazing life with the force of a rage as hot as his was cold . |
| 9 | Like certain other ‘ women 's language features ’ , such as qualifiers , intensifiers , hesitations and so on , tags are hedging structures which qualify the force of an assertion so as not to intimidate , offend or exclude other points of view . |
| 10 | As Soprintendente he is responsible for the administration of a grant recently made available by the Italian government specifically for restoration projects under the terms of a special law referred to as ‘ Roma Capitale ’ , amounting to about L4.5 billion ( £2.25 million ; $3.92 million ) . |
| 11 | The Webbs and their fellow Fabians were able to present democratic Socialism as the vehicle of evolutionary and moderate reform and as an extension to national administration of a practice already prevalent at municipal level . |
| 12 | It was reported on March 1 that , although the construction of the tunnel was behind schedule , geological problems relating to the chalk seabed had now been overcome , and digging was now advancing at twice the speed of a year earlier . |
| 13 | He had his Garryowen backs lying flat like the Aussies and the ball flashed through hands — such as Garryowen 's internationals , Phil Danaher and Richard Wallace — with all the uniform speed of a baton expertly passed without pause by a well-trained sprint relay team . |
| 14 | Er President of Kazakhstan of course he 's president of a country where again Northern Kazakhstan has a huge Russian , compact Russian population that might want to break away . |
| 15 | The procedures cover each stage from initial reporting of a problem through to eventual correction . |
| 16 | On one corner of the site the river had eaten into the bank and pulled part of the masonry of an out-building down into the current where it lay half-submerged , growing gardens of weeds . |
| 17 | To illustrate we will consider the theft of a camera only where the baggage policy limit for valuables is $500 . |
| 18 | Chandrasekhar had shown that the exclusion principle could not halt the collapse of a star more massive than the Chandrasekhar limit , but the problem of understanding what would happen to such a star , according to general relativity , was first solved by a young American , Robert Oppenheimer , in 1939 . |
| 19 | The favoured candidate is a system of proportional representation under which the numbers of candidates of a party ultimately returned would be much more proportionate to the number of votes cast for that party overall . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | There is mention of a miller as late as 1937 , and evidence that the mill was in use for several years after that date . |
| 22 | Temporary anxiety has many causes , including depriving a horse of a basic need , disturbing its sense of security , imposing discomfort or boredom , trying to teach it too much at the one time , and fear of pain ; but the loss of a companion quite often has catastrophic results . |
| 23 | Loss of a passport up to £150 |
| 24 | This restriction to particular ‘ niches ’ in the environment is the result of a partitioning out of competing species over a limited range of resources ; each comes to live in the portion of a habitat it can exploit best for reproductive purposes . |
| 25 | This was the result of a combination both of increased farming skill , a growing sophistication in the demand for agricultural products and galloping inflation which pushed up both prices and profits . |
| 26 | Many researchers are still falling to realize that cancer is not some alien invader that attacks from outside but the result of a breakdown within . |
| 27 | If only a few cases were known , they could easily be the result of an animal just happening to die when in a remote spot . |
| 28 | The Norwegian whalers have votes which might sway the result of an election later this year . |
| 29 | The changes recommended as a result of an investigation sometimes involve development programmes for managers . |
| 30 | Flora , always spoilt , is never lonely — until at the last she has the frightening experience of seeing herself as one pair of hostile eyes saw her : the eyes of a person so ill-conditioned as to sent her an anonymous letter , and yet a painter of distinction . |