Example sentences of "[noun] with [det] a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said : ‘ I 've been told all the stories about how my dad used to stand in the Steering Wheel Club with half a pint of lager just waiting to talk to people and to worm his way into Formula One . |
| 2 | " Stew very slowly one quart of green gooseberries with half a pound of white sugar and enough water to prevent fruit from burning . |
| 3 | He convolutes and wreathes his melodies with such a forcing of rhyme and such a thicket of peculiar and ill-founded analogies , that his meaning is hard to discern . |
| 4 | I saw an elderly lady with half a lifetime of raffles behind her and half a dozen tea cosies in her drawer , winning yet another tea cosy and , smiling , handing it back to be re-raffled . |
| 5 | She was confusing her poor machine with half a row of the new pattern , when it still had some of the last row in its little cogs . |
| 6 | Johnson was an explosive winger , an athlete with such a burst of natural speed that he once competed in the Powderhall Sprint and was capable of holding his own against international sprinters . |
| 7 | There can be few places with such a concentration of communication routes going back over 2,000 years . |
| 8 | Now consider three contrasting experiments with such a piece of apparatus . |
| 9 | Swift J in Donovan [ 1934 ] 2 KB 498 ( CCA ) said that with some exceptions : " It is an unlawful act to beat another person with such a degree of force that the infliction of bodily harm is a probable consequence and when such an act is proved , consent is immaterial . " |
| 10 | What sort of men ( women , I suspect , having nothing to do with it ) sought to worship God with such a display of blatant vulgarity ? |
| 11 | She was beginning to have second thoughts about bothering the Police with such a mass of suspicion based on such little tangible fact . |
| 12 | Rag mats , heavy oak furniture too big for the small space , a gas mantle dangerously converted to electricity with many a swathe of woven purplish flex , provided the essentials without achieving either beauty or convenience . |
| 13 | Zouher Kabbara and his cousin Nadim Kabbara had been arrested at Rome airport with half a kilo of heroin about a month before Coleman arrived on Cyprus . |
| 14 | His Irish experience provided William Joyce with such a mechanism of political hatred rather than the immediate object of it . |
| 15 | So why does a company with such a history of agility and skill remain tied to pots and pans even though they act as such a drag on its performance ? |
| 16 | The problem with such a characterisation of pluralism is that it bears little resemblance to what pluralists actually say pluralism means , and consequently it is hardly surprising that even the most cursory of empirical investigations can show such a naive version of pluralism is untenable as a description of the distribution of power in Western liberal democracies . |
| 17 | Brush aubergines with half a tablespoon of the olive oil and place on an oiled baking sheet . |