Example sentences of "[noun sg] of a [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The procedures cover each stage from initial reporting of a problem through to eventual correction . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | To illustrate we will consider the theft of a camera only where the baggage policy limit for valuables is $500 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | There is mention of a miller as late as 1937 , and evidence that the mill was in use for several years after that date . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Loss of a passport up to £150 |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The Norwegian whalers have votes which might sway the result of an election later this year . |
| 22 | The changes recommended as a result of an investigation sometimes involve development programmes for managers . |
| 23 | He wants to ask you some questions about the murder of a man here last night , ’ one of the men told me . |
| 24 | ( There is a record of a complaint by an inmate of a workhouse elsewhere , that although he was paying six shillings a week for his maintenance , he had to do work such as window-cleaning and blacking grates . |
| 25 | The rose which mantled the house must have put out a thousand flowers and these were at the peak of their blooming , not a petal yet shed , each blossom the pink of a shell within and the pink of coral on its outer side . |
| 26 | ‘ The new paradigm , or a sufficient hint to permit later articulation , emerges all at once , sometimes in the middle of the night , in the mind of a man deeply immersed in crisis ’ . |
| 27 | Indeed , I much enjoyed the work ; and , in view of my interest in aesthetics ( stimulated by a study of a man almost considered unmentionable in these days , Benedetto Croce ) , I relished the opportunity of discussing the nature of poetry . |
| 28 | In addition to joint degree courses combining two disciplines , students can combine the study of a discipline eg Geography with a general topic of study eg Gender Studies or study of a geographical area eg South Asia in the final two ( Honours ) years . |
| 29 | On top of the mutual suspicion of the Welsh for English-promoted schemes , and the real fear of an accident less than thirty miles away , there was the added dimension of the decimated coal industry . |
| 30 | For example , if a stepping motor is used to drive the carriage of a teletype then the system must come to rest for the printing of each letter . |