Example sentences of "of [noun] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Aye , ’ Bull replied laconically , accepting a glass of whisky and a pint of pale beer that appeared in front of him . |
| 2 | The first leg of the first occasion I had flown horses from Heathrow was made bearable by a bottle of whisky and a regular itinerant groom . |
| 3 | She levered herself away from the door , crossed to the heavy old sideboard and took out the bottle of whisky and a glass . |
| 4 | In another cupboard they found half a bottle of whisky and a dribble of brandy in the bottom of a Courvoisier bottle . |
| 5 | When Lili came back from Scotland with a bottle of whisky and a biscuit box emblazoned with the tartan of the clan Campbell I told her that I was frightened of growing old . |
| 6 | She jumped violently , spinning round to see Guy sprawled in an armchair by the window , a half-empty bottle of whisky and a glass on the black marble table beside him . |
| 7 | Bottle of whisky and a snowball . |
| 8 | Tin of Quality Street erm , tin of Quality Street , Dundee cake , bottle of Whisky and a bottle of Stones Ginger Wine , all we got last year was a Quality Street and that . |
| 9 | er a bottle of Whisky and a bottle of Stones Ginger Wine . |
| 10 | On the death of his wife Lambarde feared he might lose the right to stay at Halling and petitioned a request to Lord Burghley through his friend Lord Cobham , to ask for custody of Maximilian and a lease to the Palace , which was granted a few days later . |
| 11 | Ernst & Young fielded a former Inland Revenue Inspector of Taxes and a former VAT inspector — gamekeepers turned poacher as it were — to talk about the changes brought about by the Single Market to the regulations governing direct taxation and VAT . |
| 12 | Grandmaster Chess offers nine levels of play and a special level for board analysis or postal chess but , like most chess sims of its day ( it first was released in 1982 ) , the higher levels take for ever to make a move — Level Nine takes up to two hours ! |
| 13 | The current year basis of assessment is not an actual basis of assessment unless a 31 March year end is selected , and therefore tax retentions will remain complex to calculate . |
| 14 | This is a mixture of tiredness and a kind of boredom and it produces a deterioration in mental performance . |
| 15 | In the centre of the field Aenarion faced four greater daemons : a Lord of Change , a Great Unclean One , a Keeper of Secrets and a Bloodthirster . |
| 16 | The programme continued on 5 January 1990 , when Mr G Vincent ( Society Member ) of Wolverhampton and a former Chairman of the Tal-y-Llyn Railway , gave a talk and slide show dealing with the minor railways of Shropshire , of which there were quite a number in the heyday of steam . |
| 17 | Antonio Gramsci , who spent most of his adult life in one of Mussolini 's prisons , elaborated on Marx 's insight that the ruling ideas of an epoch are the ideas of its ruling class , to create a theory of hegemony and a theory of classes of intellectuals whose function it is in any literate society to propagate or to challenge these leading ideas . |
| 18 | The general form of the argument is always that ‘ real ’ elites find the political formulas and consecrated myths of decentralization or a fragmentation of powers a convenient cover for their monopoly control of the key decisions of state . |
| 19 | UP : a knows the meaning of p iff a knows how to verify p . |
| 20 | UP 1 a knows the meaning of p iff a knows what difference the truth of p would make to the evidence of a 's senses . |
| 21 | The more expressive the language , the more possible states can be described in it ; and hence , the larger will be the space of states that a solver may have to search through for a goal . |
| 22 | The way in which DCs are processed by LIFESPAN is best explained by following the life cycle of states that a software modification passes through , from the time it is proposed until it is approved as a routine quality control activity . |
| 23 | Self inspection- : Every step in cleaning should be automatically accompanied by a critical review of progress and a repeat of that step if necessary . |
| 24 | Because successive political elites import political commitments into office with them , they do create a distinctive ‘ atmosphere ’ for policy-making inside the state apparatus — a set of values and a terminology for expressing them which has to be widely adopted by other personnel , such as bureaucratic agencies . |
| 25 | Law and the legal system thus have to be seen in a differentiated way , no longer consistently structured by one uniform language and one common principle ( such as a hierarchy of values or a grundnorm ) , but as being to some extent split into a plurality of legal arenas ( Lowi , 1972 ) . |
| 26 | Pre-tax profits for the six months to October 1 came in at £134,000 as against a full year 's loss of £128,000 and a previous half time profit of £258,000 . |
| 27 | Cavalry can not break into a solid phalanx of pikes until a way has been cut for them , but once in they can do fearful slaughter . |
| 28 | A herd of deer , a pride of lions or a pack of wolves has a certain rudimentary coherence and unity of purpose . |
| 29 | These pass on tips about jobs or lodgings , or can give a firm base of support once a migrant has crossed the border . |
| 30 | The canteen ran in this form , with a day and night shift throughout the war and after until around 1960 , when the night shift was withdrawn through lack of support and a skeleton staff supplied tea and snacks to order to the Works night shift . |