Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [det] a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | For instance , 100 kilos of lavender yields almost 3 litres of essential oil , whereas 100 kilos of rose petals can yield only half a litre of oil . |
| 2 | Hidden in a bus and estimated to contain about half a ton of dynamite , the bomb ripped a wall of the nine-storey DAS building and badly damaged nearby buildings . |
| 3 | Hidden in a bus and estimated to contain about half a ton of dynamite , the bomb ripped a wall of the nine-storey DAS building and badly damaged nearby buildings . |
| 4 | Again you , you never felt that you were , because you were doing that , you never had the feeling that perhaps you were becoming too much a part of management rather than er simply representing work or did you simply see it as part of your , your job to look after the incentive scheme in that way because it did er that was a part of representing the workforce ? |
| 5 | Good friends from the start , as well as matchless needlers of each other and trigger-happy competitors , they put together such a record of collisions and accidents and general ‘ brouhaha that by the time I reached the FI scene , both were considered as ‘ wild men ’ who needed some settling down . |
| 6 | For the first thousand feet there was nothing ; then a couple of private duels ; then a sprawling mêlée of about twenty aircraft spread over half a mile of sky . |
| 7 | The six steam locomotives helping to run the train services between Swanage and Harman 's Cross during the special weekend cover over half a century of British steam locomotive development — from Victorian times during the time of Gladstone and Disraeli through to the ‘ new dawn ’ of the 1960s and the era of the present Queen and Prime Minister Harold Macmillan . |
| 8 | No , I 've given ever such a lot of clues , do n't normally give this number of clues . |
| 9 | Add approximately half a teaspoon of white granulated sugar to each bottle before capping it . |
| 10 | If I look back on the people who have led me very well in the past , it was those who were able to create and sustain just such a sense of challenge . |
| 11 | top of the after shave , used about half a bottle of after shave , and he 's just gone started around , I thought he was throwing a I thought that must of well stung . |
| 12 | In the centre put the crushed clove of garlic , the bay leaf and twig of thyme ; mill a little black pepper over the meat and add about half a pint of cold water . |
| 13 | Anyway he must have had about half a bottle of whisky . ’ |
| 14 | It is lamentable that few butchers have the storage or the cash to put away half a hundredweight of potential turnover , watch it shrink by ten to fifteen per cent and charge the prices needed to make it all worthwhile . |
| 15 | I teach just such a group of boys , only they come under the title ‘ Emotionally and Behaviourally Disturbed ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ You get ever such a lot of meals out here , do n't you ? ’ |
| 17 | At the far side of the church , old Mr Pugh , who had swallowed about half a kilo of compost , was coughing furiously . |
| 18 | A few minutes later the Deruta vase containing about half a kilo of assorted chocolates had been placed on the rear seat of the Volvo and he was sitting in the front watching Cinzia tear up the parking ticket which had been tucked under the windscreen wiper . |
| 19 | The last time I made about half a pint of bread sauce , I lost half the bread sauce all over it ! |
| 20 | Every acre of sunflowers produces about half a ton of oil which will be turned into low fat margarine . |
| 21 | In general terms , a paragraph should have several sentences , and might cover about half a page of A4 ( about 100 to 150 words ) . |
| 22 | Allow about half a bottle of wine per person or the equivalent in other drinks . |
| 23 | Pour about half a litre of near-boiling water into a bowl and add two to four drops of essential oil . |
| 24 | So erm having an extra network and all of the administration that goes with it seems very much a waste of time especially when it creates another tier of of sort of quasar membership . |
| 25 | The 166 husbands whose occupations are recorded do not cover quite such a range of trades as the fathers — 64 as opposed to 76 — but that is hardly surprising since they are much more concentrated in a number of particular trades . |
| 26 | An elderly person should try to eat approximately half a pound of protein in some form in her diet every day . |
| 27 | Oh I have to erm see if you can go actually , erm that 's a weekend I 'm not sure when it 's open for anybody , cos they do ever such a lot of classes , they do scuba diving there as well |
| 28 | To clear up any doubt , therefore , Notaries Public in Scotland are advised that while they may take and duly sign a solemn declaration of good repute , etc , they can not issue as such a certificate of good repute and of no previous bankruptcy . |
| 29 | Community Hospitals , which provides independent health care services through 10 hospitals and eight nursing homes , devotes over half a page of its annual report and accounts for the year ended 30 June 1992 to corporate governance . |
| 30 | Bollinger own just such a patch of phylloxera-free vines in Aÿ ; whereas its high walls might well repel a small army , it remains a mystery why the little bug has not simply walked in under the gate . |