Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | They rang ‘ Kelly ’ as the show was being transmitted with a wacky tale of how the lights in their house had suddenly began flickering and a music carousel started playing . |
| 2 | For Marxists , by contrast , the welfare of the masses is not only economically determined but a quantifiable function of the degree of their immiseration . |
| 3 | In the picture my father was holding a portrait-sized photograph of his first wife , Eric 's mother , and she was the only one who was smiling . |
| 4 | He added : ‘ One ca n't imagine a feebler way of making a protest or trying to gain by showing A Clockwork Orange … at four o'clock in the afternoon at the Scala cinema on a weekday and advertising it as a surprise item . ’ |
| 5 | Instead , it is sometimes useful to envisage a three-fold classification of constraints on transport availability for households . |
| 6 | Although one suspects that the extreme rural and intermediate rural areas would be reduced in area if the same exercise were repeated for the 1981 census ( unfortunately it has n't and anyway would be difficult to do so since local authority boundaries have changed since 1971 ) , the analysis did allow Cloke ( 1978 ) to compare degrees of rurality between 1961 and 1971 , and to produce a three-fold typology of rural areas that were becoming increasingly non-rural , were static or becoming increasingly rural , and to produce maps of these three types for each of the four rural areas shown in Figure 5.5 . |
| 7 | It is a single-storey building of brick . |
| 8 | But when curiosity got the better of us we found ourselves almost immediately drawn to a highland community where , like a long-awaiting gift , we were invited to build a house for about a thousand pounds on a verdant piece of property . |
| 9 | They are a frontal assault of the Devil not only upon believers but on human beings everywhere . |
| 10 | The façade is squat and heavy — the architect deliberately lowered it to allow a frontal view of the octagonal tiborium that surmounts the cupola — but it is difficult not to admire the effort that must have gone into it . |
| 11 | In addition , the recorders must be capable of replay after a hard steel spike with a frontal area of 0.05 square inches is dropped from a height of ten feet on to the recorder when attached to a weight of 500 lb . |
| 12 | Encountering the first pair of sentences in the context in which they occur , the reader does not assume that they describe a connected sequence of events and consequently does not interpret the potential linguistic cues ( like groom — he ) as referring to the same entity . |
| 13 | The meaning of a connected set of sentences is greater than the sum of their individual meanings . |
| 14 | At ten years of age , she was a dark-haired miniature of her red-haired mother , a striking little girl in every respect , and promising to be something of a beauty . |
| 15 | Tony Jones shouted to a dark-haired boy of about eighteen . |
| 16 | She was a dark-haired woman of medium height with a faintly Asiatic cast to her brow and complexion . |
| 17 | On the Vistula delta the Mennonites bred black and white Friesian cattle just as their ancestors in Holland had done , and grew sugar-beet , tomatoes , rye , and a resilient variety of wheat on the rich alluvial soil . |
| 18 | Jim was a moody sort of individual , was n't he , he had n't liked being asked ; in Philip 's opinion there was more to Jim than met the eye . |
| 19 | The vamp was soon turning into a lady again though , and by the third song , a moody version of the classic Little Anthony and the Imperials hit ‘ Tears On My Pillow ’ , the audience was seeing a sophisticated side to Kylie too . |
| 20 | Out next spring is David Ryley Marshall 's study of Viviano e Nicolo Codazzi , a father-and-son team of landscape painters active in Rome and Naples in the seventeenth century . |
| 21 | The absence of lamellipodia tallies with another observation : when we grafted a small patch of embryonic skin onto a denuded region of the limb bud surface , we found that the grafted epidermis , far from expanding over the adjacent vacant territory , actually retracted , leaving its own mesenchyme exposed . |
| 22 | He was nicknamed Joe the Toe by a grateful Duchess of York after helped improve her appearance . |
| 23 | WSR Company Chairman Dennis Taylor flagged off the first passenger train to call at the halt since 1990 on Tuesday , July 14 , accompanied by a grateful family of holidaymakers from the nearby holiday park who were spared the longer walk to Watchet . |
| 24 | He plunged up the embankment , taking a grateful breath of fresh air , then turned and extended a large imperative hand to Catherine Crane and pulled her up beside him . |
| 25 | The award is given annually to a deaf person of outstanding merit in leadership , citizenship and general achievement . |
| 26 | The driving force and Secretary is Austin Reeves , a deaf member of the BDA 's executive . |
| 27 | This speaker , a deaf teacher of the deaf who had worked for many years in the Department of Education of the Deaf at Manchester University , had been a committed " oralist " . |
| 28 | Even though a plaintiff can not prove negligence , if the fire originated from a non-natural user of the defendant 's land , the Act of 1774 does not provide a defence and the defendant will be liable . |
| 29 | In the former , Lord Macmillan hesitated ‘ to hold that in these days and in an industrial community it was a non-natural use of land to build a factory on it and conduct there the manufacture of explosives . ’ |
| 30 | The House declined to consider itself bound by the Rainham Chemicals case where it seems to have been taken for granted that such an activity constituted a non-natural use of land . |