Example sentences of "[noun pl] of a [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Perhaps to make use of the end dregs of a field where turnips had been sown . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The editor will know that , and the editor will be sensitive to the readership , and the editor will look at it , not through the eyes of an editor just as an individual , but will say , ‘ Putting myself in the , in the position of my readers , would they want to read this ? ’ |
| 8 | It continues to offer tantalising glimpses of a future where programs and documents , taken together , are part of some bigger story . |
| 9 | Whether in Kipling or Chapman or other authors , Eliot was attracted to glimpses of a world beyond . |
| 10 | The enthusiastic liberal solutions of a decade ago seem to have failed ; the rise of passionate single-issue politics , the decline of party loyalty and the new brittleness that resists compromises make the tasks of leadership more difficult . ’ |
| 11 | Equally important , he notes that within these two countries industrialisation proceeded within a context relatively free from the ‘ trammels of a precapitalist past ’ . |
| 12 | Anyone going beyond silent forms of disaffection had still to be prepared for the worst from the servants and supporters of a regime now in extremis . |
| 13 | Generation has a significant role in this paradigm because in many bilingual communities , the first generation who settled in Britain from abroad were native speakers of a language very unlike English and had had little or no exposure to English . |
| 14 | Rover is now owned by British Aerospace and its current output is a complete turnaround from the cars of a decade ago . |
| 15 | There are many people now , by no means all scientists , who habitually talk of the parameters of a situation rather than describe what is happening , of infrastructural problems when the trains are late , of the sexually dimorphic aspect of Homo sapiens when they mean that men are generally larger than women . |
| 16 | It means beneficiaries of a trust where , exceptionally , the firm is itself the trustee . |
| 17 | Creggan could not rest or sleep , for out of the racing seas beneath their stance seemed to come troubled memories and images of a place where he once was , and eagles he once knew . |
| 18 | What looks like a four-leafed clover in the centre of a galaxy is in fact a product of gravitational lensing ; the four leaves of the clover are four different images of a quasar far more distant than the galaxy in which they seem to nestle . |
| 19 | I am willing , indeed eager , to believe that so severe a bias is typical ; that most aspects of a story usually get told , because of the sheer anarchy of the national press , if for no other reason . |
| 20 | ( b ) that some parts or aspects of a topic naturally lend themselves to comparisons or joint treatment . |
| 21 | Together they support multiple authors working on different aspects of an application simultaneously over a network . |
| 22 | Initially reluctant to tackle the area of post-war policy ( doubtless with thoughts of Lloyd George 's empty words of a quarter-century previously ) , when he did so he insisted on a full-blooded promise over the opposition of many in his party and administration . |
| 23 | Another , the scaffold-web spider , rigs a whole series of sticky threads from the branches of a bush down to the ground and hauls each one so tight that if an insect , either walking on the ground or flying a little way above it blunders into one of them , the thread breaks and the victim , stuck to it with glue , is hoisted into the air . |
| 24 | Shiny-eyed bassist Justin now manipulates Joy Division-funk basslines of a magnitude normally reserved for space-mission documentaries . |
| 25 | The reserves of a bank technically belong to the shareholders . |
| 26 | Nicolae Ceauşescu devolved a considerable amount of the routine authority and privileges of a general-secretary on to his wife . |
| 27 | It is possible to pronounce the individual consonants and vowels of a language correctly and yet be almost unintelligible because the stress or rhythm is wrong . |
| 28 | ‘ I should hardly like to live with her ladies and gentlemen in their elegant but confined houses , ’ Charlotte Bronte writes in 1848 , reporting the sensations of a reader rather than commenting upon description , for Jane Austen 's contexts are , like Richardson 's , still sensed rather than seen . |
| 29 | The isolation of specific active substances from living cells is an intricate and laborious business , requiring the skills of a chemist more than those of a medical doctor . |
| 30 | It is important that planning is carried out by the managers involved in the activities of a business so that they can relate to the plan and feel that the plan is their plan . |