Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] of a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was nearly eight o'clock of a sunny evening , still light , as light as afternoon , but cool as early June often is . |
| 2 | However commonsense has prevailed and in Re Transatlantic Life Assurance Slade J. felt able to hold that ‘ the wording … is wide enough in its terms to empower the court to order the deletion of some only of a registered shareholder 's shares . ’ |
| 3 | I WOKE UP in a terrarium , half in and half out of a stagnant pool . |
| 4 | Resentful mainly of a younger brother who was active and healthy ; a younger brother whose son must now succeed to the title . |
| 5 | Joining these two , Mr Pleavin also took home Fishwick Mandy at 1500gns , another out of a Royal Show title dam . |
| 6 | The number of operators available to answer emergency calls at any one time will be reduced from 2,000 out of a trained total of 8,000 , to just 150 . |
| 7 | The association , which grew out of the Mongolian Democratic Party in May 1990 , demanded representation in the People 's Great Hural , asking other parties to cede two seats and claiming that there were 90,000 unemployed people in Mongolia ; the official figure was 30,000 out of a total population of 2,000,000 . |
| 8 | By 1600 , its population had grown to 200,000 out of a national population of 3.5 million . |
| 9 | Its programmes are much the most susceptible to ‘ salami slicing ’ , since it is difficult to claim that the end of the world will come if the Army receives , say , ninety instead of a hundred tank replacements in a particular year . |
| 10 | But he was conscious too of a small knot of apprehension in his stomach . |
| 11 | Wills had been disproportionately hit by the current recession and had one of the highest levels of unemployment ( almost 20,000 out of a total population of 140,000 ) in the country . |
| 12 | This planet inflates anything it touches so , on the one hand it will make you even more seeringly aware of the flaws in a relationship and , on the other , it will bring the great and good out of an appropriate union . |
| 13 | Two of them were real stunners John Davies rocketing out of a rolling maul 20 metres from the line to score , and then Stuart Davies crossing a Llewellyn line-out take 15 metres out after it had been worked to the line . |
| 14 | And though he was never to make such almost innocent remarks again , and though Eva and Dad continued to want to make love all the time , and I caught her giggling while she did idiotic things with him , like snipping the hair in his ears and nostrils with a huge pair of scissors , there were looks that escaped all possible policing , looks that made me think he was capable only of a corrupted happiness . |
| 15 | He later admitted that his knowledge of trams was limited to his experience where , as Chief Engineer , he was lucky to get fifteen out of a decrepit fleet of fifty-seven trams into service each day ! |
| 16 | In effect the Phillips curve depicted in Figure 6.6 is but one out of an infinite set of short-run Phillips curves , each curve corresponding to a different expected rate of inflation . |
| 17 | According to the American National Commission on Product Safety ( 1971 : 1 ) approximately 20 millions out of a total population of over 250 million are seriously injured annually by consumer products , with 110,000 resulting in permanent disability and 30,000 resulting in death . |
| 18 | But both sides have agreed to further talks and both say that they are hopeful soon of a successful outcome to the discussions . |
| 19 | The error of 5 lbs made in the recipe question is an example of using an additive instead of a multiplicative relation . |
| 20 | You use it just like a dumb terminal , the difference being that instead of a plain text screen , it provides a mouse-and-windows interface . |
| 21 | In 1987/88 £20 million out of a total budget of £156 million came from external funding . |
| 22 | Despite this diplomatic isolation , an estimated 40 per cent rise in oil revenues due to the Gulf crisis ( which prompted November forecasts of a current-account surplus of US$2,650 million instead of a feared deficit of $950 million ) was expected to accelerate international investment and involvement in the development of the country 's hydrocarbon sector . |
| 23 | There was a worn and weather-beaten seat , hewn out of a fallen tree trunk . |
| 24 | From Gloucester in the west to Aylesbury in the east , Central South viewers raised tens of thousands out of a nationwide total of more than £15 million . |