Example sentences of "of [pron] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | And though , once she hit her formidable histrionic stride , it was possible to feel that a little of Bette Davis went a long way , her excesses were surely preferable to the homogenised blandness of those mass-produced Hollywood sirens of whom a lot went a very little way indeed . |
| 2 | Transracial adoption was also encouraged by developments in child care practice designed to reduce dramatically the number of children living in institutions , of whom a disproportionate number were and still are black ( Raynor 1975 ; Rowe and Lambert , 1970 ) . |
| 3 | His tenderness towards his many children ( perhaps fifteen in all , of whom a son and five daughters of the first marriage , and two sons and two daughters of the second marriage are certainly known ) was a notable characteristic . |
| 4 | There are many other pupils , of whom a significant number are girls , who are alienated and disaffected but who provoke no response from professional services . |
| 5 | About 30 police of whom a third were armed surrounded the semi-detached house and evacuated neighbouring homes . |
| 6 | ‘ I can deal with him severely and Petr is scared of me a little , I think . |
| 7 | In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries there were two pronunciations of ME a in use in Standard English ’ ( 1968 II : 548 ) . |
| 8 | For example , Dobson notes that one source ( Thomas Pery ) ‘ shows the vulgar raising of ME a to [ e ] ’ . |
| 9 | Gently , making fun of me a little bit , bringing me back to earth . |
| 10 | I have in front of me a copy of the data sheet produced by the company which makes it , which was incidentally the same company which made Opran , do you remember Opran which was withdrawn from the market , it 's just |
| 11 | He spent the mornings reading , and the afternoons visiting for two charities , one of them a school for the physically handicapped . |
| 12 | He was filmed , interviewed , and provided with ‘ ghosts ’ who helped him to ‘ write ’ nine books , one of them a thriller called The Test Match Surprise which was something of a best seller in the sixpenny ‘ Readers ' Library ’ ss popular in Woolworth 's in the 1920s . |
| 13 | Then a speedy convergence of vehicles from nowhere , one of them a taxi converted into an ambulance . |
| 14 | No wonder , then , that we make of them a symbol of our own visionary dreams . |
| 15 | Then , both of them a little awkward , a little shy , not liking to make the first move , the Shotterys had walked together down the path , away from the little group at the church porch . |
| 16 | The Nez Perce believed in an infinite number of spirits , all of them a part of one omnipotent deity and embodying a sacred Wyakin power , which was present in the land , elements and animals of their country . |
| 17 | Even a decision to paint one of them a garish blue has failed to ameliorate the effect . |
| 18 | Certainly in principle , and also in fact , the gene reaches out through the individual body wall and manipulates objects in the world outside , some of them inanimate , some of them other living beings , some of them a long way away . |
| 19 | Between 1960 and 1970 there was no more successful caddie than Tip Anderson : three victories — one of them a spectacular triumph with Tony Lema on his beloved St Andrews links , and a second place in the centenary , also at St Andrews . |
| 20 | For both of them a period of deep contentment had begun . |
| 21 | It takes death and makes it so beautiful that dervishes hasten to it ; it takes tears and makes of them a substance more precious than pearls . |
| 22 | Ahead of them a burly figure was emerging into the street . |
| 23 | To Tozer 's surprise , two clients — one of them a new customer — have asked Softwright to sort out their own wayward personal computer-based projects . |
| 24 | In one of them a short note to me was enclosed . |
| 25 | To her intense humiliation , Luke , Angel , Alejandro , three of Alejandro 's sons , and two of their friends who 'd come to lunch were playing on one pitch while Perdita had been put on another with Alejandro 's three younger sons and four of their cousins — none of them a day over twelve . |
| 26 | Twelve tracks of lashing , fiery , passionate pop , each of them a little nugget of punky guitaring , robust melody and shrouded , sensitive lyrics . |
| 27 | They will play before the howling , hipflasking hordes of Old Stiffupperlippians , each of them wearing a red rose and not one of them a Labour voter . |
| 28 | We took the People and the Sunday Post , neither of them a highbrow paper . |
| 29 | The three wise men became three wise people in the school play — one of them a woman . |
| 30 | In so far as it was possible to control the number of children they had , a significant number of Victorian parents were beginning to do so — if only because of the simple fact that the fewer sons and daughters there were , the more could be done to give each of them a good start in life . |